The River of No Return
by Bee Ridgway
"A New Twist - and Jump - in Time Travel!"
Reviewed by Viviane Crystal
Courtesy Crystal Book Reviews
Posted April 30, 2013

"Time flows like a river and it seems as if each of us is carried relentlessly along by time's current. But time is like a river in another way. It flows at different speeds in different places and that is the key to traveling into the future," British Cosmologist Steven Read more...

Winner Lose All
by William F. Brown
"Questionable Means to a Dubious Victory!"
Reviewed by Viviane Crystal
Courtesy Crytal Book Reviews
Posted April 30, 2013

WWII is almost at its brutal, ruthless end. Our story begins with Ed Scanlon, an American OSS officer, and a British SOE officer about to travel to Germany where they will parachute out of a warplane and begin a mission that they're told will be "a piece Read more...

Francesca of Lost Nation: A True-Life Novel
by Lucinda Sue Crosby
"The Summer of All Summers!"
Reviewed by Viviane Crystal
Courtesy Crystal Book Reviews
Posted April 30, 2013

Francesca and Sarah, grandmother and granddaughter bonded by a phenomenal love, live a normal life in Lost Nation, Iowa in 1940s America. Francesca is a woman who flouts most traditional roles expected of woman, possessing an independent and adventurous streak that is grounded in her love of family. Read more...

Desolation Row
by Kay Kendall
"Draft Dodgers and Murder"
Reviewed by Viviane Crystal
Courtesy Crystal Book Reviews
Posted April 23, 2013

Austin Starr's husband David is a "draft dodger" (term used for those without refused to fight in the Vietnam War) and has taken her to live in Canada where they are both pursuing academic careers. Austin isn't completely happy there, is rather homesick and finds the culture in Canada Read more...

Tendrils of Life
by Owen Choi
"Superb Korean History - A Little Known Detailed War!"
Reviewed by Viviane Crystal
Courtesy Crystal Book Reviews
Posted April 23, 2013

To many the Korean War remains a distant memory, except for those American soldiers who fought in the war and passed on their knowledge to their children and grandchildren. Now we have a potent novel that explores what happened to the Korean people before and during this war, how Read more...

The Sixth Station
by Linda Stasi
"A Cloned Saviour?"
Reviewed by Viviane Crystal
Courtesy Crystal Book Reviews
Posted April 23, 2013

Alessandra Russo is a smart, sassy journalist who loses jobs because of her cynical, snide comments; but she's a true journalist who will do anything for a story, anything! But her life in search of the award-winning story is about to go ballistic! Alessandro gets pulled into the middle of Read more...

When She Came Home
by Drusilla Campbell
"PTSD and Wounded Warriors!"
Reviewed by Viviane Crystal
Courtesy Crystal Book Reviews
Posted April 23, 2013

Frankie Byrne Tennyson is the daughter of a retired Marine Brigadier General and her life as well as the General's wife have been all-military. There's no room for weakness and Frankie is out for a challenge from family and her husband when she is so stunned by 911 and Read more...

Bristol House
by Beverly Swerling
"Secrets About the Jew of Holbern and the Avignon Schism!"
Reviewed by Viviane Crystal
Courtesy Crystal Book Reviews
Posted April 16, 2013

Annie Kendall's academic historian career has been at a standstill for ten years when she's offered the chance of a lifetime, or so she sees it. She is hired by Weinraub, the head of the Shalom Foundation, to travel to London and find secret treasures hidden by Giacomo the Read more...

The Chalice: A Novel
by Nancy Bilyeau
"The Prophecy of the English Reformation!"
Reviewed by Viviane Crystal
Courtesy Crystal Book Reviews
Posted April 16, 2013

Joanna Stafford, former novice, has escaped the Tower of London while so many others have gone on to torture, beheading, and burning at the stake, all at the hands of King Henry VIII. The year is 1538 and Joanna is trying to adjust to the life of a common Read more...

Mrs. Lieutennt: A Sharon Gold Novel
by Phyllis Zimbler Miller
"Military Wives' Journey was Hell!"
Reviewed by Viviane Crystal
Courtesy Crystal Book Reviews
Posted April 16, 2013

The early 1970s is a difficult time in American history. The Vietnam War is in full swing, surrounded by patriotic men who sign up to fight this war to save America from the spread of Communism and the protestors who face armed violence but refuse to back down against a Read more...

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