Book Review: Inspired By The Holy Ghost Volume 1

 

Inspired by the HOLY GHOST Volume 1

Spiritual Poetic Messages Received from Popular Songs

by Aimee Cabo Nikolov

 BooksGoSocial 

Christian  |  Poetry 

Pub Date 07 Jul 2021  

I am reviewing a copy of Inspired by the HOLY GHOST Volume 1:

For Aimee Cabo and many others music is therapeutic and Aimee Caboo discovered great meaning from the songs she shared on her radio talk show, 'The Cure'. As Aimee grew in her relationship with God, these meanings started to form into poetic messages.  She learn Ed too that the same song can give us different messages depending on emotional state and environment at that moment the song is playing.

Aimee would ask the Holy Spirit for assistance in remembering her original thoughts when she first heard a particular song and would expand as necessary with what came to her mind.  The poems that came from this became a great source of inspiration and healing for Aimee. It was after seeing how others appreciated them that she decided to turn them into a book, supported by images and enjoyed by others. It is Aimee's hope that others can find comfort in these powerful words. Aimee says: "If the holy spirit helped me, then it can help others."

The Cure with Aimee Cabo' radio show and live streamed podcast is hosted by Aimee Cabo and offers a platform of hope to anyone who has experienced or is currently experiencing domestic violence, abuse, trauma, mental health, or other challenges.  It is a place to find comfort, knowledge, strategies, answers, hope, and love, and so much more, all while you are healing your wounds and knowing that you are loved and not alone.

I give Inspired by the Holy Ghost Volume 1 five out of five stars!

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Book Review: Sick Girl Secrets

 

Sick Girl Secrets

by Anna Russell

West 44 Books 

 Literary Fiction  |  Poetry  |  Teens & YA 

Pub Date 01 Oct 2021

I am reviewing a copy of Sick Girl Secrets through West 44 Books and Netgalley:

Sometimes in High School you just want to be invisible.  But for Natalie being invisible isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.  She has a disability that causes chaos to her body on the inside, but leaves her unmarked on the outside. She's learned to hide her pain so well that you would never guess she's not the same Natalie as she was before she got sick. 

But after having Surgery Natalie, must return to school using a wheelchair.  Now, Natalie has to decide if the painful consequences of pretending to be healthy are worth keeping the last of her sick girl secrets.

I give Sick Girl Secrets five out of five stars!

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Book Review: Surviving American History

 

Surviving American History

by Max Howard

West 44 Books 

 Literary Fiction  |  Poetry  |  Teens & YA 

Pub Date 01 Oct 2021

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Gabi is furious that her parents are divorcing, forcing her to have to leave her hometown her friends, and her school. But on the day she moves away, a shooter opens fire on Gabi's old school, killing her American History classmates. 

Gabi knows she should have been in that classroom too.  Now Gabi has to navigate a new school and new social circles, while dealing with a looming dark cloud of grief, survivor's guilt, and fear.

Soon Gabi meets impulsive troublemaker Lennon, who might just understand her dark side, or may pull her deeper into it.

I give this powerful, often heartbreaking lyrical novel five out of five stars!

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Book Review: The Bookshop Murder

 

The Bookshop Murder (A Flora Steele Mystery Book 1)

by Merryn Allingham

Bookouture 

 Mystery & Thrillers 

Pub Date 26 Jul 2021

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A young man with a shock of white-blond hair lay spread-eagled on the floor, surrounded by fallen books.  His hand was reaching out as if he was trying to tell her something .

Who is this young man?  Why would someone kill him in in Flora’s ordinary little bookshop? Flora finds out he was staying at the Priory Hotel, and when the gardener suddenly dies in its beautiful grounds only a few days later, she is certain that something untoward is happening in her quiet village by the sea.

Are the two deaths connected, the Gardner of the hotel, along with this guest?  Is someone at the hotel responsible – the nervous cook, the money-obsessed receptionist, or the formidable manageress?

