Book Reviews

Lizzie Craig has a gift: She sees “pictures” of events before they take place. It happens first when she’s 10, with a vision in which her grandfather’s scythe slips from...

What books are on your night stand?I don’t have a proper night stand and I don’t usually read before bedtime. However, my metaphorical night stand includes “Moby-Dick,” “Don Quixote,” three...

UVI Synth Anthology 4: What is it?We all know that hardware synthesizers can be a costly alternative to their software counterparts, albeit with the tactile joy, but imagine a compendium of...

PIGLET, by Lottie HazellPity the bookseller who’s got to figure out where to shelve Lottie Hazell’s debut novel, “Piglet.” Its plot — woman learns devastating truth about her fiancé and...

‘It was hot – the kind of heat that makes you yearn for the weather to cool down’ is genuinely one of the first lines So, last week Millie Bobby...

The structure of “Your Absence Is Darkness” is best described as a series of recursions: The stories build and break apart, yield to other stories, emerge again later, sometimes at...

What books are on your night stand?I read most of my books on the Kindle, but as far as paper books go, I have: “Elemental: Critical Essays,” by Keijiro Suga;...

THE EXTINCTION OF IRENA REY, by Jennifer CroftIn gist: Oh my mushrooms, “The Extinction of Irena Rey” is incredibly strange, savvy, sly and hard to classify. I also couldn’t put...

What books are on your night stand?My appointment book.What’s the last great book you read?Daniel Silva’s “The Collector.” Daniel writes the way I dream of writing. In my mind, he...

Hélène is a human resources consultant, a snarky and ambitious provincial girl made good. After a midcareer burnout, she has persuaded the father of her two children to leave Paris...