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Wolf Women

Watch the Girls by Jennifer Wolfe

March 15, 2023 by Jake 3 Comments

Whew. This book is something. Don’t know if I loved it or hated it but I know I won’t forget it! I almost quit it five times and yet I couldn’t put it down. I can usually handle bleak, depressing crime fiction but oh man, this one is bleak!* It mostly works until it doesn’t…but the ending kind of comes together but it doesn’t? I really need more people to read this so I can parse it out. A few more points… -Loved: Jennifer Wolfe […]

Filed Under: Featured, Mystery Tagged With: california, horror, Jennifer Wolfe, mystery, thriller, Watch the Girls

Jake's CBR15 Review No:30 · Genres: Featured, Mystery · Tags: california, horror, Jennifer Wolfe, mystery, thriller, Watch the Girls ·
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February 2023 Leftovers

Dead Wind by Tessa Wegert

One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus

Messi vs. Ronaldo: One Rivalry, Two Goats, and the Era That Remade the World's Game by Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg

The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz

The Title: The Story of the First Division by Scott Murray

The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson

Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie

The Fiancée by Kate White

The Guns of Heaven by Pete Hamill

February 28, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

Hey on the last day of the month, it finally snowed in New York! Huzzah! Dead Wind**** I can’t talk about why I like this book without even the mildest of spoilers if you’ve been following the series. So I’ll talk about what I appreciate. I’ve been in an on-and-off reading slump the last two months. It’s been hard to finish stuff. Tessa Wegert’s Shana Merchant series really feels like the exception to the rule. I like her writing, her pacing, her protagonist. All good. One […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #IRA, agatha christie, Anthony Horowitz, Cristiano Ronaldo, Dead Wind, England, English football, evil under the sun, FC Barcelona, hard case crime, Hawthorne and Horowitz, Hercule Poirot, Inspector Montalbano, Ireland, Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg, karen m mcmanus, kate white, Lionel Messi, maureen johnson, Messi vs. Ronaldo, mystery, New York (State), New York City, one of us is lying, Pete Hamill, Real Madrid, Scott Murray, Shana Merchant, Sicily, Soccer, sports, Tessa Wegert, The Fiancée, The Guns of Heaven, The Sentence is Death, the shape of water, The Title, the vanishing stair, thriller, truly devious, Vermont, Young Adult

Jake's CBR15 Review No:26 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #IRA, agatha christie, Anthony Horowitz, Cristiano Ronaldo, Dead Wind, England, English football, evil under the sun, FC Barcelona, hard case crime, Hawthorne and Horowitz, Hercule Poirot, Inspector Montalbano, Ireland, Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg, karen m mcmanus, kate white, Lionel Messi, maureen johnson, Messi vs. Ronaldo, mystery, New York (State), New York City, one of us is lying, Pete Hamill, Real Madrid, Scott Murray, Shana Merchant, Sicily, Soccer, sports, Tessa Wegert, The Fiancée, The Guns of Heaven, The Sentence is Death, the shape of water, The Title, the vanishing stair, thriller, truly devious, Vermont, Young Adult ·
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A warning on what we could become – Told as a futuristic thriller

Upgrade by Blake Crouch

February 25, 2023 by Scootchyknees Leave a Comment

GENE EDITING IS A FEDERAL CRIME #GPA ONE MISTAKE CAUSED THE GREAT STARVATION #GPA #NEVERFORGET These are billboards you would pass if you lived in Denver Colorado in the far enough future that gene editing technology is much further advanced, but not so far that hashtags aren’t still a thing. The benefits to this technology include clothes made with spider silk and improvements in medicine and agriculture. But there is also a darker side, where dolls can be wrapped in human muscle and skin and […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Blake Crouch, Fiction, skootchyknees, thriller, Upgrade

Scootchyknees's CBR15 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Blake Crouch, Fiction, skootchyknees, thriller, Upgrade ·
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The crowning exception to “The book is always better than the movie.”

Jaws by Peter Benchley

February 22, 2023 by TylerDFC 1 Comment

While I’m sure there are those who disagree, Jaws is the crowning exception to the rule “The book is always better than the movie.” In adapting the book to the script the story was transformed, made stronger and streamlined, and fixed all of the problems of the novel. To be transparent, Jaws is my all-time favorite movie. Ok, maybe the top five but that’s splitting hairs and ranking is largely dependent on which of my favorite movies I have most recently seen. I love every […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: horror, jaws, Peter Benchley, thriller, TylerDFC

TylerDFC's CBR15 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: horror, jaws, Peter Benchley, thriller, TylerDFC ·
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Did Something Bad Actually Happen or Is She Just An Addict? *Sigh* I Hate These Books

The House in the Pines: A Novel by Ana Reyes

February 10, 2023 by Melina Leave a Comment

Maya is haunted by the death of her best friend years earlier when they were on the cusp of high school graduation and planning their futures.  This is brought to the forefront of her memories when she sees a video on youtube of a woman dying on camera despite not being touched.  Maya knows though, that the man in the video, Frank, (someone she dated for a few weeks at 18)  is responsible for the stranger’s death, just as she knows he was responsible for […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: addicts, alcoholism, Ana Reyes, CBR15, Melina, mystery, psychological thriller, The House in the Pines, thriller

Melina's CBR15 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: addicts, alcoholism, Ana Reyes, CBR15, Melina, mystery, psychological thriller, The House in the Pines, thriller ·
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An extremely unexpected new favorite.

Liar, Dreamer, Thief by Maria Dong

February 2, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

This book spoke to me. Katrina Kim is the most lovable, vulnerable mess of a human. I would find it concerning how much I identified with her* if I wasn’t too busy enjoying every bonkers moment of this book. I was worried as I approached the end, given how I’d lost my mind over it so far, that the ending wouldn’t do Katrina justice, but I shouldn’t have been worried. I cried happy tears and felt much resolution. *I have OCD and she does too, […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: AAPI, audiobooks, dark humor, Hannah Choi, Liar Dreamer Thief, lit-fic, literary mystery, Maria Dong, Mental Health, mystery, narfna, neurodivergent protagonist, OCD, thriller

narfna's CBR15 Review No:17 · Genres: Audiobooks, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: AAPI, audiobooks, dark humor, Hannah Choi, Liar Dreamer Thief, lit-fic, literary mystery, Maria Dong, Mental Health, mystery, narfna, neurodivergent protagonist, OCD, thriller ·
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