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From the very beginning, this author promises oddity and weirdness. (I do mean RIGHT from the...
Another zombie apocalypse. It’s clearly the new end-of-the-world scenario: humans getting...
You’ve heard of helicopter parents. From the beginning, Jessica’s parents hover so close you can...
The world of ballet is an ephemeral one. It exists solely in the moment that a dancer flies over...
It’s hard to get a bead on this novel. We’re given less than two dozen pages to form an...
The first couple of chapters are stuffed with names that will become baffling in the next two or...
A story about true love lasting through time, space and multiple lifetimes sounds a bit suspect....
A curious blend of Marvyn Peake’s “Gormenghast” trilogy and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the...
The notion of an entire family blessed with unusual gifts is nothing new in fiction. (People used...
The premise of this novel reminded me sharply of “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake” by Aimee...
With a name like Rosalyn Quest, you expect adventurous hijinks and the opening chapters do not...
Like a first season Twilight Zone episode, the protagonist finds herself the only person, the...
Set in a dystopian future not too far from the 21st century, the world bakes under a too hot sun...
The hollowness of amnesia coupled with reconnecting with a family changed almost beyond...
These opening chapters struck me as being like Agatha Christie novels. They have the feel of...
The problem of criminal incarceration remains a big one, at least in the United States. Ours is a...
Racism is alive and well. It might be subtler in the 21st century, cloaked behind well-meaning...
A story that starts with a woman being released from prison is different fare for this reader....
Right from the start, we can see that Erika’s relationship with Craig is problematic. They’ve...
The bizarre tone of this book hits you early. The queer dedication is followed by an even...
These opening passages present the reader with the notion of cursebreaking, an inevitable part of...
Magic is given a vibrant spin within these pages. It’s posited as a tool to garner wealth,...
Working on the dual notions of a family curse affecting only the women and an astrological...
The opening chapters take us into the aftermath of a harrowing evening, one that changed two...
It’s a detective story featuring an old flame coming through the door and asking for help. So...
Starting in media res, a couple is found dead in their home. The story then wrenches us to a...
Delicate and probing, this novel about the uneasy collision between two worlds could be about any...
The opening chapters introduce us to a plethora of characters. On one side of the Atlantic is a...
A boy pulls a prank on an opposing team. That sort of thing happens all the time between...
This novel plunges us right into the thick of things, starting off with—a MURDER. Actually, it’s...
This alternate view of some of Shakespeare’s most tragic heroines (with walk-ons by a few others)...
An old house, a vanished girl, an uncanny doll and mysterious shadows. It’s the stuff of haunted...
An untrained civilian is roped into performing a dangerous mission for the CIA. Or is it the...
The trials and tribulations of attending a new school are compounded by being one of the few...
We wonder how people hope to avoid their fate with strange hand gestures. No different from...
Reminiscent of the 2007 film “Death at a Funeral”, a devastating bombshell is dropped when the...
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