Alex Hiam grew up spending holidays in the mysterious Boston mansion of his great-grandmother. With a later life interest in magic blended with these childhood experiences he found a way to return to Boston with the fictional work of Silent Lee. With a world of magic hidden in plain sight he is able to share the delightful memories with readers through the young Silent Lee who must sneak away through a door into a different century to attend school in the pages of Silent Lee and the Adventure of the Side Door Key. Continue reading “Silent Lee and the Adventure of the Side Door Key Book Review from @kleffnotes”

Set in Port Landing, Wisconsin Leaves on Frozen ground is noted as an artful examination of family. With similarities to the work of Arthur Miller, this modern tragedy shows the lives of ordinary people dealing with misfortune. Gaston and his wife Celine live with their son Edmund happily, but as the seasons change so to do the relationships between this tight knit unit. Continue reading “Leaves on Frozen Ground Book Review from @kleffnotes”

Dani has always thought she was a normal human living on an Earth under the rule of a genocidal faction of an alien race called Echoes who go by the title Wardens. She has managed to survive by scrounging for supplies and avoiding any military and the human-hunting Wardens. She is shocked to learn that she is not human, but rather an Echo she suddenly risks her own well-being for the sake of a young boy. Dani must examine her past and in doing this she realizes that she must fight to stop the Wardens from destroying the humans and the Echoes of Earth. Echoes of War begins the sci-fi trilogy focused on an Earth where Wardens have reigned. Continue reading “Echoes of War Book Review from @kleffnotes”

Emerging author Samuel David Nicholson always had a vivid imagination and after graduating from Florida State University and moving to Virginia Beach, he let his imagination take hold again and he took this time to evolve an idea into his first book. Mischief and Mayhem introduces the world to The Faerland Chronicles. When a long dormant dark presence emerges in the realm of the Faers Ophelia Meplewood and her Woodland Scout companions will have to try and bring balance and prevent chaos from reaching other realms. Continue reading “Mischief and Mayhem Book Review from @kleffnotes”