Book Review: Jack Messenger’s Four American Tales
A collection of four short (short!) fictional stories about events in four separate tales of American lives.
Category: Book Reviews
Book Review: Christiana Miller’s Somebody Tell Aunt Tillie She’s Dead
Evicted and unemployed, Mara plays her cards for a little help…and an unmet aunt dies leaving Tillie her haunted cottage. It only gets worse when Mara releases a demon…
Book Review: James Lee Burke’s Robicheaux
Depressed and alone, Dave Robicheaux, needs a cause. Especially after he falls off the wagon and may have murdered the man who took Molly’s life.
Book Review: Christopher Rice’s Bone Music
Freed from her serial-killer “parents” when she was seven, only to be exploited by her real father, Charlotte Rowe is secretly dosed and gains unexpected powers.
Book Review: Jeannette Walls’ The Glass Castle
An inside look at a family which is deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant with a brilliant father who drinks too much and a free spirited mother too self-absorbed to notice her kids.
Book Review: Seanan McGuire’s Beneath the Sugar Sky
Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children is Onishi Rini’s only hope to be born…if she can bring her mother back to life in this world without magic.
Book Review: Kristen Painter’s Miss Frost Solves a Cold Case
Elves are going missing in Nocturne Falls, and Jack Frost sends in his daughter to investigate undercover. A town where Jayne meets an old flame, a sexy vampire, and a forbidden elevator.
Book Review: J.R. Ward’s Blood Fury
Novo is determined to avoid love, for it always lies while Peyton and Saxton both mourn their lost loves. Until Peyton begins to understand the truth, Saxton begins to hope, and Novo learns.
Book Review: Kevin Hearne’s Staked
Iron Druid Atticus O’Sullivan has a point to make — and then drive into a vampire’s heart.
Book Review: Craig Johnson’s The Western Star
A photograph of then-new Deputy Walt Longmire with 24 sheriffs about to embark on the Western Star takes Walt back to a past that affects his future and threatens everyone he loves.