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38. Midnight in Your Arms by Morgan Kelly
Published in 2012 by Avon Impulse. “Her dreams would take her there, and she would run through its sunlit, eerie halls as free as a little deer in the wood. It was the first time she understood that...
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39. Daughters of Empire by Lakshmi Persaud
Published in 2012 by Peepal Tree Press. Amira Vidhur, an educated, upper-class Indo-Trinidadian, migrates with her husband and three daughters to Mill Hill, London, in the 1970s. Life in this charming...
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40. Island Pursuits by Heather Rodney-Diaz
Published in 2012 by Crimson Romance. Chance encounters have an often-mystifying way of turning one’s life around. This is the case for Second Lieutenant Adrian Mendez and Cory Phillips, who meet under...
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41. The Blue Place by Nicola Griffith
Published in 1999 by William Morrow. I made a pretty terrible joke with myself when I began drafting notes for this review. I said “Hmm. Aud Torvingen is like an Atalanta from Atlanta!” Were you to...
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42. Light Falling on Bamboo by Lawrence Scott
Published by in 2012 by Tindal Street Press. “Don’t forget where you’ve come from. Don’t forget the ideas of freedom that have carried us this far,” Michel Jean Cazabon’s mother urges her favourite son...
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44. The Shining by Stephen King
First published in 1977. This edition: 2012, Anchor Books) Cradled in the majestic, foreboding arms of the Colorado Rockies, the Overlook Hotel seems like nothing so much as a salvation/sanctuary, a...
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45. Never Mind by Edward St. Aubyn (Patrick Melrose # 1)
Published in 1992. This edition: Picador, 2012. I feel compelled to share with you that my hands are shaking, a little, as I write this down. Reading books like these pry at the elusive answer to the...
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46. Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente
Published in 2011 by Tor Books. There are various iterations of his accursed name, but in Slavic folklore, Koschei the Deathless augurs ill, particularly for the beautiful, chaste maidens he lures into...
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47. The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord
Published by Del Rey in 2013. Would you care for a bit of inter-species, mixed faction romantic mingling, housed in a travelogue-formatted space odyssey? That’s at least some of what Barbadian writer...
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48. House of Ashes by Monique Roffey
Twenty four years have elapsed since the July 1990 attempted coup by the Jamaat al Muslimeen. Those who recollect the events of those six days in Trinidad and Tobago’s history do so with collective...
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