reviews

The Secret Wars of Women Author: Kristin Hannah Back to the book club after a long day of work and the serpentine DC traffic: it was an intimate gathering, attendance small this time, a room containing women ranging across all age spectrums and experiences. Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale was perfect for this situation, this cozy library room with women comfortably scattered around an industrial school type table, laying out their stories, their fears, and their family's past as an especially vibrant sunset stained the room's large window. Picked partly for its acclaim and for its serious concentration on an often [...]

A Ho-Hum Legal "Thriller" Author: Scott Turow A grisly murder leaving three butchered in the freezer of a popular diner makes an immediate arrest and conviction essential. But now, years later, the death-row inmate, Squirrel, accused the diner drama, is making a last minute appeal and there might be new evidence proving that the law never got their man. Down-and-out Arthur Raven, regretting his forced appointment, is nonetheless willing to test the murky waters of criminal law to find the truth. Only the former prosecutor, Muriel Wynn, and her ex-lover detective Larry Starczek have a mutual stake in destroying Arthur and any [...]

Saviors or Killers: Order and Chaos Book Two Author: Jessica Dall Returning to the realm of anarchy, war, and destiny, the god-like beings Order and Chaos, reincarnated throughout the centuries and currently inhabiting the bodies and human essences of one Palmer Tash and the other Brier Chastain, are now aware of their individual realities. Yet, the ultimate questions are unanswered. Recovering from an earth-rending war that literally rained blood and called the dead from their graves, both Palmer and Brier are not only coming to terms with their powers but with their perceptions of who they are. Continuing the mystery [...]