Audiobook Review Pandora by Susan Stokes-Chapman Out now from Harper Audio This one took a little while to find its feet, but once the plot started to take shape, I was all in. Georgian London is the setting for this historical gem, and the best word I can find to describe the vibe of the story is “atmospheric.” As a long-time fan of Greek mythology, I did enjoy this take on the story of Pandora’s box, and our heroine, Dora, is an orphan, a jewelry designer, and a spitfire of a woman who can hold her own even under the restrictive culture of the time. This tale is told through…
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Locust Lane by Stephen Amidon Out now from Celadon Books I don’t read a lot of thrillers, but this one grabbed me from the first page. There is the mysterious death of a young woman, a crew of secretive teenagers and their parents who are harboring secrets of their own. Throughout the book, Amidon expertly pulls at the threads of the mystery which binds all of these people together. The story is told through multiple points of view, but interestingly only those of the adults. I usually have a tough time when there are a lot of characters in a book, but I followed these plot lines quite easily. Locust…
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Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell by Tobias MaddenOut now from Page Street Kids Anything But Fine, Madden’s 2022 debut novel, immediately put him on my radar of authors I would be following closely. I was so enchanted by that book that I was ready to devour anything else he wrote. A year later, he has given us Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell, a story about a teenaged gaymer who gets caught up in a teeny-tiny lie and ends up mopping up the aftermath when it backfires on him. Now, I normally cringe when I read a book that involves a Big Lie and its inevitable consequences. I mean, really cringe.…