In order to solve the mystery and determined to save her beloved bookshop’s reputation, Flora enlists the help of handsome and brooding Jack Carrington: crime writer, recluse and her most reliable customer.

The unlikely duo set about investigating the baffling case, guilty faces greet them at every door. And they soon realise there’s more than one person hiding secrets in Abbeymead…

If you are looking for a good, fun mystery read, full of questions and revelations, I recommend  The Bookshop Murder.

I give The Bookshop Murder five out of five stars!

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Book Review: The Art of Running Away

 

The Art of Running Away

by Sabrina Kleckner

Flux 

Jolly Fish Press

 Arts & Photography/Middle Grade 

Pub Date 16 Nov 2021

Twelve year old Maisie is an artist.   The world makes sense when she’s in front of her sketchbook or apprenticing at Glenna’s Portraits, the family-run art shop her grandmother started, the world makes sense.   When she’s sketching  she doesn’t think about Calum, her brother who mysteriously left home and cut ties with her family six years ago, or her parents’ insistence that she “broaden her horizons” and try something new—something that isn’t art.

After Glenna’s Portraits falls on hard times, Maisie’s plan to take over the shop when she’s older and become a lifelong artist starts to crumble.   In a desperate attempt to make things right Maisie runs away to London to reconnect with her adult brother, hoping he might be the key to saving the shop. But as Maisie learns about her family’s past from Calum, she starts to rethink everything she’s ever known. Maisie must decide not only if saving her family’s art shop is worth it, but if she can forgive her parents for the mistakes they've made.

I give The Art of Running Away four out of five stars!

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Book Review: The Murderess Must Die

 

The Murderess Must Die

by Marlie Parker Wasserman

Level Best Books 

Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members' Titles

 Historical Fiction  |  Mystery & Thrillers  |  True Crime 

Pub Date 06 Jul 2021

I am reviewing a copy of The Murderess Must Die through Level Best Books, Independent Book Publishers association and Netgalley:

During a cold winter day in 1898 hundreds of spectators gather at a Brooklyn courthouse, scrambling for a view of the woman they label a murderess. Martha Place has been charged with throwing acid in her stepdaughter’s face, hitting her with an axe, suffocating her with a pillow, then trying to kill her husband with the same axe.   It will be another year before the crowd knows that Martha Place will be the first woman in the world to be executed in the electric chair. None of her eight lawyers can save her from a guilty verdict and the governor of New York, Theodore Roosevelt, refuses to grant her clemency.

The questions remain whether Martha Place was a wicked step mother, an abused wife or an insane killer? Was her stepdaughter a tragic victim? Why would a well-dressed woman, living with an upstanding husband, in a respectable neighborhood, turn violent? 

From the beginning of the crime we have only heard from those who abused and Condemned Martha Place, but in this book Martha is finally given a voice,

I give The Murderess   Must  Die, five out of five stars!

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Book Review: The Twelfth Imam Rise of the AntiBChrist

 

The 12th Imam

Rise of the Antichrist

by James W Parker

BooksGoSocial 

Christian  |  General Fiction (Adult) 

Pub Date 02 Apr 2021

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In a story that could have been ripped from the headlines.  Iran has launched a nuclear attack on Israel and the Great Satan, the United States.  

The President of Iran did not know that his grand plan would initiate a series of events that fulfills prophecies in both Islamic and Christian holy writings.  The return of the Anti Christ is imminent.  When missiles are launched in attack they go astray destroying the Dome of the Rock.  While the Israeli attack fails, Iranian agents succeed in destroying the nation’s capital as well as several American cities. At the same time, Christians are removed from the earth in a mass exodus.

The 12th Imam is the long awaited Islamic Messiah, returns from the Jamkaran well, from a slumber of nearly 1,200 years.   These events unite Jewish, Islamic and the remaining Christian adherents as each of their end-times writings converge on a single individual.

If you’re looking on a fast paced Christian Thriller, The Twelfth Imam: Rise of the Antichrist is a book I’d highly recommend.  

I give The Twelfth Iman, Rise of the AntiChrist five out of five stars!

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