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Author: Brent Johner, Author

Review – The Hum and the Shiver

Posted on October 12, 2026

When a fierce, pure-blood Tufa soldier is discharged back to the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, she finds her toughest battle isn’t the war she left behind, but surviving ominous death tokens, a dangerous ex-boyfriend, and her own forgotten magic.

Review – Liú Fāxiàn

Posted on October 9, 2026

When a clue hidden in a classic poem sets a young man and his sister on a dangerous hunt for the lost, magical plunder of a notorious bandit syndicate, they must outrun the Emperor’s deadly Brocade Guard while solving a game of increasingly lethal riddles.

Review – The Dog Stars

Posted on October 8, 2026

After a pandemic wipes out nearly everyone on Earth, a grieving pilot who lives in an abandoned airport with his dog and a weapons-expert neighbor risks everything—flying past his point of no return—to locate the source of a mysterious voice on his airplane radio.

Review – God’s Country

Posted on October 7, 2026

A racist and cowardly white rancher named Curt Marder hires an expert tracker—a Black man named Bubba—to rescue his kidnapped wife and avenge his dead dog after marauders burn down his farm.

Review – Deadwood and Shakespeare

Posted on October 6, 2026

𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑤𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑒 examines HBO’s lawless frontier camp (𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑤𝑜𝑜𝑑 2004-2006, 2019) alongside Shakespeare’s 𝐻𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑑.

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