The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston
‘Real life’ is certainly a term that can be applied to the events of ‘The Mystic Arts’. Shit happens and it often happens in a completely random way that no-one could have possibly foreseen. It’s like a comedy of errors but with the comedy [...]
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The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston - Review
Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card - Review
Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card
Yes, Card does have his heart in his Ender stories to a degree beyond anything else he’s written, save perhaps for the early Alvin Maker novels. I’m not sure that Ender in Exile is a story that desperately needed to be told. But now that it has, I can [...]
Delia’s Heart by V.C. Andrews - Review
Delia’s Heart (The Delia Series) by V.C. Andrews
After living in the United States for a few years (see DELIA’S CROSSING), poor Mexican girl Delia Yebarra still feels like a stranger in a strange land. She returned to her homeland briefly with Ignacio Davila after his role on the death of the person who raped Delia [...]
Death With Interruptions by José Saramago - Review
Death with Interruptions by José Saramago
No matter how deadly serious his subjects, there’s always been something essentially childlike at the heart of Jose Saramago’s work — that eagerness to consider simple, outlandish what ifs: What if the Iberian Peninsula broke off and floated away? What if everybody suddenly went blind? What if most voters cast [...]
The Toss of a Lemon by Padma Viswanathan - Review
The Toss of a Lemon by Padma Viswanathan
A novel set in the Indian subcontinent and published in the West bears the burdens of our preconceptions. It is easy to assume that a book about a high-caste child bride who becomes a widow will fix its sights only on the girl’s woes and the deep injustices [...]
Jesus of Cottondale by Jerry Leverett - Review
Jesus of Cottondale by Jerry Leverett
Leverett sets a few disturbingly graphic scenes that include violence, sex and child abuse amidst a vivid and dynamic cast of characters with big personalities involved in a satisfying crime tale, à la Pulp Fiction. The star-crossed lovers at the center of the plot are highlighted against a gritty story [...]
The Boy in the Dress by David Walliams - Review
The Boy in the Dress by David Walliams
David Walliams, better known for dressing up as a laydee in Little Britain, has tucked the sadness at the heart of his story under layers of humour and self-parodying authorial interventions. ‘High heels do take a bit of getting used to. Not that I would know, reader. Someone [...]
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter - Review
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter
The day a stray cat unexpectedly arrived in our dog-centric home, my ardently cat-loving cousin Jeanne had a word of advice. “He’s not a dog,” she reminded me. “A dog leaps immediately into your heart. A cat arrives with a slow [...]
Desert Places: a Novel of Terror by Blake Crouch - Review
Desert Places: A Novel of Terror by Blake Crouch
Desert Places is about a successful mystery writer, Andrew Thomas, who is perfectly content with his life on an isolated lake front parcel of land in North Carolina. One day he retrieves an innocent looking envelope from his mailbox. He first assumes that the frightening message inside [...]
In Silent Graves by Gary A. Braunbeck - Review
In Silent Graves by Gary A. Braunbeck
Fantastic. Spell binding. A story unlike anything I’ve ever read, brilliant. A tale of horror and love, unsettling yet deeply moving. Highly recommended.
At times I was reminded of the powers of Robert McCammon, the power he wields in the field of fiction.
This is one of those stories I just [...]
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