The BookFetish Blog

I’m really, really glad Cassandra Clare made the Mortal Instruments series longer than a trilogy. Somehow, the release of City of Lost Souls slipped by me and I completely missed it until I was at Barnes and Noble for a reading of Jenny Lawson’s Let’s Pretend This Didn’t Happen (the next review coming up on […]

I finished the Fifty Shades trilogy a week or so ago. Much like the first two books, I feel like this one was “meh” although more entertaining than the second book. The plot contrivance I wondered about at the end of book 2? Well, I still think it could have been left out, but it […]

In Divergent, Veronica Roth gave us a great heroine in Tris and set us up well for an adventurous saga. Insurgent picks up the story and fans of Veronica Roth will not be disappointed. Packed full of action, Insurgent brings a revolt against the Erudite and shows the cracks in the foundations of the Factions […]

Fifty Shades Darker, the second book in the “Fifty Shades” trilogy, could have been about fifty pages (maybe more) shorter. I get that it’s sort-of erotica that’s trying to still have a story line. But really, it’s OK to go more than three pages (or what felt like only three pages) without yet another tryst. Seriously. […]

Steven C. Eisner’s debut novel, The Mine Fields, is a story about ambition, loss, dreams, and finding happiness, told against the backdrop of the advertising industry. Our hero, Sam Spiegel, grew up the son of an ad man. Entrepreneurial from a young age, Sam takes on the challenge of changing his father’s small agency into […]