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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 |

Graveyard Surf

Night Shift by Stephen King

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CBR11Bingo: The Collection The stories in Night Shift, Stephen King’s first collection of short stories, read for the most part like spec scripts for The Twilight Zone. They’re high-concept stories with dynamite premises and most of them have that signature Twilight Zone ironic ending or twist. King is great at establishing a world filled with realistic characters even as the plots themselves are bizarre and occasionally ridiculous. The collection kicks off with “Jerusalem’s Lot”, set in the vampire-infested town of King’s Salem’s Lot more than a century prior to the novel. It’s epistolary format helps establish an eerie mood as […]

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10/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:37 |

If Uncle Stevie’s name is on it, odds are I’m going to read it.

Flight or Fright by Stephen King, Bev Vincent

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CBR11bingo #TheCollection Its no secret that I am not a huge fan of flying. I understand that it is the safest way to travel. But I usually choose to drive if I can. I like to be able to choose my own route, to leave when I want to leave, to stop when I want to stop. I like to be in control of my journey. I think the lack of that control in an airplane is part of what makes me uneasy. Oh, and the fact that I’m in a metal tube shooting across the sky is another part. […]

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10/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:44 |

CBR11 #5: The Darkness on the Edge of Town

You Might Forget The Sky Was Ever Blue by Michael Chin

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First of all, I have to admit that this review is probably going to be a little biased because the author happens to be a friend of mine. I’ve known Mike for twenty-three years (Jesus, really?) since I was fourteen. We went to nerd camp together — a total of nine weeks over the course of three years. We took writing classes together and wrote letters during the off-season (yes letters! On paper!) A character in his first published work was based on and named after me, a fact that still, nearly twenty years later, inordinately pleases me. I like […]

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10/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:5 |

Party Down

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

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This is a great short story collection. I found it randomly in my local used book store and since picking it up I’ve seen in on all kinds of “best of” lists, which is great, because this book is great. As with most short story collections I pick up I read it over a bit of time and not all in one go. I like to use short story collections as palate cleansers while reading other books, so it’ll take me a while to finish one, even if I really like it. This being the case, my memory on the […]

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10/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:34 |

Last Short Story Was a Bust

Randomize by Andy Weir

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So this was the shortest of the stories in the “Forward” collection and honestly my least favorite. It was beyond boring and the ending was just a meh moment to me. I wanted something more for a supposed science fiction book. Talking about quantum physics and entanglement didn’t do a thing for me. “Randomize” is at the heart just a boring heist story. We follow a member that plans on stealing from a Las Vegas casino using quantum physics. Yeah, that’s a new one on me. It’s still boring though. And the last little bit is just a lot of […]

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10/1/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:245 |

The Last Words You Will Hear…

The Last Conversation by Paul Tremblay

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Wow. This was a bang up short story in the collection. I loved it. It had a lot of horror elements I thought working for it too. The ending gave my goosebumps. “The Last Conversation” follows an unnamed person (we never find out if they are male or female which I liked) who wakes up slowly and cannot see. We don’t know what has happened, except a person named Doctor Kuhn is the only person that the unnamed person can talk to via an intercom. The unnamed person is run through daily tests and told hints and pieces about their […]

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10/1/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:244 |

Third Act Weighs Down Short Story

You Have Arrived at Your Destination by Amor Towles

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Well not too much to say about this one except the third act one of the characters went on about actually weighed down this book a lot. I loved the concept (able to use an algorithm to choose what path an unborn child will possibly lead) but after the character of Sam lives the corporation the book just got messy. “You Have Arrived at Your final Destination” follows Sam whose wife Annie has talked him into having a child via a corporation called Vitek which does “genetic nudging.” Vitek can supposedly use enough “science” to lead a couple to determine […]

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10/1/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:243 |


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