Inside a Silver Box

Rating: 3.5 stars Walter Mosley’s strong suit has always been Mystery writing. The Easy Rawlings series is his literary crown jewel. Sci-Fi books represent a side endeavor, with typically average results. The Wave was my first plunge into Mosley’s Speculative Fiction headspace, followed by two select......more

This may be the most difficult book I have ever tried to review, so much so that I am not sure that I should even try. Although I have a sizable collection of Walter Mosley books on my 'too read' shelf, this is the first I have actually read, and as an introduction to his work, I am not sure it is t......more

Inside a Silver Box by Walter Mosley Ronnie Bottoms and Lorraine Fell crash together in just the right place to activate the Silver Box, a box that the Laz (an alien race) placed on the Earth long before humans and which contains & constrains the last of a most powerful and destructive sentient forc......more

This is as different from "Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore" as Raisinets from Orange Chicken, or a Hybrid Tea rose from an original David Austin, or . . . you get the idea. What do you do when you're a white indulged rich girl (Lorraine) killed by a black, hungry Ronnie Bottoms? Save the world, of cour......more

Who wrote it? Walter Mosley is, by a substantial margin, my favorite author. He made his mark in Mystery novels that live in the backdrop of racist Los Angeles during the 1940s-1960s. I have read 90%+ of his books, and the ones I haven't read yet are at home on my to-be-read bookshelf. He's written......more