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admin posted this on May 22nd, 2019  BRILLIANT!
I love these books. I read the first (The Word is Murder) last year when it was released, then re-read it prior to starting this new one simply for the delight of stretching out the series… When I saw the second (The Sentence is Death) was available on NetGalley, I couldn’t wait to request it – and almost as soon as I was approved, I dug in (I’d started TWiM as soon as I requested the second, so there’d be no delays). I LOVE Horowitz’s writing. He covers everything from Sherlock Holmes to detectives to James Bond to middle-grade books and does so with a pitch-perfect ear for detail and resonance, managing to hit just the right frequency for his current topic every time. The pages fly by and the stories reveal themselves with just the right pacing and eye for detail. It makes them fast, easy, wholly engaging reads. Continue reading Book Reviews: The Word is Murder and The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz
admin posted this on May 20th, 2019  This was an extraordinary book, that actually felt like three stories for the price of one. I am a life-long fan of To Kill a Mockingbird and one of those who always wished we’d had more from the impressively talented Harper Lee. When Go Set a Watchman was released in 2015, I was one of those who delighted in the news, then questioned the decision after reading the backstory about Lee’s condition and her lawyer’s involvement in the release. The book was rough and felt unpolished – which I learned, courtesy of Furious Hours, was exactly how most (including Lee) described it when it was written, and which is why it was never released under Lee’s own direction. The mystery surrounding the decision to suddenly release it, coupled with the knowledge I’ve gleaned over the years about Lee’s role in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood means that I’ve long been fascinated by the topic of Lee’s life and times and writing history, and when I saw this current title available on Penguin First to Read, I couldn’t request it fast enough… Continue reading Book Review: Furious Hours by Casey Cep
admin posted this on May 17th, 2019  Karen Cleveland writes BRILLIANT thrillers… I reviewed her first novel, Need to Know, last year and couldn’t wait for her to release another. She has a gift for crafting compelling, believable, strong women who aren’t perfect and don’t need to be – they are instead real, and that is infinitely more readable…
This is another book about secrets. Cleveland is (apparently) obsessed with secrets: the ones we keep, the ones we spill, the ones we uncover, the ones we misunderstand. That obsession is translated into marvelous suspenseful novels that weave together complex story lines, emotions, and rationalizations. The result: fantastic tales that are easy to read, wholly engaging, and startling in their presentation of the baser nature of humanity. Continue reading Book Review: Keep You Close by Karen Cleveland
admin posted this on May 15th, 2019 I’m constantly amazed at the strength people who struggle with depression, anxiety, or other forms of mental illness exhibit when they so bravely and baldly tell their tales… Armstrong does a marvelous job explaining her life and struggles, and her decision to die (almost) several times a week for several weeks in the hope of stopping her downward spiral. This is a heartbreaker of a story, told with wit and snark and an unflinching honesty that sends you alternating between laugh-out-loud hilarity and tears-pouring-down-your-face devastation. Reading about the experiences of Armstrong, her daughters, her parents, and her extended family was painful but also full of glimmers of hope and optimism that I hope find their way into the lives of people who need them…
My review copy was provided through NetGalley.
admin posted this on May 13th, 2019  In a word: FABULOUS!!!
I have been in love with this series since the first book, Caraval. Legendary continued the magic, and it was tough to imagine the conclusion bringing everything together in only one more volume, but it did – and did so beautifully. Each volume has outdone itself both as an individual story and for its place in advancing the underlying series storyline.
While I’m exceptionally sad to see this one end, I’m delighted that it ended so well. And maybe (hopefully) “ended” is a misnomer – despite the fact that this has been reported as the final book in the trilogy/series, it seems to me that Garber has (cleverly) left herself some wiggle room with the ending. I, for one, am hoping like mad that she will take advantage of it, because she’s devised a brilliant and original world that she has populated with fantastically detailed, intricate, unusual, deliciously complicated characters, and it would be a shame to let them all walk off into the sunset… Continue reading Book Review: Finale by Stephanie Garber
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