An intense, character driven look into female relationships. The four women in question are all formed by their relationships growing up, all of them, sans one, having overbearing or absent mothers. Each woman is seeking an intimate relationship with the others. This is not a feel good novel but one of joys tempered and rocked by betrayals, often superficial love for each other.
A spectacularly eerie tale of pure, good witches and evil vengeful spirits hell bent on destroying the good witches of a small Texas town. A young woman magically bound to never return, does return when her mother disappears. From there, the forces of good vs evil begin a dangerous clash of wills.
Family ties, broken ones and stable ones, play prominent roles in a story of broken communication, familial stress, and the journey to repair. Included in the text are words of wisdom from the deceased beloved grandmother, words that direct the course of possible but not certain reconciliation.
Futuristic novel meets Gothic novel in a mind bending story. The past is gone with few people to remember it. One person who remembers is Dre Archer, hired as governess for Albie whose very existence is part of the tale. It is a novel that requires one to think, to ponder, and to create reasons and backstory. Truly bizarre novel that is chillingly descriptive of what if.
The Riddle Maker 5
Bruce Burgos
Another incredible murder mystery by Bruce Burgos. Bodies located after riddles of the locations are solved. An FBI agent, certain her young kidnapped brother is one of the deceased. The races to solve the mysteries are one for the books.
A terrific novel. Relationships grow and develop in a small North Carolina town. The granddaughter that returns to help her grandmother learns that when life and fate meet, fate is often the winner. Complications, secrets, and love flow together to create a fabulous story.
A story, achingly told, of April, a woman who for twenty years was gaslit and mentally abused by her husband. In breaking free. She begins life anew in a small Maine town. She falls in love but her anguished and hurt self refuses to accept an alternative reality to what she accepted and incorporated into her broken self.
