This is my second DNF review for CBR8. I have really good reasons, other than the fact that this book was going nowhere. Let’s get the reviewy part out of the way. This blandly-titled thriller starts with Simone and Matt discovering that their infant daughter Helena has been abducted. Fast-forward, and a young woman named Grace seeks out Simone claiming that she might be her missing daughter and also claiming that she may have just killed a man. Grace’s requests, actions, and backstory are a […]
Free Thoughts on the Continental… oh, wait, on The Marriage Plot
As a disclaimer, this is a review for a DNF. I just can’t. It isn’t the light fluffy thing I was hoping for, and… I just… no. (And yes, baxlala, I was inspired by your review titles!) Our story revolves around Madeline Hanna. She is a senior English Major graduating from Brown. (Fancy!) We also have the rest of our love triangle, Leonard Bankhead (a Biology/Philosophy major) and Mitchell Grammaticus (a Religious Studies major), also at Brown. The boys are both a little strange, but Mitchell in […]
One of these things is not like the other
Well, this is awkward. I bought this book after a couple rave reviews here on CBR. As with many of my CBR reads, it’s a bit outside my usual repetoire. This is my first CBR DNF. I’m not even sure if that’s CBR legal. Can I review if I didn’t finish? I’m going with the “ask for forgiveness, not permission” route. For a while I was attending an ARC book club at the local bookstore. Each member registers and gets to borrow an Advanced Reader […]
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