Songs by Honeybird

Fast paced, smartly written story about love lost and found in surprising ways. A dog who might be a philosopher, a romance on the rocks, a new romance in the offing, and a character's search for the history of a groundbreaking (and fictional) rock band in the South in the 1960s. A great read, funny......more

I was captivated by the subject of Ben's thesis - an integrated band in the mid-60s whose end came too soon after the lead singer and guitarist is found dead in a fire and the drummer is presumed to have either perished in the same fire or started the fire that took the life of the leader of the ban......more

Songs by Honeybird is a unique book that’s difficult to review as a whole. We follow Ben and Nina, a young couple in love, or so they thought. They break up early on, adapting to life without one another. Almost from the beginning, it feels like two completely different stories. Ben is working on his......more

This new novel by Peter McDade is scheduled for release on March 29th, 2022. His publisher Wampus gave me the opportunity to get an early look for an honest review. I first read about this upcoming book in an independent publishing catalog I get at work at the library. The brief synopsis really intri......more

Peter McDade has his finger on the pulse of humanity in his newest novel, Songs by Honeybird, a thoughtful and insightful story about two characters, Ben and Nina, who are their own very different truth-seeking quests. The story begins weeks after a sad breakup, after having been in what seemed to b......more