Pamela Schumacher is the president of her sorority at Florida State University, a job she takes so seriously she doesn’t go out with her friends one Saturday night because she has too much work to do. In the early hours of the following morning this same sense of responsibility will uproot her life from its carefully laid out path, depositing her in the dark swamp of one of ... Read More...
Dark Corners: A Novel
If the measure of success in a book is my inability to put it down, then Dark Corners was a successful novel. I could leave it at that, but where’s the fun? Set in Daytona the novel occurs at the nexus of modern day aspirational social media—a conference of Influencers. If you don’t know what this is or consider Instagram the 7th circle of hell that’s still not a problem. ... Read More...
The Whispers by Ashley Audrain
If there’s anything more fickle than the heart it’s got to be my reading mind as my light/dark trend continues. Tuesday’s review was about a poignant novel covering the expanse of human emotions, but today The Whispers, dwells solely in the realm of the seven deadly sins as they play out amongst four women in one affluent neighborhood. Rebecca, an ER doctor, longs to be a ... Read More...
Whalefall by Daniel Kraus
The writer’s imagination never ceases to amaze me. How even the smallest bit of news can catch their eye and be alchemized into stories far beyond the wildest imaginings of the rest of us. For Daniel Kraus, it was a small newspaper article about a diver who’d been caught in the mouth of a whale for mere moments before being pushed back out. This tidbit led him to wonder what ... Read More...
Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
He has no idea where it all comes from—the loyalty and the rage, the brotherhood and the suspicion, the benevolence and the hate. If you’re looking for refined forays into the more delicate human emotions in your reading than Dennis Lehane is probably not an author you read often or at all. He’s a bareknuckle bruiser who writes about a Boston unfamiliar to anyone whose ideas ... Read More...
The Quiet Tenant
Her name is Rachel. But it’s not. It’s simply the name the man has told her she must use when and if she were to come into contact with others. Which is unlikely given that she’s chained by the ankle to the wall in a padlocked shed. This is The Quiet Tenant by Clemence Michallon, a taut debut novel about a serial killer, told solely from the perspective of the women in his ... Read More...
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