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I felt stupider after reading this

The Girlfriend by Michelle Frances

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I read this a few months ago and am just now reviewing it for CBR10 Bingo. I think it fits best in the ‘Brain Candy’ slot, as I quite like reading psychological thrillers for the ‘escapism’ value–I read them fast and enjoy them then forget about them. This one also fits best under ‘candy’ because it requires no intelligent thought to read. The basic premise is thus: Laura is super posh and a super ‘devoted’ (read: overbearing) mother to her son Daniel, whose only personality trait is ‘nice’. She clings to him even more in the face of her collapsing […]

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9/27/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:14 |

Män som hatar kvinnor (Men Who Hate Women)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

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CBR Bingo entry: And so it begins. And BINGO was his name-o! I originally considered reading this novel for the CBR Bingo square “The book was better?” because I have seen both the American and Swedish versions of the film. In fact, I saw them both on the same day. My husband and I went to see the 2011 Hollywood production starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara and appreciated it, so we decided to come home and watch the original Swedish version on Netflix. Because nothing follows up two and a half hours of murder, rape, and religious depravity like two […]

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9/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:21 |

FRAMED FOR MURDER!!! (Yawn)

The Guilty Wife by Elle Croft

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The Guilty Wife was an okay book.   That’s where I’d like to leave this review, but I guess that’s against the rules.  The Guilty Wife, like all books labeled a “psychological thriller” post Gone Girl attempts to be sly and have at least one (possibly two or three) twists.  And quite frankly?  I’m sick of the twists…especially when you can see the big old twist a mile away down the road.  I teach a fiction writing course and I always tell the kids that there’s nothing wrong with telling a straight forward, honest story…but nope, there’s almost always a […]

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9/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:21 |

If you figure out the secret before the reveal, is it still a secret?

The Secret Mother by Shalini Boland

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Tessa Markham arrives home on a rainy Sunday night to find a young boy sitting in the kitchen of her locked, and otherwise empty, London flat. Instead of calling the police, she calls Scott – her estranged husband and father of her dead twins. The Secret Mother by Shalini Boland tells Tessa’s story as the boy Harry is picked up by the police and returned to his father. As the story unfolds we learn of the tragic loss of Tessa’s children, her mental breakdown, and separation from Scott.  Suspected of abduction, Tessa fights to clear her name and uncovers information […]

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4/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:2 |

At first intriguing, then merely infuriating

Follow You Home by Mark Edwards

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I’m super behind on reviews (tbh, I feel like I’m super behind on life right now as I try to finish the PhD) but I read this one last night and it annoyed me SO MUCH that I had to write a review. Summary: Daniel and Laura are your typical middle-class British holidayers, backpacking around Europe before they decide to settle down, get married, and have a baby. While traveling through Romania, they hit trouble: kicked off a train with only another Romanian woman for company, they find a creepy house in the middle of the forest which has Something […]

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11/7/2017 's CBR9 Review No:24 |

A book whose reviews might be more entertaining…

The Good Neighbor by A.J. Banner

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I think I read this one while I was on maternity leave and in a post-partum fog. I say that only to warn you that yeah, this review will kinda suck. Not only is it a year-ish overdue, but I probably wasn’t in my right mind as I read it, delirious from trying to keep a three year old and newborn from killing themselves or each other. Speaking of killing people, this story begins with a deadly fire in Sarah’s neighbor’s house. She is able to rescue her neighbor’s daughter, but the parents don’t survive. Sarah ends up trying to […]

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12/31/2016 's CBR8 Review No:8 |

If the titular widow lived up to the cover blurb, this would have been a book worth reading

The Widow by Fiona Barton

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I must have put this on my TBR because I’m a sucker for marketing and this book was supposed to be this year’s Girl on the Train, which was that year’s Gone Girl, and so on it goes by that publishing rule that says that female authors are good for certain things, and right now that thing is “suspenseful books about marriages where things aren’t all that they seem and also there is an unreliable narrator and someone is dead/missing.” I don’t mind how many books seem to fall into that laughably specific category and/or are clearly “inspired” by their […]

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6/7/2016 's CBR8 Review No:43 |

Enter at your own risk.

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

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I struggled with this rating and review. House of Leaves is different things to different people: for many (many, many, MANY) people it is mind-blowing, complex, and a richly rewarding treat if you take the time to completely parse it. This is not a small undertaking. Entire sections are printed like this —

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2/5/2016 's CBR8 Review No:12 |


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