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“I disagree. If a feeling knocks and no one answers, it’ll get p[EXPLICIT]d off. It’ll kick the door in, chuck the gift at you and smash your best ornaments so you don’t disrespect it again. You’ll be clearing up a lot more mess than you had to start with. So it’s good, Maxine, to cry if you want. Remember that.”

The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett

March 28, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

I might have to go lower my rating for The Appeal based on how much more I liked this one. The premise is once again based on a unique format; this time instead of being told through emails, we’ve got audio recordings made on an old iPhone 4 by a man just out of an eleven year prison stint. The difference between her first book and this one, aside from being more elaborate, is that here we have characters to emotionally connect to. In The Appeal, the format […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: British, British mystery, Janice Hallett, mystery, narfna, puzzle mystery, The Twyford Code

narfna's CBR15 Review No:34 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: British, British mystery, Janice Hallett, mystery, narfna, puzzle mystery, The Twyford Code ·
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A bit of a perplexing read for me. Half of this was great! The other half was . . . fine.

Sign Here by Claudia Lux

March 28, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

I held off on rating and reviewing this book because I wasn’t sure how I felt about it and I wanted to “let it simmer a bit.” I regret this stupid decision now because I still don’t really know how I feel about the book, and now I also don’t really remember the book! I mean, I remember the book, but I don’t remember like most of the characters names. Who knows what else I’ve forgotten. What I do remember is that this book is […]

Filed Under: Horror, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: Claudia Lux, horror, mystery, narfna, sign here, Suspense

narfna's CBR15 Review No:33 · Genres: Horror, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: Claudia Lux, horror, mystery, narfna, sign here, Suspense ·
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I couldn’t think up a title so this is my title.

White Horse by Erika T. Wurth

March 20, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

This is a tough one to rate because half of my strange reaction to it is I’m sure just bumping up a little against the writing style, but the other half is that it genuinely could have been written better in parts. There was A LOT of telling not showing, and the third-act conflict made the MC come across as pretty stupid. A lot of the elements here were interesting individually but didn’t seem to come together at the end? Our main character is Kari […]

Filed Under: Horror, Mystery Tagged With: Erika T. Wurth, horror, indigenous author, mystery, narfna, read harder challenge 2023, White Horse, Women's History Month

narfna's CBR15 Review No:30 · Genres: Horror, Mystery · Tags: Erika T. Wurth, horror, indigenous author, mystery, narfna, read harder challenge 2023, White Horse, Women's History Month ·
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A great time was had.

Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

March 16, 2023 by narfna 3 Comments

A great time was had. People were slain, revenge was had, plots were foiled, and women of a certain age came out of retirement to clear their names and kick some ass. There’s also a cat named Kevin in here, and I just think that’s important. I don’t actually think I have too much to say about this one. There wasn’t much deep about it, it’s just a good book, a thriller but more on the cozy end than not. A cozy thriller! Who knew […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: assassins, Deanna Raybourn, killers of a certain age, mystery, narfna, thrillers

narfna's CBR15 Review No:29 · Genres: Mystery, Suspense · Tags: assassins, Deanna Raybourn, killers of a certain age, mystery, narfna, thrillers ·
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“And they all liv’d together in a little crooked house.”

Crooked House by Agatha Christie

March 15, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

Ooh, I got really into this one. It’s been a month since I’ve finished so I’ve had some time to think (though I do of course wish I’d written the review right away, but alas) and I think the reason that I loved this one so much is that it’s one of the few non-detective mystery novels to get the mystery part right and have it be believable. A lot of the time, as a mystery fan when encountering books with non-detective main characters, there […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Mystery Tagged With: agatha christie, audiobooks, Crooked House, hugh fraser, murder mystery, mystery, narfna, whodunnit

narfna's CBR15 Review No:28 · Genres: Audiobooks, Mystery · Tags: agatha christie, audiobooks, Crooked House, hugh fraser, murder mystery, mystery, narfna, whodunnit ·
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Wolf Women

Watch the Girls by Jennifer Wolfe

March 15, 2023 by Jake 3 Comments

Whew. This book is something. Don’t know if I loved it or hated it but I know I won’t forget it! I almost quit it five times and yet I couldn’t put it down. I can usually handle bleak, depressing crime fiction but oh man, this one is bleak!* It mostly works until it doesn’t…but the ending kind of comes together but it doesn’t? I really need more people to read this so I can parse it out. A few more points… -Loved: Jennifer Wolfe […]

Filed Under: Featured, Mystery Tagged With: california, horror, Jennifer Wolfe, mystery, thriller, Watch the Girls

Jake's CBR15 Review No:30 · Genres: Featured, Mystery · Tags: california, horror, Jennifer Wolfe, mystery, thriller, Watch the Girls ·
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