I can’t remember where I first saw Daring to Drive (2017) by Manal al-Sharif, but I knew women had just been allowed the basic right to drive in Saudi Arabia. I was both horrified and fascinated that women wouldn’t be allowed to drive in this day and age, and I wanted to know more. Al-Sharif was jailed for eleven days in 2011 for daring to drive her brother’s car in opposition to the ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia. However, this story is much more than […]
We are trapped in our lives like birds on a chain
The Goldfinch (2013) by Donna Tartt is one I’d heard a lot of but wasn’t sure I wanted to read. It won the Pulitzer and was on a bunch of lists, but it was long and felt like a big commitment. I also didn’t have a very good idea of what it was about. But when it showed up on two of my book lists and my book club decided to read it, I figured it was inevitable. I found The Goldfinch to be well-written with realistic, interesting characters and […]
Undercover lovin’
I’ve read a number of books by Julie James, so when I saw The Thing About Love on NPR’s Best Books of 2017 list, I picked it up immediately. It turns out that I really liked this one. There may not be as much excitement as I had been expecting, especially considering that it involves two FBI agents and their related cases. However, the characters have good chemistry, and this book felt more realistic than others I’ve read by James. John Shepherd and Jessica Harlow were in the same […]
Nevertheless she persisted
I’d seen The Duchess Deal (2017) by Tessa Dare on some Cannonball reviews, and it looked interesting. I’d learned that Dare changed details about her love interest after Trump’s election because her alpha hero was rubbing her the wrong way. I appreciated the small nods to progressive feminist ideals throughout the book, the often funny banter between the leads, and the way she played with typical romantic tropes with her story. I also liked how the Duke and Emma slowly began to trust each other, but the […]
The best way to find a murderer
The Likeness (2008) is the second in Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad Series. I read the first book, In the Woods back in 2015. So far I’ve found these books both impressive and disturbing. They are relatively long and complex murder mysteries that dig deep into the psychological toll that these cases take on the detectives. Cassie Maddox is back from In the Woods. After the disastrous ending to her last murder investigation, she transferred to Domestic Violence, never spoke to her old partner again, and began to date […]
High school drama with vampires
Last year got a little hairy when I had to write almost all my reviews for the year in the last three weeks of December. It wasn’t much fun, so I promised myself that this year I would get back on track. Unless I’m traveling, I will not finish my next book until I’ve reviewed the previous one. That way, I should only ever have one review to catch up on. I hope. I’m starting this year off with Richelle Mead’s Bloodlines (2011). It’s the first book […]
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