Category: Book Review Friday
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Book Review Friday – Dying to Know
Christina Carson writes important books with huge messages. After I read Suffer the Little Children, I thought about her deft portraits of human despair when a life is lived without connection to others. Living a life in balance and without judgment recurs once again in Dying to Know. In this novel, Ms. Carson uses health…
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Book Review Friday – David Lawlor’s “Liam Mannion” series
An author faces a monumental task when writing historical fiction. If one historical fact is wrong or an anachronism appears, the reader is likely to put aside the book in favor of one that achieves historical accuracy tempered with believable dialogue, heightened tension, and sympathetic, yet flawed, heroes. If you are a reader of historical…
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Book Review Friday – Shadow of Eden
Shadow of Eden by Louis Kirby, M.D. is a thriller of a book, but it’s so much more than that. The different levels run the gambit from our society’s obsession with thinness at any cost to the sway of power and money with an even higher price tag. I usually don’t read this type of…
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Book Review Friday – Unexpected Gifts
Unexpected Gifts by S.R. Mallery lives up to its name. And the wrapping on that gift peels off layer after layer until the final beautiful gift reveals itself. The book takes the reader on a journey through one young woman’s legacy left by her ancestors. Sonia feels adrift in her life as she continues her…
P.C. ZICK 