“. . . [Custer] even with the lush, evocative, and plentiful period pictures is a difficult read because it lacks a foundational and historical logic.”
Readers who devoured Erica Bauermeister’s The School of Essential Ingredients will be happy to rediscover some familiar characters in The Lost Art of Mixing.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Aliens with big heads and huge eyes are roaming the New Mexico desert and have abducted people to snatch their babies.
It’s not easy to write the second book in a series. The author doesn’t want to bore the readers with a re-hash of the characters’ lives. Yet the new reader must be made aware of the backstory.
