Monty's Book Reviews

KarBoben Simon Carr 4 Stars Pages : 193 Published: 01 Feb 2022 Publisher's Blurb Real Love knows no realities. The Multiverse's first power couple were once a lonly queen and a king who had lost his kingdom. this is the story of how a multivers in Khaos brought them together. Review Khaos is coming and only the apocalypse blockers can stop it from destroying all the worlds in every dimension. How they do it is anyone’s guess. Bob and Fred are sent out into the universe to find and recruit the other blockers spread around the dimensions and first is Karen, queen of the Hobean, complete with her battle knickers. What follows is a hilarious tale that has laugh out loud dialog and the kind of mad situations that would feel right at home in the mind of former Goon Spike Milligan (ask your dad\grandad) The characters are wonderful, the situations sheer lunacy and the whole thing is just completely mad. This is not going to be everyone’s cup of tea but for anyone who l...

 Wonder Valley Rhys Stalba-Smith 4 Stars Pages: 347 Published: 24 Oct 2021 Publisher's Blurb It’s never just a kidnapping… Thirty years is a long time to wait for truth. A longer time to run. But thirty bodies are a lot to grieve for, and for the town of Nowhey, home to the infamous Wonder Valley Massacre of the sixties, the waiting is about to end. In the third novel of the State of Affairs series, we again leave the city for wide haunting spaces of South Australia. Where everyone knows everyone and knows what’s going on. Or at least they think so. That is until one of their own ends up dead, an apparent suicide, that once the digging begins becomes more sinister. For ex-detective Will Davidson, it’s been years since he investigated anything other than the emptiness of a strong bottle of liquor. But then this isn’t just another investigation, this was his father. And he was working on something big, something dangerous. Something with hands all the way back to Will’s childhood, wh...

  Saving Mars Cidney Swanson 5 Stars Pages: 388 Genre: Science Fiction Published: 05 August 2012 Publisher: Williams Press Publisher's Blurb Some pilots follow orders. Others just wing it. Grounded for her Top Gun attitude, a Mars colony pilot jumps at the chance to fly a covert mission to off-limits Earth and save her world from starvation. On Earth, the Chancellor keeps a dystopian peace through a competitive consciousness-transfer program, offering perfect bodies to those who toe the line. Pilot Jessamyn’s orders are simple: get the food and get out, minimizing contact. But when the pilot’s brilliant autistic brother is captured and charged with treason, all bets are off. Jess finds an ally in Pavel, the Chancellor’s rebel nephew, but now she’s got a choice to make: rescue her brother or save Mars? Saving Mars  is a Sci-Fi series featuring interplanetary politics, adventure, and romance that's perfect for fans of Pierce Brown’s Red Rising or Mary Robinette Kowal’s Lady Astr...

  The Clean Green Dragon Rebecca Bielawski 5 Stars Pages: 27 Genre: Children Age 2-9 Published: 01 February 2022 Publisher's Blurb So, there was this dragon. Yeah, he was mighty, with all the power of the sun and the earth at his wingtips but he was also a little lazy. One day, an annoying problem washed up on his doorstep. Well no, it was more than annoying, it was downright  disgusting . The question is would he get off his scaly butt and do something about it? A fun tale that tells us to look over our shoulder every once in a while to check if we are leaving this planet better or worse than we found it. From the author: " I was trying to write a legend. As if once there was a planet with an environmental problem and this is how it was solved, and now it is just a story that we tell to our children, like :"children used to sweep chimneys for a job and we used to throw rubbish in the sea, but then we stopped because it was dumb". I wrote a fun simplistic story about...

  The Scavenger Aidan Lucid 4 Stars Pages: 148 Genre: YA, Horror, Supernatural Published: 10 Jan 2021 Publisher:  Jongleur Books Publisher's Blurb Three Separate Wishes. One Twisted Nightmare! Just like Hopps Town, their humble home, Jessica Barlow, Jared Duval, and Adrian Cole are fostering dark secrets. Plagued by loss, cruelty, and physical abuse, these friends are kindred spirits, bound by anguish and elusive dreams. They’re soon to find the key to change, but any happy future will demand they face a haunting past and brave a lethal present. Deep in the forest on the outskirts of town, aging and nearly forgotten, there stands a well from another time. Happening upon this relic, Adrian goads his companions to join him in making a wish. Soon, difficult though it is to admit, their luckless lives do seem to shift. The only problem is, the changes aren’t at all as they’d imagined. Seemingly, they’ve only left the pan to face the fire. Should they hope to both survive and thriv...

The Super Nice Monster Squad Simon Carr 3 Stars Audiobook   Listening Time: 2 Hours 51 Mins Narrator: Tim Alexander Published: 12 August 2021 Publishers's Blurb Real Monsters Are Not Afraid to Wear Pink!  Dracula looks on in horror at the monster's duck pouting on Instagram: teen vampires glistening in the sun with fabulous hair, werewolves with hipster beards....  He decides enough is enough. He will salvage the monster image with the monsters of old, and remind the world that they are so much more than fantasy objects for teenage girls.  Standing in Dracula’s way to world domination, are the children of his old enemies who have grown up, well, a bit snowflakey.  The Apocalypse is upon us. Good versus evil. Monster versus monster. It is this Wednesday. Bring a packed lunch. Review What happens when monsters start to be perceived as cuddly and nice? Count Dracula isn't happy and flies over to America to kill the loveable undead kids who started the trend followi...

  Corrupted By Power John Parker 4 Stars Pages: 310 Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Suspense Published: 28 September 2021 Publisher: PublishNation Publisher's Blurb With a rich intricate plot and strong forceful characters,  Corrupted by Power  tells the story of seven of the most powerful men in the world who abduct Mark at birth, and then educate him to become as ruthless and driven as themselves. Their sole purpose is for him to eventually become the Prime Minister of Great Britain and to do their absolute bidding. The book outlines Mark's increasing anguish as he grows up and attempts to juggle a new found social conscience, in contrast to his 'Uncles' growing demands for his complete surrender to their total authority in a world of political corruption. Inspired by the prophetic words of Microsoft's founder, Bill Gates, who predicted that  'the explosion of the internet would be dramatic, far reaching and lead to a new social order, -  Corrupted by Power  is...