Eden in Winter by Richard North Patterson

 

For three days, Adam Blaine and his family had entered the Dukes County Courthouse, a modest two-storey brick structure with white trim and doors, and passed through a double door to a spiral staircase that rose the courtroom itself.

In the aftermath of his father's apparent suicide, Adam Blaine has taken it upon himself to hide the truth - that the man who raised him was in fact his uncle and that his real father is the murderer who pushed his own brother off a cliff. As he struggles to protect those he cares about from the fallout, Adam also begins a relationship with his dead father's mistress. With the police and a journalist closing in on the truth, though, it seems that his dead father's reach may extend beyond the grave...

Ever since I read Balance of Power back in the early 2000s, Richard North Patterson has been a writer whose books I devour as quickly as I can. Though many of his earlier works were more straight-up legal and political thrillers, in the past few years he has been releasing a loose trilogy that depart from his status quo. Called the Martha's Vineyard Trilogy and starting with Fall from Grace back in 2012, these three books are more literary than what Patterson has written up until now. Following the fates of the Blaine family and those they have affected, Patterson has slowly developed a family saga with complex characters and a tangled web of lies and betrayals.

Eden in Winter is the final book in the trilogy and returns to "modern" day after the flashback to the 1960s presented in Loss of Innocence. We find the Blaines caught up in the immediate aftermath of the events of the first book as Adam's "uncle" - his real father - and brother are called to court in order to give their versions of what happened the night Benjamin Blaine ended up at the bottom of a cliff on Martha's Vineyard. As their testimony is given, we see how Adam has been manipulating events in the background, giving us a glimpse into just how good Adam is at what he does. As the story progresses, we follow Adam's struggles with his own life, and see as he tries to change it. A large part of that change involves Carla, his father's mistress, pregnant with his child. What begins as Adam wanting to make sure that his baby cousin has a better life than he does turns into much more as he and Carla draw closer.

Adam as a character develops in some interesting ways throughout the novel and we get a front seat to that as a large part of his storyline is taken up with his discussions with a psychiatrist friend. Forced to look into his relationships with his parents, his brother, his lovers and his job as a CIA contractor in Afghanistan, Adam comes to some major realisations about what he wants out of life and most of the impetus that keeps the pages turning revolves around seeing how and if he will be able to make different decisions than his father did.
Patterson's writing is crisp and at times lyrical. The skills gained writing more thrilling material in the past transfer well, making sure that what is at its heart a character piece delving in to the complex relationships of this - admittedly screwed-up - family is also a page-turner. Being so heavily invested in these characters from the previous novels also helps, obviously.

The one negative is that the final resolutions are a tad pat, especially when it comes to the relationship between Adam and Carla. Although the set-up is such that the ending seems in a way logical, it also demands a suspension of belief on the part of the reader that what should be such a totally dysfunctional and even slightly twisted relationship should work. Patterson lays the ground work, though, especially thanks to Adam's conversations with the psychiatrist throughout the early chapters.

A family saga full to the brim with deceit and lies, Eden in Winter delves deep into the characters of the Blaine family and manages to create a page-turning yarn that is hard to put down. With hints of the political and legal thrillers that Patterson is well known for dribbled throughout, the book is a nice resolution to a departure trilogy for the writer. As usual, a great read that cements Patterson for me as a must-buy whenever he brings out a new book. I gave Eden in Winter 4 bodies at the bottom of a cliff out of 5.

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Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Most Unique Books I've Read

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Top Ten Most Unique Books I've Read

 

 Perdido Street Station

An early example of the so-called “New Weird" current of fantasy, Perdido Street Station is unique both for its imagination and its creation of atmosphere. A steampunk novel before steampunk was popular, Perdido Street Station presents an industrial city filled with amazing races, characters and magic. If you want a single example of why this book is unique, consider the fact that one of the races who live in New Crobuzon is a race of sentient cactuses!

An Instance of the Fingerpost

Unique for its complex plot, but also for the intriguing way that Pears presents it. Told through four different points of view, An Instance of the Fingerpost unveils the same events again and again and again. As each character tells his story, we realise that what we thought we knew is not in fact the truth. It is not until the final tale is told that we realise who is actually behind the crime and why. A classic whodunit told in a totally unique way.

