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The Best April Book Reviews for You

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The Best April Book Reviews for You, curated by me, Andy Zach. I’ve written eight books (one’s being published) and I’m writing another one. I know something about books, having read maybe 4-5,000 over my life. Let’s start with the latest one I’ve read:

Cloud-Castles
by Dave Freer (Goodreads Author)

Best April Book Reviews Cloud Castles
Cloud Castles

Andy Zach‘s review

Apr 21, 2022 

really liked it

bookshelves: humor, science-fiction

The first thing you notice about Dave Freer’s novel Cloud-Castles is the setting: a gas giant with a habitable zone in the atmosphere. Alien technology genetically engineering plant life that floats in the atmosphere and a whole ecosystem of flying creatures. There is an anti-gravity city, which has degenerated into a slum, and floating castles, owned by two warring alien species who use humans as slaves.

That setting is enough to make me read the book. But I also love the premise: a rich, but innocent scion, Augustus Thistlewood III, of humanity’s wealthiest family, is there to practice philanthropy toward the poor, downtrodden masses, using his recently acquired sociology degree.

Needless to say, his suitcase is quickly stolen by a ‘helpful’ street urchin Briz. Looking through his stuff, she realizes he has nothing to pawn and is a complete innocent, but very wealthy. Briz returns the suitcase and offers to escort him around the dangerous port town.

Then, adventures happen.

Highly recommended.

Andy Zach

Your Second Best April Book Review

Andy Zach Newsletter Zombie Detective Audiobook
Audiobook cover – click to listen.

Ace zombie reporter Sam Melvin has been fired – by his wife, Lisa. Their paper, The Midley Beacon, is barely surviving. How will they make ends meet?

Sam decides to give being a detective a try. He advertises his business – but his zombie experience comes with it. All across the country, people bring their zombie problems to Sam. Squirrels? Bulls? Sam’s on the case. But can his experience with zombie turkeys transfer?

Sam finds out in a series of deadly adventures – and so will you when you listen to this audiobook. See if you can keep from dying from laughter.

Brandi McGraw

5.0 out of 5 stars 

Fun Zombie Times!

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This was so much fun to listen to!!

Brandi McGraw

Keep Reading for Another Best April Book Review

Pilgrim 2 (Pilgrim, #2)
by 

Harmon Cooper (Goodreads Author)

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Pilgrim 2 cover

Book 2 amps up the action, the risks, and the rewards

really liked it

bookshelves: fantasy, action-adventure

Author Harmon Cooper continues his fantasy series about Pilgrim, the retired assassin turned rural good guy and advocate for magical creatures.

Too bad his former life keeps intruding as assassins seek to kill him and complete the contract on him. He decides to rid himself of the problem once and for all by killing his former teacher, who took out the contract on him. And other assassin teachers who are trying to complete the contract.

It turns out assassins are the least of his worries. He’s got a half-brother who is a full-blooded demon and out to kill him.

Good luck, Pilgrim.

Andy Zach‘s review

Now, for something completely different.

Best April Book Reviews
Cover of The Stray

The Stray
by Dick King-Smith

Apr 02, 2022 

it was amazing

bookshelves: children-s, family, fiction

Once more, author Dick King-Smith has an unlikely protagonist: a 75-year-old woman named Henny who has run away from a nursing home. She uses her last 50 pounds to take a train to the beach, in first-class luxury.

She writes about her loneliness in the sand. Since her boyfriend died in World War II she never married,

Then she runs into some cute, red-haired, children. That’s when the adventure begins.

Andy Zach‘s review

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Your Best Science Science Fiction, and Fantasy of March

Your Best Science Science Fiction

Your Best Science, Science Fiction, and Fantasy of March is right here. Author Andy Zach scans the internet for you. What’s there?

I’ve got so much for you! Where do I start?

Here’s a science fiction review of one of my favorite books:

Overall 5 out of 5 stars

Performance 5 out of 5 stars

Story 5 out of 5 stars

03-23-22

Another winner by Andy Zach!

Unique and wonderful book for young people. Kids see a whole new side of kids with special needs. Not weird. Just kids who are facing a different sort of challenge than they are. The story is fun and believable. It kept me interested, and I’m an old lady!

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These audiobooks include the following as well:

Life After Life Chronicles March Fourth Your Best Science Science Fiction
Enjoy all four novels in audiobook, paperback, or Kindle format!

Your Best Science Science Fiction Ahead!

At this point in the bloc you get some science fiction. Along with some laughs.

New review for Zombie Turkeys!

Overall 4 out of 5 stars

Performance 4 out of 5 stars

Story 4 out of 5 stars

03-18-22

funny

This is a parody of all those zombie apocalypse books and films. Zombie turkeys are loose in Illinois. It was hysterical when the fresh turkeys in the grocery store came to life. I had fun imagining the governor calling out the National Guard to protect turkey farms and hunt down the zombie turkeys. They were to use specially trained turkey dogs. Give this a try.

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We’re Not Done! Your Science Science Fiction Fantasy Continues Below

Enjoy these gorgeous pictures of – cold water invertebrates. Who would have thunk it?

How do I follow up such a nerdy article? With a nerdier video about battery manufacturing and technology.

You see, I’m a nerd. I love all science and technology. But I’ve been especially following Tesla battery and electric car technology. Check out the next video.

What can top these stories? How about this fantasy story below?

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A half-goblin and his pet honey badger battle pirates

A humorous origin story

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Available in PDF, MOBI, and ePub

When a teenaged Anuka Sandbar, criminally handsome half-goblin, visits the world’s most famous Orc brothel only the sort of fun Anuka is known for can ensue. This short story is an introduction to the beloved hero of the Dragons of Dorwine Series.

