Many mysteries are plot driven with slightly hollow characters that exist simply to fuel the drive. Others enjoy a well-defined detective or similar protagonist or maybe even a fully sketched setting that takes center stage forcing all other components of...

Guardian review Josh lacey reviews HALO by Zizou Corder The novel has flaws: the plot is episodic and too reliant on a string of unlikely coincidences; characters are introduced, then forgotten and discarded; the ending is rushed. But these irritations are swept aside by the  energy of the writing and some great set pieces, the best being a wonderfully vivid description of the oracle at Delph...

This Means War! by Ellen Wittlinger. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. April 2010. Reviewed from Advance Reviewer Copy from publisher. Middle grade. The Plot: Juliet, ten, has lost her best friend, Lowell. Why? Because Juliet is a girl. Six years of friendship mean nothing, now that Lowell is friends with Tommy and Mike. Boys do boy stuff, she is told, and girls do girl stuff. GO. AWAY...

Incarceron by Catherine Fisher. Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Books. 2010. Reviewed from ARC from ALA Midwinter. The Plot: Finn, seventeen, is a prisoner in Incarceron. A prison created generations ago, a prison that runs itself so needs no guards, a prison so large that no one knows all its secrets. Rumors and myths exist of one person, Sapphique, who escaped to Outside. Claudia is the daught...

” I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought to be deluded. ” [416] You know it’s a great book when you can’t seem to disclose even a snippet of the plot without it’s being a spoiler. Fingersmith is such

Peace, Locomotion by Jaqueline Woodson. Putnam, an imprint of Penguin Books. 2009. Brilliance Audio 2009. Reviewed from audiobook from Brilliance. Narrated by Dion Graham. Sequel to Locomotion. The Plot: Lonnie Collins Motion, "Locomotion," is in sixth grade. He lives with his foster mother, Miss Edna; is adjusting to life with a new teacher who informs him he cannot call himself an poet until he'...

Life Unexpected. CW. TV series. Monday nights. On TV now, I'm sure there will be DVD this summer. The Plot: Lux, 15, is a foster child who wants to emancipate herself so seeks out her birth parents. They turn out to be young thirtysomethings who haven't seen each other since high school: Baze, now a struggling bar owner, Cate, a radio personality. Instead of emancipating Lux, the judge awards cust...

New in the beloved Collector's Wodehouse series is Barmy in Wonderland. This classic plot of 1920s musical comedy, so familiar to Wodehouse from his own stage works, becomes the basis for a brilliant satire on theatrical life. The book concerns the character Cyril "Barmy" Fotheringay-Phipps, who had previously appeared in Wodehouse's Drones Club and Jeeves stories, and his adventures in ...

Official Dan Wells Website Order “I Am Not A Serial Killer” HERE (US) + HERE (UK) AUTHOR INFORMATION: Dan Wells has a Bachelor’s Degree in English from Brigham Young University where he was an editor at The Leading Edge Magazine. Dan currently runs www.timewastersguide.com. “I Am Not A Serial Killer” is his first novel. PLOT SUMMARY: John Wayne Cleaver wants to be a g...

The winner of a signed copy of Shade Fright by Sean Cummings from the interview and giveaway is - Moonsanity who said... Hey Sean! I love Sum41 who are Canadian; at least the lead singer is, and my teens and I love their music. On writing; do you just go for it and start typing out the words or do you figure out the plot, outline it and then write?Congratulations Moonsanity and thanks to everyone ...