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Best Selling Bore

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carre

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I don’t have good luck with standard best sellers or literary fiction. I decided to try Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy because the premise sounded interesting and I hear the author do a radio interview for the latest installment in the series not too long ago. My first reaction to this novel was: “How could something this boring have possibly been a best-seller?” George Smiley spends a lot of time thinking about the past, doing paperwork, and talking to random acquaintances. He used to work for a British spy agency, but his boss has died, he has been forced basically into […]

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6/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:41 |

Often those that criticize others reveal what he himself lacks

The Rumor by Lesley Kara

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Please note that I received this book for free via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. This book will be released on June 18, 2019.  So I liked the general idea on how a rumor can catch fire and burn innocent people. However, I think Kara didn’t go far enough with it. Also some of the book read as repetitive after a while with Joanna thinking everyone was the child killer Sally McGowan in hiding. And then we have the reveal (which was ridiculous by the way) and the book went downhill from there. I was disappointed […]

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6/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:121 |

Two Types of Breakdown

The Breakdown by B.A. Paris

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I do have to say that I liked parts of the book. I think the biggest reason why I only gave it 3 stars was that Cass seemed beyond ridiculous and naive at times. Can we get a strong female character in a suspense book for once who doesn’t do things like go out into the dark in search of a killer? We women do have common sense. Also it didn’t make a lot of sense to me why she didn’t want to go to the police at first with what she knew. Finally, the ending went way too fast […]

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6/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:120 |

Reminded Me of Under the Dome…Not a Good Reference Point

Sleeping Beauties by Owen King

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I don’t know what to say here besides this new Stephen/Owen King mash-up was disappointing. I read “Under the Dome” eons ago and I really wish that my Amazon review had been pushed to Goodreads. I recall that I was flabbergasted that no one had reigned in King since that book was 1,074 freaking pages. I read that over two days back in 2009 when I was traveling to Afghanistan for work and recall that at one point I was awake for two days just reading this book and wondering what in the heck had I read. When I had […]

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5/31/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:119 |

Nice Blend of Science Fiction and Suspense

The Perfect Wife by JP Delaney

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley for free. This did not affect my rating or review. This book will be released on August 6, 2019.  So, I was pretty vocal about how badly I disliked “The Girl Before.” So you are probably wondering what in the world caused me to willingly pick out “The Perfect Wife” to review. Well, I heard that it had a lot of science fiction elements in it and since I want to read more science fiction this year I decided to go for it. I initially thought it was going to be […]

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5/31/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:114 |

Badass lesbian detectives ftw

The Dime by Kathleen Kent

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4.5 stars. This book left me with a massive book hangover. Incredibly violent in almost every way, so just a content heads up if you’re thinking about reading this. If you like mysteries and you haven’t given this one a chance, I would snag it as soon as you can. Betty Rhyzyk is tough as fucking nails, not surprising since she comes from a long line of Brooklyn police detectives. She never thought she’d leave New York, but finds herself in Dallas with her partner who hails from Texas, complete with stereotypical prejudiced family members and all. As a tall […]

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5/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:34 |

Dear Sir, I have inherited $$ and I need your help to transfer it. Please send banking details.

419 by Will Ferguson

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Wow, I was not expecting this to be so good.  My prior experiences with Will Ferguson have been through his light, ‘humourous’ travelogues (ie: Beauty Tips From Moosejaw), which I remember being just ok, and not really that funny (I always felt like he was aping Bill Bryson and falling short).  This novel is a big departure from those earlier travelogues, in both subject and tone: it is a tight, character-driven thriller about the fall-out from a Nigerian email scam, nicknamed ‘419’ scams after the fraud section in Nigeria’s penal code.  There are 4 main characters whose stories we are […]

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4/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:16 |

The Kind Worth Killing – A Thriller Worth Reading

The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson

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I am no stranger to a thriller, I love a good murder mystery. I was looking for book recommendations to make me feel better about present stress in my life (i.e., when I am stressed, reading about murder makes me feel better because at least I’m not being murdered) and picked this one up on the recommendation of a friend and am delighted to give it two big ol’ thumbs up. This is a book I was delighted and surprised by, so much so that I regaled my poor husband with it, telling him of all the plot twists and […]

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4/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:11 |


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