This review is for the audio book version of The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan. This book is the first in a series about disgraced news reporter turned newspaper journalist Jane Ryland and her friend, Detective Jake Brogan. It is a fast paced thriller, full of political intrigue, family drama, jealousy, and unrequited lust. It isn’t groundbreaking, but it was entertaining enough to pick up the second in the series. The book begins with Jane, freshly unemployed after getting her employer sued, interviewing for […]
Lazy Daisies…Mild Wildflowers…
Another unfortunate victim of “if you loved Gone Girl” syndrome. I felt like this was very mild as far as thrillers go, which sounds crazy considering that this is the story of Tessa, the lone surviving Black-Eyed Susan who was dumped in a grave with other victims of a serial killer. As an adult, Tessa is unsure that the man scheduled to die for the crimes is the true killer and she seeks out legal help to exonerate the convicted man. The chapters alternate from […]
A diabolical and clever thriller
I write my reviews as I read. I’m sure most do it’s the only way to really express the nuances and little things you notice as you are reading, as opposed to trying to remember when the story is over. This partly explains why I’ve been mostly absent this year; my review file was lost when I moved computers and I can barely remember what I read this year, let alone what I thought about them. I had this review nearly ready to go with […]
The worst road trip since Crossroads
We all know the story. Boy meets girl, boy falls for girl based on no discernible criteria, girl isn’t interested, boy knocks girl out, stuffs her in a suitcase and holds her captive on a deranged road trip. Teo Alevar lives in Rio de Janiero with his disabled mother and her dog. A med student, his best and only friend is a cadaver named Gertrude. He’s not interested in other people, and doesn’t think he’s capable of love until he meets Clarice. And thus begins […]
That’ll do.
I got this as one of the Kindle Deals of the Day or something like that. Cheap, portable, and dark and twisty–a perfect vacation read. I read Kubica’s The Good Girl and can’t remember a darn.thing.about.it, but I know I liked it. I don’t even care how stupid that sounds…sometimes you just want a page-turner for the pool chair. I started Pretty Baby with the same expectations and it didn’t disappoint. Heidi, a perpetual helper, sees a homeless girl with an infant on the L platform and, […]
Gillian Flynn is the M Night Shyamalan of Literature
Because boy does she love her plot twists, and throwing plot twists in the middle of her plot twists. I probably would have enjoyed this book more when it came out, or before I had read any of Flynn’s other stories. Or before Gone Girl, and anyone who hadn’t read her books could remain ignorant of this reputation. But I have read some of her other stories, and I know all about her love of plot twists. I wasn’t really on the lookout for the […]
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