You know that movie 50 First Dates, where Drew Barrymore lost her memory in a car accident, and Adam Sandler has to make her fall in love with him every day, reminding her of their history and generally recreating her whole world for her since the accident? Yeah, this book is just like that — only Adam Sandler might be trying to kill Drew Barrymore and she has no one she can really trust. “We’re constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them […]
Good read with a stupid, stupid ending
Don’t you hate it when the last 50 pages of a novel derail the whole damn thing? Sabine Durrant had me 100% hooked on Under Your Skin almost up until the end — which infuriated me (particularly since I was reading it as an e-book and couldn’t fling it across the room). So Gaby Mortimer is a pretty successful woman: hosts a daytime talk show, married to an equally-successful businessman, has a little girl. She’s not quite happy — she kind of hates her job, her […]
Interesting Characters, Incredible Writing
Isabel Allende’s Portrait in Sepia, which I read earlier this year, is the sequel to Daughter of Fortune. I read them in the wrong order, but it doesn’t matter too much in this case. In Portrait in Sepia, we find out what happens to Eliza’s granddaughter, Aurora del Valle — a young lady being raised in San Francisco. In Daughter of Fortune, we learn how Eliza Sommers made it there in the first place. “She has a fixation on love. Strong trouble. The girl left her window open one […]
“Because there are 176 definitions for the word loser on urbandictionary.com. Don’t Be a Statistic.”
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.” […]
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