Kent's Book Blog

Let's cut to the chase, I loved this book. This is not one of those big, sprawling Stephen King tomes with loads of gore and an epic ...

Lauren Beukes is an excellent writer and a very good teller of tales. She writes smart, believable dialog and characters that ring true. ...

I'll bet that Wes Chu's life motto isn't YOLO ("You Only Live Once"). In The Lives of Tao , the title character is ...

Ramez Naam astounded me with  Nexus . In this novel Naam has not only extrapolated a very believable, very frightening, future world, he ...

I am a big Joe Hill fan. His previous novels, Horns and Heart-Shaped Box , proved that Joe is a masterful writer who creates not just g...

I know that there are people who would not love Brian Doyle's novel Mink River . Some might find too much detail in the cataloging of...

For a story to succeed the writer has to grab the reader, either by empathy or interest, and lead them through the twists and turns of th...