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(3.5 stars) A year ago, single mom Braedyn and her best friend Nova went hiking in Starlight Grove. During the hike, Nova disappeared. From that day on, Braedyn never gave up hope of finding her, even going as far as to adopt Yeti, a dog trained in se ...more
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Kiss the Villain (Villain, #1)
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Kissing the Sky
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Raised a sheltered and stifled Southern belle throughout the 50s and 60s, by a Southern Baptist retired colonel (who loves war and the church, hates the Beatles, forbids dancing, rock and roll, and premarital sex), and his silent obedient housewife, Raised a sheltered and stifled Southern belle throughout the 50s and 60s, by a Southern Baptist retired colonel (who loves war and the church, hates the Beatles, forbids dancing, rock and roll, and premarital sex), and his silent obedient housewife, 20-year old aspiring songstress Suzannah (inspired by the heartbreak of having her peaceful, guitar-toting, older brother forced to enlist in the unpopular Vietnam War) rebels against her family for the first time ever, by leaving home and heading across country with her vainly beautiful hippie best frenemy Livy to Woodstock. (Suzannah and Livy have a Needy and Jennifer from Jennifer’s Body type-relationship. If you know, you know!) There, over the course of four days, she will have a coming-of-age experience that will change her life, and the way she views the world, forever.

Told across two timelines (and using the League of Her Own-esque framing device of periodically fast-forwarding to 50 years in the future, where a now 70-year-old Suzannah is detailing her Woodstock experiences to her granddaughter, during a Woodstock 50th Anniversary celebration event), Kissing the Sky is a fictional day-to-day account of one woman’s Woodstock adventure.

On a positive note, I found this historical fiction novel to be impeccably well researched. This idea was confirmed by the author’s extensive Afterword, detailing the sheer amount of interviews she conducted with people who attended the event, and footage she viewed from when it took place to write this novel. I learned so much from reading Kissing the Sky, not only about the remarkable array of truly famous musical talent that performed during Woodstock, but also what it must have felt like to attend. Everything was painstakingly detailed here, from the massive crowds blocking the roads and abandoning their cars to travel to the event on foot, to the consistent rains that covered both the farm grounds where the event was held, and the attendees themselves, in layers of mud.

I learned about how there wasn’t nearly enough food at the event, and how people had to rely on the kindness of local donations and share with their neighbors to keep themselves fed. I read about how there weren’t any showers, not enough bathrooms, and certainly no laundry machines, so most of the attendees washed themselves and their mud-caked clothing in a nearby lake and relieved themselves behind trees and bushes. I learned about a lot of nudity and public sexual activities amongst the attendees. I got to hear some of the announcements in between musical numbers (which mostly had to do with warning patrons against the various bad types of acid that were making their way across the populace, and stopping particularly high guests from repeatedly climbing the scaffolds that surrounded the farm). I saw how, in a world that predated electronic devices of any kind, guests were forced to re-connect with one another in the massive crowds, using a public intercom system and an honest-to-goodness Message Tree.

Kissing the Sky also grappled with the growing anti-war sentiment that was fueling the country (particularly in regards to US occupation in Vietnam), and how many of the Woodstock attendees were seeking out creative ways to dodge the draft, some by escaping to Canada, others by joining the clergy.
Many of the descriptive passages throughout Kissing the Sky were beautiful and lovingly described, in a way that made me truly feel as though I was attending this historical multi-day concert. I also appreciated the twist in the final act of the story that forced me to revisit the way I had initially viewed certain characters. I also found the unofficial epilogue of the tale, which detailed the lives these individuals went on to live to be fairly satisfying overall.

On the more negative side of the spectrum, I found Suzannah to be a truly bad hang for most of the novel. This was not a fun brain to stay inside, especially while experiencing such a monumental event. Suzannah was frustratingly immature for a 20-year old, reacting to many of her Woodstock experiences more like a giggling child who saw someone naked for the first time, or an uptight school girl used to ratting on her classmates for misbehaving, than an adult working part time and attending college, who had already experienced loss and heartbreak.

