Engaging coming-of-age story, with great scenes of older Brooklyn and Queens, but the central romance falls flat.
I wanted to read Ordeal of Innocence, by Agatha Christie, because the premise was both intriguing and ridiculous. First, the…
The realistic travel scenes blended with the creeping horror of isolation makes The Beach compelling, although the intensely early-twenties-ness of the…
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, by Cho Nam-Joo, is a novel written as the psych case notes for a patient. The…
Social Creature, by Tara Isabella Burton, is a dramatic thriller about an intense, twisted friendship and about how far someone…