Book Reviews
The Street Lawyer by John Grisham
Reviewed by B. Ullsvik, November 2021
Michael Brock is a lawyer for the firm Drake and Sweeney, a huge law firm in D.C. Michael is on his way to becoming a top-notch lawyer, there is even talk of him becoming a partner. But one day, a homeless man walked into the building and held eight men hostage. He gave a speech about the homeless, and how these...
Read moreWhen the Wind Blows by James Patterson
Reviewed by B. Ullsvik, November 2021
Frannie O’Neill is a veterinarian working in Colorado. Many years ago, her husband mysteriously died, haunting her to this day. Out of the blue, another murder happens, under the radar of the local people. This leads to FBI agent Kit Harrington on her doorstep. They stay out of each other’s way, even though...
Read moreAll the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
Reviewed by B. Ullsvik, November 2021
To start the book off, we learn that one missing girl case rocked the town of Cooley Ridge. 10 years later, it happened again. Nic hasn’t been home since the first missing girl case, and there’s a reason she hasn’t returned to her hometown. She doesn’t want the old wounds and scars to open up...
Read moreObasan by Joy Kogawa
Reviewed by A. Klink, September 2021
Naomi Nakane has just learned about her uncle’s death. She travels home to check on her grandmother; the woman who practically raised her. While at her aunt’s cottage she finds memories in the attic, which cause her to reminisce about the full life she had lived with Obasan: the life as a Japanese Canadian during...
Read moreThe Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Reviewed by A. Klink, September 2021
This thriller is a work of nonfiction which transports the reader to the World's Fair in Chicago, 1893. Larson throws the reader between two storylines: architect Daniel Burnham, and serial killer HH Holmes. Burnham is frantically attempting to manage the fair’s construction amidst worker strikes and budget...
Read moreTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Reviewed by A. Klink, September 2021
The novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, written by Zora Neale Hurston is a work about the African American population in the early 20th century. The book follows Janie around southern Florida as she moves from husband to husband. Searching for true love and escaping commanding husbands, Janie searches for one...
Read moreMagnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan
Reviewed by S. Cox, Sept. 2021
“A Muslim and an aetheist walk into a pagan afterlife…” -Samirah “Sam” al-Abbas, Valkyrie
Magnus Chase is 16 years old. He’s homeless and likes falafel. He’s got two friends who are also homeless, Blitz and Hearth, who is deaf. Magnus also happens to have a very rich uncle who gives him an ancient sword...
Read moreTheir Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Reviewed by R. Yelk, October 2021
Their Eyes Were Watching God is the story of Janie Crawford, whose life is a quest to find true love. Janie narrates the story of her three marriages and her search for love to her friend, Phoeby. When Janie is young, her grandmother sets her up with a man named Logan Killicks, who becomes Janie's first...
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Reviewed by S. Cox, September 2021
Sixteen year old Thomas wakes up in a dark underground elevator with no memory of his life before that moment, and arrives at what the other boys there call ‘the Glade’. No one remembers how they got there, why they’re there, or who they used to be. They just know that once every month the lift doors open and a new...
Read moreH2O by Virginia Bergin
Reviewed by S. Cox, June 2021
What do you do when all of the water in the world is contaminated, when a single drop of the contaminated water will kill you?
That’s what 15 year old Ruby Morris finds herself wondering in the time following a certain day in Britain; the day that the rain came down, and with it, death. Even as the government...
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