Blog, Page 15

The characters are interesting, but the plot doesn’t really go anywhere.

An enjoyable spy book. It’s a bit like The Thursday Murder Club books, except instead of humor, this is more of a serious spy novel. Good characters, thrilling s...

Terrific characters, an interesting mystery, and several laugh-out-loud moments. The ending was a bit mixed: there was a good twist, but overall, it was a bit har...

DNF. Got 25% of the way through the book and found I didn’t care at all for the characters, the plot was boring, and there wasn’t much interesting in the story t...

Another good Bosch entry, with a fun mystery to keep you reading. The resolution to the mystery felt equal parts clever and convoluted, but it was an entertaining...

An interesting bit of historical fiction (fictional biography?) on the life of composer Dmitri Shostakovich under Communism and Stalinism. Not a happy read, but a...

An interesting read about a prolonged hostage situation and the relationships that can form between the hostages and the hostage takers.

There are some really cool ideas in this book (the way different alien species evolve, the use of black holes, all sorts of advanced weaponry and armor), but I fo...

Another solid entry in the Gamache series. This one is not set in Three Pines, which is a shame, but instead, it’s set in a lost monastery, with an interesting ba...

DNF Not my style of book. The 19th century literature obsession with finding a “suitable husband” (based essentially on blood, salary, and a conversation or two)...