reviews

We All Float Down Here Author: Stephen King It is arguably Stephen King’s greatest opus, covering the childhood and later haunted adulthood of seven outcast children as they discover and war against an ancient and sentient evil in their small Maine town. This evil is far more than a boogeyman that goes bump in the night, more even than the persistent, merciless torment suffered at the hands of the school bully. This is an evil that has permeated the air they breathe, rustled through the innocent terrains of their childhood haunts out in The Barrens where even the bullies won’t usually [...]

A show-down at a rural gas station leads to an icy river, which leads to a literary thriller that's hard to put down Author: Tim Johnston To open a Tim Johnston novel is to hold a sweaty book in your hands. I mean this in a literal sense. As I was reading The Current, damp patches appeared on the pages under my fingertips, which were perspiring from nerves. Johnston has become a master of the literary thriller. Much like his previous novel (Descent), The Current is a taut, lushly written story that doesn’t hinge on a flimsy or far-fetched “reveal” [...]

Who rules whom? Author:  Christopher Skaife They might be the most famous birds in the world right now.  The ravens that deliver messages from castle to castle in Westeros on HBO’s Game of Thrones are viewed by millions of fans every season.  But there’s a castle in the real world that serves as the home of ravens.  It’s the famed Tower of London, and it’s been “guarded” by wild ravens for centuries.  A retired Staff Sargent in the British Army, Christopher Skaife is their primary caretaker, known as The Ravenmaster.  It sounds like one of the best jobs in the [...]