Book Review
The Bad Doctor
Meet Dr. Iwan James, GP in a small Welsh town. Darkly comic vignettes from Iwan’s life—from home visits to a cantankerous lung-cancer patient to run-ins with a local recluse who bears a strong resemblance to the Unabomber, to bike...
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Discovering April
Drama conveyed through passionate dialogue against a vivid setting bolsters this interesting addition to the new-adult genre. Sometimes you can’t see the forest for the trees. Or your hot neighbor for the fact that you knew him when he...
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Black Moon Draw
What reader hasn’t wondered what it would be like to wake up in his or her favorite book? When Naia’s fiancé dumps her right before their wedding, she decides the best coping mechanism is to drink a lot of wine, marathon her...
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The Wizard and the White House
One fateful day, the president of the United States wakes up to discover he has no mouth, a janitor across town wakes up to discover he has two, and a Pakistani immigrant in Arlington hears the voice of God in a waterspout. With no voice...
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Homegoing
In this ambitious epic, a disgraced former princess turned scholar is one of the few people in the Three Lands who can read. So when an impossible ship from a land that does not exist delivers a set of missives written in an ink no one...
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The Girl on the Swing and At Night in Crumbling Voices
Comparisons between Peter Grandbois’s eerie stories and The Twilight Zone are inescapable. Though the previous two volumes in the series visited classic horror films from the perspective of the monster, "The Girl on the Swing and At...
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Broken
Slatton has created a beautiful, heart wrenching tale of humanity during the Second World War. When her beloved Ariel is lost, the angel Alia chooses to fall, taking on a human body in Paris on the eve of war. She befriends the city’s...
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Werewolf Cop
Though the title might suggest more lighthearted fare, make no mistake, this is a gritty crime novel at heart. Texan Zach “Cowboy” Adams is part of a special government task force whose goal is to bring down Dominic Abend, the head...