Genre Fiction

“Mr. Jurjevics draws the reader into the narrative, as if he is experiencing the mission alongside Rider as he huffs through the jungle in wet boots, bugs feasting on his flesh. . . .

“The Mere Future reads like a modernized Candide by Voltaire crossed with Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

“. . . brilliant and gritty and urban . . . the most brutal coming of age story imaginable.”

The Kid is by far the most disturbing novel I have ever read.

“Toward the end of the novel there is a gutsy shift in narrative tone that lends the ending a sense of closure.

“But, oh, there is fun to be had in The Goddess of Vengeance. Fun aplenty. . . . No one will ever accuse Jackie Collins of writing literature. . . .

“In Last Man in Tower, it is immediately apparent that author Adiga’s writing has matured.

“Whatever Willa Cather was, ‘brilliant writer’ would head the list for most admirers of the literary novel. . . .

“. . . a plot-driven novel conveyed in crisp, descriptive, and thought-provoking prose via an engagingly intelligent third-person narrator. . . . an auspicious debut.”

“Floating Staircase deserves to stand alongside a Stephen King or a Dean Koontz—at their best. . . .

“That such a young author writes so well in his debut novel seems miraculous.

If a typical plot structure is and then, and then, and then, Jennifer Close’s plot in Girls in White Dresses might be described as and again, and again, and again, and again.

“. . . a riveting, deeply affecting story that tackles the very essence of man’s struggle to understand his world and himself. . . .