In Archer’s clever novel, a Sliding Doors-ish bildungsroman, fate hinges on the toss of a coin. … Archer cannibalizes his greatest hits … even as he emulates the ’60s bestsellers of Harold Robbins and Jacqueline Susann to tell his twinned stories of immigrant striving, romance, and dirty dealing, with a surprise last-sentence kicker that points to the present political moment. The result is a fun, fast-paced novel.
"A serial killer, a violent abduction, an acrimonious divorce, the hero suspected of murder—and all of it serenely weightless, in the episodic manner of a Road Runner cartoon without the laughs. Who cares what happens to the most alluring woman when the next one is just around the corner?"
Billed as a history of the Targaryen Kings, from Aegon the Conqueror to Ageon III, Fire and Blood – which takes its title from the noble family’s house words … Fire and Blood is written as an in-universe account (purportedly) by the Archmaester Gyldayn of the Citadel, in a style that Martin’s publisher describes as possessing the “scope and grandeur of Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”.
Winter in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand
"A series only works when the characters are worth following over the long haul, and Hilderbrand is a master, making for a satisfying conclusion to her Christmas at the Inn story."
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