Unlawful Flight Review
James Boatner knows his subject areas: the U.S. Navy, aviation, sailing. And he knows his geography. His story takes the reader from New Orleans to Colombia, with side trips to Florida, Texas, Mississippi, Chicago, San Diego, Washington, DC, the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, Asia. All Boatner’s characters are flawed to one degree or another, but in each he plants some spark of humanity so that...
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Just finished Karon Luddy’s Spelldown. Thirteen year old Karlene is strong, brave and very smart. Life is not really her oyster. More like her hairball, some days. But she perseveres. Buy this book for the avid readers on your gift list. Karlene will win their hearts....
Read MoreSouthern Heat Review
This is a story of Charleston only a lowcountry writer could tell. He knows the city’s dark secrets and he exposes them one by one: the hopelessness of life in the inner city, the heartlessness in the city’s response, the rot at the core of the aristocracy, the way money holds the city’s machine in thrall. But he doesn’t leave us in the mire. He creates bright, shining characters in a newspaper...
Read MoreOn the Wild Coast Review
This novel is full of fascinating characters. They are unpredictable, sometimes irksome, but always alive. Lee’s compassionate treatment of even the most broken is redemptive. The story is fresh and original because of the characters and because the heroine’s search for the truth about her family parallels the quest of her birth country for its own identity. Lee’s prose brightens the story like...
Read MoreLowcountry Boneyard Review
Boyer’s descriptions of Charleston and the island of Stella Maris – the architecture, the river and the sea, the monuments of by-gone eras – are nearly as mouthwatering as her descriptions of the food to be had in the dining rooms of local restaurants and in her characters’ kitchens. The same rich descriptions bring to life her characters: the wicked blue-bloods, the delightful guardian spirit...
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