The Last Equation of Isaac Severy is a delightfully fresh literary mystery. It was just the thing to get me out of a the little slump I'd been in. I wasn't in the mood for something terribly heavy or terribly morbid. I'm always up for quirky characters. No matter that the quirkiest character was deceased prior to Chapter One. (Of an apparent suicide. In a hot tub. With a string of Christmas ...
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Blog Tour: Girl Unknown
Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Girl Unknown! This book is unique in many ways. The first is that Karen Perry is actually a pen name for two writers collaborating on this book. This is the first book, to the best of my knowledge, that I've read penned by two authors and it definitely worked here. Most of the book is told in the alternating first person points of view of Caroline and ...
Review: Grist Mill Road by Christopher J. Yates
If you're a friend or follower on Goodreads, you may have seen my status update at page 108: "The jury is still out on this one. I'm not a fan of omitting quotation marks and it's moving a little slowly." And this one at page 163: "Okay, now I'm hooked." A brief status update at the end of the book would have looked something like this: "Huh? What the heck?" And that pretty much sums ...
Blog Tour and Giveaway: The Other Alcott by Elise Hooper
Little Women was one of my favorite childhood reads. I don't recall how old I was when I read it but I do remember that I longed to be one of the March girls. And I was so proud to have finished such an unimaginably long book! I found 449 pages very daunting back then. Of course, once I began reading it was over all too soon. Now that I think about it, Little Women may have been my first book ...
Review of Little Deaths by Emma Flint
I was so excited to begin this this book. I knew that it was based on a true story story but it was one I was unfamiliar with. I made the conscious decision not to do any research on the case prior to reading this fictionalized version. As you can probably tell from my rating, I had several problems with the book. The first is that it was really quite boring. It just dragged on until the very ...
Review of Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
Though I wouldn't call anything contained in this review a spoiler, if you are thinking about reading this book, you might want to think twice before continuing. I do not feel I can review this book without including certain information which has significantly influenced my rating and opinions. Okay, now that the disclosure is out of the way, I'd like to state that once again, I seem to be the ...
Review of Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley
Lily and the Octopus opens on a Thursday evening. Ted knows it was a Thursday because that's the day he and Lilly, his beloved dachshund, reserve for talking about boys they think are cute. (They don't always agree but they do tend toward younger men.) He suddenly notices the octopus. On Lily's head. He's not sure how or when it came to reside there and he clearly feels some guilt over not having ...
Review of The Sleepwalker by Chris Bohjalian
After reading and enjoying The Guest Room, I was excited to begin reading The Sleepwalker. The disappearance of a woman who sleepwalks is certainly an original concept. I've read stories of people who do some pretty outrageous things in their sleep; from making sandwiches to killing a spouse. (Honest, officer, I dreamt I was wrestling a deer!) But nothing could have prepared me for Annalee's ...
Review of Duplicity by Sibel Hodge
MY REVIEW From the outside, Max and Alissa seem to have the perfect marriage. They should. They’re filthy rich and have only been married for two months… But everything is not always as it seems. Or is it? Duplicity is a clever and well-paced story of murder and mayhem. I was kept in suspense from the very first page where we are introduced to The Other One. At first, all we know about the ...
Review of “Inherit the Bones” by Emily Littlejohn
"...I've always thought there are currents running through our world and our lives, threads if you will, that touch and connect all things. Events, years after they've happened, leave faint fingerprints that linger and change the surface of places over time." A murdered clown. An unknown murder weapon. A surprise ID. A pregnant lead investigator. Her partner with questionable professional ethics. ...
