IN ASCENSION by Martin MacInnes »
4 stars
This book starts out slow, with its main character, Leigh, unhappily growing up in water-logged Rotterdam with a volatile water-engineer father Read more…
THE OTHER VALLEY by Scott Alexander Howard »
5 stars
This highly evocative dystopian novel stays with you long after finished and makes you meditate deeply about how our lives unfurl, Read more…
LEAVE NO TRACE by A.J. Laundau (a writing team of Jon Land and Jeff Ayers) »
4.5 stars
This engrossing thriller opens with a bomb exploding and toppling the Statute of Liberty. Hundreds are dead and injured. Danny, a Read more…
THE GODDESS OF WARSAW by Lisa Barr »
5 stars!
This A-MAY-ZING historical, page-turner of a novel, the latest from the endlessly talented Barr, starts with the glamor of a legendary Read more…
A MIDNIGHT PUZZLE by Gigi Pandian »
4 stars
A run romp of a mystery, part of a 3 book series but feel free to dive in here as I Read more…
A MIDNIGHT PUZZLE by Gigi Pandian (audio version) »
4 stars
A run romp of a mystery, part of a 3 book series but feel free to dive in here as I Read more…
PLASTIC by Scott Guild »
5 stars
This futuristic, dystopian fantasy novel features a far-from-ideal world of plastic people (think Barbies and Kens) who live lives very similar Read more…
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar »
This angsty, strongly autobiographical, highly original novel infused with poetic language centers around Cyrus Shams, an Iranian young man who loses his mother Read more…
BEAUTYLAND by Marie-Helene Bertino »
5 stars
In this futuristic sci-fi tale, extraterrestrial alien Adina gets transmitted and born to an Earth mother in late 1970’s Philadelphia. The Read more…
THE WOMEN by Kristin Hannah (audio) »
5 stars!
This extraordinarily fantastic new novel from Kristin Hannah shares the moving and little known history of the women who risked their Read more…
THE FURY by Alex Michaelides (audio) »
4 stars
First off, praise to the EXCEPTIONAL narrator, Alex Jennings, his deeply resonant, posh English accent sets the perfect atmosphere for another Read more…