reviews

The Children Are Now Tyrants Author: Donna Tart My first experience with Donna Tart has left me mesmerized, both by the art of her authorship and the casual depravity she reveals in humanity. The story is your typical college dysphoria. The haves and the have nots. The cool and the underdog. The campus weirdos and the elite in-crowds. How they all combine is where the story flowers, and what a dark and blood tinged flower of adulthood this story becomes. Richard Papen is a poor boy from a lackluster, strip-shopping center California life, newly escaped to the semi-ivy league Hampden [...]

Moonshine and Murder Author: Sherryl Woods Investigative reporter Amanda Roberts loves a good story and an even better mystery. Plucky, daring, more than a little sarcastic, ruggedly determined to buck all rules, Amanda is an unstoppable force only faintly tamed by her loving husband and recently adopted teenage son. When elderly Miss Martha, a long-time society dame with big money and even bigger influence, calls up Amanda for a final favor, enter the story of a lifetime. Only – can and should Amanda help? Miss Martha is an old friend, yet her deathbed request has strings and Amanda’s husband is [...]