ROUGH TRADE Todd Robinson August 8, 2016 Polis Books Todd Robinson has an odd way about him. When you begin a “Boo and Junior Gig,” the world doesn’t seem quite real. Certain dialogue is unlikely. Certain characters could never exist in our world. Yet, it works. By...
PLEASE KILL ME Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain Grove Press 1996/20th Anniversary Edition 8/6/2016 I remember the exact first time I saw this book. It was 1996 and I had cut school and gone to Harvard Square. This filthy gutter punk girl was sitting outside the T...
AMONG THE WICKED Linda Castillo Minotaur Books July 12th, 2016 AMONG THE WICKED by Linda Castillo is the latest in a series of books with a unique premise. It is no wonder this has made the New York Times Bestseller list with glimpses into the Amish life,...
Don’t tell my hardboiled friends, but I think I’m getting soft in my old age. No, really. It’s true. Because when I was reading HOW TO KILL FRIENDS AND IMPLICATE PEOPLE, the new crime novel by Jay Stringer, I was more invested in the budding romance between Sam...
INVASIVE Chuck Wendig Harper Voyager August 16, 2016 What will spell the world’s doom? Will the future be evolution? Or ruination? Chuck Wendig's INVASIVE is set in the same world that he had previously established in ZER0ES. A world that has been shaken to its...
When I was in second grade, I had a teacher who used history class to teach us about Wisconsin. We spent the school year learning cool stuff about our state. We were lucky enough to have lots of field trips to all sorts of historical places and important Wisconsin...
