Beautiful Disaster

Beautiful Disaster, by Jamie McGuire. My shirt crackled as I pulled it over my head; the static in the air had intensified with the coming winter. Feeling a bit lost, I curled into a ball underneath my thick comforter and inhaled through my nose; Travis's scent still lingered...

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Becoming Clementine

Becoming Clementine, by Jennifer Niven. Each of the men wore a pistol on his belt and extra magazines, and each one carried a large rucksack. I wished I had my pistol, the one they'd issued me for the B-17, but they'd taken it away once we landed at Prestwick. For a while...

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Eyes Wide Open

Eyes Wide Open, by Andrew Gross. I caught exactly what that meant. Evan hadn't been on his meds. That explained how he had managed to climb all the way up there. How he still would have had the urge to follow through with it. It pretty much explained everything. "So how...

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Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox

Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox, by Lois Banner. Marilyn was a genius at self-creation and at posing in front of the camera. That may be the ultimate act of self-presentation for women in the twenty-first century, driven by technology, visuality, and the homogenization...

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Interview with Attica Locke, author of The Cutting Season

photo credit: Jenny Walters Attica Locke is the author of The Cutting Season, which hits stores on September 18th, as well as Black Water Rising. I recently reviewed her novel and then got a chance to ask her some questions via email about her new book and a novels she is...

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Handbook for Hot Witches

Handbook for Hot Witches, by Dame Darcy. I wasn't really sure what to expect from this book; originally, I thought it was a graphic novel, but when I received it in the mail to review, I saw that it was something different. What it ended up being is more of a "handbook" for...

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The Cutting Season

The Cutting Season, by Attica Locke. Ascension Parish, 2009 It was during the Thompson-Delacroix wedding, Caren's first day on the job, that a cottonmouth, measuring the length of a Cadillac, fell some twenty feet from a live oak on the front lawn, landing like a coil of rope...

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