In this dense and creative thriller, the worldwide apocalyptic event is actually a fungal infection that covers its victims in black and gold markings and causes them to spontaneously combust. That’s a new one, right? The public calls it Dragonscale, “the ‘Scale” for short. Adding the destructive power of fire to an already dystopian environment considerably ups the tension quotient! Our heroine is Harper, a married nurse, who spends the early part of the novel caring for the infected and trying to hold her marriage […]
Magic all around.
4, 224 pages. 3 years, 3 months. And we’re done. If you’ve read my last Harry Potter review, you know that I’ve been reading the series aloud to my daughter. I decided when she was born to wait to read them until she was 8, and then we’d read them together. We started them the summer after she turned 8. We finished last night. She’s 11. Today was her first day of middle school. It would be absolutely impossible to write a review that would […]
They found me in a beach chair quickly turning the pages ;)
Vacation book #3, and the most beach-vacationy of the lot. Molly is a married mother of a young daughter and a new writer for the local paper in a suburban university town. When a baby’s body is discovered on the fringes of the university’s property, Molly is assigned to the story when her more seasoned colleagues are unavailable. A loss in Molly’s recent past makes this assignment especially difficult, but her quest for the truth yields a lot of secrets about those in her town. […]
All in the golden afternoon….wait…this ALSO seems familiar!
Vacation read #2, and the one I was most looking forward to. Liane Moriarty never disappoints. She creates such relatable, flawed, and lovely characters. Breezy young parents Sam and Clementine and their Type A friends Erika and Oliver are invited to a barbeque at the home of May/December couple Tiffany and Vid. For some reason this barbeque has gone horribly wrong, and we spend the book sussing out the details of the incident. In finding out why the incident has been so destructive to these families, […]