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A good book has no ending.
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The Betrayal of the Blood Lily by Lauren Willig Dutton Adult, 416 pages Get it at Amazon >> In the newest adventure in Lauren Willig’s “Pink Carnation” series, all about nineteenth-century British flower spies (the first of which, The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, was an affectionate sequel to Baroness Orcy’s The Scarlet Pimpernel), [...]
The Barbary Pirates: an Ethan Gage Adventure William Dietrich Harper, 336 pages Get it from Amazon >> A few weeks ago, I was offered the chance to receive an ARC of the latest Ethan Gage adventure, The Barbary Pirates, by William Dietrich. In less time than it takes a patient on House to shake off [...]
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay Get it from Amazon >> While there is no such thing as a term life insurance policy that repays you if you don’t like a book, it’s a pretty safe bet that if you see enough random strangers reading a novel you’re also considering, it probably doesn’t suck. That’s [...]
Dracula: the Un-Dead by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt Get it at Amazon >> It’s October, and even though the temperature is bouncing between hot and cool in much the same fashion as the ball on a ping pong table, there is still a bite to the air, and something indefinable that always comes as [...]
First of all, the depth of research required to pull off a novel like this, filling in the blanks between the birth of Christ and the point at which we pick up his story again, when he’s in his thirties, is incredible, and even if many of the scenarios in this novel are preposterous, Christopher [...]
