The Messiah
Title: The Messiah (the Messier, the Comet Hunter)
Author: Anah Jochebed
Publisher: Toplink Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 978-1949502831
Pages: 278
Genre: Religious History
Reviewed by: Carl Conrad
Hollywood Book Review
The Messiah, by Anah Jochebed, is a book that is deep and rich in religious mythology, although that may be because it is not one book by one author, but a collection of parts of many books by many profound authors with predictably profound insights into the
Six Years In The Middle East
Title: Six Years In The Middle East
Author: Tenacity
Publisher: Toplink Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 978-1948962704
Pages: 186
Genre: Non-Fiction
Reviewed by: Aaron Washington
Hollywood Book Review
I have never set foot in any Middle East country, but the author Tenacity made me feel as if I have spent a part of my life in the Arab countries. He takes the reader through his journey and work in the Middle East. The reader is first
The Separation
Title: The Separation
Author: Thomas Duffy
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 978-1-9835-2087-7
Pages: 306
Genre: Science Fiction
Reviewed by: Carol Davala
Hollywood Book Review
Through a powerful and thought-provoking premise, Thomas Duffy’s futuristic novel “The Separation” focuses on a society where the government has sanctioned the separation of the sexes at birth, in an effort to alleviate the chaos of the world.
With teenage pregnancies on the rise, college graduation rates falling, and crime reaching new heights, to help restore order and financial stability, the controlling
Finding Favor and the Secret of Rainbow Moor
Title: Finding Favor and the Secret of Rainbow Moor
Author: Yvette S.M. Debeau
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 978-1-5246-1371-6
Genre: Fiction
Pages: 322
Reviewed by: Allison Walker
Hollywood Book Review
Romance fiction is one of the best-selling genres among women, and yet it all tends to follow the same basic plot. No matter how much you adore chick flicks and books, change around the character names and you already know how it’s going to end.
Satan’s Stronghold
Title: Satan’s Stronghold
Author: Robert W. Gallant
Publisher: Robert W. Gallant Books
ISBN: 978-0578208091
Pages: 314
Genre: Fiction / Thriller
Reviewed by: Jake Bishop
Hollywood Book Review
A beaucoup of badass action fills the pages of Robert W. Gallant’s sweat soaked story of dirty dealings, dastardly men, and dangerous women. The main local is Louisiana in all of its southern fried, sultry ambience—which the author ably captures in
Second Thoughts
Title: Second Thoughts: Second Chances
Author: D.C. Moses
Publisher: Toplink Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 978-1949169676
Pages: 366
Genre: Contemporary/Literary Fiction
Reviewed by: Anthony Avina
Hollywood Book Review
It is very rare that a person’s life goes accordingly to plan. More often than not, outside forces or a change of heart will lead people down paths they never would have expected. True love turns to passing fancies, while childhood dreams become distant memories. Yet sometimes in life we get second chances,
An Apprentice Dictator in the White House
Title: An Apprentice Dictator in the White House
Author: Abner Clerveaux
Publisher: Xlibris
ISBN: 978-1947620438
Pages: 150
Genre: Fiction / Satire / Thriller
Reviewed by: Jake Bishop
Hollywood Book Review
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction and sometimes it isn’t. When politics is involved, it’s often even more difficult to know what is real and what is not. An Apprentice Dictator in the White House by author Abner Clerveaux introduces some behavior and
A Consuming Rage
Title: A Consuming Rage
Author: Chris Chesney
Publisher: Westwood Books Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 978-1643140100
Pages: 307
Genre: Non-Fiction/Crime/Finance
Reviewed by: Anthony Avina
Hollywood Book Review
Something which has become not only popular but fascinating to witness in recent years is the increase in scrutiny at crimes and the innocent people accused of these crimes. From documentaries to novels, we read all the time about people who spend years in prison for crimes they didn’t
The Rummy Club
Title: The Rummy Club
Author: Anoop Ahuja Judge
Publisher: Daggerhorn Publishing
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Pages: 308
ISBN: 978-0-991081-01-1
Reviewed by: Marsha Joseph
Hollywood Book Review
The Rummy Club is a delightful story of four girlfriends who meet at a private posh high school in India, and continue to stay connected through the joys and trials of adulthood. There’s Divya, who is trying to find her place in the world, particularly among friends who enjoy a higher
Small Beginnings
Title: Small Beginnings
Author: Dennis R. McLeod
Publisher: Wild Side Publishing
Genre: Memoir/Religion
Pages: 250
ISBN: 978-0-473-40746-9 (ePub)
Reviewed by: Ella Vincent
Hollywood Book Review
