Genre: Mystery

Book Review: I Am Half-Sick of Shadows

Book Review: I Am Half-Sick of Shadows

I felt I Am Half-Sick of Shadows had a little Sunset Boulevard vibe to it, only Flavia is not found in a swimming pool.   Phyllis Wyvern, while still pretty and popular on screen has started to age and watches old silent pictures of herself during her “hay day”.  Unfortunately, the film reels are how she […]

Posted December 14, 2011 by Whitney in Review / 1 Comment
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I’d Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman

I’d Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman

I’d Know You Anywhere is a chilling tale I could not turn away from.  It was disturbing and vulnerable all at once — I didn’t realize that could be possible.  The characters are well developed with their personality traits invoking the proper emotion appropriate for the  subject matter at hand, bring the novel to life. […]

Posted November 25, 2011 by Whitney in Review / 4 Comments
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Book Review: A Red Herring Without Mustard

Book Review: A Red Herring Without Mustard

Flavia is one of the reasons why I have recently fallen in love with mysteries.  She is like a cat, quick on her feet, mischievous and plays by her own rules.  Although Flavia is most like a cat in her cleverness, she is smart with being precocious or an 11-year-old know it all, instead she […]

Posted October 6, 2011 by Whitney in Review / 3 Comments
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Book Review: The Thirteenth Tale

Book Review: The Thirteenth Tale

The Thirteenth Tale is part ghost story part fairy tale (Grimm Brother’s style).  Vida Winter, a famed author renown for her novel The Thirteenth Tale, with the thirteenth tale being omitted.  Vida, after numerous interviews has finally decided to unburden herself and write her memoirs with the help of a ghostwriter, Margaret Lea, a freelance […]

Posted September 21, 2011 by Whitney in Review / 10 Comments
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Review: In The Woods

Review: In The Woods

WARNING: DO NOT READ IN THE WOODS WHEN YOU ARE ACTUALLY IN THE WOODS! I made the foolish mistake of reading Tana French’s In The Woods while at my family’s home in upper Wisconsin, in a wooded isolated area.  I don’t want to come off as some kind of chicken because the novel wasn’t actually […]

Posted August 30, 2011 by Whitney in Review / 4 Comments
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Review: The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag

Review: The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag

Flavia is such a precocious child that you can’t help but love her and route her on from the sidelines.  One thing that I found very interesting about The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag is that a times it didn’t even feel like a mystery, the back story of the novel’s characters is so […]

Posted November 10, 2010 by Whitney in Review / 3 Comments
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Book Review: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

Book Review: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

Having just finished The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo I thought I would be hard pressed  to come across as unique a heroine as Lisabeth  Salander, but that was before I met Flavia. Flavia de Luce is an 11-year-old chemistry enthusiast and with her candied insight and dry sense of humor comes off like a […]

Posted November 1, 2010 by Whitney in Review / 5 Comments
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Book Review: Suspense and Sensibility

Book Review: Suspense and Sensibility

This novel was a very lite read, but felt more like a fantasy than suspenseful.  The dialogue was rather witty and was interesting to see the  mix and reintroduction to many characters.  But as a Austen retelling just didn’t fit the bill for me. The leading characters could easily have been interchanged to any person […]

Posted October 26, 2010 by Whitney in Review / 8 Comments
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