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Shoulda Beena Contenda

Button Man by Andrew Gross

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Button Man is my first Andrew Gross novel and it may be my last. Not because it’s bad; at three stars, it’s definitely not. But because it’s bland, predictable, uninspiring. And with a set up that’s right in my wheelhouse: gangsters, Prohibition, New York, etc., I should’ve liked it a lot more than I did. Positives: Gross does get the era of 30s New York right. Supposedly, this story was inspired by tales of his family, some of whom were Jewish immigrants from Russia. I don’t know the nuances of being a Russian Jewish emigre but I’m familiar with the story […]

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10/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:106 |

A mystery, a thriller, and two collections

The Sentence is Death (Hawthorne #2) by Anthony Horowitz

I'll Never Tell by Catherine McKenzie

Full Throttle by Joe Hill

Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg

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(4 stars) The Sentence is Death (Hawthorne #2) by Anthony Horowitz I really like Anthony Horowitz. His mystery novels are such incredible homages to the larger concept of A Mystery Novel. He manages to poke fun at the genre while simultaneously improving it with his writing. The Sentence is Death, his second novel in a series about a curmudgeonly ex-police officer named Hawthorne, was fantastic. Once again, a fictional version of Horowitz (Anthony) acts as the main character and narrator, and the entire novel is deliciously meta. In this novel, Hawthorne shows up at Anthony’s door after a celebrity divorce […]

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10/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:204 |

WHAT THE FRANKENSTEIN (only I did not say Frankenstein) is going on?

Blackbird, Volume 1 by Sam Humphries

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My weekend started normal: a late wake up, couple loads of laundry, off to a fund raiser for Special Olympics (which I did not know about until I get a text from my sister sending me my nephews very awesome Joker inspired pumpkin) and some reading. Mostly my reading was graphic novels and each of them became an experience that is hard to put into words. I will say, they all took me on an emotional roller coaster ride. Blackbird, Volume 1 has several traditional graphic novel/comic staples. Therefore, if you are not a fan of the “comic book style” […]

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10/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:425 |

And then there’s Maud.

An Elderly Lady is Up to Not Good by Helen Tursten

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This a little collection of short stories by the Danish mystery and crime writer Helene Tursten. I haven’t read any of her novels, but she’s published about 10 or so in two different series, which apparently converge here a little with the two different detectives both being small characters in these stories. We find ourselves in a small apartment building that some seventy years ago there was a contract written where the single widowed occupant with her two young daughter would be allowed to live in the space indefinitely, rent-free, and with only a small maintenance and utilities fees paid. […]

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10/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:567 |

I’m pretty sure it’s not you, book, it’s me

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

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3.5 stars Official description: The youngest, half-goblin son of the Emperor has lived his entire life in exile, distant from the Imperial Court and the deadly intrigue that suffuses it. But when his father and three sons in line for the throne are killed in an “accident,” he has no choice but to take his place as the only surviving rightful heir. Entirely unschooled in the art of court politics, he has no friends, no advisors, and the sure knowledge that whoever assassinated his father and brothers could make an attempt on his life at any moment. Surrounded by sycophants […]

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10/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:73 |

“Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.”

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Earlier this year, Taylor Jenkins Reid published Daisy Jones and the Six, which has generally been very well received critically and keeps popping up on “Must read” lists. In several review of that book, I saw this, Jenkins Reid’s previous release, from 2017, highly recommended. Several people who were so-so on Daisy Jones and the Six claimed to prefer The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, and as movie stars seemed more intriguing to me than rock stars, I decided to give it a try. There are multiple narratives in this book.There’s the framing story of magazine journalist Monique Grant who is pretty much hand […]

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10/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:72 |

The World Beyond Your Window

The Girl in the Green Raincoat by Laura Lippman

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Not anything to argue about with the 11th book following Tess Monaghan. Tess pulls a Hitchcock and after spying on a young woman in a green raincoat realizes she hasn’t seen her for a while and worries that something happened to her. Tess can’t do much investigation in this one, and relies on Whitney, and old friends to track down the young woman and find out what happened to her. The ending was definitely a surprise and I liked the change in direction in Tess’s life. “The Girl in the Green Raincoat” is a short story (176 pages to be […]

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10/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:253 |

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

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Double Bingo! (2nd Row Down, Third Across- in Red… Blood Red… Mwahahaha) OK, I loved these books in school, loooovvved them. I must have read all three 5 or six times each. So, for the Back to School Square I decided to give the first one a re-read when I found it in my local used book store. This book gets four stars because it is a really good collection of American folk lore, shoot, it gets one whole star from me just for the Bibliography (plus I now have a whole new reading list. I love folklore). While the […]

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10/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:36 |


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