Year: 2015
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2 A.M. at the Cat’s Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino
2 A.M. at the Cat’s Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino is a great holiday book. The entire novel takes place on December 23rd (the eve of Christmas Eve) and focuses on three characters searching for love and life fulfillment in the wintry, snow-covered streets of Philadelphia. Madeleine The novel opens with…
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The Dinner by Herman Koch
This novel takes place entirely in one evening during a family dinner. Books written like this are usually pretty fast-paced and enjoyable for that reason. The Dinner is no exception, and I bet you’ll breeze through it like I did. The novel opens with narrator Paul Lohman arriving at a…
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Urban Gothic by Brian Keene
Brian Keene is an amazing horror novelist, especially if you like splatterpunk. Urban Gothic was pretty great, I finished it in two days. After leaving a hip-hop concert in Philadelphia, three teenage girls and their boyfriends drive through a derelict low-income neighborhood searching for drug dealers who’ll sell them a…
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Smoke by Catherine McKenzie
I became a big fan of Catherine McKenzie after reading Spin when it came out in 2012. She’s a great storyteller. In Smoke, after spending years putting out dangerous wildfires, Elizabeth is living a more low-key life as an arson investigator for Nelson County in the Rocky Mountains. One night,…
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Chosen by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
Chosen is book #3 in the House of Night vampyre series by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast. If you’re reading this review, you’ve probably already read books #1 and #2 and I don’t have to offer too much backstory! Chosen picks up shortly after the ending of Betrayed. It’s Christmas…
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Betrayed by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
Betrayed is book #2 in the House of Night series by P.C. Cast and her daughter Kristin. This is a great series so far, and I’m already excited to read the next one. Betrayed picks up just weeks later from the ending of Marked. By this point, vampyre fledgling Zoey…
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The Hard Way by Lee Child
It’s been a while since I read anything by Lee Child, and that’s because Tom Cruise ruined it for me. But I love Lee Child and Jack Reacher so much I couldn’t leave them forever. The Hard Way is the 10th book in the Jack Reacher series. It’s one of…
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Marked by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
Marked is the first novel in the House of Night series by P.C. Cast and her daughter, Kristin Cast. As a die-hard, lifelong fan of The Vampire Diaries by L.J. Smith (the original series), I’ve never really enjoyed other teen vampire series. But I found the first few books in…
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Pork by Cris Freddi
My copy of Pork, featured below, was released in 1983. The artwork is fun, I’m glad I was able to find a copy at my local used bookstore. I learned about Pork after looking up “humorous fantasy novels,” and I found this recommendation on a Goodreads list. This book features…