Wake the Bones by Elizabeth Kilcoyne, a book review by Mica Sage. Wow, this book was gripping! It was a bit convoluted at points, but the imagery and the character dynamics make up for it. The whole book feels like a Kentucky summer, all gothic and humid and just unnerving enough to be fascinating. I […]
Family dynamics, with a splash of monster madness.
Intriguing, thought provoking, on family dynamics. It starts out as a slower read and then takes you into a world of fighting for those who don’t have a voice of their own.
After more than twenty years of dealing with countless deaths of all kinds. You see people, not as people (at least for me ), yet more as an object, another broken thing that now needs to be tossed away, so you can move on to the newest better thing
It was filled with fascinating and entertaining stories as well as misfortunes and mistakes made along the way. Nothing was overly technical and those of us who aren’t in the buzz – er – biz can easily follow along.
A world full of twists and turns that have you wanting more.
A father and daughter living in the remote Appalachian mountains must reckon with the ghosts of their past in Kimi Cunningham Grant’s These Silent Woods, a mesmerizing novel of suspense.
House of Sticks by Ly Tran, a review by RantingLunatic A haunting memoir of the author’s experience with poverty, this shows the failure of government systems for immigrants in the United States. The overt racism experienced by the author and her family shames me to be an American. This family showed what happens when a […]
Ophie’s Ghosts by Justina Ireland, a review by RantingLunatic The fateful night Ophelia Harrison’s father exercised his right to vote in November 1922 in Jim Crow Georgia changed her life forever – the least of which was her understanding that she could see and speak to ghosts. The remainder of the book takes place in […]
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris, a review by RantingLunatic I had a hard time getting into this, I would describe it as a “slow-burn narrative.” I would have to say it did not truly grab me until 75-80% into the book. The prologue was ominous, with no names, just a narrative with […]