Kristin Hannah’s Home Front is the story of Jolene Zarkades, a helicopter pilot who is haunted by the memories of her alcoholic parents who were killed in a car accident in 1982. The story takes place in 2005. Jolene has built what she believes is a solid foundation for herself and her family. Then her [...] Read more »
Stephen King: Full Dark, No Stars
Overview: Full Dark, No Stars is a collection of four short stories by Stephen King. Short Intro: I have been a longtime fan of Stephen King’s work. Even though I struggled to get through his post-accident novels, he is still one of my favorite authors because he introduced me to the horror genre. Book Summary: [...] Read more »
Horror Novel: Infected, by Scott Sigler
After reading and enjoying Sigler’s latest book, Ancestor, I decided to read Infected. Sigler’s work reminds me a lot of Stephen King’s, as far as the gore factor and writing style are concerned. However, his horror novels have a punch of their own. Summary “Scary” Perry Dawsey wakes up one morning with seven rashes spread [...] Read more »
Book Review: The Things that Keep Us Here
While the cover is beautiful, it doesn’t depict what this book is really about . . . a mother trying to keep her family safe from the H5N1 influenza pandemic. I found this book sitting on the shelf at my local B&N, immediately mistook it for a mainstream fiction novel and picked it up anyway [...] Read more »
Horns: An Imaginative Take on Hell and Revenge
Ig Perrish wakes up one morning with a nasty hangover and discovers that he has grown a set of horns on his head. He isn’t sure what happened to him and why people are suddenly opening up to him with their evil thoughts and intentions. All he knows is that his life is a living [...] Read more »
Shutter Island: A Wonderful Mind-Bender
Although I had heard Dennis Lehane, due to his bestselling Mystic River, I had never read any of his books until I picked up Shutter Island. In truth, I would have never thought to read it until I saw the movie previews on television. The previews gave me the impression that the story had some [...] Read more »
Duma Key: Satisfyingly Creepy
Stephen King draws a lot from his experience with his accident when he fleshed out the character of Edgar Freemantle. Freemantle was the owner of his own construction company until a crane crushed him inside his truck and changed his life forever. If you want to learn more about the plot, visit Amazon to get [...] Read more »
The Girl Who Played with Fire: Better Than the First
If you haven’t read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo yet, don’t worry. Larsson gives the reader good, short summaries of what happened to Salander and Blomkvist in this sequel. That said, I recommend that you read Tattoo first so that you can get a better idea of who these characters are so that you [...] Read more »
Book Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
I had been wanting to read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for quite some time. So when it became my turn to select the next book for my book club, I decided to choose this. It’s the first book of a trilogy written by Swedish author, Stieg Larsson, who passed away shortly after delivering [...] Read more »
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