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Government drone by day and book lover and geek girl by night! I review on Goodreads, StoryGraph, and NetGalley.

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Reviews of the Last Two Shetland Island Books

Cold Earth by Ann Cleeves

Wild Fire by Ann Cleeves

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Cold Earth review (4 stars) This was a disappointment. I know that the series was obviously moving to a Willow/Jimmy pairing, it just didn’t work for me in the end. And it didn’t help that the case got overshadowed by the will they, or won’t they parts. The actual mystery was good in this, but think that after centering the victim, it seemed as if the author/via Jimmy stopped caring about her when it came out what she was really doing in Shetland. Which leads […]

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Must Love Books by Shauna Robinson

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Trigger warning: Suicide ideation So. This isn’t a romance book. I am fine with romance books taking on serious subject matters, but this book doesn’t end with a Happy Ever After (HEA), it ends on well there’s hope for one, done the line. And honestly, I don’t think the heroine (Nora) is good enough for the hero (Andrew Santos) so that’s a no from me. I think what got me is that this entire book is pretty much joyless. The only reason why I gave […]

Thin Air

Thin Air by Ann Cleeves

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I really enjoyed this one. I think it was because the mystery in this one at least made better sense than the last one. It wasn’t great either, but there were clues there that you could follow in retrospect after you got to the end. “Thin Air” takes place 6 months after the events in the last book, “Dead Water”. We follow Inspector Jimmy Perez as he is called away to help find a missing woman who was in Shetland for a wedding party. Many […]

Dead Water

Dead Water by Ann Cleeves

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So, we are back here again. I almost passed on reading this since I am still super ticked about the events in the last book. But this came up after being on hold for about 2 months so I decided to read. And then the next book in the series came up for me about 2 hours later. Apparently the Book Gods want me to give this series another go. And I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised. This was an interesting mystery and […]

By the Book

By the Book by Jasmine Guillory

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.  So, here’s the thing. I loved Beauty and the Beast. I was fascinated by that movie when it first came out (the cartoon one not that horrible live action one) and felt like holy cow there’s a Disney Princess just like me. I would rather be reading and I would daydream for hours about traveling and leaving my little town. I even had my very own Gaston who […]

Poirot Investigates

Poirot Investigages by Agatha Christie

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March 2022 Update: So once again some of the stories were great and some were not. I am still more puzzled now more than anything on the whole “The Adventure of the Cheap Flat” and some of the other stories. The only stories I really enjoyed were “The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor”, “The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim”, and “The Chocolate Box.” Original Review:  I really thought this stories as a whole were way too short to get that engrossed in. I found most of them […]



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