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Paranoia can be extremely disorienting and I have rarely seen it portrayed as well as I did in The Apprentice. This is the second book in the Rizzoli and Isles series by Tess Gerritsen and is the sequel to The Surgeon. It opens when Rizzoli is called to a crime scene of a double murder…
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I recently realized that here in the U.S. May is National Foster Care Month so I decided to read a book about foster care in support. The book I chose was Where I’d Like To Be by Frances O’Roark Dowell. It opens with Maddie, a twelve-year old living in the Elizabethton Children’s Home after it…
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Here in the U.S. today happens to be Memorial Day so I thought I would show my support by posting a review of an appropriate book. After much contemplation I ended up reading Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley. This book tells the story of the raising of the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima…
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Tiita’s Daughter is a biographical novella written by Tuutalik Boychuk. It tells the story of Julia, a child and later a woman, who lived through abuse at the hands of her biological parents. In doing so it also shows how Julia was able to stop the cycle of abuse from continuing past her. This was…
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Have you ever read a book that you think is going to be one thing but in reality it is something almost entirely different? Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo is one such book. It tells the story of Andrew, a young man who had been planning to move to Nashville to join his friend Eddie…
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Crystal singing, A bit of an odd profession and yet it is the primary occupation of the Heptite Guild. In Killashandra by Anne McCaffrey, book two of the Crystal Singer Trilogy, we return to the life of protagonist Killashandra Ree. The book opens with her returning from the crystal ranges hoping to make enough credits…
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At the end of the third book of Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, The Library of Souls, we saw Jacob finally return to the U.S. In the fourth book, A Map of Days, we see him and his friends continue their adventures in the world of the peculiar but in the U.S instead of in Europe.…
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Have you ever read something where every time you turn around you feel like you are not entirely sure what is going on. When reading The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley that was rather how I was feeling. The book is about what happens at an exclusive opening event for a reclusive and expensive retreat…
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Part comedy, part old school noir detective novel and all parts magic and mayhem. That is probably one of the best descriptions I can come up with for this next book. Storm Front is book one of the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher that revolves around the adventures of Harry Dresden. It just so…
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Golden Fool is the second book in the Tawny Man trilogy by Robin Hobb. It continues the story of Fitzchivalry Farseer, also known as Tom Badgerlock, as he starts training Prince Dutiful in magic, both Wit and Skill. In doing so he has to face his own continued distaste for the skill magic and his…
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