Reviews for Self-Published/Indie Authors

Hi everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I’m reviewing 50 States: A Collection of Short Short Stories by Richard R. Becker. For this review, I was contacted by the author and kindly received an ARC in exchange for an honest review. This book has been out since 2021, and I apologize to the author for taking so long to write my review. A collection of short short stories is not the type of book that I pick up very often. If fact, I rarely do so. But this collection was a pleasant surprise. The common denominator of all…

Hi everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I’m reviewing Becoming A Druid by Mike Mollman. This is the first self-published/indie novel that I review in a while. And I apologize for the hiatus. Life got in the way, aka, a baby, and I had precious little time to myself and to reading in a quiet environment. In fact, I still haven’t gotten much of the second back so all those books that are not available as an audiobook are taking me a lot longer to read than usual. For this review, I was contacted by the author and…

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. I would like to apologize to everyone who has sent me an email in the last year or two asking me for a review but to whom I have not been able to answer back yet. The reason is that I am still catching up on the books I received in exchange for a review in 2020-2021. And I admit it is going rather slow. I have precious little quiet time to read lately and I don’t see that changing for another bit, so please bear with me. I am not ignoring…

Hi everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I’m reviewing Where Have You Been, Bobby Marr? by Morris Dalla Costa. For this review, I received an ARC by the author in exchange for an honest review. This book was published on August 30, 2021. I will begin this review with a confession. If I hadn’t been asked to review this book, I probably wouldn’t have read it. And, truth be told, I would have been at the losing end of that bargain. Looks are deceiving and this book is a perfect example of that. I admit that I have…

Hi everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I’m reviewing Pulse, the first book in the Vital Signs Series by Judy G. Walters. To get a copy of this book, visit the publisher’s website here. For this review, I was contacted by the publisher and kindly received an ARC by the author in exchange for an honest review. Pulse by Judy G. Walters is a fast-paced, gut-wrenching, and prone-to-tears (in some places), medical drama fiction book set in the emergency room of a hospital in Texas. Trigger warning for death of a child and drowning. The main character, Dr….

Hi everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I’m reviewing The Fifth: Indoctrinated City by Chris Sykes. For this review, I received an ARC by the author in exchange for an honest review. This book was published April 16th, 2021. This review has minor spoilers. The Fifth: Indoctrinated City is a YA dystopian novel about how hatred on the top levels of Britain’s fascist government affects the lives of the country’s citizens. New laws are implemented, and certain people in the country are now illegal. Thus, they are hunted by the Patrol. Victor, an Iranian man living in York…

Hi everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I’m reviewing Shadow of the Wicked by Douglas W.T. Smith. For this review, I received an ARC by the author in exchange for an honest review. This novella will be published July 1st, 2021. Click here to visit the author’s website. This review has minor spoilers. Shadow of the Wicked (and I’ll pause right here, albeit briefly, to say, how cool a name is that?!) is the story of two brothers, twins, that are both captured and tortured by the same man, Pius. Now, Pius imprisons Jaromir and Talmage for different…