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Here is my 4.43 rounded to 4 stars review of Wolf Instinct by Paige Tyler:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Paranormal Romantic Suspense
Briskly paced, suspenseful
Great connection between the two main characters
Weaker than expected antagonists
Expanded world-building
Here is my 4.58 rounded to 5 stars review of Dead Don't Lie by L.R. Nicolello:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Contemporary Romantic Suspense
Evokes strong emotions
Compelling, heart-breaking, and intense
Starting out the week with
Under the Paper Moon by Shaina Steinberg.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I'm reading the memoir
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (found in a LFL) and the Hunger Games prequel
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins (had this on hold at the library for a while). I wasn't interested in reading a Snow POV book at first, but wanted more world building info. It's interesting so far though, although we know it won't really get a "good" ending.
My review for
The Banksia House Breakout by AA James Roxburghhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Here is my 3.35 rounded to 3 stars review of The Alliance
by Matt Brolly:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Psychological Thriller / Police Procedural / Crime Thriller
Dark and Gripping
FBI and local police
Unique plot
Frequent shifts in point of view between 3 characters
Interesting look at psychopathy, society, and manipulation
I read a lot of horror and fantasy. Right now I'm reading The Angel of Indian Lake and House of Earth and Blood
I'm kicking off the week with
Torn Asunder by Barbara Ross, a fabulous book in a favorite series. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished A Most Agreeable Murder
by Julia Seales. It is her debut book. I liked it set in England late 1600s. Lot about etiquette and marrying proper.
Here is my 4.3 rounded to 4 stars review of Murder at the Lake
by Carolyn Arnold:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Police Procedural / Crime Thriller
Good mix of suspense and investigation
A couple of action-filled scenes
Strong female lead character
Here is my 4.48 rounded to 4 stars review of Extinction
by Douglas Preston:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Techno-thriller, Police Procedural, Genetic Engineering Science Fiction
Tense, Gripping, and Suspenseful
Fast-paced
Great Characterization and World-Building
Finishing off the week with
The Crossing, another fabulous book from Michael Connelly. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Here is my 4.48 rounded to 4 stars review of Disturbing the Dead
by Kelley Armstrong:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Historical Mystery with a time travel element
Great Characterization
Great World-Building
Victorian Scotland
Moving, well-written, suspenseful, and entertaining
Sent to the Devil
by Laura LebowHistorical mystery set in 1788 Vienna featuring Lorenzo Da Ponte ( Mozart's librettist ) as sleuth.
Actually perhaps it could be placed among the cozy mysteries, but to avoid mistakes I'll post it here.
My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Here is my 4.63 rounded to 5 stars review of Double Tap by Cindy Dees:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Action Thriller / Espionage Thriller
Strong, Mature Female Main Character
Shocking, Pulse-pounding, Impactful
This series should be read in order.
I recently finished two books by Emily Shiner.Three Drowned Girls
Rating: 3.88
One Liar Left
Rating: 3.98
Books 1 and 2 in the Detective Freya Sinclair series
Police Procedural
Chilling Prologue, dark and disturbing
Powerful Page-Turner
I originally forgot the review links. (Thanks, Rosh).I recently finished two books by Emily Shiner.
Three Drowned Girls
Rating: 3.88
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
One Liar Left
Rating: 3.98
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Books 1 and 2 in the Detective Freya Sinclair series
Police Procedural
Chilling Prologue, dark and disturbing
Powerful Page-Turner
Here is my 4.27 rounded to 4 stars review of Lost Birds
by Anne Hillerman:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Mystery / Crime Novel
Good characterization and excellent world-building
Multiple subplots
Rushed ending
I'm kicking off May with this cozy adjacent stand alone
The Bootlegger's Daughter by Nadine Nettmann https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
“Man is many things, but he is not rational.”
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”
“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?”
“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
“I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.”
“Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play... I tell you, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.”
“There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.”
“You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”
“When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.”
“The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.”
Here is my 4.02 rounded to 4 stars review of The Last Hope
by Susan Elia MacNeal:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Historical Mystery / Espionage
WW II
11th and final book in the Maggie Hope series
Well-researched
Good characterization and atmosphere
Strong and Impactful tale
Historical mystery-romance :The Paid Companion
by Amanda QuickIt entertained me from the beginning until the very end, both theme ( mystery and romance ) are well developed and engaging.
Here is my 4.8 rounded to 5 stars review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Here is my 3.39 rounded to 3 stars review of Lying Next to Me
by Gregg Olsen:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Mystery / Police Procedural
Great Characterization, but unlikeable characters
Switches points of view frequently
Flashbacks without warning
Great atmosphere
Dark and twisty plot
My review for
The Restaurant in Pelican Crossing by Maggie Christensenhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Here is my 4.07 rounded to 4 stars review of Her Second Death by Melinda Leigh:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Short Story / Novella
Prequel to the Bree Taggert series
Police Procedural / Mystery
Decent intro to the main character
Entertaining, Fast-paced, and Engaging
I'm ending the week with
Malibu Burning, the first in a new series from Lee Goldberg https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished Kate Quinn's newest book The Phoenix Crown
. Set in 1906 San Francisco.. Much of the book covered American descrimination against Chinese in San Francisco, poor treatment of women. Very Vibrant characters and of course the Great San Francisco Earth Quake of 1906. Good book to read.
Here is my 4.07 rounded to 4 stars review of Deadly Fall by Elle James:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Romantic Suspense
Entertaining, Tense, Atmospheric
Good Characterization
6th and final? book in the Devil's Shroud series
1 steamy scene @ circa 50%
My review for
At the Going Down of the Sun by Mary-Anne O'Connorhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Here is my 3.19 rounded to 3 stars review of Troubled Waters by Carly Fall:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Paranormal Military Romantic Suspense
Book 1 on the Supernatural Renegades series
Lacked Suspense
Slow pacing
Some action late in the book
Lack of depth on supernatural power
Good setting and characterization
Enjoyable as a romance
Here is my 4.25 rounded to 4 stars review of Rules Of Prey by John Sandford:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Mystery / Crime Thriller
First book in the Lucas Davenport Prey series
Unsettling, action-packed, compelling characters
Here is my 3.28 rounded to 3 stars review of The Novelist from Berlin by V.S. Alexander:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Historical Fiction
Slow Pacing
I had a hard time engaging with it.
Based loosely on the list of German novelist Irmgard Keun
Seems well-researched
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