Book Reviews And Comments By Rick O

You would think that a novel about both parents suddenly leaving their two children to be cared for by unknowns in 1945 England would be e...

Can Bud Hutchins (PI/inventor) possibly get into anything crazier than his last adventure (see my review of The Elixir on 12/9/2017)? Oh y...

Jesus, Mary and Joseph! This was 550 pages of wonderful bohemian writing. It’s an extraordinary story about a very young madchen, Liesel, an...

The author sent me a copy of his novel to read and review: Nick M. Lloyd writes an avant-garde sci-fi thriller that breaks out of your typ...

Yippee Ki-yay ! For the three short stories written about fictional cowpuncher, Hopalong Cassidy by Clarence E. Mulford. The stories that w...

This is a guest review from my fifteen year old grandson, Kai O: In The Shining, author Jack Torrance, his wife, Wendy and his five year...

Well, I’ll be darned, somebody can actually write a novel without flip-flopping from the present to the past or the past to the present and ...

This is a novel with many intertwined stories centering around the Birchwood Manor in 1862 England and continuing for the next 150 years. Th...

Kim Stanley Robinson’s latest novel, which was frequently boring and unduly technical, is a murder/mystery whodunit situated on Earth’s moo...