2025 INDIE BOOK REVIEW NOMINEES, ROUND 7

I'm back with a few more candidates. If it seems like my posts have slowed down, it's because they have. I'm desperately trying to complete a photography book at the moment, and time has become hard to find. Not to worry, I'm still finding good book review candidates, and next week I'll announce the September 2025 Rule One Book Review nominee. 

In the meantime, here are two more indie book review candidates! 

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INDIE BOOK REVIEW CANDIDATE #027

TITLE: Asterius (Timelessness)
PUBLISHER: Independently Published
AUTHOR: Susana Imaginário
GENRE(S): Myth & Legend (multiple sub-genres)
PUBLICATION DATE: 21 December 2024
AMAZON REVIEWS/RATINGS AT DISCOVERY: 14/4.7 Star Average
AMAZON KINDLE RANKING AT DISCOVERY: #1,228,389 
WHY IT GOT MY ATTENTION:
I write about mythology, so this book caught my attention on genre alone. However, the blurb really hooked me. It was perhaps one of the shortest and most efficient blurbs I've seen on Amazon. The sample is a first person perspective of a famous Greek myth, which I assume is to refresh the reader on the story of the Minotaur. It is effectively written and clearly serves to prime the story and set up the main character, but is that character the protagonist or antagonist? A monster or a hero? I want to know more! 
DATE PLACED ON CANDIDATE LIST: 14 August 2025
​STATUS: Reviewed October 2025

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INDIE BOOK REVIEW CANDIDATE #028

​TITLE: This Burdened Clay
PUBLISHER: Independently published
AUTHOR: Thomas Norford
GENRE(S): Horror (multiple sub-genres)
PUBLICATION DATE: February 24, 2025
AMAZON REVIEWS/RATINGS AT DISCOVERY: 10/4.7 Star Average
AMAZON KINDLE RANKING AT DISCOVERY: #1,158,163
WHY IT GOT MY ATTENTION:
It was late, and I have no memory of how I found this book (alcohol was not involved). It must have made an impression, because I bought it (maybe it was free, I can't remember). It had a fantastic and original blurb, and the sample pulled me in. The writing, so far at least, is good. My subconscious must know what was is doing. 
This author (it's a pen name) had two followers on X.  I had to make sure his account wasn't a bot (and I'm still not convinced.) I love finding indie authors like this, relatively unknown and with such promise! 
DATE PLACED ON CANDIDATE LIST: 14 August 2025
​STATUS: Scheduled for December 2025 Review

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