Loveless by Alice Oseman
Given the author, I was expecting this to fall somewhere on the LGBTQ spectrum, going so far as to ask my fiancee which character(s) on the dust jacket she thought would be on it, but I must say I was surprised to find out where exactly on that spectrum our main character Georgia wound up falling. I … [Read more]
The Perfect Son by Freida McFadden
Do You Remember? by Freida McFadden
The Inmate by Freida McFadden
The Wife Upstairs by Freida McFadden
Well, I’ve done it again. I just can’t quit Freida McFadden. This time I’ve read four books in a row. I have a bingo book I want to start but I upended myself. Let’s review! The Perfect Son. The Perfect Son features a series of murders and disappearances that may have been perpetrated by a … [Read more]
Hell's Paradise Vol 1-13 by Yuji Kaku
CBR14Bingo: Monster -- many of the characters are seen as monsters and they also fight monsters The story of my struggle to get all thirteen of these volumes would drag on too long, but sufficed to say that the paper shortage and resultant out of print plague striking manga has affected us all … [Read more]
The Serpent Sea (The Books of the Raksura, #2) by Martha Wells
This is a good series, it's just not attention grabbing in a month (May) when I had six five-star reads. I'm gonna keep going with the series, though, and definitely on audio! Martha Wells' writing in this series is just so much more subtle than it is in my previous experience with her work, that … [Read more]
Dragon’s Claw by Peter O’Donnell
In almost every Modesty Blaise pulp fiction novel, there’s a thriller formula. Usually, a nefarious and colorful megalomaniac is trying to take over the world/kill everyone/overturn countries and needs some hapless but genius schmo to accomplish a key task in their plan. Modesty and her hunky … [Read more]
Golden Urchin by Madeleine Brent
Like the Modesty Blaise books I’ve read by Peter O’Donnell, his Victorian romances (writing as Madeleine Brent) also follow a familiar structure. I’ve read three of his thriller/romances and they have much in common. Young women in impoverished circumstances (a fishergirl, a Yak-whisperer in Tibet, … [Read more]
