At least it’s not April Fool’s Day.
(Actually, I came closer than I thought, since I nearly grabbed the file for last week’s column in error!)
Writers, Readers, Books:
Larry McMurtry and Beverly Cleary passed away last week. Both leave huge legacies.
Silvia Moreno Garcia and Lavie Tidhar share some Indian SFF novelists you might not know.
The Master of the Revels is the sequel to The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O, a book I did not know existed.
March 31st, 2021. Marion Deeds | World Wide Wednesday | no comments |
A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen
A Beginning at the End (2020) is set in a near-future world where, in 2019, a deadly worldwide pandemic kills some five billion people, including seventy percent of the U.S. population. Johanna Moira Hatfield, a teenage pop music star known as Mojo, tired of being browbeaten by her stage father, Evan, uses the sudden panic at her Madison Square Garden concert to disappear into the crowd in search of a new life.
Six years later, in San Francisco in 2025,
March 31st, 2021. Tadiana Jones´s rating: 3 | Mike Chen | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Do it! One of the best things I've read in recent years.
This reminds me. I want to read Addie LaRue.
We’re in total agreement David!
I felt just the same. The prose and character work was excellent. The larger story was unsatisfying, especially compared to…
Hmmm. I think I'll pass.