James is Percival Everett’s retelling of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, told from the perspective of Jim, the runaway slave that travels with Huck down the Mississippi in the novel. Released last month (March 19) to resoundingly positive reviews, Everett’s newest offering re-centers the novel on Jim’s experience. In doing so, it highlights …
Part I Part II Part I Chapter 1 Recovering from the fight with the venin and the discovery that her brother Brennan is alive, Violet Sorrengail has a bite to eat with her brother, who officially goes by Lieutenant Colonel Aisereigh now. Afterwards, Violet walks through Riorson House, the stone fortress they’re currently in, to …
So I just finished Iron Flame by Rebecca Yaros today. With the release date and title for the next book in the Empyrean series set, I thought I should go ahead and cross it off my reading list, plus my sister was reading it this week too. Iron Flame is a hefty tome of a …
Chapters 1 – 3, Present Day Brooke Sullivan, a nurse practitioner, shows up for her first day of work at Raker Maximum Security Penitentiary, men’s maximum-security prison. This job was her last choice, but it was the only place she got called back for an interview. She meets with Dorothy Kuntz, a nurse at the …
With The Inmate by Freida McFadden, I’m continuing my recent streak of working my way through some of her very quick thrillers. I’ve been wanting to get my mind off of things, and I thought this might do the trick. In The Inmate, Brooke Sullivan has taken a job at a men’s maximum security prison …
