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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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The forest and the trees

North Woods by Daniel Mason

March 17, 2025 by Fiat.Luxury Leave a Comment

I don’t know how to summarize this book – a potpourri of genres (although mostly historical fiction, if you had to pinpoint it), a truly eclectic cast of characters, and incredible prose. The kind of book where you think about the characters after the book is closed, and you puzzle over the last chapter even though he totally stuck the landing (endings are so hard!) Mason somehow describes both the forest and the trees in a very readable and really kinda weird novel. He sharply […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: books set in massachusetts, Daniel mason, historical fiction, Massachusetts, north woods

Fiat.Luxury's CBR17 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: books set in massachusetts, Daniel mason, historical fiction, Massachusetts, north woods ·
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Interesting plot rather let down by stock characters

Whiskey Beach by Nora Roberts

February 25, 2022 by Dinah Lord 2 Comments

About a year or so ago, I bought a few of Nora Roberts’ romantic thrillers, but only found this one this week after getting Katee Robert’s Dark Olympus titles through Apple Books (normally I read ebooks via Kindle). The Nora Roberts formula seems to be: throw two characters with traumatic or difficult pasts together in a small town setting, and have them resolve some of their past issues through dealing with a current threat. In previous titles, it’s been the nominal hero disregarding the heroine’s […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: books set in massachusetts, formulaic, Nora Roberts, people have boundaries for a reason, romantic thriller

Dinah Lord's CBR14 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: books set in massachusetts, formulaic, Nora Roberts, people have boundaries for a reason, romantic thriller ·
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