I had such high hopes for this one, guys. Pretty Girls had positive reviews, strong word-of-mouth, and I really pretty cover that I could Instagram the hell out of. You see?! And yay, mini cupcakes! But by the time I was almost done with this book, trudging through the last 100 pages, all I could think was, “I’m getting real tired of this shit.” I don’t know if you’ve managed to piece this together yet, but I read a lot. Good books, bad books, […]
The first book in a new series by Marcia Clark. Yeah, that Marcia Clark :)
I didn’t really like Ms. Marcia’s writing style for the first part of this book. It was a little too conversational for me. The main character (Sam)’s best friend / assistant is named Michelle, but she calls her Michy. Her car is named Beulah. It just seemed like someone was trying too hard to make “fetch” happen. About two thirds of the way through though, I realized that it totally fit the main character (Sam). The more I got to know her, the more I […]
The real book 3 in the Anna Curtis series (I apparently started at book 4 – so confusing)
This book continues Anna & Jack’s relationship. They’re engaged, & ready to combine their lives. On the night they actually get engaged, a brothel bust goes terribly wrong. Two people get killed, & we’re introduced to MS-13, the Salvadoran street gang. Their motto is rape, torture, kill (or something along those lines). The acknowledgements at the end of the book note that although the story is fiction, the cases are based on real gang cases in D.C., & obviously MS-13 is a real gang. The […]
A protagonist who makes Nick Dunn look like Mr. Rogers
This isn’t a murder mystery. At first glance, it appears like one. On a winter evening, George Clare comes home to find his wife Catherine brutally murdered and their three-year-old daughter crying, “Mama hurt.” Of course as the husband, George jumps to the top of the cop’s suspect list. But it’s not the first tragedy to take place in their house. Just a few years before, a farmer and his wife killed themselves there, leaving three orphaned sons who might know something about Catherine’s murder. […]
Shine on you crazy diamond
I don’t usually read books this dark with so much violence. Not that I’m against it, it’s just not my thing. Still, I ended up enjoying The Shining Girls. Lauren Beukes is certainly a talented writer and she did a great job in writing a complicated story that was still cohesive and made sense. The Shining Girls is a bit of a genre mashup. It’s a time travel tale, but it also is very much thriller/horror too. Although there are lots of characters, the story […]
Same as it ever was
4.5 stars. I just can’t keep myself away from mystery books this year. And why would I even want to with fare as good as this? Attica Locke’s The Cutting Season was a really good book and I’m super excited to read her first book because I’ve heard it’s even better. Caren is a middle-aged black woman raising a young daughter on what used to be a Louisiana sugar plantation called Belle Vie. Her family worked the land for decades and Belle Vie is in […]
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