Fiction

The Evening and the Morning is the fourth book in Ken Follett's Kingsbridge cycle; this time set in the year 997, the twilight of the Dark Ages around 100 years before the events of The Pillars of the Earth. All of the trademarks of Follett previous historical epics are here love and betrayal, greed and ambition, and a cast of divergent characters that find themselves thrust together in the burgeoning village of Kingsbridge.

The emotionally-charged, wild ride of Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark was one I did not want to end. Clark pulled me into the life of Maryse and her band of monster hunters, and held me hostage. With beautiful language, deep, meaningful characters, and a fully immersive world, the story of vengeance and self forgiveness unfolds. By the end, I was in tears. Ring Shout is the perfect book to take on not just a dark, violent history, but an uncertain, terrifying future as well.

If we have ever talked books you know that the one genre I don't play with is Mystery & Suspense. I am way too nervous for that. I'll take your creepy vampires (I'll take the sparkly ones too) and all the other creatures of the night found in the Horror section, but I can't handle the murderers that lurk in Mystery. But when one of my favorite Romance writers decides to take on the genre I simply cannot resist.