I’m not a comics girl. I’ve never gotten the appeal of graphic novels. I don’t watch Jessica Jones or Supergirl, the only Iron Man I’ve seen is the third one and that was only because my kid made me, and I’ve never seen a Batman movie, although I do own Wonder Woman Underoos. Also, apparently there are two different comic universes and you can’t cross characters, which is something I just recently discovered, much to the chagrin of my friends, but I still don’t know […]
Not really over the moon about this one
I’m totally cheating on this one, and taking the synopsis from Amazon. What can I say? I can’t quite remember the story. June, 1947. Charleston is poised to celebrate the biggest wedding in high-society history, the joining of two of the oldest families in the city. Except the bride is nowhere to be found… Unlike the rest of the debs she grew up with, Vada Hadley doesn’t see marrying Justin McLeod as a blessing—she sees it as a life sentence. So when she finds herself […]
Definitely Screwy
Loose Screws is one of those books that I’m pretty sure I downloaded for $1.99 one night when I wanted something fluffy and light. It’s not going to set the world on fire, but it was a serviceable diversion. Sometimes I don’t want to learn something when I read, I just want to feel better about my own life. And however complicated my life is, at least I’m not Ginger Petrocelli. When we first meet Ginger, she’s sitting in her tiny apartment (although it’s not […]
There’s no volleyball with a bloody handprint in this book
I read this a few months ago, but I, like so many of you, am woefully behind on my reviews, so I’m not 100% sure I’m remembering the story accurately. The Castaways introduces the reader to a close-knit group of six friends – three couples – who are reeling from the sudden and mysterious deaths of the other two members of their circle of eight, Tess and Greg MacAvoy. The group consists of Eddie, the local police chief, and his wife Andrea, who was Tess’ […]
You can’t have all the things in your book. Pick one. Or two. Or even three. But not all.
Boss gave me this book. He has this habit of ordering things willy-nilly without knowing too much about them, so occasionally he runs in to what he considers a dud and is kind enough to pass those duds to me. He read the first few pages, told me he couldn’t stand the main character, but since he considered me pretty snarky, he thought I might enjoy it. And then told me he wanted to know what the secret was, so I had to read the […]
The South is still haunted
In The Cutting Season, we meet Caren Gray, a young single mother working as the manager of a crumbling Louisiana antebellum plantation that’s been turned in to a wedding and banquet facility. She and her nine year old daughter live on the property, spending their days in the same buildings where Caren’s mother once worked as a cook, and where her three times great grandfather was a slave. The plantation sits up against a sugar cane field, and when one of the cane workers is […]
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