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Really Unreal (pun intended)

The Grand Dark by Richard Kadrey

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Bingo 15 (Far and Away) What makes The Grand Dark so interesting is that there’s a lot of recognizable elements to it, but at the same time it’s so very much not reality. Overall, this is a creepy but intriguing world because bits are familiar, but then the rest is either too vague or too unnatural. That’s what makes the whole thing, the setting and the story, something you recognize and at the same time really different- the unfamiliar familiar. It’s also a world apart from Kadrey’s other stuff, namely the Sandman Slim and Another Coop Heist series, both of […]

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8/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:64 |

Some Sisterly Murder

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

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Bingo 13 (Pajiba) I noticed recently that this novel could actually qualify for several different squares, but I’ll be using it for Pajiba, where a review was posted 1/24/2019. I’ve had my eye on the title for a while although I’m not quite sure where I first heard about it. I’m not sure what exactly what I was expecting, but I didn’t get it, not even close. I was not really expecting to enjoy this, firstly because it’s contemporary literary fiction, and secondly it’s written in the first person mostly present. In spite of these two obstacles, I raced through […]

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8/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:62 |

Watch out, boy, she’ll chew you up

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

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#CBR11 Bingo: Pajiba (reviewed by Kayleigh here) (Would also work for “Award winner”, “Own voices”, “Listicle”, “Cannonballer Says”, and possibly, “Far and Away”) Official book description: Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola’s third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede’s practicality is the sisters’ saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood, the trunk of her car is big enough for a body, and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures of her dinner to Instagram when she should be mourning her […]

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8/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:61 |

The Star On the Train

Dread Journey by Dorothy Hughes

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I enjoyed Gone Girl well enough but those hailing Gone Girl and the female-written female-driven thriller novel that has become en vogue should do a little cultural excavation. Women have historically dominated the thriller market, especially in the 30s through the 50s. And one of the greats, indeed perhaps the greatest of these was Dorothy Hughes. I haven’t read a lot of Hughes and that’s my mistake. Her most popular work is In A Lonely Place, which inspired the Humphrey Bogart movie that’s drastically different from the book. But she’s written a lot of other great thriller-type novels. The Expendable Man is an early contender for the […]

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7/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:64 |

Too Many Coincidences and POVs

Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

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So it took me a while to finish this one because the first part of the story drags. Jewell starts off with two POVs with the mother (Laurel) and days before Ellie’s disappearance. But then we get two additional POVs (no spoilers) and I just went grr. I also thought that Laurel was kind of a terrible mother. I can’t imagine what I would do if one of my kids went missing and was presumed dead. She just gets angry her husband is trying to move on (for them and their remaining two kids) and then she compares her missing […]

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7/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:167 |

The perfect amount of creepy.

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

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This was a book club pick in an attempt by our group to occasionally dip our toes into the classics. It had been in my TBR pile for a while, but I just hadn’t got to it yet, so being ‘forced’ into it was ok by me! Our heroine is an orphan girl working as a lady’s companion and we meet her as they are travelling abroad. During this trip, she meets the recently widowed Maxim de Winter. Despite his grief and melancholy, she makes an impression which leads to a whirlwind romance and proposal. Finally able to escape the […]

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7/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:17 |

A relationship flow-chart would have been handy.

The Au Pair by Emma Rous

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This was an impulse buy while wandering Walmart waiting for a prescription to be filled by the pharmacy. I’d seen it on a couple lists of people I follow, and I figured, why not? On the night that twins Seraphine and Danny Mayes were born, their mother threw herself off a cliff to her death, the family’s au pair fled, and rumours in the town took root – calling the family home cursed, and speculations about the birth of twins being a bad omen. Fast forward to adulthood, and the death of their father results in questions about that fateful […]

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7/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:15 |

Beware the UPS Guys

We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix

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I’m not much of a listener of metal genres, but We Sold Our Souls seems almost like a novelization of a heavy metal song, one of the ones with a Satanic tinge. Basically, Kris is a middle aged wash-out who in the past had been the lead guitarist of a metal band on the cusp of fame, only to be thwarted by the ambitions of her bandmate Terrence. Years after a disastrous night during which the band breaks up, the details of which are fuzzy, Kris is compelled to seek out her former band-mates to figure out what happened that […]

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7/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:48 |


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