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November 12, 2025
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November 11, 2025
Review (Virtually Lace): An Intense and Immersive Ride from Start to Finish
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Virtually LaceBy: Uvi PoznanskyNarrated by: Virtual VoiceAn Intense and Immersive Ride from Start to Finish Overall Performance Story
Reviewed: 11-08-25
I was thrilled to win the audiobook of Virtually Lace, and it pulled me in from the very first chapter. This Techno-Crime thriller launches with the chilling murder of a dancer, and Michael’s desperate race to harness cutting-edge AI to recreate the crime in real time—before the killer turns his attention to the woman he loves. The tension is relentless, the stakes sky-high.
The author’s vivid detail and pulse-pounding action made me feel as if I were right beside the characters, experiencing every twist and close call. And when the iconic Laguna Beach erupts in flames, the scenes hit even harder, especially having lived near the area myself. This book is an intense, immersive ride from start to finish.
November 10, 2025
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November 5, 2025
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October 11, 2025
Review (Twisted): A Thought-Provoking Listen
An in-depth review for Twisted:
TrixieTellsAll4.0 out of 5 stars A Thought-Provoking ListenReviewed in the United States on September 30, 2025
Format: KindleVerified PurchaseTwisted by Uvi Poznansky is not my usual genre, but I found it surprisingly thought-provoking. The writing encourages deeper thinking, so readers (or listeners) who enjoy exploring layered meanings will likely appreciate it even more.The first story especially caught my attention. At first, I thought it was about a woman kidnapped and hidden away in a cave, but as it unfolded, I realized it was connected to the Bible—a book I’ll admit I’ve never read thoroughly. That unexpected twist made me pause and reconsider how much more was beneath the surface of the stories.
Overall, it’s a unique collection that challenges you to think differently. If you’re open to stepping outside your usual reading comfort zone, Twisted is worth the listen.
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September 28, 2025
Review (Home): A beautiful tribute with poetry and prose
Terrie Meerschaert writes poetry and prose under her author pen name Teesa Mee. Born and raised in Southwest Detroit and lived there until I married Gary, in 1979. Unable to have children, we adopted our son Nate through Toledo, OH Catholic Social Services in 1984. In 1986, I won the “Missing Case of Miller Light” hidden in Detroit. The $10,000 prize gave us the means to adopt our daughter Suzanne from Seoul, South Korea in 1987. In addition to contributing to the anthologies This Beautiful Escape, Warrior Women Poetry, and Detours in Our Destinations, I have published a book of poetry, Looking Back: Poems from My Adolescent Self, Thesaurus Erotica, and soon publishing Word Stew. I am honored that she read and listened to my poetry book, Home, and posted this review:
T. Meerschaert5.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful tribute with poetry and proseReviewed in the United States on September 28, 2025Format: KindleVerified PurchaseI listened to the virtual voice version of Home. Ms Poznansky's father's poetry is beautiful and haunting. Her own prose is like stepping into word pictures. I really enjoyed the book. While the virtual voice for her father was a little distracting a with its Irish accent, but the voice for Ms Pozansky was perfect.
A crisp, compelling stand-alone novel
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Dancing with AirWWII Love StoryBy: Uvi PoznanskyNarrated by: Virtual VoiceA crisp, compelling stand-alone novel Overall 5 out of 5 starsPerformance 4 out of 5 starsStory 5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed: 09-28-25
Dancing With Air is book 4 of Uvi Poznznzky's family saga series titled Life With Memories. It is also a crisp, compelling stand-alone novel.I've been following Uvi's work for over twenty years and have never been disappointed by her story telling expertise. Dancing With Air is no exception.
As always, or almost always, Uvi narrates this tale with her first-person pizzaz. Over the years, she's mastered this technique in ways that draw readers into her stories as if they were part of them—which after all, is every budding authors' goal and every reader's delight.
Who but gifted writers like Uvi can get away with writing a prologue which details the beginning of the end of the story, not what happened before the story, and numbers it as page 1 of the story? By the end of the Prologue, I couldn't wait to turn the page to Chapter One on page 11.
And the Epilogue? Is there one? Of course, and what a magnificent story arc Uvi has created. It starts on page one of the Prologue and ends on the last word of the Epilogue. I like the way the Epilogue's heading—WE'LL BE THERE— poetically links to the Prologue's — HOLDING ON TO HOLDING ON— heading on page one.
Poetry, by the way, is another of Uvi's myriad attributes, and whether on purpose or by accident, it's a nice touch when you run into a poetic tidbit in the midst of her novels or short stories.
Here are a couple of samples I've gleaned from the text of Dancing With Air:
"I lean over, craving to be hugged—but she doesn't, and the only thing that wraps around me is loneliness."
"Dazed, I sat on my bed, staring mindlessly at the gap between two window curtains. I should have pulled them together, but at that moment I was fascinated by the view, even if it was narrow. The sky was bruised purple."
The story has its beginnings in World War II. Lenny, a Marine in love with Natasha back in the states, is caught up in an espionage scheme which has him writing love letters to another woman, an inspired attempt by the allies at convincing the Germans the invasion of Europe will be launched someplace other than Normandy. This invasion-somewhere-else idea actually worked to fool the Germans, and Uvi made good use of the historical details of the farce in her story.
As with all of Uvi's novels she does her research and makes the fictional part feel real by her placement of accurate events along with time period descriptions of minute details, the color of phone booths in WWII London, for example.
