book reviews

The Final Conflict, the Greatest Loss Author: E. J. Wenstrom Back on Terath, things have been escalating from bad to worse since Adem, the realm’s most powerful golem, sought Rona’s soul from the underworld and his own transformation. The rift between the underworld, the heavens, and the regular world has been widening, more vengeful creatures and rebellious Firsts emerging to bring about a final, shattering, war. The small settlement of Haven is all that is left of those loyal to the gods, those willing to fight to close the rifts and reestablish divine order. The major issue: the absentee gods [...]

Summer Camps. Teen Girls. Secrets. And Ghosts. Author: Riley Sager What doesn’t kill you haunts you. No one knows this like Emma Davis, a now famous artist whose paintings hide a dark past, layers of leaves and shrouding forest steadily covering three figures in white.  Only she knows they are there, and little do her buyers suspect that her lush series is riddled with deception and death. But redemption, along with the possibility of answers, comes in the form of an invite back to her past, the scene of a crime she is implicated in, and the remembrances of the [...]

Memories, Forgiveness, and Surprises Author: Jan Karon It’s time once again for Father Tim to venture away from the comfort and stability of Mitford, but this time it’s a journey of both distance and time. Father Tim has been called back home, a place he never intended to go. A mysterious, unsigned letter arrives and at his wife’s urging, Father Tim begins his journey. This time it is just Tim and his Buick sized dog, alone first on the open road and then in Mississippi where the memories won’t stop coming and healing hides in among the rending thorns. Home [...]