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T. M. Logan writes some very cool thrillers… They tend to be family-based, and involve impossible decisions and choices. The situations that these otherwise average people find themselves thrown into are just plausible enough to suck you right into the drama and make you wonder what you would do if you found yourself in a similar circumstance. The result is a heady mixture of entertainment, engagement, and surprisingly deep thinking about morality and choices and what we are willing to do to protect those around us, and it makes for a great read! (If you’re curious, I reviewed Lies on GoodReads.) Continue reading Book Review: 29 Seconds by T.M. Logan
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But I’m getting ahead of myself. Before we can talk about the end and whether it satisfied or not we have to talk about the entirety of what came before it and that was, for the most part, brilliant. This is self-described as a genre-buster, and it is certainly that. The blurb is (deliberately) vague about what is to come. As I started reading I quickly realized why – the off-kilter, what’s real, WTF nature of the story is a vast part of what makes it so fascinating. Had there been a genre or more descriptive blurb provided, much of that uncertainty would have been subsumed by presumptions and assumptions – and that would have wrecked the pure exhilarating joy of reading something that could have, almost literally, gone in any direction at any point… It was fascinating to see where my imagination too me – as much so as to see where Phillips actually took Molly. Continue reading Book Review: The Need by Helen Phillips
This was yet another example of his devilishly clever mind playing with the concepts of good and evil, memory and secrets. He bats them about like a cat toying with a mouse, demonstrating a single-minded intent to disrupt the reader’s preconceptions every step of the way. He couples that with an innocent “who, me?!” face as he teases out cosmic truths and self-realizations, all the while whisking his characters from side to side along seemingly random but ingeniously devised paths until you’re left with a battered, dizzy, reeling sense that nothing will ever look quite the same… It’s an incredibly intricate, involved, brilliant manner of storytelling that I find remarkably compelling and highly entertaining. Continue reading Book Review: The Dead Girl in 2A by Carter Wilson |
  
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