Rico Stays is the final novel in Ed Duncan's Pigeon-Blood Red trilogy. As he did in the other two books in the series, ...
The Devil’s In The Details
Published by Atmosphere Press in 2019, The Devil’s In The Details is San Diego based writer and artist V.A. Christie’s debut ...
The Great Alone
Rarely has the setting played as important a role in a novel as Alaska does in The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah. It becomes ...
Stray Our Pieces
Gloria Hytner is the protagonist in Jason Graff’s edgy study of a disconsolate woman in a marriage she grows to resent. If it ...
To The Lighthouse
Ever wondered how a novel would read were it written, without restraint, with the freedom and ferocity of a poem? In her ...
Salt Houses
If you've ever built a sand castle in the intertidal zone at the ocean's edge, you know what happens when the tide comes in: ...
Defying Death with Words: On Yiyun Li’s Where Reasons End
Where would reasons end? The Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño once said in an interview: "I don't think reason has anything to ...
The White Boy Shuffle
Paul Beatty’s debut novel takes no prisoners with his irreverent, unapologetic tale about Gunnar Kaufman, a young, teenage ...
Last Night In Granada
“The magic power of a poem consists in it always being filled with duende.” The narrative in Chris Pellizzarri’s novella, ...
Unreasonable Doubts
The cast of characters in Unreasonable Doubts by Reyna Marder Gentin could have stepped out of a Shakespearean play. Consider ...
Redemption Lake
Redemption Lake by Susan Clayton-Goldner is a mystery that takes place in Tucson, Arizona. High school senior Matt Garrison ...
Under
I read the prequel to Under a while ago (Signal Failure) and really enjoyed it, so I was looking forward to reading this ...
Manhattan Beach
A recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award for A Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer ...
Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere explores themes of mother-daughter bonds, appearance versus reality, and identity. The ...
Darktown: A Novel
Darktown by Thomas Mullen does not pull punches. It is a tour de force with no apologies. Thomas Mullen does not bend ...
The Women in the Castle
I’ve read a fair amount of literature about World War II, but I’ve never read any from the German point of view, so I was ...
The Parking Lot Attendant: A Novel
I’ve been a voracious reader as far back as I can remember. In second grade, I read the entire Black Stallion series by ...
Sing, Unburied, Sing
To praise Jesmyn Ward’s award-winning lyrical novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing, is to share how it makes the reader feel, how it ...
The Last Straw
When Jeffrey Phillips, a poor teenager in Chicago, shoots and kills a man in a carjacking gone sideways, Sandra Yanders, a ...
Maisie
Maisie is a story that would appeal to older children and young adults. It's a fantasy adventure that begins in the real ...
The Guest Cat
This is a book I got from a friend as a Christmas present. She knew I love cats and thought I would enjoy it. I did! It's the ...
A Better Place to Be: Based on the Harry Chapin Song
A Better Place to Be by David Wind is inspired by the folk-rock song of the same name by legendary ...
Fives and Twenty-Fives
A quietly magnificent addition to the canon of war novels, Fives and Twenty-Fives by Michael Pitre is reassuringly tragic in ...
Murder in Little Shendon
I remember reading Agatha Christie as a child, thrilled and maddened by the opportunity to track clues in a (mostly) futile ...
All Involved: A Novel
Buckle up, brace yourself and hang on for dear life! A visceral symphony of pain, suffering, and hope that blurs the line ...
Unwed: A Dovetail Cove Novel
I think I’m getting quite addicted to Jason McIntyre’s Dovetail Cove series. I’ve read about 4 or 5 of them so far and always ...
The Punch Escrow
With a cheeky narrator running the show, The Punch Escrow takes place in the year 2146, set to an 80’s soundtrack, displaying ...
Dark Flash 2
Maria Haskins is a poet as well as a fiction writer and I think this gives her a distinct edge when it comes to writing ...
Righteous
With Righteous, Joe Ide has proven that IQ, his first novel, was no fluke. Using the gritty streets of Long Beach, Los ...
Slight Return
"(Slight Return)" is a collection of short stories and flash fiction that are inspired by music. Some of the story titles are ...
Out Stealing Horses
After finishing The Baker’s Secret, I immediately picked up Out Stealing Horses without realizing it too was a World War II ...
A Sudden Gust of Gravity
A Sudden Gust of Gravity by Laurie Boris is an absorbing, satisfying book that takes a fresh look at relationships with ...
The Baker’s Secret
Life got in the way of my financially negligent, selflessly ego-driven reviews, so I’m playing catch up with a stack of 5 ...
The Wiregrass: A Novel
The Wiregrass: A Novel by Pam Webber takes the reader back to a southern summer in the late 1960s as a group of cousins ...
The Thirst
My father and sister have a strong affinity for Scandinavian authors, the darker the better. Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter ...
Child’s Play
Child's Play is the 4th in a series of books by Darcia Helle. If you're new to the series, I think you can still enjoy the ...