Identity theft has been the top consumer complaint to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for the past twelve years in a row. According to the FTC, identity theft, which happens when someone steals your personal information and uses it without your permission, is a serious crime that can wreak havoc with your finances, credit history, [...]
Imagine if the living could see and experience the energy left behind by departed human beings. Similar to television shows like Ghost Whisperer and movies like The Sixth Sense, Kim Harrington’s latest book, The Dead and Buried explores this notion of spectral visitations. Five-year-old Colby can both see and communicate with the ghost of Kayla Sloane, whose [...]
It was, I’m sure, pure coincidence that the two books I recently read had main characters named Jane whose death seemed all but inevitable. Loosely connected by the thread of “Janes in constant danger”, Helen Keeble’s campy, funny debut Fang Girl and Graham McNamee’s spooky Beyond took me from the dark nights in a British suburb to [...]
“You know what?” Minnie said with a dramatic pause. “This is how horror movies start.” (58) And so it is in Gretchen McNeil’s Ten. A seemingly innocent weekend house party on exclusive Henry Island turns deadly in less than 100 pages where best friends since middle school, high school seniors Meg and Minnie, are two [...]
The voices in Ry Burke’s head have been quiet for nearly nine years following the trauma he suffered in the Black Glade forest which grows beside his family’s farm. During this time, he and his family has been able to return to a resemblance of normalcy, escaping Marvin Burke, the abusive father Ry helped to [...]
17 year old Jack’s summer job, as a “nanny” for an 8 and 12 year old brother and sister, seems like it would be a cake walk. He’ll be making really good money and all he has to do is hang out with a couple of kids for a couple months. The major downside is [...]
Acclaimed British novelist Catherine Fisher (Incarceron - The Times’ Children’s Book of the Year) is back this Fall with a new subtly woven, spooky Faust-inspired, fantasy, Darkwater. In the early twentieth century in a windswept British village on the sea, 16 year old Sarah Trevelyan would give anything to regain the power, prestige, and wealth her [...]
Libba Bray‘s latest series, The Diviners, combines popular culture favorites from Roaring Twenties of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire series to Showtime’s Dexter’s most recent season of a serial killer’s elaborate staged murders set to bring about the End of Days. Throw in her trademark historical fiction and a dash of romance, and Bray’s new series is [...]
What would you sacrifice for power? For love? Would you give of yourself – your blood, your energy, your soul – for someone else if you loved them enough? To harness the power of the land, a sacrifice is required. A drop of blood onto the earth brings abundance and growth. A drop of blood [...]
Calling to mind the sometimes surreal, often dreamlike, and always visceral way that Francesca Lia Block infuses the City of Los Angeles with a pulsating life of its own in her many young adult novels, M. Beth Bloom‘s debut, Drain You, creates a city simmering under the summertime sun, blown dry by the desert winds, [...]
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