A Way With Words...

When I'm reviewing a book, I always think back to something I read once…Sometimes you read for the story, sometimes you read for the characters and sometimes you read for the writing. The master wordsmiths manage to excel at all three. No easy feat. Writers have always had the ability to shift paradigms, define eras and impact a broader society with their craft. The art of writing has the unique power to outlive time and space, impacting readers across generations and geographies. Thanks to the masterminds putting ink to paper to tell some of the most powerful stories of the times, we are able to see the world with new eyes and find perspective and solace in our shared human experiences. It's those incomparable talents and their best works I have gathered for you here, all but one are still among the living and all have new works in the pipeline.

The Masters…

Stephen King

11/22/63

IT

Fairytale

Dennis Lehane

Mystic River

Darkness, Take My Hand

Shutter Island

S.A. Cosby

All The Sinner Bleed

My Darkest Prayer

King Of Ashes

Chris Whitaker

All The Colours Of The Dark

We Begin At The End

All The Wicked Girls

Liz Moore

Long Bright River

God Of The Woods

The Unseen World

Andrew Pyper

The Killing Circle

William

The Demonologist

R.F. Kuang

Babel

Yellowface

Katabasis

Marissa Meyer

Cinder (Lunar Chronicles)

Gilded

Renegades

Jean Hanff Korelitz

The Plot

The Latecomer

The Sequel

Blake Crouch

Dark Matter

Recursion

Run

Future Masters…

Aimee Gibbs - Carnival Of Curiousities

Gareth Brown - The Book Of Doors

Meg Shaffer - The Lost Story

Rob Hart - Assassins Anonymous

Bella Mackie - How To Kill Your Family

Holly Gramazo - The Husbands

Sam Lee - A Trail Of Blood On The Snow

Adam Plantinga - Hard Town

Fabian Nicizena - Suburban Dicks

Hidden Gems…

Chuck Tingle - Lucky Day

Kerryn Mayne - Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder

Sara Siglar - Vantage Point

Hallie Sutton - Hurricane Blonde

Antoine Lauren - French Windows

Ariel Lawhon - Frozen River

Joe Hill - Heart Shaped Box

Grady Hendrix - Final Girls Support Group

Tom Pollock - This Story Is A Lie