Southwest Book Reviews

12/11/2025

I review my good friend's book, one we might all need one day... Replace the State by Sasha Davis

Replace the State by Sasha Davis is as intense as it sounds. Davis does not enter into the subject lightly or pull any punches. He assumes our government is unjust and getting worse. He explains th…

12/10/2025

So what I think about the longest book I've ever read... Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson

Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson is two big things. The first is, I am pretty sure it was the most popular fantasy release in 2024 and the second is, it is the longest book I have ever read, and…

12/05/2025

I loved this book so much I started on the fifth in the series the day I finished it... The Providence Rider by Robert McCammon https://southwestbookreviews.wordpress.com/2025/12/06/the-providence-rider-by-robert-mccammon/

12/03/2025

The last of my Halloween reviews getting up here...N0S4R2 by Joe Hill

N0S4R2 by Joe Hill is the second Horor novel of his I have read and sadly the last Horror novel I will be reviewing for the 2025 Halloween season. I know Halloween is over but I was reading it duri…

11/28/2025

Wrapping up my late additions to Halloween readings...Dark of Night by Jonathan Maberry

Dark of Night by Jonathan Maberry is either a long novella or a short book and the third in the series of zombie apocalypse tales which started with the Dead of Night. I had just finished the secon…

11/25/2025

The best of my Halloween reads... Mine by Robert McCammon https://southwestbookreviews.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/mine-by-robert-mccammon/

11/21/2025

This was the stinker out of my Halloween reads...Toxic Love by Kristopher Triana https://southwestbookreviews.wordpress.com/2025/11/22/toxic-love-by-kristopher-triana/

11/11/2025

The 8th book which I enjoyed this season and I really did enjoy... Fall of Night by Jonathan Maberry

Fall of Night by Jonathan Maberry was the sequel to his first zombie book and the first book of his I ever read, The Dead of Night. Maberry sent it to me for free when I had just started reviewing …

10/20/2025

I reach back 42 years to toss up my 7th 2025 Halloween Season Horror review...Mystery Walk by Robert McCammon

Mystery Walk by Robert McCammon may be the oldest fiction novel I have read for quite a while. I have been enjoying the Matthew Corbett series he wrote about a decade ago. This is a good book, but …

10/02/2025

Our Sixth Halloween Horror Book review of 2025. Children of the Night by Dan Simmons

Children of the Night by Dan Simmons will be the 3rd book I review for the 2025 Halloween session. I saw someone recommend Simmons on one of those top ten horror novel lists and figured, this seaso…

09/16/2025

My fifth Halloween Season book review for 2025! Rage by Jonathan Maberry

Rage by Jonathan Maberry is the eleventh book in the Joe Ledger series and I have to say I love every one of them. It is about twenty times harder to write the eleventh book than the first. It is a…

09/11/2025

Southwest Gets to its fourth review this holiday season with one of the best Villains we've seen in a long while.... Mister Slaughter by Robert McCammon

Mister Slaughter by Robert McCammon is the third book in the Matthew Corbett Historical Fiction/Adventure series.  The story focuses on Matthew Corbett and his older associate Greathouse who i…