Bookshots: 'California' by Edan Lepucki
Review by Ryan Peverly July 7, 2014
In dystopian America, a couple flees what used to be L.A. for the wilderness, and, along the way, stumble upon weird connections to their past and make difficult decisions about their future.
Bookshots: 'Endangered' by Jean Love Cush
Review by BH Shepherd
A concise review of the novel "Endangered" by Jean Love Cush.
Bookshots: 'The Fever' by Megan Abbott
Review by Christopher Shultz June 18, 2014
The follow-up to 2012's well-received 'Dare Me' is damn good. What else can I say?
Bookshots: 'Monster's Chef' by Jervey Tervalon
Review by Naturi Thomas-Millard June 12, 2014
A fast-paced novel about the dark side of celebrity: scandalous parties, tailor-made drugs, cloistered, mute wives and...animal shaped grilled cheese sandwiches?
Bookshots: 'Shirley' by Susan Scarf Merrell
Review by Cath Murphy June 12, 2014
What appears to be an ordinary mystery turns into something much weirder. But then this novel is about Shirley 'The Lottery' Jackson.
Bookshots: 'Inside Madeleine' by Paula Bomer
Review by Leah Rhyne June 11, 2014
'Inside Madeleine', a collection of short stories by Paula Bomer, takes you into the world of troubled young women. It's anything but pretty...
Bookshots: 'The Silent History' by Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby, Kevin Moffett
Review by Joshua Chaplinsky June 10, 2014
A novel based on the award winning app about an epidemic of silence.
Bookshots: 'Pills and Starships' by Lydia Millet
Review by Dean Fetzer
Global warming's gone mad and old people want to die - so what does that leave the kids?
Bookshots: 'Us Conductors' by Sean Michaels
Review by Stephanie Bonjack
Follow the unexpected journey of Theremin inventor Lev Sergeyevich Termen from Moscow to Prohibition New York to a gulag in the Russian taiga. There's a love story and espionage too.
Bookshots: 'Crystal Eaters' by Shane Jones
Review by Brian McGackin June 9, 2014
al•le•go•ry, \ˈa-lə-ˌgȯr-ē\, noun: a story in which the characters and events are symbols that stand for ideas about human life or for a political or historical situation. [Merriam-Webster]
Bookshots: 'J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist' by Thomas Beller
Review by Keith Rawson June 4, 2014
Is Thomas Beller's slim biography of J.D. Salinger a worthwhile window into the immortal writer's life, or will you want to escape its pages as quickly as possible?
Bookshots: 'FaceOff' Edited by David Baldacci
Review by Leah Dearborn
The stories in 'FaceOff' include a chase for a pervert who really likes milk, the deathbed confession of a Mod punk from sixties Brighton, and a cameo by R.L. Stine’s Slappy the Dummy.
Bookshots: 'The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression' by Amity Shlaes and Paul Rivoche
Review by Dean Fetzer
A graphic novel primer of the political and economic events during America's Great Depression of the 1930s.
Bookshots: 'Frog Music' by Emma Donoghue
Review by Christopher Shultz
This book is not a crime novel, not really. That doesn't mean it's a bad book.
Bookshots: 'Cold in July' by Joe R. Lansdale
Review by Chris Rosales May 28, 2014
Bookshots: Cold in July. The novel that inspired the new film by the same name.
Bookshots: "The Galaxy Club" by Brendan Connell
Review by Brian McGackin
Once upon a few decades ago there was a desert man fish king oasis nailed to the cross witch witch fight the Demon Taming Stick sir stab him in the throat do you know where their treasure is?
Bookshots: 'The Possibilities' by Kaui Hart Hemmings
Review by Tiffany Turpin Johnson
Single mother Sarah just lost her only son to a skiing accident and thinks she'll never feel normal again, until his secret girlfriend turns up with an even bigger secret in her womb.
Bookshots: 'Between Wrecks' by George Singleton
Review by Christine J. Schmidt May 13, 2014
George Singleton's short story collection checks glamor at the door.
Bookshots: 'The Transcriptionist' by Amy Rowland
Review by Teeney Hood
Lena, a transcriptionist for a New York daily, has a chance encounter with a woman who later commits suicide. Compelled to find out about this woman, Lena begins to question her own life.
Bookshots: 'Insatiable: Porn - A Love Story' by Asa Akira
Review by Keith Rawson
Is Asa Akira's 'Insatiable: Porn - A Love Story' just another porn queen gone rotten bio, or does it rise to the top of the heap and break new ground?
Bookshots: 'The Noble Hustle' by Colson Whitehead
Review by Leah Dearborn May 5, 2014
It’s not necessary to know about poker, or even to have a strong interest in the game in order to enjoy Whitehead’s textured writing and deadpan sarcasm.
Bookshots: "The Stonehenge Letters" by Harry Karlinsky
Review by Brian McGackin April 24, 2014
Mystery! Intrigue! Completely fabricated historical anecdotes!
Bookshots: 'Lovecraft's Monsters' edited by Ellen Datlow
Review by Rajan Khanna
In 'Lovecraft's Monsters,' editor Ellen Datlow manages to avoid pastiche and keep the stories fresh while still honoring H. P. Lovecraft's legacy.
Bookshots: 'In the Course of Human Events' by Mike Harvkey
Review by Cath Murphy
Is comparing Mike Harvkey's debut to 'The Grapes of Wrath' a stretch? No it is not.
