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I Wanted Him to Die Quicker

May 22, 2016 by Andrea Krieter Leave a Comment

Rating: 2.0/5 Summary: This is about a boy who is about to die in the next day and a half. Denton Little has known his death date since the age of five and that it was during his senior year of high school. Denton starts to have some fun on his last days and he ends up being a bit of an asshole. He also develops a strange rash splotch that looks like a weird bruise. I kind of hated this book, and I was […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: annoying, Boring, pointless, waste of time, YA

Andrea Krieter's CBR8 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: annoying, Boring, pointless, waste of time, YA ·
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Guilty, no pleasure

January 16, 2016 by borisanne Leave a Comment

It was an accident that I started reading “The Salaryman’s Wife” and ultimately not a happy one. My Goodreads queue includes a book called “The Pearl Diver,” and I searched for it on my library’s website to borrow digitally. What came up was the 8th book in a mystery series and without looking at the author’s name, I thought “damnit, my bad, better start at the beginning…” Damnit, my bad, indeed. This whole thing was such a monumental waste of time. The tropes are tedious. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: CBR8, Fiction, Massey, murder, mystery, Sujata Massey, waste of time

borisanne's CBR8 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: CBR8, Fiction, Massey, murder, mystery, Sujata Massey, waste of time ·
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