Small Beginnings is the inspiring story of Dennis McLeod, a missionary who overcame a traumatic childhood to give his life to God. Readers will be encouraged by McLeod’s perseverance. This book starts with McLeod as a neglected child growing up in New Zealand. After enlisting in the military, he becomes a Christian and ultimately
Connected
Title: Connected
Author: David Random
Publisher: LitFire Publishing
ISBN: 1635248345
Pages: 284
Genre: Crime
Reviewed by: Megan Russell
Hollywood Book Review
It is increasingly difficult in the information age to tell a crime story which is both original and captivating. David Random has pulled off such a daunting task with great success in his work Connected. What seems to be a typical detective story turns into a complicated narration of
A Life Established by Faith and Patience
Title: A Life Established by Faith and Patience
Author: Shelly Kauffman
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 978-1-4787-2982-2
Pages: 137
Genre: Spiritual, Memoir
Reviewed By: Susan Brown
Hollywood Book Review
Being a person of faith is a test – a test of trusting in something intangible and unseen. It is a choice to believe in the power outside of the self to guide and direct our lives. Author Shelly Kauffman, at an early age, made this choice and committed to a life
Linguistic Formula
Title: Linguistic Formula: (a+f=l) Mexico “desegregated Identity”
Author: David Ramirez-Europa
Publisher: LitFire Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 978-1682568507
Pages: 78
Genre: Social Sciences/Linguistics
Reviewed by: Anthony Avina
Hollywood Book Review
In a time where the people of Mexico and South America are caught in a political maelstrom, author David Ramirez-Europa and his novel Linguistic Formula: (a+f=l) Mexico “desegregated Identity” helps dive head first into the language, history and the identity of Mexico as a whole. It is a book that explores the true
A Layman’s Guide to Managing Fear
Title: A Layman’s Guide to Managing Fear
Subtitle: Using Psychology, Christianity, and Non-Resistant Methods
Author: Stanley Popovich
Publisher: Mountain View Publishing / Treble Heart Books
ISBN: 1512007803
Genre: Self-Help / Christian
Reviewed by: Beth Adams
Hollywood Book Review
Good advice, well taken, is the sign of an intelligent person. Learning from others in ways and techniques for handling fear are explained in simple terms by author Stanley Popovich in his book titled A Layman’s Guide to
Shattered Triangle
Title: Shattered Triangle
Author: William P. Messenger
Publisher: Black Rose Writing
ISBN: 978-1612963709
Pages: 355
Genre: Crime / Thriller
Reviewed by: Jake Bishop
Hollywood Book Review
This novel starts and ends with a murder case. However, in between it examines the friendship and lives of three distinctly different individuals who make up the triangle referred to in the author’s title. Giovanni and Giuseppe are twins. Tom is their friend. They grow up together in Southern California, begin to grow apart
The Green Vial
Title: The Green Vial
Author: Nicholas Orsini
Publisher: LitFire Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 978-1641512183
Pages: 214
Genre: Thriller
Reviewed by: Arnold Carreiro
Hollywood Book Review
The Green Vial is a globetrotting thriller that tells the high-stakes story of Rodger Rodgers, an American scientist who travels to Iran with the hopes of studying the after effects of a devastating earthquake, who is quickly thrown headfirst into the deep
Confessions of a Clueless Rebel
Title: Confessions of a Clueless Rebel
Author: Tom Corbett
Publisher: Hancock Press
ISBN: 1948000202
Pages: 598
Genre: Autobiography
Reviewed by: Susan Milam
Hollywood Book Review
Tom Corbett, author of Confessions of a Clueless Rebel, characterizes his autobiography as a story about “breaking away.” The author begins life as the “ordinary” only child of working-class Catholic parents. Not gifted athletically, sometimes grouped with the slow learners, sometimes grouped with the smart kids, Mr. Corbett spends much of his adolescence
The Moving Blade
Title: The Moving Blade
Subtitle: A Tokyo Mystery
Author: Michael Pronko
Publisher: Raked Gravel Press
ISBN: 978-1942410164
Pages: 319
Genre: Crime / Thriller
Reviewed by: Joe Kilgore
Hollywood Book Review
This is author Pronko’s second novel in his Detective Hiroshi series. The book is packed with intrigue, suspense, and mystery—all the things that make a thriller thrilling—but it’s also filled with detail, rich characterizations, and vivid scene descriptions—all the things that make a good
The Cellist’s Friend
Title: The Cellist’s Friend
Author: Robert J Fanshawe
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 978-1-5462-8833-6
Pages: 195
Genre: Fiction/War/Romance
Reviewed by: Holly White
Hollywood Book Review
Author Robert J. Fanshawe has a way with words that will draw you in from the first paragraph – from the first sentence, actually. His hero, Benjamin Routledge, narrates this fascinating tale with a tone which is friendly and self-knowing, yet at the same time, a bit mysterious.
