reviews

Bertie Takes It Easy In The Country Author: P.G. Wodehouse  At the mercy of a dire doctor, Bertie is going to retire from the up and coming city life of a busy bachelor and enjoy some country time with the “aged relative,” the inimitable Aunt Dahlia. Seeking to get away from it all has rather landed him in the soup. Especially when an old flame now attached to a torturous revolutionary saunters her moody way back into Bertie’s quiet life, Aunt Dahlia makes an exceptionally ill placed bet on the horses, Mr. Plank mistakes Bertie as the infamous criminal Alpine [...]

Get Lost Author: Sarah Beth Durst I’ve learned the hard way that horror just isn’t my genre; I like my scares to be psychological and mind-twisting rather than blood-spattered and WTF. The Lost, by Sarah Beth Durst, was described by the publisher as “sci-fi literary/fiction,” so I couldn’t help feeling tricked once I realized it was really horror fantasy, which means “supernatural and bloody things will happen and there will be no logical explanations forthcoming.” On the plus side, it’s written by an award-winning YA author, so that should at least mean a sprightly pace and a memorable main character, right? [...]