Provo, UTArchive for 'Fiction' Category
Life and Death at Hoover Dam by Jerry Borrowman
Title: Life and Death at Hoover Dam Author: Jerry Borrowman Publisher: Black Canyon Press Genre: Historical Fiction/Novel Year published: 2010 Number of Pages: 239 Binding: Softcover ISBN10: ISBN13: 978-0-98438-360-3 Price: $16.95 Reviewed by Gary McCary for the Association for Mormon Letters (Editor’s note: although there is no LDS content to this book, the author is [...]
Her Side Of It by Marilyn Bushman-Carlton
Title: Her Side Of It Author: Marilyn Bushman-Carlton Publisher: Signature Books Genre: Poetry Year Published: 2010 Number of Pages: 130 Binding: Paperback ISBN10: n/a ISBN13: 978-1-56085-208-7 Price: $16.95 Reviewed by Richard Packham for the Association for Mormon Letters Reviewing a collection of poetry is quite different from reviewing a novel or a non-fiction work. It [...]
My Gift to You By Lori Nawyn
My Gift to You By Lori Nawyn Trish Ingram works hard to maintain the perfect suburban household—or, at least, the appearance of one. By managing her outer world with lavish attention and rigid control, she’s able to ignore and conceal the darkness of her inner world, which is plagued by traumatic childhood memories of loss. Her terminally ill [...]
Cross My Heart By Julie Wright
The first man is Geoffrey—in Boston, which is Jillian’s hometown. Hazel-eyed Geoffrey, the brilliant ad exec who Jillian would’ve married if he hadn’t stolen some of her best work (and gotten her promotion as a result). The second man is Jack in Los Angeles. Insecure Jack, who signs Jillian up for a love study at [...]
No Place to Hide by Kristoffer Neff
Title: No Place to Hide Author: Kristoffer Neff Publisher: Granite Publishing and Distribution Genre: Fiction Year Published: 2010 Number of Pages: 238 Binding: Trade paperback ISBN10: n/a ISBN13: 978-1-59936-061-4 Price: $16.95 Reviewed by Jeffrey Needle for the Association for Mormon Letters Young Alex and Simon are brothers, same mother but different fathers. When their mother [...]
A Sense of Order and Other Stories by Jack Harrell
Title: A Sense of Order and Other Stories Author: Jack Harrell Publisher: Signature Books Genre: Fiction – short stories Year Published: 2010 Number of Pages: 220 Binding: Hardback ISBN10: 1-56085-209-4 ISBN13: 978-1-56085-209-4 Price: $26.95 Reviewed by Steve Eccles for the Association for Mormon Letters “A Sense of Order and Other Stories” was written by Jack [...]
City Limits: Book 3 in the Rhea Jensen Series by Sheralyn Pratt
Title: City Limits – Book 3 in the Rhea Jensen Series Author: Sheralyn Pratt Publisher: Bonneville Books, Inc. Genre: Fiction Year Published: 2010 Number of Pages: 213 Binding: Trade paperback ISBN10: n/a ISBN13: 978-1-59955-423-5 Price: $14.99 Reviewed by Jeffrey Needle for the Association for Mormon Letters (Conflict of interest alert: Pratt was my rep at [...]
The Mark by M.R. Bunderson
Title: The Mark Author: M.R. Bunderson Publisher: Cedar Fort, Inc. Genre: Speculative fiction Year Published: 2010 Number of Pages: 280 Binding: Trade paperback ISBN10: n/a ISBN13: 978-1-59955-351-1 Price: $17.99 Reviewed by Jeffrey Needle for the Association for Mormon Letters This book is something of a mystery to me. I had a hard time figuring it [...]
Defensive Tactics by Steve Westover
Title: Defensive Tactics Author: Steve Westover Publisher: Bonneville Books (an imprint of CFI) Genre: Fiction Year Published: 2010 Number of Pages: 248 Binding: Trade Paperback ISBN10: n/a ISBN13: 978-1-59955-445-7 Price: $16.99 Reviewed by Jeffrey Needle for the Association for Mormon Letters Meet Paul Stephens, agent for the FBI and loyal Latter-day Saint. Emily Mathews is [...]
Saintly Death by Jan A. Sainsbury
Title: Saintly Death Author: Jan A. Sainsbury Publisher: Book World, Inc. Genre: Fiction Year Published: 1997 Number of Pages: 261 Binding: Trade Paperback ISBN10: 1-881542-34-3 ISBN13: n/a Price: $10.95 Reviewed by Jeffrey Needle for the Association for Mormon Letters No trip to Salt Lake City is complete without a tour of Sam Weller’s bargain basement. [...]