reviews

Growing up in the Shadow of Suicide Author: Leslie Pietrzyk Fifteen-year-old Alice must cope with the after effects of her mother’s seemingly callous suicide and try to find a reason to continue living and going through all the rituals in the shadow of hideous absence. Alice seeks consolation in what she knows, but everything, even the clock on the wall, reminds her of the person who is no longer there, the person she could have possibly stopped if she had only seen or considered her parent beyond the role of mother. Trying to bring Annette’s idiosyncratic rituals back to life [...]

Great Debut Cozy Mystery Author: Eileen Brady Being a small town veterinarian seems like an impossible job.  You can’t specialize in a single species, or even a group of species, since it’s just you and all those animals.  Who has room in their brain for enough information to treat both horses and parrots?  Dr. Kate Turner, that’s who.  She’s the star of the new cozy mystery series by Eileen Brady that begins with Muzzled. Kate is new to Oak Falls, NY.  She’s taken a year’s contract to fill in for the small upstate town’s only vet while he travels the [...]

YA Dystopian Future?  You're Kidding! Author: Marie Lu It’s hard to believe, but I burned myself out a little bit on the YA dystopian future novel.  Not that I don’t still adore the genre, but I had to give myself a full week break in the middle of Legend to cleanse my palate of teens saving the blighted world.  And I’m glad I took that break – it allowed me to come back and enjoy the end of the novel properly, which is nice, since it’s pretty good. The first book in a trilogy (aren’t they all), Legend is told [...]