by Site Owner | Jul 19, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller
By Arturo Sangalli Princeton University Press, 184 pages, $14.95 Math and Mystery “Numbers alone might not rule the world of nature created by God, as Pythagoras believed—and in that sense he has been proven wrong—but they increasingly reign over the human-made...
by Site Owner | Jun 9, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Horror
By David Moody Thomas Dunne Books, $24.99, 336 pages In Them or Us, David Moody’s final book in his Hater trilogy is filled with violence and moment to moment survival. The human condition is seen at its extreme worst. Killing, the consolidation of limited resources...
by Site Owner | Jun 1, 2012 | The Reader's Perspective
Character Development By Jon Sanetel What I find most interesting or important in stories, especially in fiction, are the relationships and insights that each character has. It makes for a more vivid and rich world to draw you into the book. A book I read recently,...
by Site Owner | Apr 3, 2012 | Historical Fiction
By Tracy Barrett Henry Holt & Company, $16.99, 261 pages “I had returned to the place that was not, on the day that was not, bearing the thing that was not, and I knew what defined a king.” Tracy Barrett’s King of Ithaka takes the familiar Homeric tale...
