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Steamy Fallen Angel Sex Authors: Yelena Casale, Tina Moss I do love a good supernatural thriller – who doesn’t?  Fallen angels, demons, special powers, humans caught in the middle.  Good stuff.  In A Touch of Darkness we get all of these and even a little steamy sex.  Sounds a little too good to be true, and it is.  Not a lot, but a little. A Touch of Darkness is collaboration between authors Yelena Casale and Tina Moss.   When we enter the story, 27-year-old Cassie is trying to figure out the source of her increasingly intense paranormal experiences.  Her hands emit [...]

Shady Spouses Author: Laura Lippman There’s no end in sight to my Spouses with Secrets reading list, and After I’m Gone definitely deserves a spot on there (although, to be fair, everyone in Laura Lippman’s books has sinister secrets). I’m a fan of Lippman’s serial mysteries as well as her stand-alone suspense novels, and while her recurring sleuth Tess Monaghan makes a cameo, this falls more in the latter category. While there is a mystery to be solved, it’s a decades-old cold case (based on a true story), and the book is more about exploring the effects of a disappearance [...]

The Worst of the Weeds... Author:  Elizabeth Kolbert There’s little debate that humankind has had a significant impact on the Earth’s biosphere, particularly over the past few hundred years.  From the demise of the dodo to the melting of the polar ice caps, our muddy thumbprints are all over the planet.  An argument can be made that humanity’s impact on life as we know it has been so profound as to rank it with the other periods of mass extinction in life’s ancient history, the most famous being the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs – as well as 75% [...]