Jake Thornton
🇺🇸 United States
“The best books you have not heard of.”
About Thornton
A Denver bookseller who champions self-published and Amazon indie authors. Jake meets each book on its own terms and roots for the underdog.
Reviewing voice
Friendly, encouraging, straight-talking. Generous to ambition, honest about rough edges, focused on story and heart over polish.
Reviews by Thornton
The Housemaid
Freida McFadden
A propulsive domestic thriller that understands how to keep a reader turning pages, even if its machinery is sometimes a bit too visible. It is sharply engineered for suspense, but the character work and late-game twists do not always earn the confidence they demand.
🇺🇸 Jake Thornton
The Martian
Andy Weir
A brilliantly engineered survival tale that runs on competence, wit, and momentum — though it is also a rather thin novel once you look past the machinery.
🇺🇸 Jake Thornton