I can’t quite bring myself to give this a full five stars, but at the same time, I can’t think of anything I’d change about it, either. This is an extremely solid brain-twist of a science fiction thriller. It’s confident and fast-paced, and I think I read it in about three hours. Jason is a physics professor at a small college in Chicago. He has a wife and a teenage son, and he loves his life. And then one night on his way home with […]
Okay, sure. Girl, Train, Murder. Fine.
Okay, first of all, Rachel, the main character, is in her thirties. She’d a woman. She’s a WOMAN on the train. Second of all, uhm, sure, fine, I guess. The girl on the train is an easy read. Not much happens on the pages, the story is pretty straightforward even as Rachel blacks out and forgets large parts of it. But blackouts do not equal nuance. It’s impossible to miss anything. Everything that is lost in black outs or changes in point of view, are […]
Gone, Baby, Gone
It’s the kind of story that keeps parents up at night. After Anne and Marco Conti’s babysitter cancels at the last minute, the couple argues about what to do. Anne wants to cancel their dinner date next door. Her neighbor Cynthia has made it very clear their six-month old daughter Cora is not welcome. Marco convinces Anne to go anyway. They’ll bring the baby monitor. They’ll check on their daughter every thirty minutes. She’ll be fine. Annie, wine-drunk, struggling with postnatal depression and watching her […]
“I’m only twelve. But I’ve been that for a long time.”
I don’t read a lot of horror, nor do I watch a lot of horror, because generally speaking, I’m not the kind of person who derives entertainment or thrills from being scared. A little suspense is great, and I can also handle a pretty good amount of gore, so it’s hard to say what goes from acceptable to nightmare fuel, but in any case, when it gets to be too much, I’m out. So, a book, movie, or show labeled “horror” needs a lot of […]
Plumbing the Future and the Past for Thrills
I read these two books in close succession to one another. James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge – Zoo Zoo cover art Patterson and friends’ book are always a quick, fast, beach read, and Zoo was pretty entertaining in parts. Taking what humans have done to the world – pollution, deforestation, cell phone towers, etc. – and taking to the nth degree how all of that technology might affect the world’s animal populations is a clever concept. But … the overall book was a bit clunky. I felt like the some […]
Do literally anything else with your time
Full disclosure: I didn’t actually finish this book. However, I did read about 300 pages of this bloated novel, so I feel pretty comfortable writing a review. It was so tempting to finish The Cartel after reading so much of it but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. Those are hours of my life I could be reading The Babysitter’s Club fanfiction or watching cat videos on youtube. I put this book on my TBR list after hearing a great interview Don Winslow […]
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