By LMReviews on Feb 13, 2011 in Multicultural Lit Reviews, Multicultural Society | Comments Off
In Suchada Kailey’s multicultural romantic fiction novel Blind by Choice, Kailey introduces us to Steve Menger, a successful, confident American engineer in his thirties. Steve’s story begins when work takes him to Thailand. From his experiences with religion, social mores, cuisine, language and dating Thai women, we learn that Steve is very embracing of cultures [...]
By LMReviews on Dec 26, 2010 in Multicultural Lit Reviews | Comments Off
In Champagne, Jelly Beans and Chocolate, Author R.L. Taylor tells the engrossing story of Royce Tyler, a talented man broken by soul wrenching circumstances that left him deeply depressed and ultimately homeless. Royce is left to pick up the pieces after his parents are murdered in their liquor store by a perpetrator who evades justice, [...]
By LMReviews on Dec 12, 2010 in Multicultural History, Multicultural Lit Reviews | Comments Off
The promise of independence, bright city lights and singing gigs is what lures Twilight Amery to an Alabama field along a cargo train route just outside her home town. She may not be a runaway slave but picking cotton is a memory not far enough in the distance. As she stows away among train’s cargo [...]
By LMReviews on Nov 28, 2010 in Multicultural Lit Reviews | Comments Off
The feelings of love are binding even if the bodies aren’t in the relationship between Lynette Clayton and her womanizing former football star husband Marcus Clayton. Lynette’s love for Marcus leads them to remarry after his numerous infidelities had led them down the road to divorce. Now in Atlanta with their five-year-old son and their [...]
By LMReviews on Oct 24, 2010 in Multicultural Lit Reviews, Multicultural Writing | Comments Off
Unearthed, is an anthology of eerie circumstances that reveal buried secrets. Shawn McPike’s “Last Fragment”, David A. Stelzig’s “Help Me”, Seth E. Lender’s “Crown of the Earth” and Edmond Chang’s “Illusion” all involve haunting truths that need to be bright to light. Taking a project without meeting the client leads a construction contractor, Stuart Nichols [...]
By LMReviews on Oct 17, 2010 in Multicultural Lit Reviews | Comments Off
A Guest Non-Fiction Review by Mike of Artists Inlet Press Mr. Postman’s book Amusing Ourselves to Death, written a decade earlier, explains the years leading up to our Aldous Huxley Brave New World condition. This volume traces our plight over centuries leading to the implications of the book’s subtitle, “The Surrender of Culture to Technology.” [...]
By LMReviews on Oct 2, 2010 in Multicultural Contributors, Multicultural Lit Reviews, Multicultural Writing | Comments Off
In Jeanie Johnson and Jayha Leigh’s Duets: Veiled Passions & A Little Bit of Dis, the reader gets two contemporary steamy erotic romance novellas. The first, Veiled Passions takes place at a Arizona resort where an Engineering conference is taking place. The beautiful full-figured Isoke Morehouse with stunning yet distinctly African features discovers she is [...]
By LMReviews on Sep 16, 2010 in Multicultural Lit Reviews, Multicultural Society | Comments Off
Devilish erotic delights overtake boring community college Professor Rick Michelson in Jaxx Steele’s short story The Devil Made Me Do It. Rick has been in an interracial relationship with Terry, a small African American hard bodied male bartender with pleasure on his mind for seven years. Rick is conservative and straight-laced while Terry has a [...]
By LMReviews on Sep 5, 2010 in Multicultural Lit Reviews, Multicultural Society | Comments Off
In Catch Me, If You Can, told through a series of flashbacks, Brenna Lyons tells the story of how New Yorker Angelo Maretti copes with his twin sister Angelena’s rape and murder plus the threat to his own life. As Angelo and his companion and love interest Marissa Rizzulo attempt to stay one step ahead [...]
By LMReviews on Aug 14, 2010 in Multicultural Lit Reviews | Comments Off
The World Outside the Window is a short story anthology that explores the perception of the outside world from a window frame as told by 19 different onlookers. These onlookers are conjured up from the imagination of 19 Amazon.com Shorts writers. Many have other writing accomplishments to their credit but all have chosen to tell [...]