Karen Rigby, Book Reviewer

Book Review

Too Deep to Drown

by Karen Rigby

A resourceful teenager comes into her own while working as an intern on a research vessel in the affecting novel "Too Deep to Drown". In Stacy R. Ward’s aching, ecoconscious novel "Too Deep to Drown", a teenager matures while working... Read More

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Book Lovers’ New England

by Karen Rigby

Sheila Moeschen’s celebratory travel guide "Book Lovers’ New England" tours through the homes, museums, and sites that inspired local poets and writers. New England has fostered numerous talents, including Emily Dickinson, Robert... Read More

Book Review

The Resilience of Red Thread

by Karen Rigby

A man works to justify his misdeeds, even as his new partner falls into unhealthy patterns, in "The Resilience of Red Thread", an insightful domestic novel. Domestic violence features into Catherine Marshall-Smith’s foreboding novel... Read More

Book Review

The Reel Life of Zara Kegg

by Karen Rigby

"The Reel Life of Zara Kegg" is an evocative romance novel in which teenagers fall in love during their beach town’s offseason. Featuring vintage cinema, carnival work, and vulnerable, misfit teenagers, Brad Barkley’s novel about... Read More

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Dance in a Madhouse

by Karen Rigby

A young doctor witnesses organizational fractures at a sanatorium, whose residents handle their pain in private, in the ominous novel "Dance in a Madhouse". In Jess Wright’s macabre mystery novel "Dance in a Madhouse", a man unearths... Read More

Book Review

Stones River

by Karen Rigby

A lonely woman enters into a paranormal relationship in the exciting romance novel "Stones River". In M. F. Jones’s riveting romance novel "Stones River", a woman encounters a Civil War ghost; together, they search for solace. Jessie,... Read More

Book Review

Seen at Last

by Karen Rigby

"Seen at Last" is a moving novel about a tempestuous middlescence, the process of coming out, and falling in love again. A mother who is bereft of genuine care explores her same-sex attractions in J. T. Tierney’s perceptive novel about... Read More

Book Review

What Am I, a Deer?

by Karen Rigby

Polly Barton’s insightful stream-of-consciousness novel "What Am I, a Deer?" is about a translator’s search for meaningful connection. An unnamed Japanese translator works at a computer game corporation in Frankfurt. Eccentric in her... Read More

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