Kirkus Star
THE KIRKUS STAR
Awarded to Books of Exceptional Merit

BROWSE BOOK REVIEWS




Top 25 August Fiction (page 4)


Showing

Cover art for THE SURVIVOR
FICTION
Released: Aug. 21, 2012

"A fine thriller that succeeds on every level. How often do you read about a hero who just wants to die in peace?"
Hurwitz demonstrates his mastery of the thriller genre. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING SEVEN
FICTION
Released: Aug. 21, 2012

"Another charming demonstration that it's better to travel hopefully than to arrive--a motto that might stand for every soap opera ever written."
85 more snapshots of the tenants of 44 Scotland Street and their friends and lovers. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE BARTENDER'S TALE
FICTION
Released: Aug. 21, 2012

"Possibly the best novel yet by one of America's premier storytellers."
His father's past both unsettles and entices Rusty Harry in Doig's latest loving portrait of Montana and its crusty inhabitants (Work Song, 2010, etc.). Read full book review >
Cover art for HOSTAGE
FICTION
Released: Aug. 24, 2012
by Elie Wiesel, translated by Catherine Temerson

"Nobel Peace Prize winner Wiesel continues to remind us of the brilliant possibilities of the philosophical and political novel. "
Wiesel takes us on a journey through dream, memory and especially storytelling in his latest novel, which concerns Shaltiel Feigenberg, who in 1975, is captured and imprisoned for 80 hours in a basement by two captors. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE BEAUTIFUL MYSTERY
FICTION
Released: Aug. 28, 2012

"Elliptical and often oracular, but also remarkably penetrating and humane. The most illuminating analogies are not to other contemporary detective fiction but to The Name of the Rose and Murder in the Cathedral."
A prior's murder takes Quebec's Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his sidekick, Inspector Jean-Guy Beauvoir, inside the walls of the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loupes. Read full book review >
Cover art for CLOSE ENOUGH TO TOUCH
FICTION
Released: Aug. 28, 2012

"Rising romance star Dahl delivers with this sizzling contemporary romance. (Warning: Steamy situations and straightforward sexual descriptions are well-done and integral to the plot, but some scenes are pretty graphic for a mainstream romance.) "
Hot, contemporary "opposites attract" romance hits the emotional high notes as two struggling people find themselves and each other. Read full book review >