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Issues with Plotting and Ending

It's Always the Husband by Michele Campbell

November 5, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

So I finished this last night and initially was all this is a really great book. Then I sat and thought about it and said, well except for some of the character development, and the plot holes that were not tied up, and then the ending. But other than that, it was great. I have to say that I liked the set-up of the book (three college friends) but think that it was hard to even see why the three women kept in touch. Nothing […]

Wow! What A Fantastic Thriller

Let Me Lie by Clare Mackintosh

October 24, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

Since I had to get this back to the library this week, I moved this up and am wrapping up my “Watchers” read as well. I have to say that I could not put this book down last night! It was insanely good and the twists I didn’t see coming well expertly done. I also like how Mackintosh plays with POVs via some of the narrative choices she chose. I thought this worked from beginning to end and I have to go back and read […]

Maybe If I Had Started With Book #1

Anything for You by Saul Black

October 22, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Not much to say here, I could not get into this book. Other reviewers mentioned how crude it is, and honestly it is. I just couldn’t root for the main character, Valerie Hart. I don’t know if I would have felt differently if I had read book #1 (The Killing Lessons) and book #2 (LoveMurder). Valerie is obsessed with sex it seems and her ties to this case […]

Great Book, It’s Just Not a Thriller or Suspense Book as Marketed

After the End by Clare Mackintosh

October 22, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

So this is weird to me. This book definitely meets somewhat being slightly classified as a mystery novel based on how the author tells the story and the question that is left open in the end. But it’s not really a mystery novel. So I wondered at it being more a women’s fiction book. And then a friend and I got into that a bit. So instead of The Book Gods post, you get Blue’s comments with a friend while out drinking prosecco last night […]

It’s been a long time since I was this disappointed in a book

The Abominable by Dan Simmons

October 2, 2019 by TheShitWizard Leave a Comment

This review contains spoilers, so if you want to save The Abominable for yourself, you’re not going to want to read what follows. . . . . Not too long ago, I read and loved The Terror which was a delicious mix of history and fiction, spiced up with a little supernatural to make a truly compelling book set in a place I love reading about. I thought that The Abominable would do for climbing Everest what The Terror did for Artic exploration. On this […]

Oooooh New York…

Twisted City by Jason Starr

September 27, 2019 by Jake Leave a Comment

After several false starts, I was finally able to finish a Jason Starr novel. The results are about what I expected. Jim Thompson, whom Starr is no doubt cribbing from here, is one of my favorite writers. He writes psychological thrillers in which characters are forced into difficult circumstances that are largely beyond their control and all of their choices are bad. No one is better at identifying the dark heart of chaos beneath what we as humans pass for order. Starr is no Thompson […]

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