Category: Writings

Die with Me by Elena Forbes My rating: 3 of 5 stars I downloaded this to my Kobo app well over a year ago and never got around to reading it. Ebooks are way too easy to buy, and so you accumulate a bunch and then end up forgetting about the ones not read right…

Fatal Remedies by Donna Leon My rating: 4 of 5 stars The last couple of Brunetti mysteries I’d read were depressingly pessimistic. But this one broke that cycle. I like my books not to be so “realistic” as some of this series is. Reading is supposed to be an escape sometimes, especially when reading mysteries,…

Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz My rating: 3 of 5 stars Odd Thomas is a likable character. Philosophical with an optimistic bent, one who self-reflects and thinks about the consequences of his actions while living in the moment, reactive to the horrors coming at him as he strives to save an innocent. This book in…

A Body in the Backyard by Elizabeth Spann Craig My rating: 3 of 5 stars I won this book in an #indiechat giveaway on Twitter, and I was pleased as punch because it’s been awhile since I’d read a cosy mystery, and my brain felt in need of this kind of comfy book. A Body…

A Warrior’s Tale by L.T. Suzuki My rating: 4 of 5 stars I won this book in a giveaway. I don’t usually read fantasy but thought it was time I tried a new genre and read an author I’m not familiar with. Spreading my book wings, so to speak. Because of my reading problems from…

The Abbey by Chris Culver My rating: 2 of 5 stars As the hover text over two stars says: it was okay. It actually had a really interesting idea going in, the idea of a Muslim detective in a city no one usually associates with fictional settings. The setting was okay. But it could’ve been…

Where There’s a Will by Rex Stout My rating: 4 of 5 stars I borrowed this from the library. Good reading, although it was amusing and confusing to see the name of the inheritor change occasionally from Karn to Kara as well as the various other typos. It was authentic to the time! The other…