Author: Jay Cruz

Jay's the resident literary connoisseur. He dissects classics and uncovers hidden gems. Expect his insights to enrich your reading journey, one page at a time.

Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances Review

January 31, 2021October 21, 2023 Jay Cruz

Multiple award winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with this third collection of short fiction following Smoke and Mirrors and Fragile Things—which includes a never-before published American Gods story, “Black Dog,” written exclusively for this volume. In this new anthology, Neil Gaiman pierces the veil…

Fantasy

The Widower’s Wife: A Thriller Review

December 26, 2020June 11, 2024 Jay Cruz

“One of those rare thrillers that really will keep you reading all night.” —Kirkus starred review “In this chilling cat-and-mouse tale… Holahan keeps the action going.” —Publishers Weekly Ana Bacon, a beautiful young wife and mother, tumbled off a cruise ship into dark and deadly waters. Ana is gone–leaving behind her wealthy husband and adorable…

Thrillers & Suspense

The Nowhere Man: Evan Smoak, Book 2 Review

November 8, 2020October 21, 2023 Jay Cruz

Spoken about only in whispers, it is said that when the Nowhere Man is reached by the truly desperate, he can and will do anything to save them. Evan Smoak is the Nowhere Man. Taken from a group home at twelve, Evan was raised and trained as part of the Orphan program, an off-the-books operation…

Thrillers & Suspense

Silence: A Novel (Picador Modern Classics) Review

November 7, 2020October 21, 2023 Jay Cruz

Shusaku Endo’s classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, and Adam Driver “Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama.”-The New York Review of Books Seventeenth-century Japan: Two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to a country…

World Literature

Hope’s Peak (Harper and Lane) Review

September 6, 2020October 21, 2023 Jay Cruz

Beyond the shores of Hope’s Peak, North Carolina, evil waits as his next victim approaches. He’ll make her a princess like the others… Detective Jane Harper can’t shake the image of the young woman discovered in a field—eyes closed, a crown of woven vines on her head. She expects macabre murders like this in her…

Supernatural

Really Professional Internet Person Review

September 5, 2020October 21, 2023 Jay Cruz

Jenn McAllister, better known as JennxPenn, has been obsessed with making videos since she found her parents video camera at the age of eight. A shy child, Jenn turned to film because, unlike with life, you can always have a do-over. Really Professional Internet Person offers both an insider’s guide to building a successful YouTube…

Humor

Chronicles of Narnia Box Set Review

September 3, 2020October 21, 2023 Jay Cruz

Read The Chronicles of Narnia in its entirety with this seven book box set, containing mass market paperback editions of C. S. Lewis’s classic fantasy series. The box features stills from the third Narnia movie, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and the books have cover art by Cliff Nielsen. C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles…

Fantasy

One Right Thing (A Marty Singer Mystery) Review

August 1, 2020October 21, 2023 Jay Cruz

Retired DC Homicide detective Marty Singer is driving through rural Virginia when he sees a billboard by the side of the road with the picture of a man and a simple, stunning question: J.D. HOPE WAS MURDERED ON MAY 6TH. DO YOU KNOW WHY? To most, the message means nothing. But Marty stops the car,…

Mystery

The Long Winter: Little House, Book 6 Review

July 22, 2020October 21, 2023 Jay Cruz

The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as Pa, Ma, Laura, Mary, Carrie, and little Grace bravely face the hard winter of 1880-81 in their little house in the Dakota Territory. Blizzards cover the little town with snow, cutting off all supplies from the outside. Soon there is almost no food left, so…

Historical Fiction

Outlander 4-Copy Boxed Set: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn Review

April 18, 2020October 21, 2023 Jay Cruz

Scottish Highlands, 1945. Claire Randall, a former British combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and…

Genre Fiction