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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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Government drone by day and book lover and geek girl by night! I review on Goodreads, StoryGraph, and NetGalley. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Classic's Quick Questions interview.)

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Great Debut for Character from Rhyme Books

March 6, 2017 by Classic Leave a Comment

I was really intrigued by the character of Kathryn Dance in “Cold Moon.” Having a character that uses kinesics in order to get witnesses and suspects to open up and or confess. In “The Sleeping Doll” we get more information on the character of Kathryn Dance. She works at the California Bureau of Investigation (think of a state office set up like the FBI) and is about to interrogate a man who murdered a family decades earlier (Daniel Pell). Pell is seen as similar to […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: crime, Jeffrey Deaver, Kathryn Dance #1, mystery, The Sleeping Doll

Classic's CBR9 Review No:77 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: crime, Jeffrey Deaver, Kathryn Dance #1, mystery, The Sleeping Doll ·
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This Series Needs a Shakeup Fast

March 5, 2017 by Classic 9 Comments

Well I don’t know what to really say except that I found this whole book except for a couple places to be extremely disappointing. I really do think that it would be better if this series either ends soon or does a jump forward in time or we follow another person to take up the “In Death” mantle like Nikki Swisher from the “Survivor in Death” book which was# 24. That gets me on another topic can you believe it’s been a year since the […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: crime, Echoes in Death, Futuristic, In Death #44, J.D. Robb, jd robb, mystery, romance

Classic's CBR9 Review No:76 · Genres: Romance · Tags: crime, Echoes in Death, Futuristic, In Death #44, J.D. Robb, jd robb, mystery, romance ·
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What a Great Sneak Preview

March 3, 2017 by Classic Leave a Comment

Wow. I had no idea how much I was missing “The Girl With All the Gifts” until I read this free extended preview of “The Boy on the Bridge.” This is not a sequel they say, but it takes place in the same post apocalyptic world that Carey wrote about in “The Girl With All The Gifts.” We seem to be following another team that is out to figure out how to combat the hungries in a changed world. We start off following the POV […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: M.R. Carey, science fiction, The Boy on the Bridge

Classic's CBR9 Review No:75 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: M.R. Carey, science fiction, The Boy on the Bridge ·
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Woman Has Choice Between Man Who Treats Her Badly and a Boring But Nice Guy, Guess Who She Chooses?

March 2, 2017 by Classic Leave a Comment

Sorry for the long title, but this whole book irked the life out of me. I get that Holt is writing Gothic romances, but she always seems to take the worst parts of Mr. Rochester (Jane Eyre) and Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights) and uses that to make the male heroes in these stories. I think Heathcliff was terrible by the way for anyone that is ready to jump at me in the comments. I think due to the last book and this one I am going […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Gothic Romance, The Shivering Sands, Victoria Holt

Classic's CBR9 Review No:74 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Gothic Romance, The Shivering Sands, Victoria Holt ·
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I said, murder, good God, now, what is it good for?

March 2, 2017 by Classic Leave a Comment

I love me some Christie. She is getting me through some bad times right now. I plan on reading the rest of her backlist and didn’t realize until after the fact I grabbed up the Superintendent Battle series (this is number 4) and am reading out of order now. I will correct that later. “Murder is Easy” confused me a bit since I recall this being a Miss Marple television episode. So when I started reading about Luke Fitzwilliam and there was no sign of […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: agatha christie, crime, Murder is Easy, mystery, Superintendent Battle #4

Classic's CBR9 Review No:73 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: agatha christie, crime, Murder is Easy, mystery, Superintendent Battle #4 ·
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There Was a Crooked Man…

March 1, 2017 by Classic Leave a Comment

Honestly I don’t have that much to say here besides the fact that I really really love this book. This was one of Agatha Christie’s favorite books and I can see why. There are a lot of twists and turns and I thought I figured out the perpetrator, but per usual, I was wrong. “Crooked House” follows the character of Charles Hayward, as he goes about investigating who could have murdered his potential fiance’s (Sophia) grandfather, Mr. Aristide Leonides. Christie sets up the book so […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: agatha christie, Crooked House, mystery, Suspense

Classic's CBR9 Review No:72 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: agatha christie, Crooked House, mystery, Suspense ·
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