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel

Another fantasy inclusion on the list, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel does not have the most original plot, but where it stands out from the rest is in the clever use of footnotes. What should have been of secondary importance becomes vital to the novel, providing not only verisimilitude to the alternate history that Clarke has developed, but also giving key information to understanding the plot.

Dune

A sci-fi classic, Dune is unique for its combination of awe-inspiring SF vistas, amazing worlds but also the philosophical ideas that Herbert allowed to seep into his prose. While telling a great adventure story with everything one could hope for from an epic tale (intrigue, betrayal, sword-fights, space ships, drugs, giant worms!), Dune also has a hell of a lot to say about honour, family and fear.

The Dark Tower Series

Cheating a bit for this one, since this is a series and not an individual book. Still, this is one of the most unique on this list for so many reasons. A fantasy epic set in a quasi-Old West world, The Dark Tower combines so many elements that it is difficult to choose one. However, for me what makes this so unique is the fact that through this seminal series, King was able to bring together his entire oeuvre in one huge tapestry that includes a mind-warping journey to our own world where our heroes encounter... Stephen King, a writer who is imagining them all at the same time!

American Caesars

I have been engaged in a reading project since 2012 whose objective is to read a book about every single American President in the order in which they served. This project began with this unique book that traces the lives of the twelve last presidents and does so in the style of Suetonius' Twelve Caesars. What makes it so unique is the way the writer focuses on the different facets of these men - their public lives on one hand and their private lives on the other.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Not so much unique for its storyline or characters, Miss Peregrine's School's marked difference lies in the clever use of photography throughout (as you can see in the cover above). Not one to listen to as an audiobook, the charm comes from the photos that Ransom Riggs inserts into the novel, all of which harken back to the strange, unsettling early days of photography when it seemed that people could fly and ghosts hovered at the edges of view.

The Weird Sisters

The Weird Sisters has one of the most unique narrative voices I have ever come across. Told through the eyes of the three eponymous sisters, the novel is told in a plural third-person, as if all three sisters are telling the story at the same time, which from time to time moves into a singular third-person, as one of the sisters takes over. It seems confusing, but it is surprisingly easy to follow, aided by a great plot and fantastic characters.

The Reason I Jump

A non-fiction look into the life of an autistic child, The Reason I Jump is both unique and life-affirming. Unique because it is one of the few times that we get a first person look into what it is like for an autistic child day to day, life-affirming because of the strength, courage and empathy displayed by this amazing boy.

Life After Life

Although there are a couple of books that have done similar things before, Life After Life was the first book I read that dealt with the idea of living the same life multiple times. A fantastic story told in a unique way, as we cycle through Ursula Todd's lives again and again and again, as she attempts to "get it right" both for herself and those around her.

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Tower of Babel

 

"...So we can all see the benefits to such an alliance," intoned the burly Orion at the head of the meeting table, his gaze taking in each of his two guests in turn. "Working alone, the Vulcans were powerful enough to drive both of your organizations into retreat. Now they are part of a larger, even stronger Federation whose Starfleet patrols increasingly interfere with your efforts to stay in business. What better revenge," the green-skinned man went on in a polished baritone," than to form a partnership of your own to stand against them?"

In the aftermath of the Earth-Romulan War, the fledgling United Federation of Planets is taking its first steps into the wider galaxy. Growing pains soon set in, though, as relations between two factions with the government grow steadily more tense in the run-up to a presidential election that may decide the Federation's course for years to come. As Admiral Archer attempts to complete delicate negotiations with the Rigelians to bring them into the fold, an alliance of former enemies gather in the shadows to derail Starfleet's every attempts to keep the peace. Using deadly viruses, assassination attempts and kidnapping, they will stop at nothing to see the still fragile Federation fail...

