Joan Hall Hovey

A Journey you won't want to miss!, 7 Dec 2012

I thoroughly enjoyed this wonderful memoir; it has everything you could want in a memoir- a story worth telling, sometimes tragic and disturbing, other times warm and funny, but always fascinating. The author has achieved much in the medical field, but he could also have been a very successful author. Bill Larkworthy is a fine story-teller and a very good writer.

A beautiful book! A thilling experience., 30 Aug 2011

Firesong - Reviewed by Joan Hall Hovey

The thing I loved most about Firesong, aside from the exciting and gripping story itself, which opens with a terrifying tornado that traps the minister and his flock in their country church, is the author's voice. His very soul comes through his characters. You just know that Gus LeGarde is much like the author himself, with a love of family and community, a reverence for nature and God. And a passion for justice. I love this author and I love Gus LeGarde. All of Aaron Paul Lazar's characters are totally believable, and interesting. So fully drawn you feel you would know them if you met them on the street. His descriptions are so… Read more

Gripping suspense! Yet a heart-rending story., 23 May 2011

I just read Aaron Lazar's Healey's Cave and I loved it. Edge of the chair stuff. I enjoy reading in bed, and I kept putting it down to go to sleep and picking it back up again, telling myself I'd read 'just one more chapter'. The suspense builds slowly but surely, and the mystery is sustained until the end of the book, which comes as a shocker. I challenge you to guess who the killer is. But the book is more than a thriller: the dialogue is so believeable, the description and sensory detail so strong you feel like you are right there, in the story. The characters are real. You care about them. You will love baby Timmy, and you just know the author has grandchildren, and is also a… Read more