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If you must break the law, do it to seize power.

SPQR I: The King's Gambit by John Maddox Roberts

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In the year 70 BC, highborn Roman official Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger tries to solve two murders, the disembowelment of a foreign merchant and the garroting of an ex-gladiator, and an arson that were all committed in his district. Organised crime has an unbreakable hold on the city, and corruption, intrigues, and brutality run rampant, but these crimes seem much more than business as usual. The book seems to be well researched and contains a wealth of information about the Rome of this particular time. Roberts explains food (deep-fried sow’s udder stuffed with Libyan mice anyone?), society, politics, slavery, […]

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8/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:41 |

DO NOT READ THE BOOK JACKET! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

The Witch Elm by Tana French

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If you are in the least bit interested in this story- as an avid reader of Tana French or a curious newcomer- then heed the warning and DO NOT be tempted by the book jacket! The inciting action is described- in detail- right on the open flap of the cover, but you will spend a good 250 pages wandering around in wait. It will ruin one of the many surprises, and lend an unnecessary element of additional suspense to something that is already full of deepening dread. Do not do it! Now that you have been adequately warned, feel free […]

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8/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:9 |

Viscerally Real

The Savage Detectives by Robert Bolaño

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The Savage Detectives is a lot. Being my second Bolaño doorstopper of the year, I assumed I knew what I was in for. I was way off. This was a far more challenging read than 2666. It had its rewards and I’m glad I stuck with it. But I needed to take a break halfway through, at the risk of putting it aside for good. I’m glad I did because the plot is not the most important thing going on here. This can possibly be considered a hangout novel. Aside from the bookending sections that are narrations from someone’s journal, the bulk […]

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8/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:78 |

Better late than never for CBR? (Bingo Square: Classics)

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

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I read A Study in Scarlet a few weeks ago to prepare for Cannonball Read and… forgot to review. So here’s my quick review before I dive into the discussion posts because I don’t want to be influenced. I’d read this before as a kid, when I went through a big Sherlock Holmes binge and read as many of the stories as I could get my hands on before I eventually got rather bored. Reading this now as an adult, I remember why I got bored–this one struggled to hold my interest. And this is one of the more exciting ones, in […]

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8/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

More Marlowe

The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

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“Organized crime is just the dirty side of the sharp dollar.” “What’s the clean side?” “I never saw it. Let’s have a drink.” If quotes like that excite you, and you tend to view the world through a haze of cigarette smoke and gimlet fog, then this book could very well be for you. The Long Goodbye is Raymond Chandler’s sixth novel featuring the jaded private dick with a heart of…silver, Philip Marlowe. It’s not the best in the series, but it’s towards the top. For my money The Lady in the Lake and The Big Sleep in the lead spots. […]

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8/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:29 |

Elements of Story Were Interesting, Just Didn’t Work

Deception on His Mind by Elizabeth George

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So…we have a book where Havers is the lead and Lynley is only in it for a few moments. I don’t think the book worked without Lynley being included. Also Havers started to bug me since based on her character it made zero sense why she got so invested in her next door neighbor. I also thought the ending of who killed the murdered man was a reach and a half. It just didn’t make any sense from what we know. I honestly thought it was another character. Also there were too many loose ends that left me feeling unsatisfied. […]

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8/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:192 |

Great Book in Series That Focuses on Havers

In The Presence of the Enemy by Elizabeth George

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Not too much to say except how much I loved this one. George focuses not on Lynley in this one, but also Havers for a good portion. We have a shocking crime and a reveal that I didn’t see coming. There is some poor Deborah stuff going on, but it’s not all encompassing like it has been in the last few books. “In the Presence of the Enemy” follows a tabloid journalist (Dennis Luxford) who is told that unless he prints the truth about his first born on the front page of his newspaper, then he is going to be […]

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8/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:191 |

When your crazy camp founder wants you to find his (possibly real) lost treasure

Pathfinders Society: The Mystery of the Moon Tower by Francesco Sedita

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#cbr11bingo #RadingtheTBR Not out until April 2020, I am seriously unable to wait patiently for the second book/for the ending! Ending on a slow cliffhanger, Francesco Sedita and Prescott Seraydarian created a fun graphic novel for kids into adventure, realistic fantasy, and friendship in The Pathfinders Society: The Mystery of the Moon Tower. Ages 8 to 10 can follow Kyle, Vic, Beth, Harry, and Nate, five kids with nothing in common but being at the Pathfinders camp, where kids swim, deal with random and frequent downpours of rain and bouts of fog, treasure hunt and dodge natural gas leaks. (In […]

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8/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:314 |


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