Bookwormex - Your First Stop for Book Reviews

“Circe” by Madeline Miller – The Bridge Between Gods and Mortals

March 22, 2019 Leave a Comment

Madeline Miller has certainly made the best literary use of her time researching Greece and its mythology, recently penning her second novel titled Circe, told from the perspective of the titular character from the Odyssey.

In her own tale, Zeus exiles her to a deserted island after feeling threatened by her power, a place where Circe meets many famous mythological figures and begins her journey onwards to not only defy the Olympians, but also to choose which side she belongs to: gods or mortals.

“Finding Katarina M.” by Elisabeth Elo – The Long Search for Family

March 20, 2019 Leave a Comment

Elisabeth Elo went an extra few miles when writing her latest novel, Finding Katarina M., and actually travelled to Siberia in order to recreate it as the master setting for a tale of family and intrigue from the deep past.

The story acquaints us with Natalie March, a successful surgeon in Washington , who sets out on a journey to Russia in order to reunite with her estranged grandmother, Katarina, thought to have died long ago.

Faster than she can blink, Natalie finds herself in the throes of dark family secrets and an international plot, one bound to change her life forever.

“The Piano Tuner” by Daniel Mason – Jungle for a Confused Soul

March 10, 2019 Leave a Comment

Daniel Mason surprised many when back in 2003 he published his first ever novel while still being a medical student, The Piano Tuner.

Transporting us back to 1886 when the British Empire still existed, the book tells the story of Edgar Drake, the titular tuner, as he receives a strange commission from the War Office: to service an eccentric army surgeon’s piano in Burma.

So begin Edgar Drake’s travels to a turbulent and secretive country on the verge of making history.

“Hashtag” by Eryk Pruitt – When Life Choices go Wrong

March 3, 2019 Leave a Comment

Eryk Pruitt has shown through both his novels and movies to have a commendable capacity for storytelling, especially when it comes to multi-layered and convoluted plots such as the ones found in his novel Hashtag.

In it, we follow a kidnapping case which happens to be far from what it seems, a lazy deputy who can’t seem to sweep it all under the rug, and a runaway college student in a stolen car and a gun.

“Necropolis” by Guy Portman – Opportunity for a Sociopath

February 28, 2019 Leave a Comment

Guy Portman has always distinguished his novels with his unique sense of humour, and in Necropolis he returns to his forte once again introducing us to Dyson Deveraux.

Intelligent, witty, recently appointed as head of the Burials and Cemeteries department, and a sociopath.

Just when his life seems like it might turn stale, an interesting opportunity for personal betterment comes along when he begins to suspect one of his co-workers of being a wanted Serbian criminal.