Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Dec 30
The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson Silly me for thinking that this book would be a lighthearted and feel-good romance in the same vein as Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand. Simonson draws the time and place so well that one cannot imagine living in that time and place with anything other than a sense …
Dec 26
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman I almost quit this book in the first fifty pages because I found the main character so fussy and deeply unlikeable. She’s aggressively bright but socially awkward, reading like an autistic person. It seemed that she didn’t have any friends and didn’t want any friends and felt …
Dec 26
The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch The events of this novel are highly influenced by Red Seas Under Red Skies so don’t do what I did and let most of a decade pass between reading the previous one and this one. Scott Lynch doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to worldbuilding and complicated …
Dec 26
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty Liane Moriarty is the kind of author where I save her books for when I need something I know I’m really going to like. She’s so good at characters, creating realistic and believable people and having them interact with each other in plausible ways. This book, unlike her others, …
Dec 05
The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson This novel picks up where the first one left off, with the band of scoundrels who have managed to take over the empire trying to hold onto their victory. Elend Venture has taken over as king, but he’s more of an idealist and a scholar and is having …
