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A touching and sad book that is occasionally deep & moving, and occasionally a bit simplistic & cheesy.

DNF. This book starts with a long bit of exposition to set the tone, which felt like a failure to show, rather than tell. After that, the book seems to jump all ...

Very solid Bosch book. Interesting detective work, dirty cops, race relations in LA, twists and turns, and so on.

Starts out with an interesting mystery and detective work, but then seems to lose the plot a bit, and goes into a semi-spy novel in Latvia. The setting is very so...

I enjoyed Damascus Station, but this book didn’t work nearly as well for me. One problem is that the characters just aren’t as interesting; Artemis (Proctor) is a...

The good Very interesting premise: the Vietnam War as seen from the eyes of a North Vietnamese mole who has infiltrated the South Vietnamese army and the...

This book didn’t work for me. I found it relied way too much on a narrator telling you what’s happening rather than showing you what’s happening by having charact...

The good Zoe is a very fun character. Zoe’s relationship with her parents, her friends, and Hickory and Dickory is genuinely touching. There ar...

The good

Entertaining read about WWII and breaking the Enigma cipher. Some interesting characters, a slice of British life during the war, a little bit of clever “hacking,...