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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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DC Sniper Case Comes to New York

March 1, 2017 by Classic 4 Comments

Well this is probably going to go down as one of my least favorite “In Death” books. I think the main reason is because after reading a lot of Jeffery Deaver and Michael Connelly the past two months, reading a JD Robb mystery/crime/romance novels is just not going to ring my bell. Usually I’m all for watching Eve, Rourke and their friends tracking down the bad guys. however, this book tells you who the perpetrators are at about the 24% point and then a major […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Apprentice in Death, Futuristic, In Death #43, J.D. Robb, jd robb, mystery, romance

Classic's CBR9 Review No:71 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Apprentice in Death, Futuristic, In Death #43, J.D. Robb, jd robb, mystery, romance ·
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I Ended Up Missing Futurama

March 1, 2017 by Classic Leave a Comment

Honestly I think that for the most part I was bored by this book. I think the fact that I am a girl that has grown up reading Stephen King, none of the plot points in this book were surprising to me. Dark Matter follows the character of Jason Dessen after he is abducted by a mysterious man in a mask and finds himself in a place that’s familiar but is altogether different than the world he is use to. Jason spends most of the […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: Blake Crouch, dark matter, mystery, science fiction

Classic's CBR9 Review No:70 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: Blake Crouch, dark matter, mystery, science fiction ·
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Fear the Data

February 24, 2017 by Classic Leave a Comment

Well after a kick butt book #7, I had high hopes for book #8, instead this one floundered a lot IMHO. We also have Sachs in my opinion being a total nitwit for how she handles an inappropriate relationship with someone she is close to. And I have to say that this book was highly repetitive from beginning to end. I think that Deaver was trying to tell three stories in this one, and they all get pretty lost. The ending I found to be […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Jeffrey Deaver, Lincoln Rhyme #8, mystery

Classic's CBR9 Review No:69 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Jeffrey Deaver, Lincoln Rhyme #8, mystery ·
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So Enters Moriarty

February 24, 2017 by Classic Leave a Comment

I really enjoyed the seventh book in the Lincoln Rhyme series. This one also gives us a first look at a character that Deaver spins off into her own series, Kathryn Dance. We get to see the science side of things and also how Dance uses her expertise in kinesics, which is the science of body language, nonverbal gestures, postures and facial expressions. Dance works at the California Bureau of Investigation and gets pulled into this case via Lon Selitto who believes that Dance can […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Lincoln Rhyme 7, mystery, The Cold Moon

Classic's CBR9 Review No:68 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Lincoln Rhyme 7, mystery, The Cold Moon ·
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Fragmented Story

February 24, 2017 by Classic Leave a Comment

This book feels pretty fragmented to me. I think Connelly missed a great chance to showcase both Bosch and Haller in this one. Instead we primarily follow Bosch around as he acts like he is being tortured to investigate a case for Haller. And we weirdly have POV’s showing the killers in this one so you don’t have any kind of surprise when Bosch eventually finds out what is going on. I really hate mystery books that do this since you as a reader are […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Harry Bosch #20, Michael Connelly, mystery, The Crossing

Classic's CBR9 Review No:67 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Harry Bosch #20, Michael Connelly, mystery, The Crossing ·
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Downward Slide in Series

February 23, 2017 by Classic Leave a Comment

I am hard cringing at how much I disliked this book. I feel bad for it, I feel like it tried really hard and all I can keep saying is that it needs to do better. There are continuity problems galore, the fact that even though the years are passing (it’s been at least 3-4 years since the last book) that Bosch and his daughter Maddie are still the same age. We have Bosch investigating two cases (not related) and he stupidly gets in trouble […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Harry Bosch #19, Michael Connelly, The Burning Room

Classic's CBR9 Review No:66 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Harry Bosch #19, Michael Connelly, The Burning Room ·
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