Jodé Millman

Stephenie Meyer’s “Midnight Sun” Retells “Twilight” from Edward’s Perspective

The worlds of fiction and film were bitten by the tale of a lonely, awkward teenager named Isabella Swan who fell in love with the handsome vampire Edward Cullen. Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga was a dark, paranormal twist on the Romeo and Juliet trope of star-crossed lovers. While it was…

Jodé MillmanAugust 4, 2020

Fiction Young Adult

Coriolanus Snow Lands on Top in “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”

In Suzanne Collins’s blockbuster trilogy, “The Hunger Games,” Panem President Coriolanus Snow is presented as a calculating, ruthless dictator bent on destroying the Mockingjay heroine, Katniss Everdeen. In Collin’s new novel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Scholastic), we are introduced to an angst-ridden teenage Snow, forty years before the…

Jodé MillmanJune 9, 2020

Fiction

Coriolanus Snow Plays the Unlikely Protagonist in “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”

—∞— For years, readers have speculated whether author Suzanne Collins would revisit the world of The Hunger Games, and to the delight of her fans, she’s returned to the Republic of Panem with a surprising twist. Her newest novel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Scholastic), is a prequel to…

Jodé MillmanMay 19, 2020

Fiction

Only Magic Can Save the World in “Chosen Ones”

One of my guilty literary pleasures is reading dystopian thrillers, so I was ecstatic to be one of the first to devour an advanced readers copy of Veronica’s Roth’s dark, twisty sci-fi thriller, Chosen Ones (HMH). I’ve been a Roth fan since her blockbuster Divergent trilogy, and honestly, I could…

Jodé MillmanApril 6, 2020

Fiction

Girlfriends Make Aging Fun and Fulfilling in “It’s Not All Downhill From Here”

If you’re craving an escape from reality, look no further than Terry McMillan’s heart-warming and humorous tenth novel, It's Not All Downhill From Here (Ballantine Books). The wisecracking, procrastinating Loretha Curry hates celebrating her birthday. To discourage her four BFFs from their latest planned celebration, her third husband, Carl, strikes…

Jodé MillmanMarch 31, 2020

Thrillers

Crafty, Cranky Amateur PI Agatha Raisin Back on the Case in “Beating About the Bush”

Amateur private detective Agatha Raisin is a middle-aged, slutty boozehound. Or at least that’s how she views herself. She isn’t far from wrong, but throughout the thirty Agatha Raisin mysteries penned by M.C. Beaton, Agatha (“Don’t call me Aggie!”) has been just plain fun. The most recent, and the final…

Jodé MillmanFebruary 10, 2020

Thrillers

Tragedy and Hope Collide in “Collision of Lies”

“Help me, Mom!” A text from a dead child? Not possible. At least that’s the initial reaction of Amara Alvarez of the San Antonio Police when Marisa and Enzo Reyes insist their son Benjamin, lost three years earlier in a school bus crash, is trying to communicate with them. That…

Jodé MillmanFebruary 4, 2020

Thrillers

Thriller Writer to Writer: Tracking the Road to Success

Suspense and the Adirondacks – that seems to be the winning formula for Jenny Milchman. It has landed her a movie deal for her third novel, As Night Falls, (Ballantine) which is slated to start shooting this fall, and it is the setting once again for her upcoming fifth novel,…

Jodé MillmanMay 10, 2019

Jodé Millman

Stephenie Meyer’s “Midnight Sun” Retells “Twilight” from Edward’s Perspective

Coriolanus Snow Lands on Top in “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”

Coriolanus Snow Plays the Unlikely Protagonist in “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”

Only Magic Can Save the World in “Chosen Ones”

Girlfriends Make Aging Fun and Fulfilling in “It’s Not All Downhill From Here”

Crafty, Cranky Amateur PI Agatha Raisin Back on the Case in “Beating About the Bush”

Tragedy and Hope Collide in “Collision of Lies”

Thriller Writer to Writer: Tracking the Road to Success

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