reviews

One Big Mess of a Drama Author: Hannah Beckerman Sisters Jess and Lily have been estranged since they were teenagers and their mother, Audrey, has never been able to reconcile why her family fell apart so dramatically. Now she also has two 17 year old granddaughters who have never met and a death sentence: terminal cancer. With only a little time left, Audrey is finally trying to really live her life and find her dreams, her biggest being a reconciliation that will sew her split family back into a unit. But can she really bear the secret hidden beneath all the [...]

Repercussions and Confessions Author: Dawn Lee McKenna Maggie Redmond is finding little solace in her work; still recovering from the gruesome murder of her ex-husband, she is excluded from most of the current cases, which have ties to David’s death and a series of drug related murders that connect back to his past. This means that Maggie is still caught up in her own prior dead-end case involving a dismembered foot. This case has a haunting connection to the Boudreauxs, Maggie’s traumatic rape as a teenager, and her own desire to let a suspected murderer, and strange friend, run free. As [...]

The End of a Dream, The Conclusion of a War Author: S.A. Chakraborty Empire of Gold picks up after the ultimate, bloody war and harrowing confrontation that ended Kingdom of Copper. Banu Manizheh and Dara are left with their bleak kingdom, tortured and filled with blood, their peoples’ magic mysteriously gone. They have Daevabad, everything they have ever dreamed of, but reestablishing the “rightful” rule of the Nahids has come at a heavy price, and with magic gone Manizheh is even more desperate than before. With her grip slipping, political intrigues roiling beneath the surface, and her Afshin developing a disturbing [...]