Like all good novels, Dancing With Air boasts a bevy of interesting side characters who feed the main plot.
Mrs. Horowitz, Natasha's mother, is at the top of that list. She's a busybody, middle aged mom who doesn't think much of Lenny.
Ryan is Lenny's friend in London, an enlisted man from Detroit, who loves loving as many English women as he can, and can't understand Lenny's devotion to one woman in New York when crossing the channel to invade France is just around the corner. As it turns out, Ryan's girlfriend back in the states is Lana, the one Lenny is writing to in his secret espionage role.
Captain Smith is Lenny's commanding officer and his connection to the allied secret project.
These and other believable side-players contribute to the overall flow of the story's theme. They live their substories in unique ways that can't help being familiar and entertaining to readers.
It doesn't matter whether you have read Uvi's other writing or you are contemplating your first venture with Dancing With Air, your time will be well spent in reading it.
I give it five stars.
My Audible book of Dancing With Air was gifted to me by the author.
September 24, 2025
You can barely hear me—but here I am, singing along
So at night, when I feel sad, or tired, or just sleepy, I pull out the little string to wind the thing up, which makes the animals go fly—fly like a dream—so slowly around your head.
And at the same time, it brings out a sweet lullaby, chiming, Twinkle, twinkle, little star... How I wonder what you are...
I stand here, by the window under the mobile. I touch the glass between one blind and another, and watch them animals, mirrored. They come in like ghosts, one after another, right up to the surface, swing around, and fly back out, into the dark. Then I gaze at them stars up there, so far beyond, and ask myself if they’re real—or am I, again, misreading some reflection.
But after a while, all of that don’t matter no more.
What matters is only what’s here. I touch my skin right under my breasts, which is where the little one’s curled, and where he kicks, ‘cause he has to. Like, he don’t feel so cosy no more. Here, can you feel it? I reckon he wants me to talk to him. He can hear me inside, for sure. He can hear every note of this silvery music.
It ripples all around him, wave after wave. I can tell that it’s starting to sooth him. It’s so full of joy, of delight, even if to him, it’s coming across somewhat muffled. Like a dream in a dream, it’s floating inside, into his soft, tender ear.
I close my eyes and hold myself, wrapping my arms real soft—around me around him—and I rock ever so gently, back and forth, back and forth, with every note of this silvery marvel. You can barely hear me—but here I am, singing along. I’m whispering words into myself, into him.
And this is the moment when, like one, we’re happy.
Falling in love with Lenny should have been the end to all of Anita's troubles. But then, family secrets start unraveling. His ex-wife, Natasha, is succumbing to a mysterious disease. How can Anita compete with her shadow? How can she find a voice of her own?
★★★★★ "A creative, gripping and deeply moving tale of a young girl coming of age in unfathomable emotional circumstances."
September 20, 2025
She stares at me, terrified. As well she should be
She sits at the edge of the crooked old couch, knees pressed tightly together, and I can sense a little tremor traveling up her spine. I try to calm her down, which is to say, I clear my throat, after which I proceed to explain to her—in my softest, most polite tone—that contrary to popular belief, feline creatures do not have nine lives.
She stares at me, terrified.
As well she should be. Yes, both of us know, all too well: she is the stranger around here. She would be gone before the day is over. I am the one who never leaves.
“Really,” I insist, over her silence. “There’s no such thing as nine lives.”
She leans back, sinking deeper and deeper into the frayed cushion, not doing much of anything except breathing heavily. Naturally, it annoys me. Hell, it sucks the air out of my lungs. The danger of oxygen deprivation does not occur to me at first. But if there is one thing I have come to hate more than her breathing heavily, it is me, having to hold my breath.
So many months have passed since I smelled fresh air. Come to think of it, it must have been years since I crossed the threshold, since I stepped outside, into the sunlight, which—as I remember—is so warm, so gloriously magnificent. Yes, it must have been decades since I sunk my paws into the moist ground outside, or lifted my eyes to the blue sky, or chased birds. I remember how, having caught them, I would ruffle their feathers, and lick their throats ever so playfully.
Being locked here I have managed to squash these memories. I have grown quite resigned, somehow, to the stale perfume rising here, from these blankets, which she now gathers around her.
Trust me, I don’t miss the fresh air anymore. Out of boredom I have lost the urge to prowl around this place, from one room to another. All I do is groom my tail, which is a sorry sight, because the limp thing has lost most of its hair by now. There is only one small clump of fuzz, clinging by a thread to its very end. I brush around it ever so gently, then lick my fangs, which have become somewhat dull lately. I find the hairline cracks in them, polish them with my tongue, ponder the perils of old age, and try to stay calm, keeping my eye on her.
From USA Today Bestselling Author, Uvi Poznansky, comes an anthology of dark fantasy stories:
Come into a strange world, where everything is firmly rooted in the familiar—except for some quirky detail that twists the yarn and takes it for a spin in an unexpected direction. So prepare yourself: keep the lights on.
If you like to read Edgar Allan Poe, you’ll love this horror anthology, where a woman—or rather, her ghost—finds a way to outwit the devil.
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September 19, 2025
Review (A Peek at Bathsheba): The stream of consciousness gave it a more realistic feel.
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A Peek at BathshebaBy: Uvi PoznanskyNarrated by: Virtual VoiceThe stream of consciousness gave it a more realistic feel. Overall 5 out of 5 starsPerformance 5 out of 5 starsStory 5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed: 05-17-25
Nothing. The book was enjoyable and let me see a new side of King David.
