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Review by Ronica Wahi   Playing with House Money: An Addendum to Land of Allusions By Andrew Davie Published: January 26, 2022, Independently Published. Pages: 45. ASIN: B09R39GXCQ Andrew Davie continues relating with honesty his own experience as a survivor of a ruptured brain aneurysm in Playing with House Money: An Addendum to Land of Allusions. It’s a fit addendum: it takes forward the story of his own journey, with his unique challenges, struggles, progress in the same straightforward style with ample references-with-explanations – again, as with Land of Allusions , not mere allusions – to movies and TV shows. Davie details his experience with the aneurysm and his miraculous recovery in Land of Allusions , the review for which can be read here . He makes use of some space in that memoir for reflecting over the meaning of life. In Playing with House Money , he takes such reflection much further by trying to understand what he went through and realizing that he has...

Review by Ronica Wahi The Adamson Family By Lee Allen Howard Edition reviewed: October 25, 2017, Three First Names, Kindle Edition. Pages: 144. ASIN: B076V1MYV9 The Adamson Family is a piece of young adult fiction, but it can certainly be enjoyed by adults too. As the genre is Gothic, there are secrets from the past, a haunted house, emotional distress, suicide, and turmoil in the life of the young protagonist, Rendo Flex. Ren wants to be smarter and able at exercising greater control over his life. When his mother, who has been undergoing treatment since years for her instability, wants to visit to meet him and his sister - Calista - whom he fears will walk down the same path as their mother, he wishes for an escape. As he plans this, he finds the means for an adventure instead. For he discovers that the stories about the old, dilapidated house near where he lives are probably not untrue. There is certainly thrill in the story. But there are also elements of pain and...