Posts tagged with ‘Novels’
July 6, 2013
BITTERSWEET FAMILY DRAMA is rich in details of 1990s New York, strong on characterization. Great #beachread!
Grade: B PLUS
CLAUDIA SILVER TO THE RESCUE
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, New York City, Novels
June 19, 2013
EXQUISITELY CRAFTED NOVEL about the inner lives of a dwindling group of elderly friends in rural England.
Grade: A MINUS
LAST FRIENDS
Europa Editions
2013
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Novels
June 18, 2013
SLY, ACID SATIRE follows a slacker turned hero after he averts a high-school massacre. Grimly funny and true.
Grade: B PLUS
CRASH AND BURN
HarperCollins
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels
June 6, 2013
LOVELY AUSTENESQUE FANTASY, third in a series, with magic-workers involved in English politics. Absorbing fun!
Grade: B PLUS
WITHOUT A SUMMER
Tor
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Novels
June 4, 2013
INTRIGUING NOIR PASTICHE stars Dashiell Hammett, on the trail of a real-life Maltese Falcon. Smartly done.
Grade: SOLID B
HAMMETT UNWRITTEN
Prometheus/Seventh Street Books
2013
Tags: Historical Fiction, Literary History, Novels, Solid B Reviews
June 3, 2013
BRILLIANTLY PLOTTED THRILLER follows a hard-boiled detective on the hunt for a killer of lovely call girls.
Grade: B PLUS
THE BOYFRIEND
Mysterious Press
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Mystery, Novels, Suspense, Thriller
June 2, 2013
THE MEDIEVAL ENGLISH COURT of Aethelred and Emma, vividly depicted in all its wicked intrigue. Tudors? Pfft!
Grade: B PLUS
SHADOW ON THE CROWN
Viking
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, England, Historical Fiction, Novels
May 31, 2013
TENSE SWEDISH THRILLER follows an intrepid nurse through a deadly web of international intrigue. Breathtaking.
Grade: B PLUS
THE ANDALUCIAN FRIEND
Crown
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels, Suspense, Sweden, Thriller
May 30, 2013
TWO YOUNG WOMEN weather the changes of the 1960s in different ways. A complex, deft portrait of friendship!
Grade: B PLUS
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF US
Henry Holt and Company
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels, Women's Fiction, Women's Issues
May 29, 2013
THE POWER OF ART, both to heal and to hurt, takes center stage in this fascinating, brutally frank novel.
Grade: A MINUS
THE MORELS
Soho Press
2013
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Novels