This is a book, and now a movie, that should not be spoiled, so don’t read past the spoiler warning if you haven’t already read the book. Although, I was 99% sure I knew who the murderer was and why fairly quickly. I wasn’t surprised, but this book is really more about uncovering memory and revealing the things we already know, than it is an actual whodunnit. Rachel is an alcoholic who gets black out drunk. She is having a hard time moving on from […]
My Dad is a Paranoid Megalomanic Wizard Who Refuses to Respect my Boundaries.
Short non-spoilery review – this is a solid entry in an excellent series. If you aren’t reading the Kate Daniels series, you should start. On to the longer and inevitably spoilery review (there is no way to talk about book 9 in a series without getting spoilery). Planning a wedding was never going to be Kate’s favorite thing to do, but tensions rising with her father and oracles calling with dark prophecies push wedding planning even farther down the list of priorities. Worse, Kate’s claiming […]
Anne Boleyn and the Case of the Unreliable Narrator
I was fascinated by Anne Boleyn as a child. I saw a production of The Six Wives of Henry VIII, probably on Masterpiece Theater and was entranced by the idea of a queen who was executed by her King. My recent review of It Ended Badly reminded me that I had bought The Creation of Anne Boleyn after reading Gabby N’s CBR8 review, earlier this year. I didn’t realize how little is really known about Anne Boleyn. Susan Bordo examines the popular portrayals of Anne […]
I Feel Like I’m Not Liking the Things Other People are Liking
I found reading this book frustrating. I enjoyed it, and then I’d slam into a sentence or phrase that reminded me the author is a man. I have no inherent problem with male authors and I know men can write women, but this author seems to have had a hard time letting go of the male gaze. It did impact my enjoyment and lowered my star rating. Also lowering my rating were the endless letter/info dumps. I’ve read some other CBR reviews of The Rook, […]
You Can be Anne Boleyn or Eleanor of Aquitaine, Just Don’t be Nero
None of my breakups have been particularly dramatic. Maybe that’s why I have a fascination for messy break ups. Messy, not violent. I’m not in favor of violence. Nero did not feel the same way. Nero loved violence. If I learned nothing else from this book, it’s that I do not want to live during the Roman Empire. I’m also in an anti-romance phase. It’ll pass, but for now, reading about love affairs gone wrong and listening to murder podcasts is my bag. Jennifer Wright […]
How to (Not) Get Away With Bank Larceny
I saw a trailer for a movie called Masterminds and something about it seemed familiar, beyond the usual familiarity of derivative comedy. I looked it up on Wikipedia and discovered the movie was based on a true story, a story I had entertained myself with while bored at work in 1999. A little more research led me to the book, Heist, written by Jeff Diamant, a journalist who had covered the case for the Charlotte Observer. Heist is about the 1997 Loomis heist in Charlotte, North […]
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