by Donna | Jan 20, 2010 | Fiction
(This review first appeared in November 2006) Rating: The Darkest Child, by Delores Phillips. Soho Press (2004), 387 pages. This is a very well-written and disturbing (in a good way) novel that does not deserve its ugly cover. The boring stock photo of a...
by Donna | Aug 30, 2009 | Fiction
(This review first appeared in December 2002) Rating: The Rapture of Canaan, by Sheri Reynolds. Berkley Books (1995), 320 pages. Who doesn’t love a good story about a young girl growing up in a religious cult in the backwoods of the Southern U.S.? In this...