November 12, 2017

"Home" by Harlan Coben – Bring the Boys Back Home!

Home by Harlan Coben (Book cover)

Harlan Coben's Take on Hope


Hope is a rather funny concept, for on one hand it can give us the will to live, to continue fighting and enduring, while on the other hand, it can deceptively lead us from the frying pan into the fire as it becomes an obsession and an inability to accept reality.

Luckily for us though, literary characters are fortunate enough not having to contend with such frustrating real-life dilemmas. For them, hope is without a question the path (and literary device) to follow and cling to, as Win Lockwood does for over a decade in Harlan Coben's Home.

November 2, 2017

"Midnight on Mars" by M.C. Glan - The Many Faces of Fear

Midnight on Mars by M.C. Glan (Book cover)

M.C. Glan's Fading Humanity


The idea that one day we'll be forced to leave Earth and look for a shelter elsewhere is certainly not without foundation.

With each and every second we are further exhausting the non-renewable resources that make our civilization turn round, and even if we manage to move on to completely recyclable energy and solve all the critical worldly issues (such as hunger and diseases), we'll still have to deal with a dying sun.