A heroine’s inspirational journey to find the intersection of psychological and medical care—and to find out who she is outside of who she’s always been In the early days of 1978, Judy DePue vaulted into her solo trek around the globe. A PhD recipient in counseling psychology, she’d begun her career in research at Harvard, […]
The woman next door is in her fifties, teaches art at an elementary school, and has just become a mother. She has prepared the downstairs bedroom carefully: a changing station stocked with cloth diapers, a rolling cart of medical supplies, a wheelchair beside the door, and a canopy bed fitted with guardrails so the newborn […]
Synopsis: I perceived the world and acknowledged all of its colors. There was truth; the kind you cannot simply speak of. A tale suits the cause better. It is a disguise that anyone can enjoy and if intrigued, look behind it. This is my testament. A fantasy saga exploring the most human reality. A Journey that lies […]
The Weight of Snow by Sal Nudo I received a copy of this book from the author in exchange for my honest opinion. Synopsis: The past doesn’t wash away. It just freezes over. For fourteen years, Alex Neitzel has lived a life built on a foundation of silence and blood money. To the residents of […]
What if the best way to interest readers in your book is to stop talking about the book? I didn’t come to this idea because I had some brilliant marketing strategy. I came to it because I was tired of trying to find new ways to post the same book. If you’re an indie author, […]
She is twenty years old. She wears tailored knickerbockers and suspenders and a ribbon in her hair, paints the classroom windows of a school she does not attend, and calls the man who is technically her stepbrother her brother. Everyone who loves her uses the name Anna-Katherine. The name on her birth certificate is Sophia, […]
There is a single sentence about her in five hundred pages. Reginald Johnston, tutor to the last emperor, wrote his memoir in 1934 and mentioned in passing that a Miss Isabel Ingram, the empress’s American friend, sometimes joined their picnics in the garden. That is all. She had spent two years in the Forbidden City, […]
Count the chapters. The first section of this novel runs ten of them, unhurried, long enough to establish six friendships, one recent catastrophe and a venue. The sixth section is a single chapter and it is over in nine pages. Nothing in the text announces this. The reader simply begins to feel the floor tilting, […]
A past obsession turns into a deadly game of cat and mouse between a serial killer and his hero. Killer Looks is an intriguing psychological mystery where every move becomes part of a twisted addictive puzzle. The question isn’t who committed the murders, we already know that. Instead, it is whether detectives can catch him […]
Some books ask you to suspend disbelief. Better Angel asks you to suspend certainty. Caryn Green has written one of the most original speculative novels I’ve encountered in years, though even that label feels too narrow. Blending historical fiction, political commentary, philosophy, and an affectionate character study of Abraham Lincoln, Better Angel becomes something wholly […]