Another Cannonball favorite finally made its way up my TBR list, and I had mixed feelings. I honestly don’t know why any reviews anywhere ever would call this book fast-paced, because the pace was absolutely killing me for the first half. Nothing happened but cryptic allusions to secrets and Rachel’s alcoholism and depression. I hated it for a while. Every time I put it down I’d feel kind of sad and crappy about life for a few hours before I finally realized that Rachel’s miserable […]
Honestly tho, what kind of donut shop only has crumb donuts
I really wanted to go for this one. It really could have worked. I honestly didn’t even mind the BIG TWIST, which, you know, when your narrator has traumatic brain damage, it’s almost like, “Of course,” when ~*~ things aren’t what they seem ~*~. I just felt very disconnected, very removed from the proceedings. Which may be a direct function of the narrator/protagonist feeling that way herself, due to her memory loss and bouts of illness keeping her out of the loop, both in understanding […]
A magical ice apocalypse in Dublin
After an epic five novels, Karen Marie Moning switches the narrator to Dani “Mega” O’Malley in Iced. The previous entries focused on MacKayla “Mac” Lane, new to all things magic and unknowingly gifted with magical powers to fight evil & SEXY AF fairy princes who want to destroy our world. These Unseelie princes nearly do by tearing a hole between their magical dimension and ours to let in all kinds of nasty monsters. During her battles against the apocalypse, Mac befriends a 13 year old girl named Dani […]
“It was not the sea that was cruel, but the people…”
Both JB and Boss read The Lifeboat and I think that they both liked it more than I did, although I just asked Boss and he said after having been away from it for awhile, he felt it was fine but kind of flat. JB said it was a fascinating look at human behavior, and I suppose he’s right, but it just didn’t set me on fire the way I think it did him. I think that this is one of those books that you […]
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, […]
I mean, but really he’s just saying what we’re all thinking, right?
I had to start this review by searching for the differences between sociopaths and psychopaths. Never say that I don’t strive for accuracy! Joe Goldberg is a psychopath. We met him in Kepnes’ GLORIOUS debut novel, You, which I easily 5-starred in 2014. If you haven’t already read it, I highly recommend that you do so. At the time I described it as “Lolita for the Twitterverse”, and the story of Joe Goldberg’s obsession with Guinevere Beck really set the unlikeable, unreliable narrator trend on […]