The It Girl by Ruth Ware
Well color me shocked. This may be the second Ware book that I have liked. The main reason why I gave this just four stars is I really didn’t enjoy the retconning of one character. I won’t get into it since it would be spoilers, but it just felt off based on what we read about what was going on between this person and Hannah while at school. The book does a great job of showing the “before” and “after” and even manages to do […]
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
From Crook to Cook: Platinum Recipies from Tha Boss Dogg's Kitchen by Snoop Dogg
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Plunder of the Sun by David Dodge
Stunt: A Mythical Reimagining of Nellie Jackson, Madame of Natchez by Saida Agostini
The Last Pirate of New York: A Ghost Ship, A Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation by Rich Cohen
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
Defender of the Innocent: The Casebook Files of Martin Ehrengraf by Lawrence Block
Voluntary Madness by Vicki Hendricks
Two Gentlemen of Lebowski: A Most Excellent Comedie and Tragic Romance by Adam Bertocci
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel García Márquez
A Night to Remember by Walter Lord
Slonim Woods 9: A Memoir by Daniel Barban Levin
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
My Summer Darlings by May Cobb
The Cat Who Saved Books by Sōsuke Natsukawa
Firestarter by Stephen King
The Editor by Steven Rowley
Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
Crossroad Blues by Ace Atkins
Lucky by Jackie Collins
Here are reviews for the books I read in July that I didn’t have time or energy to do a full review on. Note: I was out of work in July so I read a lot. The Woman in Cabin 10 *** Read this while on a cruise ship and it definitely gave me some interesting feelings! A relatively entertaining thriller. I’d read another Ruth Ware book but wouldn’t rush out to do so From Crook to Cook: Platinum Recipes From Tha Boss Dogg’s Kitchen**** […]
The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
I read the first third of this in my paperback copy, then switched over to the audio to see if I could jump start my interest in it again. It worked! For a while, at least. It helped me get through the book, anyway. I liked the audio version better. I was super into this book at first, but as soon as the main character reached the house in the country, something about it lost me. It probably also didn’t help that I was traveling […]
In A Dark Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
It’s one of those books where the “mysterious events of the past” are mysterious only because the narrator isn’t telling you about it. Leonora, 26 years old is a crime author and lives a solitary and lonely life. Then, she receives an email from a woman she does not know, inviting her to a “hen party” for a friend she has not spoken to for a long time. But she goes. This hen party is for the wedding of Leonora’s childhood friend Clare. A wedding […]
The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware
Bingo, The Turn of the Key: Free! (borrowed from an in-law) Bingo, The Death of Mrs. Westaway: Fauna (the magpies on the cover play an important role in the book) The Turn of the Key: This mystery is a retelling of The Turn of the Screw (which I’ve never read). The only reason I read it was because I got a free copy, and while I didn’t exactly like it, I also found that I needed to know what had happened and didn’t really want […]
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
The hardest reviews are not the ones about good books, or about bad ones (in fact, writing reviews about bad books is easy and so much fun it’s almost worth reading a bad book for. Almost). The hardest ones to write are the ones about books that were just okay. The Woman in Cabin 10 is one of those books. It’s bubblegum. It’s popcorn. It’s cheese, but not the good kind, no, the average kind from the supermarket that’s good as sandwich filling but not […]