Star Trek: Enterprise probably won't win many fan's plaudits for best Star Trek series ever, but the prequel series has some redeeming features that become more apparant in rewatch. Thankfully, these redeeming qualities have been brought to the fore in the series of books that have continued the story of Captain Archer, Commander T'Pol and the other characters of the first ever starship Enterprise beyond the controversial series finale. After laying the stage for the Earth-Romulan War in the first few books, the chosen authors have seen our characters through that conflict and beyond, bringing us what most fans were hoping for from the television series: the first years of the Federation.

Tower of Babel picks up where A Choice of Futures left off, with an alliance of Orions and other alien races seen in Enteprise trying to derail the Federation's first tentative steps. The Rise of the Federation has done a great job of advancing the characters of Enterprise in logical directions, so while the Enterprise itself has been turned into a museum, we find her crew spread across two main vessels: the Endeavour and the Pioneer. T'Pol has become a captain, as has Malcolm Reed, and it is interesting to see the two of them work together and apart. Bennett uses the situation in the Rigel system to ramp up the tension between the two captains, giving us a glimpse into how T'Pol has evolved, but also into the uncertainty Reed feels especially when working with both his former commanders.

An added complexity to the story comes from the presidentiel race that is heating up as Tower of Babel begins. Whether it was intentional or not (I would imagine that it was), Bennett was able to use this presidential campaign to reflect the beginnings of the United States, with a clear demarcation between those who wish to see the Federation expand and grow (called Federalists) and those who wish to protect the rights and priviliges of the individual planets (called Planetarists). Anyone who has any knowledge of the first few presidencies of the US knows that this was a key component in the discussions of the time, giving rise to the two-party system that continues today. These debates still go on in modern America, often portrayed now as the argument between "Big-government" Democrats and "States-rights" Republicans, so it will be interesting to see how Bennett or another author portrays this going forward. However it develops, as a huge fan of Political-Trek, I loved these glimpses into the early politics of the Federation.

Bennett never loses sight of what we all love about Star Trek, though, and we get some interesting glimpses into the Rigel system in this book, giving us a number of races I for one had not yet encountered much in my Star Trek novel reading. We also are given a number of space battles, trekno-babble and cool winks to the future of the Star Trek universe (I doubt many fans won't feel a shiver of pleasure when they realise who T'Rama is!)

Tower of Babel wraps up the storyline of the presidential race and the Rigelian talks, while leaving a number of storylines open, and ends on a pretty large cliffhanger which seems to nod back to a season 2 episode. Continuing in the line of the majority of recent Trek novels, this is great fun, combining a good story, characters we already love and the glimpses into the past of Trek that we hoped for from Enterprise. Bennett is a great writer and he pulls off another triumph here. I gave Tower of Babel 4 Saurian saunas out of 5.

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Top Ten Tuesday: Gateway Books

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The Magic Faraway Tree

Although this wasn’t the first book I ever read, it was my first introduction to fantasy. I had an omnibus edition of the entire series that my parents brought for me in a bookshop in Newcastle on a trip to see family and I devoured it. By the time I passed it over to my book-mad niece, it was extremely threadbare and had been read cover to cover any number of times. I can still remember the wonder and excitement of reading these books, the lands that appeared and disappeared at the top of the tree and the wonderful denizens of the tree itself.

Mattimeo

A very important book for me because it was the first book I brought for myself, at a School Book Fair. A thrilling story of brave mice, wise-cracking squirrels, disfigured foxes and warrior badgers, Mattimeo was my introduction to the Redwall series, which became a staple when I was a kid. Again, one of those books I have very clear memories of sitting and reading. One scene in particular, where the adult animals wake up under an overcast, drizzly sky to discover that the children have been kidnapped by the vengeful fox, returns to me every time I’m stuck at home on a rainy day.

 

 

The Lord of the Rings

 

A friend of the family had two copies of this on his bookshelf and he read it every year without fail. Although it took me quite a few years to actually get through it completely, I dipped in and out of it numerous times and was constantly amazed at the characters and world that Tolkien had created. A second step on my love for fantasy.

X-Wing: Rogue Squadron

The first Star Wars book I ever read, a classic example of just how much can be done in that universe. Great characters, exciting dogfights, a class-A villain – this propelled me into the wonderful world of Star Wars novels. Even now, 20 years on, I still pick up every single new Star Wars book that comes out and devour it!

