Can I say Wow? Is it too cliché to say Tana French has done it again? If it is well, I really don’t care because it is true! French has hit another ball out of the park. In the tv show Castle, the real culprit is surreptitiously brought into question and typically dismissed, only to […]
Review: The Good: I’m typically not a romance novel kind of person, but I’ve always enjoyed reading about women behind the (fill infamous man here) perhaps I would have enjoyed People Magazine if it existed in the early 1900s. The details depicted to Picasso’s paintings were miraculous and could vividly picture them. Eva’s yellow kimono […]
Fond of: Tana French has great character development particularly Frank Mackey’s family. From the start it was obvious that things weren’t right in the head, it was dysfunctional family on high. Besides the fact that he is still mooning over his first love I really don’t have much to say about Frank. He did his […]
Fond of: I thought The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet was a nice, modern adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Even though I know it was based on The Secret Diaries of Lizzie Bennet YouTube series it was still a little reminiscent of Disney’s Lizzie Maguire. I also liked how the author incorporated places into this retelling. […]
The Here and Now first reminded me of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. We begin at a ceremony to basically scare the shit out off youngsters with extreme rules and the creation of sameness. Hm, I vaguely questioned whether Ann Brashares was jumping off the stir for The Giver movie but eventually moved on. The Here […]
Black haired girl’s (Maud) form of death was unexpected That was the only unexpected thing Characters were as flat as cardboard yet I enjoyed the writing in itself The culprit for Maud’s death reminded me of Daisy from The Great Gatsby Teacher/Student affairs have been done before and The Death of the Black-Haired Girl didn’t […]
Good plot Older than they were: The teenagers acted like they were in college rather than high school, mainly exhibited through a “Risky Business” style party. Layla was annoying, and lived up to the Eric Clapton song of her namesake Didn’t particularly care for any of the characters except for Felix as he seemed like […]
The Execution of Noa P. Singleton is a novel of why. Why would Noa commit this heinous crime? That is the question that is hit over the head like a dead horse and slowly we see inside its cranium. Like breadcrumbs, the reader was fed the story of Noa’s crime bit by bit. Although as […]
Novels that involve famed persons tend to be told through a female’s eye I did not find that to be the case in The Fortune Hunter. Daisy Goodwin’s book is one of a love triangle and is aptly told by all three participant’s point of view. It could very easily be told through the eyes […]
“The first time, you can’t believe how much it hurts” “It just kind of burns,” says another. “You’re sore for a few days.” “I heard the third time you don’t even feel it.” ~ Prologue I will admit that I was a little nervous to continue reading The Fever due to the straight off sexual […]