Phoenixville Rising has three intertwined stories spanning different time periods. We’ve got the central story of Tara, Boo and Sketch, teenagers in the ’80’s living in the small town of Phoenixville “where nothing really ever happens”. We have the story of Rebecca Wilton from the Civil War time period growing up as Phoenixville is just starting to grow (her father is responsible for that growth); and then we have the story of Sketch, present day, returning to Phoenixville for the first time in many, many […]
Is Good a Euphemism for Stupid?
As you can see I picked up just about any book that someone said was like Gone Girl or Girl on the Train this summer…and I’ve been burned people, burned I say! But YOU may love it because it looks like my opinion is not the popular sentiment. Mia Dennett is a 25 year old art teacher and daughter of a judge. One evening, after her boyfriend stands her up she makes the decision to go home with a man named Colin whom she meets […]
The Title is Ironic and True at the Same Time
This is yet another book that has been touted as the next “Gone Girl” and/or “The Girl on the Train”. I can’t really wrap my brain around the comparison because it really is like neither of these in any way (from my perspective). Ani FaNelli is living a life quite different from the one she started from. Born to middle class parents and a mother who was always attempting to at least look as if she was upper class (even if it put the family […]
The bloody alt-history begun in “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” continues…
The best way to describe The Last American Vampire is “Forrest Gump with vampires”. Picking up where Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter ended, this new book changes focus to Henry Sturges and we see much more of his life before Abe came on the scene. The alternative history set up in the first book continues here. To briefly recap, vampires are real and have been shaping history for centuries. The American Civil War was fueled by vampires trying to secure a never ending source of food […]