Watch Her Run is a thriller about Jade, a young woman whose influencer income supports herself, her adoptive parents, and her two brothers. Virginia, the mother, is a self-absorbed woman who resents that her daughter is more famous, but is wise enough to use media to...
I’ve done a lot of reading on civil war and similar human-to-human conflicts, and All the Glimmering Stars is an excellent read on a difficult subject. The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), headed by Joseph Kony, was a militant Christian extremist founded in Uganda in...
I always enjoy Jodi Picoult’s novels as she has a knack for nuanced characters and the ability to present multiple sides of a complex situation (such as abortion) with intelligence and sensitivity. Leaving Time is no exception. Alice Metcalf, a scientist who studies...
Tyrannosaur Canyon is the first in the Wyman Ford series. Though the cover leads the reader to think this is a reboot of Jurassic Park, it is not. Rather than dealing with the de-extinction of lost dinosaurs through DNA manipulation, Tyrannosaur Canyon is a...
Relic is the first book in the twenty-four book Pendergast series. It is exactly what the hype promises: a melange of mystery, thriller, horror and science fiction set in the Museum of Natural History in New York City. Starting with the murder of two young boys, the...
The Deadly Tea is the fourth in the Invisibles series by Rachel Dacus. They can be read as standalone, however. The series begins when two sisters, Saffron and Elinor inherit a house, on the western coast of Italy, which is haunted by the ghost of Percy Bysshe...
I read Tim O’Brien’s powerful novel The Things They Carried, my favorite Viet Nam story, about ten years ago and finally got around to reading If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home, his memoir on his time just before and during his term in Viet Nam. If...
No Friend to This House is Natalie Haynes’s retelling of the story of Jason and the Argonauts, but with Medea as the central character. It is told in the points of view of almost anyone (human, god, animal, ship) who had a part in the story, such as Alcimede, Jason’s...
Vincent van Gogh’s iconic painting, Wheat Field with Cypresses, is “the most expensive purchase” made by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In Breaking van Gogh, James Grundvig investigates the painting and its provenance. From southern France, this painting...
Scrap: Salvaging a Family is an emotionally devastating look at a a family fractured by silence and secrets, an exploration of inherited generational trauma, and the ultimate healing and resolution of the author’s relationship with her father. The story is told in...
In The Children of Jocasta, Natalie Haynes revisits the story of Oedipus Rex we all probably read in high school but with a twist or two or three. Jocasta is fifteen when she is married to Laius, an elderly king who prefers men to women and hunting to ruling his...
Fossil Feud is a cute romance set on a paleontological dig in Montana. Ripley Adams has become a freelance fossil hunter after being driven out of academic research after her boyfriend, Will Stone, betrays her by stealing her research and laying waste to her...
Vacancy is the second novel in Jann Alexander’s Dust series, set in the fictional small town of Hartless in the Texas Panhandle. It is told from multiple points of view: Charlene, a poverty-stricken young mother with a kindergarten daughter and another child on the...
In The Drowning Game, Nadia Brenner goes to Singapore and finds that Cass, her sister, has jumped from a fortieth-floor hotel balcony. Devastated, Nadia must arrange for the transportation of her sister’s remains back to the Pacific Northwest, regain ground that Cass...
This review includes the seven mysteries in the Thomas the Falconer series including The Ruffler’s Child, A Ruinous Wind, The Jingler's Luck, The Ramage Hawk, The Mapmaker’s Secret, the Maiden Bell, and The Muscovy Chain. The series is complete, so you don’t have to...
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