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A brief detour from my Kate Daniels adventures

The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins

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My friend, who almost exclusively reads best-selling thrillers, has been on my ass for the past year to try and get me to read The Girl On The Train. I’ve finally taken the plunge and, while it was a good read, I must say I think it’s been ever so slightly over-hyped. Rachel takes the same train every day, and most days spots the same couple along her journey into and out of London. Living close to her former home, which is now inhabited by Rachel’s ex, his new wife and their baby, Rachel has started to build a fantasy […]

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4/4/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:22 |

Lizzie Borden took an axe?

See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt

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4.5 stars. I’d been eyeing this fictionalized account of the Lizzie Borden story for a while so when it was long-listed for the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction, I snagged a copy from my library. After reading it, it’s easy to see why it was longlisted. Schmidt is not fucking around with her prose. See What I Have Done is an incredible piece of writing, especially considering that it’s Schmidt’s debut. This is definitely a work of fiction, but there are huge overlaps with actual history. Anyone familiar with the Borden family story will see that Schmidt hits all of […]

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4/2/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:32 |

A book worth re-reading

She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper

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Another contender for favorite book of the year right here. She Rides Shotgun is kind of like an urban crime thriller mashed up with an old school western. Think of True Grit meets Veronica Mars and you’ll come close to the feeling of this book. As a superfan of badass literary girls, it will surprise no one that I enjoyed this immensely. Polly, eleven years old and a bit sheltered, gets picked up from school by her ex-con father unexpectedly one day. Turns out her father made some terrible enemies on his way out of prison and now the Aryan […]

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3/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:29 |

A wheel-spinning waste of time

The Widow by Fiona Barton

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I’ve been on a ‘thriller’ kick recently, because I’ve been needing to keep my brain engaged while I’m nursing my three-month-old. These “next Gone Girl”s seem to be sitting well, because they’re mostly interesting enough that I want to keep reading them even when I’m tired and brain-dead. (When I’m all the way tired, though, I’m doing a Dorothy Sayers reread. That’s a lot of fun, and I know the stories well enough that my brain can gloss over bits and I don’t lose out!)  The Widow is one such thriller advertised as the next Gone Girl or The Girl on the Train, supposed to be “an electrifying […]

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3/7/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:7 |

Not the Thrill I Was Hoping For

The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney

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My latest read was actually an Audible listen. I’ve realized recently that I’m a sucker for an English thriller featuring a 20- to 30-something woman. Also, I often like books that tell a story in two time periods. So J.P. Delaney’s The Girl Before would seem to be a match for me. Two Londoners–Emma (then) and Jane (now)–each rent the same austere house. Each sees it as the solution to her problems. Each follows a path that leads to jeopardy. Also on that path is the same man, a man they find irresistible, a man whose appeal I find incomprehensible. […]

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2/22/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:3 |

Creeping Dread Coated with a Veneer of Bigotry

Necronomicon by H. P. Lovecraft

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My introduction to the works of H.P. Lovecraft was most likely the film Reanimator, though I don’t know if I realized the source at the time. I was interested in reading these stories because Lovecraftian mythos is has been the source of so much pop culture that I’ve imbibed – movies, books, video games – Lovecraft has either provided a source for other storytellers to embellish (as in the case of Reanimator) or has inspired all new horrors (like the xenomorph in Alien). Chances are if you have seen a horror movie or read any horror fiction of the past […]

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11/29/2017 's CBR9 Review No:3 |

A mysterious murder and excess alcohol consumption? Must be an unreliable female narrated thriller…

In a Dark Dark Wood & The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

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I’ve been on a bit of a thriller kick recently, so–like many other Cannonballers–I’ve read In a Dark Dark Wood and The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware. They relied very heavily on the ‘unreliable female narrator’ trope, bringing up inevitable comparisons to The Girl on the Train. They’re not as good as Girl on the Train. (I haven’t read Gone Girl, while I have seen the film, so I can’t compare there.) I’m way behind on my reviewing, but I figured I’d start with these ones. Quick summaries: In a Dark Dark Wood: Leonora is invited to a hen party for her […]

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10/9/2017 's CBR9 Review No:22 |

“Nothing good happens in the middle of the night, right?”

Disappearance at Devil’s Rock by Paul Tremblay

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Elizabeth receives a call late one night, and it’s the worst news she can imagine. Her son, Tommy, has vanished into the local woods without a trace after spending the day at his usual hangout, a large split boulder deep in the woods that the boys have been calling Devil’s Rock. The friends he was with seem to be hiding something and there are no other leads on where he might have gone. As the official investigation into his disappearance stalls, Elizabeth begins to see a ghostly figure in her room at night, and her daughter starts finding disturbing pages […]

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9/11/2017 's CBR9 Review No:8 |


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