A very engaging novel, maybe less of a mystery than a broader thriller--while there is a murder mystery and it is solved, the road there takes many turns and detours. Delicious phrases fall out of Osman's writing like prizes from a kid's cereal box, and he has a feel for all the characters in the novel. The story is just a bit over-the-top, and the characters kinda tend that way, too, sometimes, though they do manage to remain recognizable as people. If I were looking for another writer of series fiction to read, reading Osman wouldn't be any kind of hardship.
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Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie
This is labeled as an epistolary novel, but that's not entirely right. There are entries that could not possibly have been written, fr...
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I read this book like thirty years ago (ack!) when I was in college, and I remembered liking it, and when my wife picked it as a classic-i...
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The cover text calls this something like "one of the most important novels" blah blah blah. It's not a novel, it's a disc...
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Not a novel, which ... well ... some of the events described in the book would stretch credulity in fiction. It's a book about the lie...
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