Introducing: 5-Star Reviews

2020 was tough on us. Amidst all the bad news and despair I had no energy or motivation to write creatively. I did, however, get lost–happily, deliciously, utterly–in stacks and stacks of books.  Now, with the new year dawning, I am venturing back into...
Review: Falling, T.J. Newman

Review: Falling, T.J. Newman

Synopsis You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The...
Review: Recursion, Blake Crouch

Review: Recursion, Blake Crouch

Synopsis Reality is broken. At first, it looks like a disease. An epidemic that spreads through no known means, driving its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. But the force that’s sweeping the world is no pathogen. It’s just the first shock wave,...
Review: The Queen’s Weapons

Review: The Queen’s Weapons

Synopsis Enter the dark and sensual realms of the Black Jewels, a world where power always has a price, in this sweeping story in the New York Times bestselling fantasy saga. They are Warlord Princes, men born to serve and protect. They are the Queen’s Weapons,...
Review: The End of October

Review: The End of October

Synopsis At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will have staggering...
Review: Paradise (Series)

Review: Paradise (Series)

Synopsis Irene Steele shares her idyllic life in a beautiful Iowa City Victorian house with a husband who loves her to sky-writing, sentimental extremes. But as she rings in the new year one cold and snowy night, everything she thought she knew falls to pieces with a...
Review: Her Last Flight

Review: Her Last Flight

Synopsis In 1947, photographer and war correspondent Janey Everett arrives at a remote surfing village on the Hawaiian island of Kauai to research a planned biography of forgotten aviation pioneer Sam Mallory, who joined the loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War...
Review: The Dog Stars

Review: The Dog Stars

Synopsis Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. Now his wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting misanthrope named Bangley. But when a...