The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield is a gem of a story. While it took me a little while to get into it, I found that by the end, I was completely pulled in. Margaret Lea lives a rather small life. She spends most of her time working at her father’s antiquarian book shop where she arranges dusty books and deals with the occasional customer or helps a lost tourist. The vast majority of money for the family comes in through her father’s work as […]
Competitive Non-Fiction attempts to read some New Adult Fiction
Trigger Warning: these books include descriptions of violence, incest, coerced sexual situations, rape and public perception of rape. If such discussions are upsetting to you, please avoid this review, and absolutely avoid the novels. I’ve tried to write the reviews for each of these book separately, but it seems borderline impossible. The problem is that they are essentially a variation on the same plot, so I just going to lump them into one. I decided to try a few New Adult books after reading Fangirl […]
The Demonologist
I wanted to be scared. Or at the very least creeped out. It should be noted that I am a wimp. It doesn’t take much to terrify me, and any kind of story about the occult is usually enough to give me nightmares and make me afraid of the basement. Did I mention I’m 30? Obviously, this is embarrassing but its crucial to understanding that given the way the book is billed, I should have at least been a bit freaked out, but the Demonologist […]
The Husband’s Secret
I just do not know how to feel about the Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty. The premise is that Cecilia Fitzpatrick finds a letter from her husband, one she was never supposed to read and, of course, she reads it. And, of course, she wishes she didn’t. Cecelia represents the high-functioning over-achieving archetype of a mother. She’s the one who strikes fear in the hearts of all the women who purchase baked goods for the bake sale. That is, if we are assuming (and these kinds […]