This is James Patterson’s eighth installment of his “WOMEN’S MURDER CLUB” series and it literally starts off with a “bang” as a floating meth lab disguised as a school bus explodes resulting in numerous deaths. Before the reader has any time to recover from the explosion… “Woman’s Murder Club” (WMC) member Cindy Thomas, an investigative [...]
I liked Lori Lansens’ last novel enough that I wanted to read this one right away.I liked this one too, though not quite as much.With its endearing conjoined heroines, The Girls was such an original story.The Wife’s Tale, on the other hand, is very familiar–almost an archetypal ugly duckling tale.Yes, it’s a story we’ve all [...]
I got this book last evening and read it in one sitting. It’s that good. The author’s Anita Blake series has become all but unreadable, but this series is fun and sexy and darkly beautiful. The faerie world and the modern human world are so well blended you can almost believe it’s real-life, and the [...]
Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” is a book that transcends the genre of war fiction. Actually, it transcends the genre of fiction in general. Although labeled “a work of fiction” on the title page, the book really combines aspects of memoir, novel, and short story collection. I think you could use Audre Lorde’s term [...]
This story opens when Philadelphia newspaper reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a flyer asking “Have You Seen this Child,” a kidnapped victim named Timothy Braverman. The photo looks enough like her adopted son Will to be his twin, worse it could be Will. But that can’t be, she’d legally adopted him when the boy’s mother had [...]
This book consists of two interrelated stories about members of the Glass family. These kids (seven of them if I remember well) are the children of a showbusiness family from New York and they used to be genius-kids who appeared on a radio show answering quizzes and philosophizing. Apparently the Glass kids had a special [...]