reviews

Teenagers, Isolated Cabins, and Killers Author: Riley Sager Like pretty much everyone else, I got pulled into the thriller genre through Gone Girl and have steadily been looking for another book that could both hook and surprise me. Being a long-time Stephen King fan, knowing that the master of horror recommended Final Girls as an edge-of-the-seat adrenaline ride, and seeing Book of the Month’s glowingly somber review, I knew that I had to try the serial killer special for myself.   Final Girls opens with Quincy Carpenter who leads the epitome of a life that is too good to be true. One of the three famous “final [...]

Haunt Me Author: Sara Flannery Murphy Have you ever wanted to be someone else? In Sara Flannery Murphy’s world, you can do exactly that. Slip the bonds of life without physically dying, lending the husk of your body to the grief of others and the numbing sensation of drifting away. Whole hours, whole days, gone. A stranger speaking through your lips. An experience that you, yourself, will never remember.  Sweet oblivion and respite from the past. A future not your own. A profession shrouded in mystery and escapism, a peaceful living death. No physical contact, just a controlled room, a [...]

History in the dust... Author:  Hampton Sides I recently reviewed a book by my latest favorite science writer.  It just so happens that I’ve got a favorite history writer to go along with him.  An author of diverse interests, Hampton Sides hasn’t failed me yet.   Having enjoyed his two most recent books, I sought out Blood and Thunder, a narrative of the remarkable life of Kit Carson published in 2006.  It’s just as great as I had hoped. Way back in 1826, leaving his home state of Missouri as a teenager, Carson headed west on the Santa Fe Trail, eventually [...]