Sarum

This was my first grown-up book, stolen from my dad’s bookshelf. A vast, sprawling family saga, it introduced me to concepts and vistas I had not expected or imagined up until then. It started a love for historical novels in me, as well as big doorstopper books that you have to bench-press to be able to carry around.

Terry Brooks

Impossible to choose just one book from Mr Brooks, but I can safely say that he propelled me into my love for epic fantasy in all its forms. My first book from him was actually First King of Shannara, which I now recognise is far from his best work, but the way he played around with tropes that up until then I had only seen in The Lord of the Rings grabbed at me and dragged me into the further worlds of Jordan, Eriksen, Sanderson and Martin.

The Count of Monte Cristo

Around the time I turned fifteen, I was reading a lot, but all pretty much the same stuff. A lot of epic fantasy, a lot of Star Wars and Star Trek, not a whole lot else. Then, on a family holiday, I got into a big argument with my mum and brother about expanding my reading horizons. Fine, I told them. I will find a book in the house where we are staying, I’ll read it and I’ll hate it. And then you can leave me alone! Little did I imagine that I would stumble upon Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo...

Fast forward a couple of days and we had to leave the house. And I had to leave the book behind. Unfinished. I spent two months tracking down an English-language copy (I lived in France and Amazon wasn’t what it is now) and devoured the book in a couple of days. I suddenly realised that I could find the same wonderful characters, exciting storylines and fabulous locations outside of fantasy.

This is, hands down, one of my favourite books.

An Instance of the Fingerpost

A classy, well-written puzzlebox of a novel, set in Oxford in the 17^th Century, An Instance of the Fingerpost unveiled the world of historical mysteries. A great read if you’re looking for an intelligent, well-researched and mind-twisting book that will keep you guessing right up until the end.

 

The Dresden Files

Around the time that epic fantasy started to become a bit of a drag, I came across a little book called Storm Front. A magician in modern day Chicago, vampires, fae, prophecies, a talking skull, all combined to reveal a new world to me, one that I hadn’t known about until then. This series was my first introduction to urban fantasy and I recommend it to anyone wondering whether to dip their toes in the modern day fantasy goodness!

The Way of Kings

After reading a lot of fantasy for a long time, I eventually got a little sick of epic fantasy. Nothing seemed to be exciting anymore, worlds like Jordan’s Wheel of Time were getting a bit stale. But The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson showed me how epic epic fantasy could actually be. New worlds, vast canvasses, huge stakes... This book reignited my love for all of that stuff!

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The 57 Lives of Alex Wayfare by MG Buehrlen

This is the way my story begins. Not with a bang but a whimper. Nothing more than a calm voice, a careful smile, and a pair of spectacles perched on the tip of a thin nose.

After a series of very precise visions that seem to take Alex Wayfare back into the past leaves her a social pariah in high school, she is sent by her parents to consult a psychiatrist. When her talks with that psychiatrist get back to a strange old man named Porter, though, Alex finds herself pulled into the world of Descenders and Transcenders, a world where reincarnation and access to Limbo allow her to travel back through her past lives. Soon realising that she is being pursued by a powerful man with the same abilities as her own, Alex must learn not only how to use her powers but also the truth about her own past lives...

Although I have read a number of YA books over the years, mainly the more popular and well known like The Hunger Games or more recently the fantastic Red Rising, I can't say that I am much of an expert on the form. So it is rare that this type of novel comes across my radar in a way that encourages me to pick up a book and read it. When I saw the blurb for The 57 Lives of... though, I was immediately hooked on the description of time travel through reincarnation and the possibilities offered by the concept of travel through past lives. And I am really glad that I was, because the story of Alex Wayfare is great!

After discovering that she is the latest reincarnation of a Transcender - able to travel back through her own past lives while remembering who she is - Alex Wayfare begins to work with her mentor, Porter, in order to thwart the evil machinations of Durham Gesh. So far so cliche, but where The 57 Lives of... excels is in the descriptions of the past as Alex travels back to Prohibition Chicago, the 1960s and the Wild West. Each version of Alex is very different and the way that Ms. Buerhlen allows some of these different incarnations to filter through to Alex both while she is inhabiting their bodies and once she is back in her "Base Life", was very clever indeed. It was nice to see Alex geek out in each different time period, and watch as she compares them either favorably or unfavorably to her Base Life.

