Furious Violet (2026) is Sarai Walker’s third novel, and it’s very different from Dietland (2015) and The Cherry Robbers (2022), but excellent in its own way. I’d probably consider it a literary horror/ thriller, featuring a nearly-fifty year old main character, Violet “West” Shelley. West is a true crime writer, traveling on her own acrossContinue reading “Furious Violet”
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We Burned So Bright
We Burned So Bright (publication day April 28, 2026) by T.J. Klune is a short standalone dystopian fantasy that also happens to be uplifting, despite being set at the end of the world because a black hole is coming to swallow the earth. As the book opens, 72-year old Rodney and 78-year old Don, aContinue reading “We Burned So Bright”
Go As A River
Go As A River (2023) by Shelley Read was a book group selection I probably wouldn’t have chosen myself. I did quite enjoy it, though, despite some unnecessary anti-fat bias in at least one character description. Victoria Nash is a 17-year old living on a Colorado peach farm in 1948, tending house for her father,Continue reading “Go As A River”
