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About Ellesfena

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Public health nerd (there are dozens of us!), non-fiction lover, with a side of YA and mysteries. My real CBR goal is to have the titles of as many of my reviews as possible be Mountain Goats lyrics.

Ellesfena's Reviews:

A Quebecois Poirot

July 28, 2016 by Ellesfena Leave a Comment

In the tiny town of Three Pines, the body of Jane Neal is discovered in the woods. Miss Jane was beloved by her neighbors, many of whom are her former students. It appears that her death was a hunting accident, but when Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is assigned to the case, he begins to think it may have been on purpose. There are few things in life that are cozier than laying on the couch under a blanket, reading a British murder mystery. Still Life […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Armand Gamache, cozy mystery, mystery

Float like a bubble, sting like a bee

July 21, 2016 by Ellesfena Leave a Comment

Sometime you just need to read something silly and fun. If that’s the case, the Bubbles mystery series fits the bill. Bubbles Yablonsky (yes, this is the name on her birth certificate) is a hairdresser in an industrial town in Pennsylvania. She’s a single mother who wants to make a better life for her daughter, and decides to become a journalist. Through a bizarre but pretty entertaining series of events, she stumbles over a dead body, and nearby finds the car that ran him over. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: bubbles yablonsky, mystery

Outgunned, Outmanned, Outnumbered, Outplanned

July 13, 2016 by Ellesfena 5 Comments

Ahhhh, this book! Loved it, loved it. I picked it up after another Cannonballer reviewed it a couple months ago and the comment section was full of people gushing over it, and it did not disappoint. The Rook is the story of a woman who wakes up one day alone, surrounded by dead bodies, with no memory of who she is or how she got there. As it happens, there’s a letter in her pocket, written by the previous inhabitant of her body (Myfanwy Thomas–pronounced […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: checquy, fantasy

A Jolly Little Romp, What?

July 12, 2016 by Ellesfena 2 Comments

Do I really need to write a review of this book? Surely you all know about Bertie Wooster and Jeeves already. Right Ho, Jeeves finds the dynamic duo staying at Aunt Dahlia’s house, and quickly wrapped up in the romantic misadventures of Bertie’s friends Tuppy Glossop and Gussie Fink-Nottle (one of the best parts of any Jeeves and Wooster book is the names of his friends). Tuppy’s engaged to Bertie’s cousin Angela and Gussie is in love with another houseguest, Madeleine Bassett. Naturally hijinks ensue, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: farce, Jeeves and Wooster, PG Wodehouse

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