Base Life is complex for Alex - she has a loving family, but the fact that her older sister is suffering from cancer puts a lot of tension into all of her relationships. Buerhlen does a great job of keeping all this realistic and gives us a nice glimpse into how the way she lives her life changes as she is able to apply her experiences to her 'mundane' problems. Her friendship with Jensen is an especially nice touch as she is forced to reevalute what she thinks about the 'popular' boy who may be a more interesting person than she expected.

Throughout, though, the keystone to Alex' voyages is her relationship with 'Blue', a boy who may be her actual soulmate. That is another soul who follows her through time, dying and being reincarnated along with her. Blue's appearances in each of the time periods she visits forms a central part of the mystery Alex is facing and the way that this is - partly - resolved works well.

Buerhlen also deals nicely with some of the trickier aspects of time travel - the dreaded paradox. Right from the first page, we know that the concept of alternate timelines is going to be dealt with, but the way this is resolved by the end was a nice twist to the idea from my point of view. Not hugely original, but enough so that I liked it.

Alex Wayfare's adventures end on a nice cliffhanger, with enough of the mysteries and relationships resolved while leaving the overall arc far from ended. Though not breaking any major new ground, this YA SF novel played around with some great ideas and takes the reader to some of my favourite time periods. I can't wait to see what else Buerhlen has in store and what other time periods we will be taken to (considering that according to Porter, Alex' previous lives stretch back to 5 centuries BC!). I gave The 57 Lives of Alex Wayfare 4 glowing soulmarks out of 5.

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Notes From the Internet Apocalypse by Wayne Gladstone

When the great crash happened it was nothing like we feared. There was no panic. No tears. Mostly just slammed fists and swearing. The Internet was down, and hitting refresh didn't work. "Ctrl, alt, delete" was also useless. No one had Internet. Anywhere.

In Notes From The Internet Apocalypse, the net has stopped working. As an entire generation of Twitterites, Facebook afficianados, Chatroulette zombies and redditers descend into the street to find some way of recreating the online experience in the real world, three unlikely heroes join together and set off on a quest to bring the wifi back...

Like anyone who has a blog or lives online, the thought of the Internet vanishing leaves me in a cold sweat! J A couple of days without connecting is difficult enough, but to have no more access whatsoever to all my favourite sites and the constant background noise of the Worldwide Web is a terrifying thought. One that Wayne Gladstone takes and runs with. When I saw the book on a rundown of sf and fantasy novels released this year, I was immediately taken in both by the clever cover and the great blurb. Unfortunately the book wasn’t as much of a touchdown than I had hoped.

And yet it started so well... As the book opens we are introduced to Gladstone the narrator who proceeds to tell us about this world a tiny jump, skip and hop away from our own, where overnight the internet has stopped working. In these early pages, the sheer inventiveness and clever humour that Mr Gladstone brings to creating his world carried me along. From Youtube zombies who force real cats to do trick after trick until they die, to twitter addicts who only speak in tweets, the bitingly dark humour works. While snorting at the outrageous extent people go to to recapture the online world offline, there is still a certain uneasiness as you wonder just how farfetched a lot of this really is.

Unfortunately, this inventiveness did not necessarily translate to either the plot or the characters. Gladstone, our narrator, takes a very long time to take on any kind of active role in what is happening, beyond stumbling around sex clubs looking for his friends. Those two friends are never clearly painted and it is difficult to tell exactly how real they are nor what their actual goals are in relation to Gladstone.

The book kept me going though, through the murky middle parts and towards what seemed to be building towards an interesting, even exciting end. This is where Mr Gladstone the writer lost me completely, though. Awash in a series of confusing events and cypher explanations, not at all helped by the detachment of the narrator who never quite connected emotionally (with me at least), I ended the book completely lost. I still have no idea what the ending was and what it was supposed to mean, nor how much of it was real and how much we are supposed to believe went on in Gladstone the narrator’s mind.

