by Kristopher | Jul 4, 2014 | Articles
From the Booking Desk: Wishing everyone the happiest of celebrations this Fourth of July. Since the holiday is falling on a Friday, there will be no Friday review this week, but things will be back to the standard schedule next week. Until then, enjoy the fireworks,...
by Kristopher | Jul 2, 2014 | Review
Someone Else’s Skin by Sarah Hilary is a debut novel, but you would never know it from the reading experience. When picking up a book by an unknown author, there really is no way to know if you are going to enjoy it. Certainly, you can read reviews, get...
by Kristopher | Jul 1, 2014 | underCOVER
From the Booking Desk: You may have noticed over the past few months the increased occurrence of the Twitter hashtag WhoIsSamAlexander? You may have even investigated further to see what this was all about. This was a clever (and successful) marketing campaign...
by Kristopher | Jun 27, 2014 | Review
Alafair Burke is the type of writer who knows how to tap into the collective societal psyche and pluck out just the right hot-button topic around which to build a thrilling crime procedural. She has done it time and time again and things are no different with her...
by Kristopher | Jun 24, 2014 | Articles
From The Booking Desk: I don’t typically talk about books in advance of their release month. First, there are too many books to read for the blog, so I rarely get a chance to read something well in advance. Secondly, there really isn’t much point in me talking about...
by Kristopher | Jun 20, 2014 | Review
The Oxford dictionary definition of bittersweet is “arousing pleasure tinged with sadness or pain.” This would also be an apt description of one’s experience reading Miranda Beverly-Whittemore‘s Bittersweet. Of course, I mean that in only the best possible sense....
by Kristopher | Jun 19, 2014 | underCOVER
From The Booking Desk: Late last week, the covers for Sophie Hannah’s new book were revealed. For those that missed the memo, Sophie was chosen by the Agatha Christie estate to pen an all-new novel featuring classic sleuth, Hercule Poirot. The title of the...
by Kristopher | Jun 13, 2014 | Review
Dystopian landscapes continue to dominate the young adult thriller genre. With the success of books like The Hunger Games, Divergent, and The Testing, it is no surprise that many authors are attempting to tap into that existing audience. The latest to succeed is...
by Kristopher | Jun 11, 2014 | Review
From The Booking Desk: I am electing to run this review a week earlier than intended in the hopes that it will encourage readers to preorder the novel. Megan Abbott is just one of many authors who are affected by the ongoing dispute between Hachette Publishing and...
by Kristopher | Jun 6, 2014 | Review
The Bones Beneath is the twelfth book in Mark Billingham’s Tom Thorne mystery series. As one would expect, the books over the years have documented many changes in Throne, but no where is that more evident than in this novel, where Thorne is forced to contend once...
