Part Oryx and Crake (bending to The Road) part A High Wind in Jamaica. This is a book about a group of children ostensibly having a summer away in mansions by the coast (upper middle class it turns out), having summer fun and summer camp (well, camp counselor) with drugs and alcohol and sex games. There’s one much younger boy, who is protected from all this, who tags along with everyone. We slowly realize that the absence of the parents and the strange way the […]

Another book I read not realizing it’s part of a “thematic” trilogy, so not really part of a trilogy. Anyway, this book begins with our lead character, a middle-aged woman, whose husband goes to a foreign country to bring back her boss, and ends up being murdered in the street. She doesn’t find this out until she’s at the airport to pick up both men and sees her boss and her husband’s coffin. From there, she inherits an uncle’s large mansion and taxidermy collection. It […]