Simon starts you out with a nameless loveless woman that the author portrays through narrative foreshadowing. What you end up with is the result of two different types of predators with entirely different desires.
   Julia is a man hunter. And she’s willing to go after her prize no matter the danger. Alex Bowman is cool, too good to be true, and the suave type with a dark alternative motive. Despite the warning signs, Julia plays her game to hook this 10/10 man, specifically manipulating everything she can to be around him.
   She starts to regret her choice when she reveals to Alex that she is in the law program at the University of Montana. His reaction should have been a warning sign, but after some smooth-talking Julia concludes he’s still a man worth perusing.
Until the bitter end…
   Simon weaves the story together with dialogue and narrative focusing on character interaction. Although better setting description and increasing relatability of the characters would benefit the book, Simon does well at portraying two separate people with following their agenda’s and weaving a dark and suspenseful tale.

Tony Brunal depicts a dangerous and devastated, yet united, after war world. With snowstorms, collapsed cities, and ever-changing weather, the book moves you through the feeling of utter loss to a bright light that there may be hope. This present tense novel is filled with beautiful and moving imagery which gives you goose bumps at times.

The beginning starts with a resemblance to a M. Night Shyamalan story line, but quickly moves into what feels like a prequel novel before a grand space adventure. As Time Narrows takes you through the story like a movie, setting great detail, but not getting too close to any one character. There is a dusting of typos and formatting errors, but nothing that takes away from the overall story and quality of the book.
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As Time Narrows makes you think of what a destroyed world would really be like, and lets you feel the desperate struggles to save humanity. ​

​In Sisters of the Perilous Heart, author Sandra Vasher crafts an intriguing adventure tale set in a low tech medieval culture on a remote, alien world, sprung from Earthly explorers of the far future. Using a clever scientific premise, she creates two conflicting future “races”, Mortals and Immortals, and a well-thought-out “magic” system based on the source of their differences.
Against this backdrop of science fantasy, Sisters follows the perilous journeys, both geographical and emotional, of two diverse groups of characters who are drawn together and then separated by events as they unfold around them. Most primary characters are well-drawn, and the reader will come to care about what happens to them; others are less defined. Author Vasher’s writing is crisp, and her dialog is both believable and true to character. Her scene-setting is sparse at times, leaving more to the reader to fill in than might be wise, but the plot and narrative flow well.
Sisters in intended to be the first book in the Mortal Heritance series, and as such both stands alone well and yet does leave the reader wondering what will happen next. Something of a coming-of-age journey of one of the main protagonists brings a minimal romantic aspect to the story, which may be expanded on in future volumes. Excerpts from fictional works such as diary entries, reference books and scientific journal articles provide some insight into one group of characters who are never revealed in any detail, but the reader could be left wondering about the true reasons the protagonists are in conflict with them. One hopes this is intentional on the author’s part and will be clarified later in the series.
But Sisters is mainly about adventure, conflict both armed and unarmed, magic, royal intrigue, and the beginnings of a culture’s race for survival.

Rise of the Phoenix by T. Isajanyan is filled with beautiful description of the bronze age. The story is epic, a little slow at times, but builds a great world. There is a nice balance of the seers predictions, fate, and still some unexpected surprises for the reader.

The epic heroic tale stars Hayisi, Arme, and Hayadusta. Working the plot down to the final plot and fate of Arme and Hayadusta works well.
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Rise of the Phoenix is written moderately formal, which is fitting of the style and period. This helps bring you into the novel and give you a better feel of the time period. More character development would be nice as at times their development feels more superficial. Long blocks of narration do well at explaining the world, but slows she book down at times.