The Shining Girls: A Novel by Lauren Beukes is something for the iron gut, thrill-seeking reader. Harper Curtis is one sick dude whose actions are propelled by the call of The House. It is not just any house. This one enables him to time travel,...

Author Francis Knight's second book in the Rojan Dizon series seems to start where the first book, Fade To Black, left off. Rojan Dizon is a pain mage and on the trail of what has become complete chaos in his part of the world. Through...

Joanna Philbin's Rules of Summer is a story that could happen anywhere and her cast of characters might be found in your own community. Maybe. Rory McShane is given the opportunity to live with the very well-to-do Rule family in East Hampton. Her aunt has...

Childless Dr James Dobson/Kurt Bruner In Childless, Dobson and Bruner have created a futuristic world based in the 2040's, which our 2014 world is frighteningly on its way towards emulating. Life has no significance or value in the future and people fall into two distinct categories, credits...

What could be better than spending a snowy day cuddled up by a fire with a cup of hot tea and a Pendergast novel? White Fire by Preston Douglas and Lincoln Child reunites my favorite detective Pendergast and his protégée Corrie Swanson. We first met...

Ketchup Clouds was written by Annabel Pitcher and read by Julie Maisey. Zoe’s family members are each trying to deal with their own problems. Both of her parents are lawyers, although her mother has not practiced law in several years. Her dad recently lost his...

The Immortal Empire series by Kate Locke is such an imaginative series! Xandra Varden, half goblin queen, thought that her troubles would be over once she accepted the Goblin Throne, and suddenly had the most vicious army in the known world at her beck and...

I have to admit that I am a LONG time Gail Carriger fan. I have three copies of her Parasol Protectorate series, and was thrilled to get a chance to review the latest in her young adult series, Curtsies and Conspiracies. We re-join Sophronia on...

Sean King and Michelle Maxwell return in David Baldacci’s King and Maxwell. Tyler Wingo hires King and Maxwell to solve the mystery surrounding his father, a soldier in Afghanistan, who was reported as a fatality. The teen and his father had a secret code that...

What might John Galt have thought if he had left his followers in the valley of Colorado? Would he have continued to follow the idea that only the material mattered? Or, might he have undergone a philosophical revelation? In The Déjà Vu Experiment, J.G. Renato...