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Prince Caspian

"If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been proof that you were not.” Author: C.S. Lewis I’m finally doing it – reading in my late 30s what everyone else read in their childhood: the Chronicles of Narnia series. I just finished the second (or fourth, depending on the order you prefer to read them in) book in the series: Prince Caspian. In Prince Caspian Lucy, Edmund, Susan, and Peter are ushered back to Narnia. One minute, they’re sitting in a train station, waiting to go off for another school year. Narnia is a distant memory. Perhaps something that was [...]

Frances Carden2025-12-15T20:33:53-07:00December 15th, 2025|Tags: book review, C.S. Lewis, Christian, fiction, read, reading|

Turn of the Key, The

“People do go mad, you know, if you stop them from sleeping for long enough...” Author: Ruth Ware It looks like she murdered the child. She had the opportunity and motive, but she swore in her novel length letter to her lawyer that she didn’t do it. Yes, she treated the children badly. Yes, she lied. Yes, she was there under false pretenses. But no, no, she never hurt them. That’s how The Turn of the Key begins, and, as Rowan Caine writes from prison, begging this famous lawyer to take her case, she slowly unravels the strange tale of Heatherbrae [...]

Frances Carden2025-12-15T12:27:38-07:00December 15th, 2025|Tags: book of the month, book review, botm, mystery, read, reading, thriller|

Hidden, The

Monsters in the Mirror Author: Sarah Pinborough What does a house full of mutilated bodies, broken mirrors, and occult symbols have to do with one children’s book editor, happily sleeping in her cozy apartment? Everything . . . Rachel Wright gets up from a night of bad dreams, goes to the bathroom, and sees something soul shattering in the mirror. When she wakes up in the hospital, she has no memory of it, or of her previous life. The twist? Rachel likes her amnesia. Going around her apartment, she finds her old sensible clothes boring, her job as a children’s book [...]

Frances Carden2025-12-14T12:40:23-07:00December 14th, 2025|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading|