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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 |

The Movie Was Better

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

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So this book was okay, but the ending was a letdown especially since when you think about things in a logical way you realize that what was really going on was pretty dumb. The book drags a lot too. The movie managed to move things along quickly with a lot of great imagery. Lehane in this book though makes you go over and over things and you quickly get tired of the investigation. It’s not until the final reveal of things that the book gets moving in my opinion. I thought the prologue did a nice job of setting things […]

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10/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:250 |

Deadly Halloween

Trick or Treat by Richie Tankersley Cusick

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Wow. Not too much to say except for the most part this was enjoyable. The book drags at times and the character development beyond a few people wasn’t really there, but this was a good representation of young adult horror books from the late 80s/90s. So “Trick or Treat” follows 16 year old Martha. Martha’s father has recently got married and is now moving him and Martha to move in with his new wife and his stepson in the town of Bedford. Martha hates the scary old house that they move into, and when she finds out that almost a […]

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10/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:248 |

It’s been a long time since I was this disappointed in a book

The Abominable by Dan Simmons

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This review contains spoilers, so if you want to save The Abominable for yourself, you’re not going to want to read what follows. . . . . Not too long ago, I read and loved The Terror which was a delicious mix of history and fiction, spiced up with a little supernatural to make a truly compelling book set in a place I love reading about. I thought that The Abominable would do for climbing Everest what The Terror did for Artic exploration. On this front, the first two parts of the book delivered. But sadly, despite the promise on […]

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10/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:43 |

East and west style and story blended together for one bada$$ read

Monstress Volume 1: Awaking by Marjorie M. Liu

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Do you like gut wrenching, WTF was that crazy ride reading? Do you like your science fiction and reality mixed? Or a mixing of a historic feel and magic at every turn? Then give Monstress Volume 1: Awaking by Marjorie M. Liu a try. I stole these pieces of reviews from Good Reads: This book is “Asian inspired/art deco/classic steampunk horror/high fantasy/talking cats’ graphic novel.”  “The art is dark and lovely.” And, “stellar manga nouveau artwork.” Sana Takeda is in the top ten of my favorite fantasy illustrators. The art is all that. The story is all that. And more. […]

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10/1/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:399 |

I Stared into the Abyss…

Strangers by Dean Koontz

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This has to be one of my least favorite reads of 2019. Good lord this is just bad. And it has too many characters and not enough plot. When we finally get to the whole conspiracy aspect of this I laughed. I think since this was written in 1986 it made sense to Koontz to write it the way that he did. However, as someone who grew up watching B level monster movies, this is just no comparison at all. This book also indulges in all of Koontz’s many writing weaknesses through the years, we can see his beginning fascination […]

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10/1/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:242 |

Would you have stopped? Would it have made a difference?

The Breakdown by B. A. Paris

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Imagine  you’re driving down a super dark, windy road, full of twists and turns.  There are dips and bumps, and it’s raining.  The trees feel like they’re closing in on you, but you see headlights up ahead!  Almost too late, you realize the car is stopped, and you have to swerve around them.  Is the person stranded?  Do you stop and help them?  You don’t want to get out in the rain…   This is the premise of The Breakdown.  The main character – Cass – is on her way home from happy hour with her coworkers and she takes […]

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9/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:41 |

What if you weren’t sure if your old friend murdered his entire family?

The Dry by Jane Harper

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My sister gave me this book to read after she read the entire thing on our Christmas vacation at the end of last year in like two days.  She loved it, and she wanted me to love it too.  Unfortunately my to be read pile was waaaay too high, and it takes me a while to read “actual” books, so it took me a while to get to this book.  Fortunately though, I read it in two days!  It was really good.  I liked the characters a lot, and I really liked the story. This is the first in the […]

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9/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:40 |


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