I started seeing a lot of reviews for Big Little Lies (2014) by Liane Moriarty on Cannonball, so I jumped on the bandwagon before I could get too far behind. Of course, I am behind because tons of people have already read it, but that didn’t make it any less enjoyable for me. I picked up Big Little Lies with practically no knowledge of the narrative and only a hopeful feeling that others had recommended it. The premise of the book is that a parent–it is not […]
“I would kiss the ground where your shadow fell just to be near you.”
4.5 stars Penelope “Poppy” Hammond flees her high society wedding with the aid of a charming curate calling himself Sebastian Cantrip and persuades him to drive her to the little village in Devon where her estranged father lives. Poppy’s mother, wealthy American stepfather and a large amount of the wedding guests, including Poppy’s jilted fiancee follow, up in arms about the scandal she’s caused. Poppy’s mind is not to be changed, however, she knows she and Gerald are a poor match and that life as […]
Mommy Issues
Gillian Flynn has a dark & twisty mind; and I mean that in the best way possible. As a reporter for a second rate newspaper in Chicago, Camille Preaker returns to her tiny Missouri hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. Camille left home years ago, following the death of her younger sister, an emotional collapse and a stay in the psych ward. Since her escape from rural Wind Gap, Camille has hardly spoken to her overbearing, hypochondriac mother or high school friends. […]
So nice to catch up with old book friends
Disclaimer! I was granted a copy of this through NetGalley in return for a fair and honest review. This is one of the novellas Deanna Raybourn wrote about her intrepid heroine Lady Julia Grey, who the reader can follow in five very enjoyable Victorian set mysteries, where she solves murders along with her delightful husband Nicholas Brisbane. While this novella can absolutely be read on its own, you shouldn’t deny yourself the pleasure of starting at the beginning, with Silent in the Grave. The large […]
Slower than molasses in January
Okay, so that’s an exaggeration, but my grandmother used to say that and it’s nice to have an excuse to throw it in there. My problem with this book was that I wanted to be blown away by it, and while I DID like it, I only liked it as a friend. Barbara Vine is such a good writer, and that’s what made me even finish it, and while Gerald’s story is compelling and tragic, and Ursula’s too, I found it often tedious and wondered what […]
A Change of Pace for a Formulaic Genre
Unfortunately, not like my previous review of Dead Men Don’t Ski, there were not a lot of wonderfully on-the-nose covers of this book to choose from. The one from Amazon is the same as my copy, which is lacking in over the top death melodrama. (Although this is the first time [out of all of two books of hers I read] that a big clue was printed on the cover.) Another first is the narration perspective. Instead of following Detective Harry Tibbett on his investigations, […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 783
- 784
- 785
- 786
- 787
- …
- 860
- Next Page »