Review:Bought this book since I, too, had lost my beloved dachshund and figured I would appreciate and sympathize what the author was writing about. There was too much symbolism for me. A straight cut story that was heartfelt and sincere without having to read between the lines would have been better. I understood what the author was doing but it was too strange for me. I still sympathize with him and his loss as any pet lover would. Read more

Review:Most of the stories in Stephen King's first new collection of short fiction in nine years are pretty darn eventual. As the narrator of the title story, "Everything's Eventual," points out, if you want to say something's awesome, but you don't want to sound like every other Joe, you say it's eventual.
Stephen King is a much different writer today than he was when he penned the direct, but effective horror stories in the late sixties and early seventies that comprised his first collection of sh... Read more

Review:Norman Mailer has covered all the bases. The detail in the book is amazing and would have required a lot of research. I was hooked from the beginning and read it with great interest. I am currently reading all the books Mailer has written and I am a fan. Read more

Review:This book is maddening. Emily Fridlund is a capable writer. But she spends too much effort on the details: the words, the phrases, the sentence. Pretty prose indeed. But what is this book about? I really couldn't say for certain even after slogging through the whole thing. Slogging, because the author does very little to push the plot. She forces the reader to concentrate on the small picture and partially formed characters.

The book is obviously a coming-of-age story. But too many side p... Read more

Review:If someone were to ask me which author can consistently grab your attention with the very first sentence of a book, I'd have to say PKD, hands down. It all starts off with a man who is shaking invisible aphids from his body and he's afraid that they're going to eat him. If that's not weird, nothing is, and only PKD would have thought of it. But the bugs, though interesting, are not what this book is about. It is about drugs, and a cop that has to take on the role of a drug-user. The idea is exce... Read more

Review:Ms Frost does it again. Fabulous read and great addition to her series. Highly recommend you read series in order. Spoiler alert:

If you live vampires, what girl wouldn't want to marry the REAL Vlad?? Read more

Review:The short stories each show an interesting look into the lives of a person's life though they all are interesting enough in their own way. One of my favorites would be "The Second Bakery Attack" which is a short story about a man and his wife who are haunted by an unbearable hunger and so to break the curse they end up robbing a McDonalds. The stories are all intriguing in their own way and everyone of them is as good as the last. I would recommend this to people that love the other works of Har... Read more

Review:A well written first person narrative of childhood abuse told through beautiful language and, at times, over the top storylines; but the author takes care in bringing the psychological manipulation of the abuser and the internal struggle, the confusion and convictions, of the abused to light.

It's a grotesque but captivating story.
Well worth the read, but it will not be received the same across the board... Hence the mixed reviews. Read more

Review:Five-year-old Madison wonders off while her family is looking for a Christmas tree in rural Oregon. The bulk of the novel occurs three years later when Naomi, a private investigator known as The Child Finder joins the (stale) search. For Naomi, every lost child is a personal mission. She has only snippets of memories from when she fled from...someplace...and ran to a group of strangers and eventually found herself in the care of an incredibly loving foster mother who also cares for a young boy w... Read more

Review:Last Words by Shari Ryan

There has not been a book that has touched me as deep as Last Words has. A truly mesmerizing web of complexity that has completely intertwined past history and present day.
No where else will you find a story so thought provoking that it stays with you long after the last page, the last sentence, the last word. A hauntingly beautiful romance
that spans a lifetime of history. Amelia is 91 years old and she has kept hidden a secret for 74 years. But now th... Read more