Death Divers by Frances Ixx My rating: 3 of 5 stars Earth, 05.145.1331 Siren diver crew, Captain Ilia Alekov and his two top pilots, Andrew Carlotti and Lacey Ghyllenhaal, find themselves in a battle to stay alive as they war against the callous human operatives of the rival ship, Black Horizon, and giant insectoid aliens

The Con Artists Next Door: Three Short Stories by Sophia Han My rating: 5 of 5 stars Scams . . . scoundrels . . . and suckers. The only attribute missing from this ire-inducing trilogy of financial crookery is the sinister voice-over narration of Stacy Keach. The Con Artists Next Door: Three Short Stories is

Dating in the Apocalypse: Sarah: “The One” by Christopher John Chater My rating: 3 of 5 stars New York City, Post Apocalypse: Much of humanity—at least those affected by immunosuppression—has succumbed to a strain of flu, and the once world-class city is laid waste; left in ruins. Electricity no longer wields its power; cars burn

Killjoy by LeVar Ravel My rating: 5 of 5 stars They say you can’t judge a book by its cover. But when taking the cover art for Killjoy, courtesy of Irina French, into consideration, the potential reader had damn sure better. Artfully-scribed on the pages of this preoccupied fiction is a tale of despicable immorality;

To Hell in a Handbasket by Willow Rose My rating: 5 of 5 stars • Analysis inspired by HBO’s Tales from the Crypt INT. OPENING SEQUENCE: Danny Elfman’s macabre main theme plays in booming melody as the tracking shot leads up to the front door of the ghoulish Crypt Keeper’s haunted mansion. Now inside, the

The Girlfriend by Michelle Frances My rating: 5 of 5 stars Since establishing Reviews by Cat Ellington earlier this year, I often commune, and agreeably so, with many published authors—by way of email—who most always inquire of me concerning my profession as a casting director of feature films, and if the nature of that position

The Pact by John L. Probert My rating: 4 of 5 stars Either on a dark, cold, wet, and dreary day, or on a hazy summer’s evening at twilight is when John L. Probert’s The Pact should be read. For such are the mood projections of this relatively suspenseful novella. I say “relatively” because as

Grand Theft Octo by Niels Saunders My rating: 5 of 5 stars Grand Theft Octo is Elmore Leonard meets Carl Hiaasen! Craziness is the foundation on which the mischievous novella, Grand Theft Octo, is built. From the first page, even to the last page, the reader is constantly being sprayed with a hypertonic mist of

Tradur Gurl: The Sandy Allen Trilogy Series by P T Dawkins My rating: 5 of 5 stars “Finance is a craft that can become an art with skill and proper application.” — Michael Milken, former Wall Street financier… and media-dubbed “Junk Bond King” “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right.