Readers' Favorite gives 5 stars to The Year of Soup!

Readers' Favorite calls The Year of Soup "a wonderfully insightful read" and "recommends it to anyone who loves mysteries, emotional fiction, and self-discovery."

"Howard Reiss is able to deftly weave story into sustenance and create a plot that is beautifully original without straying too far from classic themes of this sort of genre."

"The Year of Soup is a hands-down, great read."

-Readers' Favorite

February 2015

The Midwest Book Review loves The Year of Soup!

"The Year of Soup, as with his first novel A Family Institution, clearly establishes Howard Reiss' credentials as an especially gifted storyteller with a knack for creating fully developed characters and original storylines that engage the readers complete attention from first page to last."

"The Year of Soup is highly recommended and thoroughly entertaining, making it an appropriate addition for community library contemporary fiction collections."

-The Midwest Book Review

May 2013