The Singularity Witness
Title: The Singularity Witness
Author: Dan Grant
Publisher: MindScape Press Inc.
ISBN: 9781732504011
Pages: 440
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Reviewed by: Tara Mcnabb
Hollywood Book Review
Dan Grant has taken some of the world’s most controversial ideas surrounding medicine and technology and transformed them into a carefully crafted, slick thriller that is without a doubt one of the most pioneering books to come out in 2018.
A sinister biological research organization
Equanimity
Title: Equanimity: The Spirit Within
Author: Samuel D. Bartoli
Publisher: Halo International
ISBN: 978-1-61244-190-0
Genre: Religion & Spirituality
Pages: 326
Reviewed by: Susan Milam
Hollywood Book Review
Equanimity: The Spirit Within chronicles the spiritual journey of author Samuel D. Bartoli, a former Southern California Golden Gloves Boxing Champion. Part memoir, part guidebook, Equanimity provides an in-depth model for living a life based on service to God. Having fought it out with his own demons, Mr. Bartoli now seeks to
Icy the Iceberg
Title: Icy the Iceberg
Author: Larry Friend
Illustrations: Sidney “Mindy” Makis
Publisher: LitFire Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 978-1-64045-018-9
Genre: Children’s Fiction
Reviewed by: Justine Williams
Hollywood Book Review
With a goofy smile reminiscent of the cross-eyed Olaf the snowman character in Frozen, author Larry Friend gives his protagonist, Icy, the personification of a timeless snowflake in Icy the Iceberg. Written while the author was on an Alaskan cruise, looking out at the icebergs on the chilly water,
Rob the Vatican
Title: Rob the Vatican
Author: Robert Gallant
Publisher: Robert Gallant Books
ASIN: B07GVR3FVS
Pages: 287
Genre: Thriller
Reviewed by: Jake Bishop
Hollywood Book Review
Think about a heist. Not just any heist, but a heist of the highest order. Author Robert Gallant has envisioned theft from one of the richest entities of all time, the Roman Catholic Church’s fabled treasures within The Vatican itself.
Triumph
Title: Triumph
Subtitle: Taming the Monster Within
Author: Ingrid Kern
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 978-1457552984
Pages: 150
Genre: Self Help
Reviewed by: Barbara Bamberger Scott
Hollywood Book Review
Triumph: Taming the Monster Within is the story of hopes dashed in childhood replaced by hopes fulfilled in later years, written by an intelligent, determined woman with a give-back philosophy.
Kern suffered in her youth from a
Tsavo
Title: Tsavo
Subtitle: Oddball Researchers Use Data and Guns to Save African Elephants
Author: Daniel B Botkin
Publisher: Book Vine Press
ISBN: 978-1949574036
Pages: 388
Genre: Science & Math/Environmentalism/Conservation
Reviewed by: Anthony Avina
Hollywood Book Review
If there’s ever been a perfect example of the debate between conservationists and hunters, it’s the wild’s of Africa and the struggle to prevent poachers from hunting big