Amazon: US UK CA UK AU DE My Review As its subtitle indicates, Tales from the Annex is a collection of seven stories based on H.P. Lovecraft’s Herbert West character, followed by seven other tales. I went into the collection not having read Driscoll’s Herbert West novels or anything by H.P. Lovecraft. I was very … Continue reading #bookreview – Tales from the Annexe
#BookReview: Searching for Eden
My Review The second edition of Keith Madsen’s novel Searching for Eden is the story of a grieving father’s quest to fulfill his fourteen-year-old daughter’s dying vision of the Garden of Eden as affirmation that life on this earth is in fact good. Joining him on this quest are Carmen Ortega, a fourteen-year-old prostitute, and … Continue reading #BookReview: Searching for Eden
#BookReview: Vanished
My Review Mark Bierman‘s novel Vanished opens in a Haitian prison with a game of cards turned violent, followed by an earthquake. The chapter ends with the escape of a prisoner who will play a pivotal role in the novel. Enter young widower Tyler and his father-in-law John, two Americans newly arrived to help build … Continue reading #BookReview: Vanished
#Bookreview: Zahara and the Lost Books of Light
My Review Zahara and the Lost Books of Light opens with a gripping scene from the Spanish Inquisition. In a moonlit plaza in Granada, “The smell of incipient violence taints the air.” Although a dozen severed earlobes hanging from the Arc of the Ears bear witness to the loss of human life that day, the … Continue reading #Bookreview: Zahara and the Lost Books of Light
Elizabeth Gauffreau 