Of course, Reconstructing Amelia gets compared to Gone Girl on the cover (what hasn’t, at this point?). It definitely will appeal to people who like the twists and turns of Gone Girl, although it’s not as well written and, despite being about a teenager’s death, not nearly as dark, in my opinion. “…[E]ven I know that being a parent is awful ninety-five percent of the time…As far as I can tell, it’s that last five percent that keeps the human race from dying out. Four parts blinding terror, […]
Zailer & Waterhouse #8
There are two aspects to Sophie Hannah’s Spilling CID series. First, the murder (or whatever crime, but mostly it’s a murder) that occurs in each novel. These crimes are intricately plotted (I have literally never figured one out 100% ahead of time, and I read a lot of books like this), usually with cases of mistaken identities and lots of secrecy. Each book is narrated in first person by someone close to the plot. The second aspect to these series is the relationship between Charlie Zailer […]
Study of a Sociopath
One of my favorite authors of creepy, well-plotted books (Sophie Hannah, I love you & your twisted mind) reviewed this book on Goodreads, prompting me to download a copy. While it’s not quite as good as a Sophie Hannah book (I’m in the middle of the 8th Spilling CID book right now and losing my mind over it), Remember Me This Way definitely does the genre justice. “If I could have drilled into her head and rummaged in her brains with my hands I would have done so.” […]
I’m surprised that this one hasn’t broken out yet
I’ve had this one on hold at my library for a couple of months, and when I finally got a copy I devoured it in a couple of nights. Then I check CBR to see who else had reviewed it, since I assumed one of y’all’s recommendations led to my placing a library hold. Surprisingly, no one else here has reviewed it — I guess because it actually just got released a few weeks ago. I’m thinking I must have grabbed it off a “books coming […]
Black Comedy in WWII
This was an odd little read, but one that I really ended up enjoying. Strange to be laughing at a book with so much tragedy, but Crooked Hearts really embodies “gallows humor”. 10 year old Noel Bostock has been living with his grandmother, Mattie, in London — despite the fact that everyone else his age has been evacuated due to bombings. Mattie — a suffragette back in the day — teaches Noel new words every day, and fills his life with wonder and magic. Unfortunately, as […]
At least Graff gets a happy ending
Orson Scott Card wrote Ender in Exile eleventh out of the twelve books in the Enderverse (so far), but it actually falls between Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead, and runs alongside the events of most of the Shadow Series. Card says he wrote it to fill in the gaps between the war ending on Eros, and Ender becoming the Speaker that we see in Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide and Children of the Mind. However, it seemed more to me like Card had a list of all the endings he needed […]
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