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Maybe not his best, but not terrible either. Bingo #3

Midnight Sun by Jo Nesbo

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Cbr11bingo TBR/Bingo #3 There’s nothing like a book sale to help me stock up on a ton of books that I would probably never have given a second glance to otherwise. Last spring, our local library’s book sale coincided with the going-out-of-business sale of the local Warehouse Books. This is how I ended up with Midnight Sun. I recognized Jo Nesbo’s name and figured this was a good opportunity to familiarize myself with his work. Midnight Sun does not feature Nesbo’s well known detective Harry Hole and is not a murder mystery; it’s a so-so thriller about a man who […]

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8/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:39 |

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 |

A prolonged sense of unease…

I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reed

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CBR11BINGO Square: Cannonballer Says – I read this book because Bea Pants’ Review struck my interest! I tend to post reviews in fits and bursts, so I’m not as active on the CBR11 page as I had hoped.  When I post my reviews, I try and look around at recent reviews, both for curiosity and to get some ideas for my TBR pile.  This sometimes leads to hopscotching around to previous reviews by the same, person etc.  I’m not sure exactly how I saw Bea Pants’ review, but after reading it I thought it was a great way to help the […]

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7/1/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:10 |

Human Nature vs. Theme Park

FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven

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This was everything I want an audiobook to be, and I could barely stop listening to it. So far, it is my favorite audiobook of the year. The voice acting is fantastic, with two actors reading for dozens of characters, and the excitement and thrill the book promises is actually delivered. You know what’s coming at the end, the interview with the subject we’ve all been waiting to hear from, and it’s as chilling as you could hope it will be. It’s a bit slow to start, because Bockoven has to establish the groundwork for his universe and the theme […]

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6/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:13 |

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 |


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