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Science, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Reviews

The Book of Atrix Wolfe Science Science Fiction, and Fantasy

Science, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Reviews – I’m bursting with reviews and the latest science news for you. Let’s dive right in!

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Cover of Patricia MiKillip’s book

Once again Patricia McKillip shows she is the mistress (mage?) of fantasy through this great mystery fantasy.

What’s so great about it? It begins with a horribly close battle between a besieging army and a castle. Both sides are losing men and neither will give in or negotiate. The world’s greatest mage, Atrix Wolfe, feels compelled to intervene to stop the final battle. He’s filled with outrage at the atrocities of war, and uses all his power to make a terror worse than either army. Both flee before it and the war ends.

The king of the castle dies, with many of his army, killed by the magical thing on the field of battle. His wife dies in sorrow, leaving a baby, Tallis, who is reared by his older brother, now the king.

Unfortunately, Atrix Wolfe loses control of his magic. The thing still kills. Plus there are many magical side effects. An unknown child appears after the battle, mute and dazed. She becomes a kitchen scullery maid, named ‘Saro’.

Atrix Wolfe, horrified by the magical backlash, forsakes magic and goes into hiding. The baby prince Tallis grows up and is sent to mage school. That’s the start of the mystery, twenty years after the battle. Tallis finds a mysterious book. Seemingly a basic book of spells, why was it hidden in a broom closet? It has no author and none of the spells work correctly.

Lovers of mysteries and of fantasy will delight in this classic. 

Andy Zach

Where’s the Science, Science Fiction?

Right here you’ve got some science!

And here’s your science fiction, derived from this article. Reversing aging? Check out my villain in this book: (Hint: the villain is not the undead mother-in-law.)

SciFi Story Fuel My Undead Mother-in-law Science Science Fiction
My Undead Mother-in-law cover. Click to get yours.

5.0 out of 5 stars 

Actually a better mystery each book he writes!

I read the whole book in just a few days. This is the first one that I couldn’t figure out what was going to happen before it did! I was even a bit concerned for the Zombies. (Now there’s something I never thought I’d hear myself think!)

The worst part is that I was in a rush to get back to my real life, so I hurried to get to the end…and what happens? I had to get the next book! I’m glad Kindle let me buy their unlimited plan, or else I would have to mortgage my house to find out what happens next! Save yourself the headaches and buy the set. You’re going to, anyway!

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More Science, Science Fiction? Why Not?

I’ve got to tell you, I love 1950s SciFi, both books and movies. I grew up with it, and it’s part of me.

But where is SciFi in my books? Try this book icon for a clue:

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Flying Saucer over Washington DC – Paranormal Privateers Chapter 9 icon

Paranormal Privateers: The Adventures of the Undead

(The Life After Life Chronicles Book 5) Kindle Edition

by Mr. Andy Zach (Author), Sean Flannagan (Illustrator), Dori Harrell (Editor), Rik Hall (Editor)  Format: Kindle Edition

5.0 out of 5 stars 

A virus did that?

Whew! Lots of stories within stories with a wink of incredulity as we read along the pages. Tongue-in-cheek adventures, modern day villains’, and zombies; wait, are they still zombies or not? Yep, we have that zombie virus run amok with various creations to transform them back and forth. How much of a zombie body do you need to regenerate?

Gung-ho leader of the group Diane Newby, husband George, are charging on fighting crime with the discreet eye of the government as their silent partners. Somali pirates, Harrod’s London Store with real bulls in the china shop, parasitic cyborgs, virus-antivirus, bacteria, and other minute details tangle the story line into a braided rug of conspiracies and innovative solutions. And little do they know, but their arch enemy is among their group.

This was a slow read for me because so many things happen that go back into something revealed earlier that I really concentrated to meditate and map out all the subplots that make this a “HOOT “of a read. Andy Zach must keep a storyboard as big as an unabridged encyclopedia! This is a read and reread type of book that will never be loaned out because the reader will want to keep it safely hoarded away for multiple times.


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Plus, I have two books going on sale on March 20th, 2022, just in time for spring. They’re superhero books, from my comic book days.

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Secret Supers:

What happens when ‘differently-abled’ people become ‘super-abled’? Kindle Edition

by Andy Zach  (Author), Ian Bristow (Illustrator), Leslie McKee (Editor), Rik Hall (Editor)  Format: Kindle Edition

4.4 out of 5 stars    23 ratings

Jeremy Gentle fell flat on his face at therapy. That was normal since he had cerebral palsy. But his new superpower wasn’t normal.

Then things got weirder when his best friend, Dan Elanga, got a different superpower. But Dan was still blind.

Kayla Verdera and Aubrey Wilcosky, two girls in their middle-school special ed class, discovered they too had new superpowers. Kayla was mute and needed a walker. Aubrey lost two legs and used crutches. But they were as powerful as the boys.

What should the four friends do? Jeremy knew if the word got out, it’d be a media circus. Then they started fighting crime, as the Secret Supers. Who knew a disability could be a perfect disguise? No one would ever think of disabled kids as superheroes. Then they ran into problems they never expected.

And the other book on sale is . . .

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Villain’s Vacation cover

Four disabled seventh-graders with superpowers take a vacation at Coaster World. They need a break from fighting criminals. Ever since the beginning of the school year when they acquired their unusual abilities, they’ve been training and using those powers to fight crime in their town.

ittle do they know the arch-villain they recently defeated also loves coasters and is vacationing at Coaster World. Worse, the villain wants revenge. Nothing less than turning these teens to a life of crime will satisfy.

Can Jeremy, Dan, Kayla, and Aubrey withstand the villain’s attacks? Or will they become Super Villains?

You can only find out by reading the adventure ‘Villain’s Vacation’.

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