I picked up Laura Bynum’s VERACITY because of the interesting concept and strong writing in the few page sample I read. The concept has protagonist Harper Adams living in a dystopian society that formed in the aftermath of a large-scale bioterrorism attack. The interesting part is that this society tries to control thought, and thereby …
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Book Review of THE BEAUTIFUL LAND
Alan Averill’s THE BEAUTIFUL LAND was a real surprise for me. I picked it up on a bit of a whim; the premise was interesting and I knew it won the 2012 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, so I was curious. Technically it is speculative fiction, but the physics concept is so far beyond the bleeding …
Book Review of A Long and Winding Road: A Caregiver’s Tale of Life, Love, and Chaos
Linda Brendle’s A Long and Winding Road: A Caregiver’s Tale of Life, Love, and Chaos is an account of her time as caregiver to her parents in their later years as their health failed. It focuses especially on a long RV trip that she and her husband took with them. It is filled with accounts …
Book Review of The Fate of Mercy Alban
This book is basically a modern gothic set on an imaginary island in Lake Superior. As such, I was looking more for atmosphere than characterization, a light and entertaining read. Through most of the book it delivered, which is good since the characterization was indeed thin. I would have given it a higher rating had …
Book Review of ALICE I HAVE BEEN
Melanie Benjamin’s ALICE I HAVE BEEN is a fictionalized account of the life of Alice Liddell Hargreaves, the real “Alice” behind Lewis Carroll’s (aka Charles Dodgson) ALICE IN WONDERLAND. The real nature of the relationship between the child Alice and the Oxford Don Charles Dodgson is a one-hundred and fifty-year old mystery. Until Alice was …
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