dreams

REVIEW: Wake Unto Me by Lisa Cach

REVIEW: Wake Unto Me by Lisa Cach

Dear Ms. Cach, You are an author I keep an eye out for and when I saw that there would be a new novel from you after a bit of a wait, I felt a frisson of anticipation. I’ve loved to liked several of your previous books and have admired the risks you’ve taken and [...]

JOINT REVIEW: Falling Under by Gwen Hayes

JOINT REVIEW: Falling Under by Gwen Hayes

Jia: Theia Alderson is a British expat living in the sleepy California town of Serendipity Falls. Because of the circumstances surrounding her mother’s death. Theia lives a sheltered and suffocating life courtesy of her overprotective father. That all changes when a mysterious new boy, Haden Black, comes to town. The strange part? Theia has met [...]

REVIEW: A Brush of Darkness by Allison Pang

REVIEW: A Brush of Darkness by Allison Pang

Dear Ms. Pang, I’m a recovering burned-out reader of adult urban fantasy. These days it’s so difficult for me to pick up a novel in the subgenre and read it from beginning to end. But that doesn’t stop me from trying because the perpetual optimist in me still hopes to find that novel that’ll make [...]

REVIEW: Nevermore by Kelly Creagh

REVIEW: Nevermore by Kelly Creagh

Dear Ms. Creagh, With the young adult genre being so popular and prolific these days, it’s pretty hard to stand out. So many vampires, werewolves, faeries, and zombies, oh my. But when I stumbled across your debut and learned that it was about dreams and Edgar Allan Poe, it caught my interest. Dreams are still [...]

REVIEW: The Last Will of Moira Leahy by Therese Walsh

REVIEW: The Last Will of Moira Leahy by Therese Walsh

Dear Ms. Walsh, You don’t know me, but I sometimes lurk at your blog, Writer Unboxed, which is one of the best blogs for writers I know of. I’ve been following it since the days when you were writing this book, under the working title of Unbounded, so when Jane told me that we had [...]

REVIEW:  Salvation in Death by J.D. Robb

REVIEW: Salvation in Death by J.D. Robb

Dear Ms. Robb: I’m of two minds about this book. The mystery was excellent. This was no thriller with marauding serial killers, but a police procedure story in which the principal officers unpeeled the layers of a crime step by step to find the surprising and somewhat convoluted truth. These stories also move on emotion [...]