A fabulously inventine and ironic look at our world and just how we might react to the loss of what has become such an important part of our lives we can’t imagine living without it, Notes From the Internet Apocalypse failed to grab my attention in terms of character or plot and left me confused and irritated by the ending. I gave this 2.5 /b/tards out of 5.

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The Weight of Blood by Laura McHugh

That Cheri Stoddard was found at all was the thing that set people on edge, even more so than the condition of her body. One Saturday in March, fog crept through the river valley and froze overnight. The morning sun crackled over a ghostly landscape across the road from my uncle’s general store, the burr oaks that leaned out over the banks of the North Fork River crystallized with a thick crust of hoarfrost. The tree nearest the road was dead, half-hollow, and it leaned farther than the rest, balanced at a precarious angle above the water. A trio of vultures roosted in the branches, according to Buddy Snell, a photographer for the Ozark County Record. Buddy snapped pictures of the tree, the stark contrast of black birds on white branches, for lack of anything better to print on the front page of the paper. It was eerie, he said. Haunting, almost. He moved closer, kneeling at the water’s edge to get a more interesting angle, and that was when he spied the long brown braid drifting in the shallows, barely visible among the stones. Then he saw Cheri’s head, snagged on a piece of driftwood: her freckled face, abbreviated nose, eyes spaced too wide to be pretty. Stuffed into the hollow of the tree were the rest of Cheri’s pieces, her skin etched with burns and amateur tattoos. Her flesh was unmarked when she disappeared, and I wondered if those new scars could explain what had happened to her, if they formed a cryptic map of the time she’d spent missing.

Two disappearances, a generation apart, linked together by one girl – sixteen-year old Lucy Dane. One was her mother, believed by many to be a witch, who just up and vanished one day when Lucy was a little girl. The other is a young slow-minded girl named Cheri who Lucy has befriended. Determined to figure out what happened to both of them, Lucy begins to uncover mysteries and secrets in the community of Henbane, some which she is not prepared to face...

The Weight of Blood came across my radar through a number of fellow bloggers – it has been mentioned and reviewed a lot recently, for very good reason! Compared in the blurb to Gillian Flynn, it is a very well-crafted mystery, but more than that it is a sharp-eyed commentary on life, family and the secrets we all carry around. After seeing the cover – which is fantastically evocative – and hearing all the good everyone was saying about it, I shot it to the top of my TBR list.

A key idea dealt with in The Weight of Blood is delivered towards the end of the book as Lucy talks to Ray the lawyer:

“You’ve got to be sure you can trust whomever you’re telling, that it won’t come back on you.”

“How can I be sure?” I asked.

“He smirked. “You can’t be, in Henbane.”

As Lucy investigates the disappearance of Cheri – and by extension that of her mother so many years earlier – we the reader realise just how true that last is. You can never be sure about anybody in Henbane. Neither can Lucy, which creates a lot of the tension in the book. Unsure who she can trust and who is telling her the truth, she finds herself delving into family secrets that will change her life forever.

Through a clever use of first and third-person narration, as well as a number of viewpoint characters which expands as the story progresses, Laura McHugh manages to weave a complex story of betrayal, murder and secrets through two timeframes. Overall, she pulls this off with brio, giving us the story of these characters a generation apart, teasing us with the past while she sets things up in the present, before providing the answer to a number of questions in a tense and breathless final few chapters.

The stakes for both Lucy and her mother grow as the story progresses. For Lucy, especially, she is forced to reimagine the family history she had always believed in, especially when it comes to her father and her uncle. The two brothers’ relationship is central to the book and Ms. McHugh does a great job of portraying them at different points in their lives while shedding light on just how far some people are willing to go for those they love.

Though few of the people we meet are necessarily likeable, nor the truths pleasant, it is impossible not to become enthralled and caught up in the town of Henbane and the secrets hidden there. Though the resolution of both mysteries do not hold many surprises, the revelations are handled deftly. More of a sweeping portrait than a true thriller, it was a great read that kept me hooked through to the end. I gave it 4 Old Scratch Caverns out of 5.

 

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