Book Reveiws - Midnight's Book Club

Buried Treasure

Buried Treasure is a magical realism novel set in the fictional town of Vivo, a town which I think could resemble any reader’s hometown (apart from the “magical” elements, I suppose. I’m not sure how you feel about your hometown). Vivo is both very specific (it has quite a notorious phonebooth that is used for some very spicy activities, very strong coffee and a pigeon-messaging service) but also non-specific (dysfunctional municipality, anyone?). A sort of “everytown” which makes it an excellent setting for this unique story.

Grave Expectations

Almost-authentic medium Claire and her best friend, Sophie, agree to take on a seemingly simple job at a crumbling old manor in the English countryside: performing a seance for the family matriarch’s 80th birthday. The pair have been friends since before Sophie went missing when they were seventeen. Everyone else is convinced Sophie simply ran away, but Claire knows the truth. Claire knows Sophie was murdered because Sophie has been haunting her ever since.

My Favourite Mistake

Anna Walsh had a dream life – according to everybody else. She lived in New York, had a long-term boyfriend, and had The Best Job In The World working as a highly successful beauty PR. So why did she decide to take a flamethrower to the lot?

Piglet

A stylish, uncommonly clever novel about the things we want and the things we think we want, Piglet is both an examination of women’s sometimes complicated relationship with food and a celebration of the messes life sometimes makes for us.

The Inmate by Freida McFadden

There are three rules Brooke Sullivan must follow as a new nurse practitioner at a men’s maximum-security 1) Treat all prisoners with respect. 2) Never reveal any personal information. 3) Never EVER become too friendly with the inmates. But none of the staff at the prison knows Brooke has already broken the rules.

Demon Copperhead

Demon Copperhead by Karen Kingsolver is quite something. It is memorable, hopeful, heartbreaking and some more powerful adjectives that have been used by various reviewers to describe this novel.

Bunny

Samantha Heather Mackey is an outsider in her small. highly selective MFA programme at Warren University In fact, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort – a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other ‘Bunny’. But then the Bunnies issue her with an invitation and Samantha finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door, across the threshold, and down their rabbit hole.

If We Were Villains

Oliver Marks has just served ten years in jail – for a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he’s released, he’s greeted by the man who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened a decade ago.

Tom Lake

This is a story about Peter Duke who went on to be a famous actor.
This is a story about falling in love with Peter Duke who wasn’t famous at all.
It’s about falling so wildly in love with him – the way one will at twenty-four – that it felt like jumping off a roof at midnight.
There was no way to foresee the mess it would come to in the end.

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the smart, warm, and uplifting story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes. . . The only way to survive is to open your heart.