THE SUNLIGHT PILGRIMS by Jenni Fagin is one that you hate to see end

The moment I began this book I just wanted to sit and read. This is the book you hate to see end. I absolutely loved this book. Takes place in 2020 in a small caravan park in Scotland where the residents are expecting the worst winter in history. Not quite a dystopian novel but definitely one on the effects of the gulf stream slowing down as affected by global warming. However the story is really about the characters; a man who has left his London home, which was a small independent movie theater, after the deaths of his grandmother and mother, the young girl he meets when arriving at the caravan park and her bohemian mother. There are other characters that are pertinent to the story that provide insight and conflict. I've read where some reviewers are calling this a YA novel, perhaps because the young girl, Stella, is the central character with the most important story to tell. However I highly recommend this novel whether you like or dislike YA novels, the characters are likable, interesting and there are many morals in this simple tale.

GROWNUP by Gillian Flynn

Flynn writes characters that tend to make questionable decisions; think Nick Dunn in GONE GIRL. Why the hell did he not retain an attorney once it was discovered Amy was missing or dead. The spouse is always the primary suspect. And why did Amy sell their townhome in New York, a city she loved and loathed leaving, to move to a podunk town to nurse her mother-in-law till she died.  Why did she give Nick the money to open a bar in a Podunk town of all things? Or how about Libby Day from DARK PLACES who went through money like water through a sieve, without any means of support. She made one bad decision after another. And in GROWNUP the unnamed narrator struggles through life making ends meet as a psychic, until she meets a young woman, Susan, who believes she sees ghosts in the eerie Victorian home she lives with her teenage son. Once the narrator entangles herself in Susan’s life, believing to finally found a cash-cow she begins to wonder what she has gotten herself into. And again, before the book has found its conclusion she makes a decision that leave us all wondering what the hell was she thinking.  GROWNUP is a short story repackaged as a novella, and if you are a Gillian Flynn fan you will find it has the twists that you would expect from a Gillian Flynn book.  I am wondering when she will write another novel instead of re-warming previous works.