Past Reviews

This is simply the list of books by title that I have read and reviewed through this blog site. If you wish to see what I had to say, including any comments of my followers, just click on the book title.

Books reviewed 2013 through 2016 are here.
Books reviewed prior to 2013 are here.

• "Party of Two" by Jasmine Guillory (July 1, 2022)
• "The Summer Place" by Jennifer Weiner (June 2, 2022)
• "The Sewing Machine" by Natalie Fergie (May 31, 2022)
• "The Mortician's Daughter" by Nan Higgins (March 19, 2020)
• "Little Disasters" by Sarah Vaughan (March 15, 2020)
• "The Thing About Alice" by Jean-Luke Swanepoel (March 8, 2020)
• "Love and Other Consolation Prizes" by Jamie Ford (February 29, 2020)
• "First Frost" by Sarah Addison Allen (May 27, 2019)
• "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern (April 7, 2019)
• "Nine Perfect Strangers" by Liane Moriarty (March 22, 2019)
• "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles (March 16, 2019)
• "The Woman in the Window" by A.J. Finn (March 5, 2019)
• "The Unseen World" by Liz Moore (February 14, 2019)

The Unseen World

The Unseen World 

by Liz Moore

WOW!  I can't believe it's been three years since I've written a book review. It's not like I haven't been reading.... I guess I just haven't been writing. I'm not going to try to fill in what I've missed, my memory is too bad for that.  

Truth. 

The Unseen World is a story that spans the life of Ada, a young girl, into adulthood and beyond.  She is a child being raised in unconventional ways by a single father.  There comes a time when her father begins experiencing early onset Alzheimer's and her young life begins to change.  

Along with Ada's struggles to try to cure or control her father's Alzheimer's and then to fit into a world she doesn't feel she is a part of, we share her anger and hopelessness.  And worse is discovering that her father isn't who she (or anyone else) believes he is.  But that knowledge doesn't provide the answer to who he actually is.

We time jump between her present, her father's past and along into her future as she works out the puzzle of who her father is and ultimately who she is.  

This story also includes the progress of our digital/electronic/cyber world from it's infancy to beyond what we know today.  Although it is integral to the story it also upsets me in a way that the movie IA upset me.  That artificial intelligence could take on human attributes and ultimately find itself alone.  In some obscure way that disturbs me. 

I listened to this book as a audio download from Downpour.  I give it four of five shots.