Posts tagged with ‘Novels’
October 5, 2012
META-HISTORICAL META-NOVEL about the lingering specter of World War II and the utter impossibility of fiction.
Grade: B PLUS
HHHH: A NOVEL
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels, World War II
October 3, 2012
A WOMAN UNCOVERS THE secrets behind the death of her best friend, thanks to clues in her unfinished memoir.
Grade: SOLID B
MISS ME WHEN I'M GONE
HarperCollins
2012
Tags: Novels, Solid B Reviews, Women's Fiction
October 2, 2012
MICHAEL FRAYN’S FARCE of jet-set conferencegoers and mistaken identities has lots of charm, insider snark.
Grade: B PLUS
SKIOS
Henry Holt & Company
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Humor, Novels
October 1, 2012
FANTASY SET IN an alternate early 19th century Naples, where music is literally magical and intrigue abounds.
Grade: SOLID B
THE BLACK OPERA
Night Shade Books
2012
Tags: Fantasy, Novels, Solid B Reviews
September 30, 2012
A TOUGH MANHATTAN DETECTIVE challenges herself to solve the complex mystery of an ultra-rich teenager’s death.
Grade: SOLID B
NEVER TELL
Harper
2012
Tags: Mystery, New York City, Novels, Solid B Reviews
September 29, 2012
CHARMING AUSTRALIAN ROMANTIC comedy-drama takes on some tough issues of love and abandonment with grace.
Grade: B PLUS
THE HYPNOTIST'S LOVE STORY
Penguin/Amy Einhorn Books
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels, Women's Fiction
September 28, 2012
RAMBUNCTIOUS VAN GOGH fanfic extravaganza from Christopher Moore: a surreal carnival ride through art history.
Grade: SOLID B
SACRE BLEU: A COMEDY D'ART
HarperCollins
2012
Tags: Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Humor, Novels, Solid B Reviews
September 27, 2012
THE HILARIOUSLY DYSFUNCTIONAL DENIZENS of Corduroy Mansions are back in another comedy of errors and egos.
Grade: SOLID B
A CONSPIRACY OF FRIENDS: A CORDUROY MANSIONS NOVEL
Pantheon
2012
Tags: Humor, Novels, Solid B Reviews
September 26, 2012
HISTORICAL MYSTERY HAS a fascinating setting—a Maine Shaker settlement in 1795—if a somewhat threadbare plot.
Grade: B MINUS
A SIMPLE MURDER
Minotaur/St. Martin's
2012
Tags: B Minus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Novels
September 25, 2012
FAST-PACED SPACE THRILLER set in a near future with orbiting power satellites and resorts at center stage.
Grade: SOLID B
ENERGIZED
Tor
2012
Tags: Novels, Science Fiction, Solid B Reviews, Thriller