Lowe’s sense of purpose and moral compass may remind readers of Ward Just and Marilynne Robinson a book that just might be great. A woman who calls herself Josephine is sent in to interrogate him, and when she starts to ask him about his estranged daughter Claire, a truly weird sort of Scheherazade relationship is born: Marc and Josephine tell each other stories, and while they initially have different purposes in their telling, the stories themselves take over and take on such power that reality fades.
Marc Laurent is an American who has been taken captive in Pakistan. If we’re going to play genre favorites, let’s go back to the source.Īll That’s Left to Tell by Daniel Lowe also received a decent number of reviews, but deserves even more, as it’s a real tale for our times. Is the relatively quite reception for this standalone due to Carey’s usual genre? If so, that’s deeply unfair Miranda and Caliban has history, magic, fantasy-and all of those come directly from Shakespeare. Carey, whose Kushiel’s Legacy historical fantasy novels are her best known, should gain a new audience with this compelling, visceral version of one of the Bard’s greatest dramas. Miranda and Caliban by Jacqueline Carey is a powerful retelling of Shakespeare’s Tempest, with this version’s Caliban a feral boy deeply in love with Miranda and in fear of her father Prospero.
But wait, there’s more! In case you missed them, here are five more great novels worthy of addition to any avid reader’s TBR pile.
February saw some heavyhitters in the world of fiction: Lincoln in the Bardo, anyone? How about Katie Kitamura’s A Separation? A Book of American Martyrs by Joyce Carol Oates, Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman, Pachinko by Min Jin Lee.
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