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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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A prolonged sense of unease…

I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reed

July 1, 2019 by Niki 3 Comments

CBR11BINGO Square: Cannonballer Says – I read this book because Bea Pants’ Review struck my interest! I tend to post reviews in fits and bursts, so I’m not as active on the CBR11 page as I had hoped.  When I post my reviews, I try and look around at recent reviews, both for curiosity and to get some ideas for my TBR pile.  This sometimes leads to hopscotching around to previous reviews by the same, person etc.  I’m not sure exactly how I saw Bea Pants’ […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: #IainReed, bad twist, cbr11bingo, Fiction, Suspense, thriller

Niki's CBR11 Review No:10 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: #IainReed, bad twist, cbr11bingo, Fiction, Suspense, thriller ·
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“Writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear”

I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reed

April 29, 2019 by Bea Pants 1 Comment

  This is a difficult novel to review without spoiling it but I’ll give it the old college try. An unnamed narrator is driving with her boyfriend Jake to visit his parents in their isolated home in the country. If the title wasn’t enough of a clue, the narrator tells us in the first line of the book that she’s thinking of ending things. As their journey continues, the narrator becomes continually more unsettled Jake and his parents behavior until Jake seems to abandon her […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: #IainReed, cbr11

Bea Pants's CBR11 Review No:18 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: #IainReed, cbr11 ·
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    on This novel could have been an embroidered pillow (and also a rant about unnecessary italics)
    I was intrigued by the concept of the boxes showing up at everyone's home at the same time, and I...
  • Liz
    on Would have been better without the forced thriller/mystery angle
    Hi i agree with your review, i became tired of the Hank story and the relentless focus on violence and...
  • Emmalita
    on “Maybe I just thought I was a nonviolent person because in my old life, nobody had ever backed me into a corner with a knife to my throat.”
    Maybe they’ll share it when they do a special edition box set after the third (?) book comes out.
  • Jen K
    on The Daevabad Trilogy: “Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Revenge. Giants. Monsters. Chases. Escapes. True love. Miracles.”
    I’m about to read them for the third time (book club choice and of course I won’t stop after just...
  • Malin
    on “Maybe I just thought I was a nonviolent person because in my old life, nobody had ever backed me into a corner with a knife to my throat.”
    Yeah, they talked about it in the Live Chat they did in connection with the release (It's available on YouTube)....
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