Here it is: the book that started it all. We open with a first person prologue from the point of view of a murderer gloating over his or her victim: Anna. I have a feeling a lot of these books are going to open this way. In the Shadyside High cafeteria, we meet Corey Brooks, a young douchebag on the gymnastics team who, despite being touted as the star gymnast, proves to be more clumsy than the average realistically flawed YA heroine. He glimpses the […]
Of Swifts and Gin (A Robert CBR6 Review)
Christopher Beale is a teacher without a school, pulled back to England after years of teaching English in a strict Muslim town in Borneo. His father has landed in a nursing home after a stroke, but Christopher still needs work. He takes on a private teaching job at the home of Lawrence and Juliet Lundy. Lawrence no longer goes to school and his mother Juliet wants a teacher to live with the family as a mentor, educator, and friend. Stephen Gregory has crafted a fine […]