Posts tagged with ‘Novels’
May 6, 2013
NAZI CYBORG WARRIORS, warlock magic, and time travel combine in this brilliant, spooky World War II thriller.
Grade: B PLUS
NECESSARY EVIL
Tor
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Novels, Paranormal, Science Fiction, Thriller
May 4, 2013
BRUTAL NO-HOPER NOIR, set against an Indiana landscape of violence and despair. Grim, gory, haunting.
Grade: B PLUS
DONNYBROOK
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels
May 2, 2013
ON A POSTAPOCALYPTIC EARTH, bunker-dwelling survivors try to regiment the world around them. Thoughtful SF.
Grade: B PLUS
THE OFFICE OF MERCY
Viking
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels, Science Fiction, Thriller
May 1, 2013
WONDERFUL ENGLISH COZY features a precocious sleuth, a spooky tomb, and various 1950s village shenanigans.
Grade: B PLUS
SPEAKING FROM AMONG THE BONES: A FLAVIA DE LUCE NOVEL
Delacorte
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Novels
April 30, 2013
SAVAGE BLACK COMEDY mocks social climbing, politics, family ties, Dutch society, the idea of sanity itself.
Grade: A MINUS
THE DINNER
Random House/Crown/Hogarth
2013
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Novels
April 28, 2013
A WILD HISTORICAL PICARESQUE races from 1930s Berlin to LA, complete with pulp staples like ghosts and spies.
Grade: B PLUS
THE TELEPORTATION ACCIDENT
Bloomsbury
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels, Science Fiction
April 25, 2013
TOUCHING, GRACEFUL NOVEL about adult children caring for aging parents, connecting with their Indian heritage.
Grade: B PLUS
THE ABUNDANCE
Henry Holt & Company
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, India, Novels, Race and Ethnicity, South Asian-American Authors
April 22, 2013
DELIGHTFULLY TWISTED SCIENCE FICTION: a hapless schlub discovers apocalyptic physics and wacky multiverses.
Grade: A MINUS
DOUGHNUT
Orbit
2013
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Humor, Novels, Science Fiction
April 21, 2013
SUDDEN MINOR SUPERPOWERS appear at times of crisis in this bittersweet parable of family pain and healing.
Grade: B PLUS
WHAT THE FAMILY NEEDED
Penguin/Riverhead
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Fantasy, Novels
April 17, 2013
ARTFUL HISTORICAL SETS a family’s Massachusetts summer home as the centerpoint for change and connection.
Grade: B PLUS
THE END OF THE POINT
Harper
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels