Literary Scout

Category: US fiction

The Last Days of Vic & Coco

Taylor Jenkins Reid
1/5 stars

DOWNLOAD THE BOOK VIA THIS LINK:http://agenceelianebenisti.com/download/JenkinsReid_TheLastDaysofVicandCoco1pp.pdfUsername : AgencebenistiPassword : paris2015 Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel The Last Days of Vic and Coco begins in California in June 1974. Vic and Coco are experienced con artists who operate under the aliases Crown Vic and Baby Blue. They have travelled and worked together for six years, but federal […]

Other Worlds Than These

Stephen King, Peter Straub
1/5 stars

Other Worlds Than These is the third Talisman novel, a late-return fantasy quest in which an aging Jack Sawyer, widowed, haunted, half-exiled in Mid-World, and physically endangered whenever he returns to America, must help stop a reality-wound called the Gullet before it tears the world apart. It wants to be a completion, a tribute, a […]

A Diagnosis

Elvia Wilk
1/5 stars

A Diagnosis is a lockdown body-horror novel about Agatha, a chronically sleepless, debt-ridden, politically guilty New York writer who receives a mysterious medical label and begins to transform. It wants to be a novel about illness, surveillance, housing, privilege, police power, insomnia, fertility, coupledom, friendship, chronic pain, internet diagnosis, pharmaceutical bureaucracy, and the end of […]

Masterpiece

Hannah Rothschild
1/5 stars

Masterpiece is a multi-timeline art-reverence novel built around Piero della Francesca’s The Resurrection in Sansepolcro. It alternates between four strands — the artist who paints it, the Bloomsbury-adjacent muse who helps turn it into legend, the soldier who saves it during the Second World War, and the modern conservator who restores it after an earthquake. […]

Ring of Night

Laura van den Berg
1/5 stars

Ring of Night is a Florida gothic boxing murder novel about sisters, hidden rooms, vanished cars, old family violence, and the idea that every door, key, wall, ring, body, and fight contains a secret entrance to the past. It wants to be a crime novel, a sports novel, a sister novel, a fugitive confession, a […]

The Spring

Melissa Larsen
1/5 stars

The Spring is a remote-commune thriller about Shayla Meeker, a broke New Yorker pulled to California after a distress call from her estranged adoptive sister Phoebe, only to discover that Phoebe’s rich husband Daniel Kinman has been running a predatory refuge for vulnerable girls on his family’s isolated Lost Coast property. It wants to be […]

All Our Evenings

Ruthvika Rao
1/5 stars

All Our Evenings is a slow, claustrophobic confession novel about Arjun, a middle-aged Hyderabad man whose life has been frozen since one violent summer in adolescence. It wants to be a novel about first love, class, caste, family disgrace, queer desire, guilt, memory, parental complicity, social cruelty, and the lives that remain stuck after one […]

Smog

Stephanie Danler
1/5 stars

Smog is a Los Angeles society-crime novel built around the Menendez murders, narrated by Hugo Byrne, an elderly celebrity journalist whose voice is clearly meant to sound elegant, damaged, acid, and morally dangerous. It wants to be a noir, a true-crime reckoning, a social novel about Beverly Hills wealth, a late-life confession, a media satire, […]

Enter Bear

Kate Walbert
1/5 stars

Enter, Bear is a memory-play novel about Tuesday Howard, an aging playwright who cannot stop rewriting the formative humiliations of her youth into art. It wants to be a meditation on time, betrayal, theatrical form, fathers, dead friends, vanished lovers, artistic theft, aging, and the way the past keeps entering the present like an actor […]

The Tantrum

Jean Garnett
1/5 stars

The Tantrum is not quite a finished book; it is a proposal, overview, outline, and set of sample essays for a confessional memoir-in-essays about identical twinhood, open marriage, female midlife crisis, romantic addiction, motherhood, money, depression, sex, and selfhood. That unfinishedness matters, because the manuscript already reads as if it is trying to pre-defend itself […]