Find Me by Alafair Burke starts off with a bang. A woman is found after a major car accident, injured but alive and with zero identification. She has a rare and complete amnesia, called dissociative fugue, where she remembers nothing. Nothing about the accident and nothing about her entire life preceding the accident. The story picks up fifteen years later, where she has adopted the name of the town where she crashed (Hope, after Hopewell, New Jersey) and lives the li

I was halfway through Zoje Stage's Dear Hanna before I realized it was a sequel to the electifying Baby Teeth. Dear Hanna grabbed me by the first page and easily can be a stand alone novel. However, to realize I was reading about a grownup version of the disturbed seven-year-old girl from Baby Teeth made it all the more compelling. Hanna is now twenty and working as a phlebotomist. Although she's very good at finding veins with needles and making it painless, Hanna do

If you're hankering for a soapy, scandalous, easy read, All the Little Houses by May Cobb will fit the bill. Aligning with Cobb's general style, her newest novel puts bad behavior right up there in importance with plot and character. 1980's Smalltown Texas: picture big hair, Madonna gloves and and neon. The story features competing Queen Bees and social climbers, adults and teens alike. Told from alternating points of view, readers get the lenses from both the superr

Will Dean states in the acknowledgements at the end of his tense thriller Adrift that the characters he wrote in the novel were incredibly real to him and that he hopes he did them justice. He adds that from the very beginning he was fearful for Peggy and Samson, both of the narrators. This is part of what makes Will Dean masterful at his craft - his investment into his characters. It shows. Drew and Peggy live on a houseboat on a canal in middle America with their t