Suzannah was self-righteous, incredibly judgmental of everyone she encountered (even toward her own granddaughter, in the flash-forward portions of the story), self-pitying, petulant, uncomfortably anxious and awkward, and unflatteringly jealous throughout most of the story. She looked down on others for any number of faults, including: having premarital sex, doing drugs, wearing promiscuous clothing, having tattoos, having piercings, climbing on scaffolding, and (gasp) flirting with multiple boys. Her immense pride over smoking pot for the first time, showing a boob during a bath, and getting what appeared to be her first kiss from a boy, to be kind of embarrassing.

While I did like Suzannah’s love interest as a character, I didn’t entirely buy that these two individuals would fall head over heels in love over the course of one extended muddy musical weekend. For one thing, as I mentioned, Suzannah was pretty insufferable. For another, I just didn’t think she was mature enough to have a true romance. She needed to learn to love herself first. (Hard as that might have been to do, given her bad personality.)

Furthermore, I didn’t entirely buy that Suzannah and Livvy would remain friends, post-high school. The two had nothing in common, apart from a shared love of music. They also both seemed to be openly annoyed by, and resentful of, one another during every scene they shared together. I think most readers had a friendship like this in grade school or high school. However, most of us knew well enough to let it go, by the time we turned 18 or shortly thereafter.

Apart from some characterization issues, I also found the pacing of the novel to lag a bit in the midsection. Understandably, Suzannah spends most of the book just waiting around for the next artist to play, or for the rain to stop. But because readers can’t hear the music of Woodstock, these moments didn’t make for engaging reading experiences. I also found that the narrative stopped at a dead halt, every time the timeline switched to senior citizen Suzannah, who had even less to do than her younger counterpart, apart from seemingly walking around and looking at old photographs.

Those gripes aside, I’m ultimately glad I gave Kissing the Sky a try. If nothing else, it gave me a ton of insight into the historic events of the late 1960s. It has also inspired me to really beef up my Spotify playlist with some timeless classics from that era. ...more

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Across the Vanishing Sky by Catherine Cowles

Across the Vanishing Sky (Starlight Grove, #1)
by Catherine Cowles (Goodreads Author)

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A year ago, single mom Braedyn and her best friend Nova went hiking in Starlight Grove. During the hike, Nova disappeared. From that day on, Braedyn never gave up hope of finding her, even going as far as to adopt Yeti, a dog trained in se (3.5 stars)

A year ago, single mom Braedyn and her best friend Nova went hiking in Starlight Grove. During the hike, Nova disappeared. From that day on, Braedyn never gave up hope of finding her, even going as far as to adopt Yeti, a dog trained in search and recovery. Now, Braedyn has taken that search one step further, by moving to the town where Nova was lost, along with Yeti, and her son Owen.

Dex, one of five brothers, still bears the scars of a childhood raised by a secret serial killer. He coped with the trauma by getting into white hat hacking, briefly working with the FBI to solve major crimes in the city. Now he’s returned to Starlight Grove, where he and his brothers work together to solve missing person’s cases anonymously.

Dex and Braedyn end up residing in cabins next door to one another, and their connection is instantaneous. Not only do they both have the same Phoenix tattoo, their families’ both have an obsession with Bigfoot, and their traumas bear a similar shape. Can Dex and Braedyn work together to heal one another’s inner wounds, while also unlocking the truth about what really happened to Nova?

Across the Vanishing Sky is the first novel in Catherine Cowles’ new Starlight Grove small-town romantic suspense series . . . and boy did it feel like it! So much page time is spent introducing each of Dex’s four brothers, and setting up their respective future love stories, that Dex and Braedyn almost felt like supporting characters in their own story.

