Spotlight on…The Home Team Part 3

I’ve decided to give my unruly pupils a little rest from lessons. Well, their attention spans aren’t great, and since another British-hosted Olympics probably won’t happen again in my lifetime and I’m somewhat obsessed, I’m going to do another round-up of books by members of the illustrious IU team.

This time, I’m featuring books by Yvonne Hertzberger, Chris James, and Carol Wyer, each uniquely different from the other and great reads. 

The Second Internet Café – Part 1 The Dimension Researcher by Chris James is a complex but intelligent and thoroughly enjoyable sci-fi. A dimension researcher is, essentially, a time-traveller and is the best job in the world. It’s an important one when you have to gather information and knowledge from innumerable dimensions. Not only that, when your job, and those of your colleagues, is on the line and you’ve got a dimension ‘stalker’ to contend with, things can get quite complicated. This is an excellent, very well-written novel.

For the full review, see here.

Surfing in Stilettos by Carol Wyer couldn’t be more different: a humorous, very entertaining story of 50-plus wanderlust that comes to an abrupt stop in France. The main character’s adventures and thoughts are portrayed in a blog, which has a loyal following of similar-aged devotees and the ‘posts’ are peppered throughout the novel. It’s light-hearted, easy to read, tremendously good fun, and a novel you’ll enjoy from the word ‘go’.

For the full review, see here.

Back to sci-fi/fantasy, is Back from Chaos by Yvonne Hertzberger. This was a novel that firmly put the genre on my map having hovered over it for a while. It’s a novel that has everything in it from romance and tragedy to war and treachery. A kingdom is overthrown by its neighbour, but subsequently united by the marriage of the surviving issue of the rulers. Needless to say, there are those who are not at all happy about the situation, and the dissenters have to be outed and dealt with. Yvonne is a very expressive writer without being over-elaborate and draws her characters with care and clarity. There’s no doubt you’ll be avidly seeking out the sequel.

For the full review, see here.

Author: Cathy Speight

Reviewer Cathy Speight is British and lives in England. The Kindle revived her passion for reading and after stumbling on a Facebook group of independent authors, she now does her best to encourage and assist indies as much as possible. Books by indie author form the majority of her collection. Cathy shares her views on the books she has read on her blog. View all posts by Cathy Speight