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First Lie Wins: the spy thriller that wasn’t

First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston

June 17, 2024 by donttrustthe_bea 1 Comment

mood music: Secrets – the weeknd Yet again, I find myself in the minority opinion after my latest “read.” I chose to listen to the audiobook version of this title while nursing a cold, and while the first third of the story was intriguing and well-paced, the latter two-thirds fell apart for me in a way that I had to read a summary to understand what happened at the end. To me, it felt like there were a lot of plot points that were left […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #suspensenovel, alias, ashley elston, double life, literary fiction

donttrustthe_bea's CBR16 Review No:18 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #suspensenovel, alias, ashley elston, double life, literary fiction ·
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Even without David Tennant, these books get a big thumbs up.

July 25, 2016 by scootsa1000 2 Comments

Like everyone else in the world who has Netflix, my husband and I binged Jessica Jones last year. And we loved it. I’m not a huge Marvel person, so to me, that was a big deal. I’ve only seen one of the Avengers movies, I hated the two Thor movies that I saw, thought the first Captain America was a bore (although, I quite liked the second one), and have abstained almost completely from the X-Men ouevre. And I hated Daredevil on Netflix. Couldn’t even […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: aka jessica jones, alias, bill sienkiewicz, brian michael bendis, CBR8, David Tennant, Graphic Novel, marvel, michael gaydos, Scootsa1000

scootsa1000's CBR8 Review No:35 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: aka jessica jones, alias, bill sienkiewicz, brian michael bendis, CBR8, David Tennant, Graphic Novel, marvel, michael gaydos, Scootsa1000 ·
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