I liked this book, a lot. I got the audio version from the library read by Scully herself. She’s very very good, which surprises none of us. This book takes place in the world, with involvement in Haiti and Tehran and Antarctica. The characters are diverse and Anderson carries their accents with skill and subtlety. They are believable, families worried about each other, teenagers who sound and behave like (brilliant) teenagers, world leaders who are also human beings, mysterious baddies who are not caricatures. The […]
Excellent – could use more Batgirl, though.*
I’ve never been patient enough to be a religious comic book reader – With the pace I read at, where one issue won’t last 10 minutes, the idea of waiting for the next issue was often enough to keep me from picking up the current issue – but I still like comics. I like the subtle and outright humor; I like the artistry; I like the continuing plot-lines (once there’s enough of a backlog for me to read a bunch of them at once). And […]
Genre Bending Murder Mystery
After hearing someone on Book Riot say that Bellweather Rhapsody was influenced heavily by The Westing Game, I had to go out and get it that very day. As a kid I was OBSESSED with The Westing Game, a smart book that still holds up as an adult reader. While it’s easy to see TWG’s influence, Bellweather Rhapsody is firmly its own thing. If you like clever little mysteries with casts of interesting characters, this needs to go on your list. Every year the majestic, […]
“The Young Adventurers take a lot of killing.”
Secret Adversary is my first foray into Agatha Christie books. My only regret is that I didn’t discover Ms. Christie sooner. While it is nearly a century old, the book is (relatively) quickly paced, entertaining, and witty. Plotwise, it had me guessing until the very end! Since it was written in 1922, there is no copyright on the book and therefore you can legally download it for free. Although, for CBR purposes, consider buying a paperback version! Adversary revolves around a witty couple of members […]
A Little Forgettable
I’ve loved Veronica Mars for forever, so I can’t keep away from anything set in that world I can get my hands on. This is the second book in the Veronica Mars world and like the first, its events take place after the VMars movie. The Neptune Grand owners come to Veronica after a woman claims a Neptune staff member assaulted her and left her to die. Veronica’s job is finding out if this woman’s story is truth, lies, or something in-between. Unfortunately that’s easier […]
Horror Story on the Eve of Hitler’s Takeover
Grossman returns with a prequel to his horrifying The Sleepwalkers, which I’ve reviewed earlier. In Children of Wrath, the respected Berlin homicide detective and decorated WWI veteran Willi Kraus is just starting to feel the effects of the rising tide of anti-Semitism. It is 1929, and Hitler is still largely viewed as a vulgar upstart by the self-absorbed political aristocracy, but his power is nonetheless growing as the Great Depression begins to ravage the war-weary German economy. The Kripo, the bureau of criminal investigation where […]
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