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App Review – Dracula: The Official Stoker Family Edition

PadWorx Release:  2010 Genre: Interactive Novel Platforms: iPad, iPad 2 MSRP: $6.99 (at time of review) Welcome to the very first AdventureAmigo book review, although having said that, ‘Dracula’ for...

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Ray Bradbury dead at 91

Per associated press Science fiction author Ray Bradbury has died at the age of 91. He died in his southern California home but no more details have been released at this time. Mr Bradbury wrote...

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Book Review – THE FIFTH WITNESS by Michael Connelly

Book Review: THE FIFTH WITNESS by Michael Connelly Over the years, I have found that things I treasure most are things I discover on a whim. I’ll give you an example. About a year ago, while going...

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Theater Review –“War Horse” (2012)

By David Mayne Theater: Curran San Francisco “In a word: magnificent!” Since the last stage production I’d seen was The Phantom of The Opera close to 16 years ago, it could be said that I’ve missed...

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Let the writing begin….

By David Mayne At last the brainstorming, outlining, and endless note taking are complete, leaving only a few loose ends to tie-up before I can begin writing my first novel, Orbis Imperium! In the...

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Adaptation of King’s UNDER THE DOME moves from Showtime to CBS

By: Garrett Collins I have heard people put down author Stephen King’s later work. But, if you ask me, the last decade has produced some of his best. Duma Key is a fascinating, nightmarish journey....

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Book Preview –“Orbis Imperium”

  Hey Amigos, I just wanted to post a quick article about my upcoming novel, Orbis Imperium, which will be finished and available (hopefully) in early 2014. I’ve been asked a lot of questions as to...

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Book Review: Gone Girl

Gone Girl By Gillian Flynn Review by: Melanie Copeland Marriage can be a killer! Or is it? In Gone Girl, we are presented with a married couple that is not only facing several pressing issues in...

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Book Review – The Secret Life of Bees

Review by Melanie Copeland The Secret Life of Bees By Sue Monk Kidd   Moving, Fast, and Inspiring, Yes, it has it all. Described as a, “Tale of one motherless daughter’s discovery of what family really...

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Book Review –‘Life of Pi’

Melanie Copeland Life of Pi - By Yann Martel See also: Film Review ’Life of Pi’ Need some spiritual enlightenment, or just the ability to take a disaster and turn it into something beautiful? Life of...

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Book Review –‘The Gar Dairies’ by Louis Bourgeois

The Gar Diaries By Louis Bourgeois Reviewed by Melanie Copeland Just a story about a fisherman’s son, right…wrong! The Gar Dairies is not only a creatively written memoir, but a personal in-depth...

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Book Review – Day Soldiers (#1)

Day Soldiers (#1) By Brandon Hale Reviewed by Melanie Copeland What do you do when the whole world that you have known has been turned upside down? You fight back, and that is exactly what Hale does in...

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Book Review – Partials (Partials Sequence #1)

Partials (Partials Sequence #1) By Dan Wells Reviewed By: Melanie Copeland Love robots, love disaster stories, love the idea that a weaponized virus is taking over? A young sixteen year old, who is...

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Book Review –“Breaking Twig”

Breaking Twig By Deborah Epperson Book Review by Melanie Copeland Get ‘Breaking TWIG’ on Amazon! I don’t think in all my life I have ever read a coming of age novel that I hated so much. The funny part...

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Book Review – Purging Fires (Day Soldiers #2)

By Brandon Hale Reviewed by Melanie Copeland Get Day Soldiers II – Purging Fires on Amazon! In the second book of this series, the battle for New York is now over. A small faction of humans is left to...

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Comic Review –‘Batman & Robin #18 – Requiem’

Adam Bunch Loss, suffering, pain, darkness, loneliness.  These are only a few of the adverbs & adjectives that describe the multitude of occurrences that have helped to shape the Batman.  Shortly...

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Ready Player One – The movie EVERY 80′s geek NEEDS!

It’s been over three years since Warner Brothers won the heated auction for the screen rights to Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One, and it’ll be another year or two before the movie comes out. But people...

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Book Review –‘The Dunwich Horror’ (1929)

The Dunwich Horror Published: April 1929 in “Weird Tales” Bea Harper This review is going to across as supremely sketchy because I don’t wish to concentrate my efforts solely on the 1970 schlocker from...

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Comic Review –‘Black Science’ #1 – 2

Adam Bunch For most people, when you mention to them a comic book, images of superheroes in capes saving the world from larger than life villains and monsters are what go through their head. They...

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Comic Preview: Penguins vs. Possums (2014)

Adam Bunch Every now and then, you see a title that makes you come to a screeching halt, tilt your head just a tad bit like a canine hearing a strange sound and focus your attention. For me, recently...

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