I didn’t know about this book (even with my all-things-zombie obsession) until I saw the movie trailer. Only published in 2014, The Girl with All the Gifts is already a major motion picture set to debut in the UK at the end of this month. I have to admit, when I saw the trailer, I…
Patricia Striar Rohner is a local author and snowbird who summers in Massachusetts and winters in Florida. Her new novel Tzippy the Thief: A Novel from She Writes Press is available now on pre-order through Amazon. Tell me a little bit about who you are and where you live. I’ve been writing short stories and observing people since I was…
I meant to post this earlier in the summer. But keep this tidbit in mind when you’re planning next summer’s New England getaway. It was seemingly a secret place I visited in July when the weather was warm and the beach was inviting. There just wasn’t many people there and we were on the edge of heaven….
Responding to the literary howl of Jack London, author Dr. A. W. Sibley’s new novel is a crossbreed between White Fang and The Call of the Wild. When I first requested A Wolf Called Ring, I was under the impression that it was a children’s novel and had intended to read it with my son. To my delight,…
Annihilation is the first in the Southern Reach trilogy, a set of short science-fiction books. This first book has won a number of awards for science fiction including The Nebula Award for Best Novel in 2015 and a nomination for the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 2015. But for me, this was pure…
The epic Red Rising trilogy finally concludes with Morning Star and it’s every bit of the gorydamn brilliance we expected, from beginning to end. This adult science-fiction series takes place far into our future where terraforming is the norm and our solar system has been fully colonized. The technological advancements speak of a superior civilization,…
Naomi Novik is the New York Times bestselling author of the Temeraire series. Uprooted is a standalone single novel first published in 2015 and has since won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 2016. a Hugo Nomination for Best Novel in 2016, and a GoodReads Choice Award Nomination for Young Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction in 2015….
Alan Kessler is a local New England author with a new novel dealing with racism in mid-century America. Clarence Olgibee Black Rose Writing | Paperback | 2016 | 428 pp | Order Through Amazon Synopsis It starts with a murder. In 1974, 17-year-old Jimmy Tate Sullivan watched his two friends bludgeon to death a black man. Sentenced…
The Mistborn saga is not over, but the first trilogy ends with book three, The Hero of Ages. Spoilers for the first two will be impossible to avoid in this review. The third book in Sanderson’s unique high fantasy wraps up Vin and Eland’s quest to stop the end of their world of mist and metal….
Sara Shepard is the New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars series which went on to become a popular television show. After sixteen books in the series, she’s set to debut a new mystery series based on a group of young cyber-sleuths who get together to solve notorious crimes. The Amateurs is…