Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? by Dr Julie Smith
Best for: People looking for some tools to help them handle challenges of life. In a nutshell: Therapist Dr Smith (who is apparently also very popular on social media) offers tips, exercises, and tools to address some of the issues many people face. Worth quoting: “We can live a happy and … [Read more]
Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4) by Seishi Yokomizo
I think I might be done with this series. It's really lost its charm. I might give it one more go if they translate a fifth book, but it will be by hard copy not by audio. You expect a certain amount of clashing cultural mores when you read a book that was written over fifty years before, but … [Read more]
The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass
It's nearly always a good thing when one of your only complaints about a book is "I wanted more". I say nearly, because I have read some stinkers where the main thing wrong was that the author didn't actually do the work of fleshing out the world and the characters. Here, that's not the problem. … [Read more]
Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones
I suppose it was inevitable that I wouldn't perfectly gel with every single thing SGJ has written. This was good, but not really my thing. At first, I was really into it because I love a chatty, informal narrator (when done well). And in the style regard, I can't fault this book at all. It's … [Read more]
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
So after a night where this book sat in my subconscious probably doing things to me, I'm upping my rating to five stars. I can't stop thinking about it, and the ending did what I want more horror endings to to do for me. There are quite a few people who experience a sort of literary catharsis with … [Read more]
Book of Night (Book of Night, #1) by Holly Black
This has been getting pretty bad reviews, especially for how anticipated it was. Most of my friends have given it three stars or lower, or DNFed it. I was determined not to let that affect me, and I'm so glad I didn't! This is a deceptively small book that gets off to a weird start, but as I kept … [Read more]
