FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION blend in this story of a forest elf navigating a perilously high-tech human city. Lots of action, intriguing setting. SOLID B

TRANSIENT
Roger Sash
2020

A YOUNG MAGE BECOMES a pawn in a high-stakes conflict, and must team up with a past enemy to save her family. Engaging high fantasy. SOLID B

MAGES BY ASSEMBLY (BIRTHRIGHT BOOK 3)
Terah Edun
2019

TENSE UK THRILLER centers on a woman haunted by the childhood abduction of a friend. Grim and evocative. SOLID B

DEAR LAURA
Independently published
2019

A GRUMPY OLD VETERAN AND AN ALIEN team up to defeat an interstellar threat to Earth. Comedy and worldbuilding combine for an entertaining adventure. SOLID B

JUNKYARD PIRATE
Fickle Dragon Publishing LLC
2019

FLORIDA MAN’S WILD RIDE from rags to riches and back again, bedeviled by gators, pythons, feral hogs, and cocaine dealers to boot. Fun, quirky novel. SOLID B

FLORIDA MAN
Wolfpack Publishing
2019

THOUGHTFUL PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER finds an FBI profiler trying to clear her long-lost brother’s name. SOLID B

SAY YOU LOVE ME (EVA RAE THOMAS MYSTERY BOOK 4)
BUOY MEDIA
2019

A TRULY SELF-AWARE AI changes the world in ways its creator hadn’t anticipated. Thoughtful SF explores the deeper issues. SOLID B

FIRST OF THEIR KIND (THE CHRONICLES OF THEREN BOOK 1)
Two Doctors Media Collaborative LLC
2019

POETIC, SURREALIST FEVER-DREAMS and the beautifully intrusive repetitions of the villanelle shape this series of brief novels about nothing and everything. SOLID B

THE NOCILLA TRILOGY
Farrar
2019

TRUE BELIEVERS IN UFOs, from the perspective of a professor of religious studies. Some surprising, enlightening insights. SOLID B

AMERICAN COSMIC
Oxford University Press
2019

A HALF-GOBLIN DETECTIVE FIGHTS deadly magic attacks more easily than her emotions. Sharp, sexy paranormal thriller. SOLID B

LEONIE HENDRICKS: DEMON P.I.: AN URBAN FANTASY DETECTIVE NOVEL (NAVA KATZ BOOK 7)
Te Da Media
2019