Xepherus Reads

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,    It's always fun to travel back in time and see past writings. It shows you how you have progressed as a writer. It also shows you what ideas were successful.    Let's check out an article from December 30, 2015 . Photograph by Xepherus Studios. All rights reserved.     There it is. That pile of unread books that still haunt your bookcases. They taunt you, saying that you will never read them. Are they true? Or will you change your ways, and give them their due audience?    In 2016 I planned to be a bit strict with my reading habits. Let's see how these plans work and maybe they can help you, as well. Take seven books that I began and never finished out of my bookcase. (This worked well, culminating in 50 books read. By choosing a small lot of books, I focused better. I added 3 DNF'd books at a time and 4 new reads.) Set my TBR next to my bed standing up between bookends on my nightstand. (...

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,       When I think of thrillers, I think of great writing, gut-punch twists, and dynamic settings. Did The Sanatorium meet those standards? Let's find out.      The Sanatorium is written by Sarah Pearse and is the first book in the now three-book series. It is published by Penguin Books and was a Reese Witherspoon pick.     In it, we are introduced to Elin Warner, a detective on leave after a traumatizing case almost killed her. She is on her way to the posh hotel, Le Sommet, in the Crans-Montana area of Switzerland. There, she will be reunited with her estranged brother, Isaac, to celebrate his engagement to their longtime friend, Laure.    But the hotel has a past that has been kept hidden from the public. It is a past that begins a new body count, as staff begin to turn up dead. And with a snowstorm, avalanche, and cunning killer on the loose, can Elin defy the odds to solve ...