Carole Barrowman is an English professor at Alverno College, Author od the Hollow Earth middle grade series, and book reviewer. She joins the show today to review some Magic and Mayhem she reading!
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
I’m not a huge romance novel reader, but this one, oh my, it seduced me. It’s a passionate, wonderfully crafted story that weaves history, romance, and magic. The main character, Ricki, is an artist, a bohemian, and a bit of an outcast in her family. She abandons the funeral business to open a flower shop in Harlem where her path crosses with a mysterious musician, who, among other secrets he holds, is immortal, the implications of which are riveting.
The Stars Turned Inside Out by Nova Jacobs
This highly intriguing and suspenseful novel starts out quite measured in its pace then as a mystery unfolds you’ll start to question and wonder and turn the pages even more quickly. Set in Switzerland at CERN, the particle accelerator research lab, a physicist is found dead inside the accelerator’s tunnel, his body scorched with radiation burns and no evidence of how he got there. Science geeks, philosophy nerds, and mystery lovers will adore this mind-bending novel.
The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes
The title of Terry Hayes’s The Year of the Locust suggests a novel of Biblical proportions. And it is. It’s a brilliant twisty epic espionage thriller filled with wrath and retribution, faith and forgiveness, sacrifice, love, and loss. It’s a mind-bending story of one man