When You Find Me by P.J. Vernon This is an ok psychological thriller/police procedural audiobook that I probably would have enjoyed a lot more if I hadn’t read so much in the genre. Grey King, a wealthy heiress from South Carolina, comes home to her familial estate to celebrate Christmas with her mother and her …
Category: Book Review
Nov 09
Book Review: Murder by Other Means
Murder by Other Means by John Scalzi This short audiobook is the sequel to The Dispatcher, a murder mystery set in a world in which anyone who is murdered returns to life at home unharmed. The protagonist, Tony, has a job in which he murders people who are about to die by other means so …
Nov 04
Book Review: A Darker Shade of Magic
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab This refreshingly original novel helped restore my faith in high fantasy after so many D&D McFantasyland adventures. It’s set in London and London and London, three different Londons in parallel universes with differing amounts of magic in each, the most familiar of which being “Grey London” which …
Oct 30
Book Review: The Murmur of Bees
The Murmur of Bees by Sofía Segovia This family-epic magical-realism novel set in Mexico around the turn of the century has all of the ingredients of a truly magnificent novel, but I found it tedious and a pain to finish. For me the thing that will stick with me the longest is the anguish of …
Oct 18
Book Review: Pretty Things
Pretty Things by Janelle Brown I wanted something that had a heist plot, and Audible recommended this one, probably because one of the narrators was the same who read Bluff, which I enjoyed so much. The main characters are Nina, an art thief, and Vanessa, an heiress turned instagram star. Nina, who turned to theft …