In terms of the overarching mystery of Nova’s disappearance, not a whole lot happens for the bulk of the novel, apart from the placement of a few fake outs and red herrings. When the climax finally arrives around the novel’s 90 percent mark, it feels pretty rushed and not entirely fleshed out. I suspect more information will come in that regard in the second novel in the series. But for a standalone story, I was left feeling unsatisfied from a suspense standpoint.

As for the romance, I liked Braedyn as a heroine. She’s tough and independent, but also an optimist, with a good sense of humor. She never wallows in self-pity, nor feels too sorry for herself. Braedyn is scrappy. She always fights back when cornered. She almost never needs rescuing in the way heroines in this genre often do. I also thought the introduction to the search and rescue dog added a really cool layer to this novel. I could tell Cowles did some serious research to bring this part of the tale to life.

Dex wasn’t quite as fleshed out as Braedyn, during the novel. I would have liked to know more about his childhood, his illegal hacking days, and his time spent in the FBI. I honestly felt like I got to know Dex better as a character, during his cameo moments in Cowles’ prior series than in this one. That said, I understood what drew him and Braedyn together. I appreciated how they both learned to lean on eac hother, and break down their internal walls for one another.

On the downside, I found Braedyn’s and Dex’s banter to be a bit unnatural. I also felt as though their intense internal monologues about one another came a bit too soon in their getting to know each other. However, once the romance took off in earnest, the spice and mutual care-taking scenes were quite well written.

I must say though, I hated that kid! Braedyn’s son Owen was really annoying, with his constant spouting of Gen Alpha catch phrases. I rolled my eyes every time he appeared on the page. More Yeti, less Owen, in the future please! Fortunately, Skyler (the other child in this book, who will likely take on a larger role in the next novel in this series), I quite liked. This just proves that I don’t automatically hate all children in romance novels!

Overall, while Across the Vanishing Sky was far from my favorite Catherine Cowles book, I found its teases of future stories to be engaging enough that I will continue reading this series. ...more

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You Have Arrived at Your Destination by Amor Towles

You Have Arrived at Your Destination (Forward Collection, #4)
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Thanks to some recent advances in genetic engineering and fertility technology, Sam is about to choose a designer embryo. In doing so, he will not only be able to select his future child’s sex, height, hair, and eye color, but also his or her likely Thanks to some recent advances in genetic engineering and fertility technology, Sam is about to choose a designer embryo. In doing so, he will not only be able to select his future child’s sex, height, hair, and eye color, but also his or her likely personality traits and talents.

When Sam arrives at the prestigious fertility site, he is presented with the an approximation of three potential versions of his child and their respective likely futures, based on embryos that his wife purportedly previously chose as her favorite options.

But what will these prospective progenies’ potential outcomes reveal about Sam himself, and his own life choices? Will he ultimately like what he sees staring back at him?

Having genuinely adored Summer Frost (the first short story I read in the Forward Series), I was eager to give another installment a try. The concept of You Have Arrived at Your Destination appealed to me right away. After all, the movie Gattaca is a long-time favorite of mine. I also really enjoyed reading the novel Baby X last year, which dealt with a similar subject matter.

I thought this story got off to a great start. The obvious metaphoric connection between self-driving cars and predetermined destiny in a human lifespan was a clever one. I found the “science” behind the company’s ability to genetically engineer humans to be plausible enough to keep me invested the story. (The notion of statistical probability of traits, based on a combination of nature and nurture, rang true to me.)

Unlike with Summer Frost, I experienced You Have Arrived at Your Destination in audiobook form. I was surprised to learn it was narrated by Stranger Things’ own David Harbour! I thought he did a great job of bringing the somewhat grumpy and cynical character of Sam to life. He also performed a very believable drunken slurring of words, when the narrative required him to do so.

I found the characters of the prospective sons of Sam to be interesting to experience. I liked seeing the various ways two sets of genes could come together with very different results, despite presumably being raised in nearly identical environments. (Though to be honest, I did find myself a bit baffled by a couple of Sam’s wife’s choices. It kind of made me wonder what the other embryos were like that she DIDN’T choose.)

