READER’S CORNER

CONTRIBUTING WRITER: Christiana C. Succar, Ph.D.

Greetings Cocoa Beach Residents:

This year is moving forward fast! Hopefully, by the time you read this, we will have seen our last frigid days for 2021. This month’s reads consist of not your typical love story, a crime noir by one of our Cocoa Beach locals, and the story of our modern-day rock-et stars.

In Five Years by Rebecca Serles. In what seems like a typical romance novel, the protagonist Dannie Kohan is on track to check all the perfect career, love, and life boxes. When she is thrown off-kilter by a premonition, a powerful, vivid love story ensues that reminds us that love comes from different places and our closest friends know us better than we think.

Walking with the Dead by Charles Domokos. This crime noir takes place in fast-paced L.A. and is the story of Charlie Tobias; a trained classical musician turned probate attorney. With the affable narrator and vivid imagery, the reader feels Charlie’s angst about making his billable hours each month while wondering who else will end up dead. The author’s use of language evokes the sights, sounds, and smells of L.A. as Charlie makes his way into the maze of the legal world of murder, deceit, and bribery. An engaging and humorous tale and a mustread for crime-junkies!

The Space Barons by Christian Davenport. This nonfiction piece follows the lives of novice space enthusiasts Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. The author provides a narrative of their childhood dreams leading to crafting space rockets, the trials and tribulations of moving spaceflight away from government control into private industry, and the constant competition between two contemporaries for the race to interplanetary travel. These engaging stories provide a window into how dreams, hardwork, and perseverance can turn a pure love of something into reality.

This month visit my blog to see what else I am reading, https://cod-caterpillar-mb4b.squarespace.com/work/studio-vega-hpj8c password: cocoabeach2021 and the latest updates on my reading life! Stay tuned for another local author featured in next month’s edition as well.

Happy Reading, Christiana C. Succar, Ph.D.