The Review Broads Bros + Paws

Summerland Author: Elin Hilderbrand Well, summer is almost over, but Elin Hilderbrand’s great summer read, Summerland, can be read in any season and enjoyed. On Nantucket Island, students are celebrating their graduation at the end of the year with a bonfire on the beach when tragedy strikes. Penny Alistair, the young teenage driver of a car that runs off the road, is dead, and her twin brother Hobby is in a coma. Penny’s boyfriend, Jake, and Penny’s friend, Demeter, were also in the car at ... continue reading...

This Bright River Author: Patrick Somerville Riveting. Incorrigible. Somerville attains the near impossible, a novel close to contemporary perfection. Words ooze onto the page, spill into his characters and devour us as readers. His people and their locales, the damage they render, the damage done to them, owns us. Rappelling, retreating, stumbling heroically upon their own realities and those of the other, Ben Hanson and Laurel Sheehan create a tenuous blend of what they were, what they ... continue reading...