Fiction

  • Foreign Correspondents

    Foreign Correspondents isn’t dull. It’s rather grimly fascinating, like watching a car accident in slow motion. Very slow motion. Clare is an emotionally-crippled Englishwoman who lives with a famous cricket star, Jeremy, and writes novels about people with fruitless, unfulfilled lives, much like her own. She’s not happy with Jeremy, but she plans to marry…

  • Fallen Angel

    And they say women are the sentimental sex? Fallen Angel is so filled with Hallmark moments it’s a card store in a book. Young boy confronts tragedy, teen estranged from the Old Man, young man gets rich, mature man leaves the big city and comes home to small town where he finds himself and true…

  • Envy by Sandra Brown

    I suppose the identity of the villain in Envy could be considered a spoiler. If you don’t want to know it, you might want to stop here. Of course, the book features a love story between a married woman and a man who is not her husband, so I was pretty sure I knew who…

  • Sacred Ground by Barbara Wood

    Barbara Wood’s latest novel Sacred Ground is a complex tale of mystery, insight, and history, with strong characters both in the present and in the past. All aspects of the plot are involving, and if the suspense is lacking in some subplots, it’s more than adequate in others. Dr. Erica Tyler is an archaeologist for…

  • Inventing Savannah

    Inventing Savannah, the first collaboration by Susan Shapiro Barash and Joanne Lara, contains hints of a story that could have been entertaining and even deeply moving, had it not been for extremely poor writing, a complete lack of subtly, consistency, or likable characters, and a spattering of elements that never fit in, as if the…

  • Rescue Me

    What should I say about Rescue Me? Well, first of all, it’s definitely not a romance. It’s fiction. Gritty, overly realistic fiction about people you probably wouldn’t like if you met them. Get-out-the-razor-blades-’cause-life-is-terrible-and-surely-not-gonna-get-any-better type fiction. Bleak. If that’s what you like, then this is the book for you. Amanda McHenry is a college graduate working…

  • Plantation

    The last quarter of Dorothea Benton Frank’s latest work Plantation is all that keeps it from being a solid D. But that last portion is so moving that I was forced to raise the grade of the otherwise hackneyed novel to the distinctly above-average mark. Unfortunately, the rest of the book reads as if the…

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