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Behind Closed Doors by B. A. Paris is by far one of the most disturbing stories I have read in quite some time. It tells the story of Grace, a woman who recently married a man named Jack Angel and in public seems to happily play the part of loving and doting wife. None of…
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The Walking Drum by Louis L’Amour is his only book that takes place in the twelfth century. It follows Mathurin Kerbouchard in his various travels starting when he is conscripted as a galley slave while still in his homeland shortly after learning about his father’s supposed death. He is able to eventually escape through a…
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Time to continue the story of the Majere twins with War of the Twins, book two of Dragonlance Legends by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. Having successfully traveled through time, again, the Twins and Crysania find themselves in the tower of Palanthas protected by the Shoikan grove a hundred years after the cataclysm. Determined to…
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The Fugitive is the fifth book in the Theodore Boone series by John Grisham. It continues the adventures of Theo and returns to the rather dramatic case from the first book. When visiting Washington D.C. on a school field trip Theo happens to see a fugitive, namely Pete Duffy, who is fleeing a murder charge…
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Other Evolutions by Rebecca Hirsch Garcia is a rather odd novel. It tells the story of Alma Alt, a native Canadian whose family is an interracial Jewish-Mexican blend. She is also the, rather sheltered, youngest daughter who is known for her disappearing tricks that started the day of her grandmother’s funeral when she disappeared for…
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The Clockmaker’s Daughter by Kate Morton was a rather unusual book. It tells of Elodie Winslow, an archivist working in modern London who finds a rather unusual set of items, a leather satchel containing a picture of a beautiful woman in Victorian clothing and a sketchpad of a house that seems rather familiar. As she…
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The Last Enchantment is the third book in Mary Stewart’s Arthurian Saga and picks up after Arthur has been crowned. Merlin has headed north to investigate potential rumors of Morgause being pregnant with Arthur’s child only to discover that Morgause has indeed given birth to a child whose timing would indicate Arthur is the father.…
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Time travel officially enters the picture with Charlie Bone and the Time Twister, book two of Children of the Red King by Jenny Nimmo. The book picks up at the beginning of Charlie’s second semester at Bloor’s Academy for the Gifted as he struggles to navigate the world of the endowed. This gets tricky when…
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If you want a book that is just plain weird then you really need to try Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig, book one of his Miriam Black series. Miriam is a drifter who wanders around the country hitching rides and robbing dead bodies. Mind you, she doesn’t actually kill anyone but she has the rather unusual…
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The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson is the epitome of a great horror story. It tells the story of Dr. Montague, a man who is fascinated by the supernatural and determined to prove it actually exists by finding definitive proof of a haunting. After he manages to arrange for a stay in a…
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