This review is for the audiobook version of The Duke of Sin, by Elizabeth Hoyt. I’m generally a fan of Elizabeth Hoyt, so when I saw that my library had a new audiobook from her I jumped at the chance, but this one was a bust. The biggest flaw is that the hero is a horrible person. He literally kills a man in front of our heroine, and they hide a body. The dead man didn’t even threaten them, he just betrayed the Duke by […]
It’s OK to be Genre Fiction, I Promise
This review is for the audiobook version of The Quick, by Lauren Owen. This book wasn’t what I thought it was going to be. I don’t think that it’s what it thinks it is either. This is genre fiction that thinks it’s literary, with quirks that seem to scream “I’m different and unique,” when in fact it’s just another vampire story. The blurb described the book as being about a woman, Charlotte, who goes to London after her brother disappears and discovers a few […]
I Hate Writing Titles
This review is for the audiobook version of The Drafter, by Kim Harrison. It’s the first in a new sci-fi series. Peri Reed is a drafter for the government, a person with the ability to turn back time to fix mistakes. For every second she goes back, part of her past is erased. To offset this all drafters are paired with anchors, people who can experience multiple timelines and sort between them, able to fill in the gaps after a draft. But what happens when […]
“He had hands like a marmoset, small and neat”
This review is for the auidobook versions of the Jack McClure series by Eric Van Lustbader. It’s also really long, I’m sorry. There are five books in the series, which begins with First Daughter. Jack McClure, an agent with the ATF, always felt like an outsider because of his dyslexia until he learned that it gave him the ability to see the world in a way most people don’t. He used this side effect to help him in investigations, which he saw as puzzles. […]
Kinda Boring, for a Thriller
This review is for the audiobook version of The President’s Shadow by Brad Meltzer, read by Scott Brick. This is the third book in his Culper Ring series (I originally wrote fifth, it seems like it’s been going on forever!), and I don’t know why he hasn’t moved on to some new characters. The series is about a secret society tasked with the protection of the Presidency of the United States, and specifically about an archivist at the National Archive that is brought into […]
Another Easy Summer Read
This review is for the audio book version of The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan. This book is the first in a series about disgraced news reporter turned newspaper journalist Jane Ryland and her friend, Detective Jake Brogan. It is a fast paced thriller, full of political intrigue, family drama, jealousy, and unrequited lust. It isn’t groundbreaking, but it was entertaining enough to pick up the second in the series. The book begins with Jane, freshly unemployed after getting her employer sued, interviewing for […]
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