reviews

More Academic Than Entertaining Author: Edith Hamilton I remember Edit Hamilton’s Mythology with its depiction of a warrior riding a Pegasus from my childhood. This book was in my mom’s growing collection, and I would always look at it as a child and say “that, that I HAVE to read someday.” In grade school I adored anything to do with Greek mythology, despite the fact that what I read was inevitably watered down and sanitized for children. After 20+ years (ok, going on 30+, but whatever) I finally got to follow-through on my childhood promise when I snatched Hamilton’s now famous [...]

The Aftermath of Rape Author: Caitlin Wahrer Nick has a bright, promising future. College is going well. He has friends and a doting, almost fatherly older brother, Tony, who saw him through a brutal childhood and out the other side. The only thing that isn’t going to plan is Nick’s current crush, an on-again off-again man with obvious commitment problems and some game playing to boot. When a handsome stranger hits on Nick the night he has been stood up he thinks, why not? Maybe the news will get back to his crush/pseudo-boyfriend. When the stranger takes Nick to a hotel [...]

The Beast Returns Author: Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child Deep under Manhattan there are descending mazes of tunnels. Among them, the homeless live out their lives in the dark, unmolested, removed from society. Until now. Now, there is something in the tunnels, something stalking them. Something new. Headless bodies are flushing out into the river, brought out by storms. No one cares. But when a young debutant ends up in the backflow, decapitated and partially eaten, New York rises to a fervor. While D’Agosta tries to work with his hopeless superiors, he begins to get closer to the homeless population. He [...]