In Reports of His Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated, James Goodhand delivers a gripping, genre-bending tale that blurs the line between reality and rumor, truth and illusion. This novel invites readers into a world where the past refuses to stay buried. The excerpt below offers a tantalizing glimpse into the mystery at the heart of […]
Madeline Kay Sneed has brought to life a very messy group of friends, all with drama and hurts of their own, often entwined with each other. Here’s an excerpt from TODAY TONIGHT FOREVER and check out my thoughts afterward. ATHENA The best day of someone’s life is always the worst day of somebody else’s. This […]
I don’t think that I’ve read anything as raw, gritty, or gut-wrenchingly helpless and emotional as A Handbook for Beautiful People. Featuring Marla, a twenty-two year-old woman who has partial fetal alcohol syndrome thanks to an alcoholic/drug abusing mother who practically abandoned her and her deaf brother to foster care when they were young, […]
The Girl in the Red Coat was a book that had me utterly engrossed within a few pages, with the recently single mother Beth struggling to raise eight-year-old Carmel on her own after her husband has left her for another woman. While Beth seems to be holding onto her daughter too tightly, she still manages […]
This has been my “Summer of Horror,” and to mark the end of the season and a lot of wonderfully dark and twisted books, Kevin P. Keating’s The Captive Condition was my end cap. I’d like to say that this novel lived up to my expectations, but maybe a chocked-full summer of great horror […]