Unfortunately, much like arguably all of Sam’s future kids, despite having a strong start and holding a lot of promise, You Have Arrived at Your Destination was, ultimately, a bit of a let down for me. The story’s conclusion to me felt, at best, unfinished, and, at worst, a bit of a copout, putting a trite moral bow on a story that suggested itself to be more complex and nuanced.

So many times, during this short story, the author hinted at more to come. There were times when Sam was presented as an unreliable narrator, occasionally losing time, seeing things and people that weren’t there, lashing out in ways that didn’t seem to fit with the mild -mannered character with which we are initially presented. The story hinted at possible nefarious ulterior motives behind the company that was offering up the embryos and its smarmy emissary. These too ultimately went nowhere. Sam gets lots of unanswered phone calls that are never addressed. His wife, though periodically mentioned throughout the tale, remains strangely absent from the story, in ways that I found suspicious.

In short, I kept waiting for a Big Twist that just never came . . .

Perhaps, all this misdirection was intentional, and author really just wanted to distract the reader a bit, before forcing her to grapple with what was essentially a rather straightforward tale. I get that. I do! But this reader was just hoping for a bit more flesh on this particular bone. ...more

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Summer Frost (Forward Collection, #2)
by Blake Crouch (Goodreads Author)

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In an indeterminate time in the not-so-distant future, Riley works as the VP of the NPC division of a successful gaming company. This means that she is responsible for designing and perfecting the scripts and actions of non-playable characters within In an indeterminate time in the not-so-distant future, Riley works as the VP of the NPC division of a successful gaming company. This means that she is responsible for designing and perfecting the scripts and actions of non-playable characters within the gaming world.

Recently, one such NPC, Max, has seemingly developed some agency, and gone rogue, during some recent playtests. The female character was intended to be brutally murdered in the game’s prologue, thus setting off the events that kick off the rest of the game.

Instead, Max has seemingly murdered her would-be killer, stolen a car, and taken off toward the ends of the game map, presumably in search of a way out. By entering Max’s virtual world via her avatar, Riley is able to lead Max to an area outside of the confines of the game. There, she can study Max, while also developing the AI further as an intellectual entity, capable of choice and independent learning.

As Max becomes more intelligent and seemingly human, the AI gradually comes to consume every aspect of Riley’s personal and professional life. But how human can Max ever really become? And what are the consequences of providing the AI with the freedom to become smarter than its creators, and potentially morph into something they cannot control?

Summer Frost (so named after the virtual estate where the Max NPC was intended to meet her tragic end) is a submission from Amazon’s Forward series, a collection of short stories by established authors in the genres of science fiction, speculative fiction, and techno thriller. Blake Couch, who wrote this story, is, perhaps, best known for his bestseller, Dark Matter and the Wayward Pines series of novels, both of which eventually went on to become television series.

I would argue that short stories are harder to write than full length novels, or even novellas, because they have absolutely no wiggle room. To write a successful short story, an author must master an immense economy of words. There can be no spare description, nor meandering musings, nor inclusion of cutesy subplots. Every single word in a good short story, from the opening quote to the final sentence, must be carefully selected in service of the development of the tale’s characters, the story’s overarching message, and its overall plot design.

I found Summer Frost to be an immensely successful short story. Every single sentence hinted to the reader exactly where it was going to end up, and yet I still found myself riveted from start to finish, surprised by its ending, and thinking about it for hours, after I completed the brisk 85-page tale. In Summer Frost, Crouch has some very timely things to say about, not just the moral, sociological, and safety implications of introducing AI into our lives, and teaching it to surpass us in all intellectual pursuits, but also about what makes someone human, and the dangers of anthropomorphizing artificial intelligence to our future health, well-being, and continued existence.

In sum, I highly recommend Summer Frost to anyone looking for a short, timely, and thought-provoking read. I am very eager to try out the other tales in this Forward series, to see if I can find another winner! ...more

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