Trilogy (5 books in series)

How the Dead Dream (2000)
language
English
author
4.14 of 5 Votes: 5
review 1: I went back and forth between thinking "do I like this? I think I like this. Nah I don't think I do. Oh maybe I do, I don't know." Some review on the cover compared the author to Kurt Vonnegut which excited me but I was pretty let down. I really like the basic idea of this story,...
Lumières fantômes (2013)
language
English
author
3.33 of 5 Votes: 4
review 1: I'm a bit perplexed. The writing was so crisply fantastic that I kept waiting for something to happen, trusting the author completely. I was quite drawn in by the use of such acute details to outline a bigger story, but closed the last page in a bit of disbelief that all of it,...
The Broken Road: Travels from Bulgaria to Mount Athos (2013)
language
English
4.31 of 5 Votes: 5
review 1: The third book describing his youthful journey across pre-war Europe. Fermor actually began this volume before the others but never completed it. The text is assembled from a manuscript and a surviving diary by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper. While the writing occasionally la...
Magnificence: A Novel (2013)
language
English
author
3.37 of 5 Votes: 4
review 1: The relationships in this book were equal to ones in real life.I felt they could be my neighbors or friends. I did like the mystery of what she discovers towards the end of the book.It leaves me feeling better for the animals(yes even though they are taxidermied).What a find!She...
Ghost Lights: A Novel (2012)
language
English
author
3.33 of 5 Votes: 3
review 1: The second book in Lydia Millet's trilogy was better. In this, Hal goes to the jungle to rescue his wife's boss - T. from the first book of the trilogy. Hal is a well-written character. He is a boring, predictable, middle-class, bureaucratic IRS worker who suddenly decides to go ...