I pretty much enjoyed Gone Girl, although (like many people), I did not care for the ending. I was on the fence about reading anything else by Gillian Flynn, not so much because of that, in fact I’m not really sure why I was reluctant, although one thing that threw me is that after all the dark twistiness of Gone Girl, she ended the book with an acknowledgements section that read like a high school yearbook dedication. That was the twistiest bit of all for me. […]
The Secret Lives of Sharks
“A surprise is rarely a stranger, but a faceless patient who’s been reading across from you in the waiting room the entire time, his head hidden by a magazine but his orange socks in plain view, as well as his gold pocket watch and frayed trousers.” Part 3, Chapter 35: The Secret Garden I’m trying to decide if I liked this book. There are aspects of it I loved, and aspects of it that were middling. On the whole, the ending felt sudden and not […]
Is there such a thing as a jazz vampire?
This is the second book in the books about DC Peter Grant and as such, this review may contain certain spoilers for book one, Rivers of London. That’s the book you want to start with. Something is killing jazz musicians in Soho. A promising jazz saxophonist, Cyrus Wilkinson, drops dead of an apparent heart attack after playing a gig. Doctor Walid suspects that something supernatural may have caused it and DC Grant can hear “Body and Soul” playing when he examines the body. Some investigation shows […]
She’s no Jessica Fletcher
In which Siege reads a flawed but fun mystery novel with a tough female protagonist.
See what trying to meditate will get you?
In Murder in Clichy, Aimee Leduc’s 5th investigation, Aimee has promised her doctor (and sometime boyfriend) that she will take it easy, while she continues to recover form the temporary loss of sight featured in the last book. This means taking her meds, creating a healthier lifestyle (hence the stab at meditation) and sticking to computer forensic work. No more chasing bad guys. And she was going to stick to that plan, really she was. Then a nun at the Cao Dai Temple asked her […]
Should come with a trigger warning
First of all, I don’t like to throw around the term “trigger warning”, but if you have a problem reading about someone who cuts herself, then stay away from this book. That being said, I thought Sharp Objects was an excellent novel — not quite Gone Girl (this was Flynn’s first novel; Gone Girl, her third), but I can see how her her writing evolved from this to Gone Girl. Now I just need to read Dark Places, which falls in between. “I just think some women aren’t made to be mothers. […]
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