Category: Book Reviews

American Gods

American Gods Author: Neil Gaiman What happens to gods when the world forgets about them? This is an epic novel about a man named Shadow getting released from prison and having his world turned upside down on him. You slowly learn more about Shadow’s life as the novel goes...

Lullaby

Lullaby Author: Chuck Palahniuk A middle-aged newspaper reporter is doing a series of stories on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome when he comes across the realization that a certain poem book is found at all the scenes. Do one of the poems have the power to kill? After not-so-unintentionally killing...

The Tale of the Body Thief

Tale of the Body Thief Author: Anne Rice The fourth in the Vampire Chronicles. This time it focuses on Lestat and his wish to be mortal again, even if it is for just a short period of time. He finds a mortal to switch bodies with for two days...

Neverwhere

Neverwhere Author: Neil Gaiman Richard Mayhew’s life is turned upside down after he finds a bleeding girl on the street. He is dragged from his normal, everyday life in the London Above to the world he didnt know existed in the London Below filled with rat talkers, angels, demons...

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Author: J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the gang start their third year at Hogwart’s School of Wizardry. Sirius Black has been a prisoner of Azkaban for twelve years, but he has recently escaped along with rumors that he is headed for Hogwarts...

Mystic River

Mystic River Author: Dennis Lehane Three boys’ friendship changed after an incident one day. Twenty-five years later, one of them is a detective, one is an ex-con who runs a local corner store, and the other is just trying to keep his marriage and life together. A horrible event...

The Horned Man

The Horned Man Author: James Lasdun After a series of instances that make the main character think he is having lapses in memory, he starts to wonder if someone isn’t messing with him instead. Then murders start happening and he isn’t completely convinced that he didn’t commit them. I...

Hotel World

Hotel World Author: Ali Smith Five women’s lives become interconnected in a hotel somewhere in England. One of the women just happens to be a ghost of a woman who died in the hotel’s dumb waiter. It is written in a stream-of-consciousness style that takes some getting used to,...

Choke

Choke Author: Chuck Palahniuk Medical school dropout, Victor Mancini, has to come up with a way to pay for his mother’s elder care. He pretends to choke on pieces of food in upscale restaurants. When someone saves him, they feel responsible for his life and end up sending him...

House of Leaves

House of Leaves Author: Mark Z. Danielewski It’s a story of a tattoo-artist that finds a manuscript from a blind old man, who just died, talking about a non-existent documentary about a house that is bigger on the inside than on the outside. It is a freaky story, with...