Jennifer McMahon Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/jennifer-mcmahon/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Wed, 10 May 2017 02:31:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Jennifer McMahon Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/jennifer-mcmahon/ 32 32 38398750 Burntown: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/05/burntown-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/05/burntown-a-novel/#comments Wed, 10 May 2017 07:03:25 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=8708   When you are eight-years-old the lines between what is real and what is imagined can still get blurred. So, it might be difficult for Miles to explain to police that he saw a man wearing a chicken mask kill his mother. Except that his statement isn’t even needed—the mask is found in the family’s […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/05/burntown-a-novel/feed/ 5 8708 Right Up Until the End: Mini-Reviews https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/09/right-up-until-the-end-mini-reviews/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/09/right-up-until-the-end-mini-reviews/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2015 07:05:43 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=4353 Picture this: you’ve started a mystery/thriller/sci-fi/suspense novel—any book that sucks you into a plot that requires full buy-in on the reader’s part. And you do. And it’s well written, it’s all working and then BAM!, it’s not. You’re left like Nathan Lane in The Birdcage, a gay man trying to play a straight man discussing […]

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