This book really surprised me. I loved The Likeness, but detective Frank Mackey was NOT a favorite character. I really considered skipping this one and moving on to book four of the series. I’m so glad I resisted temptation because Faithful Place ended up being my favorite so far. As with all her novels (at least the ones I’ve read!), French is just as interested in the characters and how they cope with events as she is in the mystery itself. Frank grew up poor […]
I’m so here for kickass teenage girls
Rae Carson is without a doubt my favorite author discovery of 2016. I went gaga over Walk the Earth a Stranger (still not over that terrible title) and The Girl of Fire and Thorns did not disappoint. (Many thanks to Malin for the rec!) This is a coming of age story about a smart and timid girl becoming a wise and powerful woman. She’s the second born daughter of a king and was chosen for greatness at her birth. The problem is that she doesn’t […]
A resounding meh
2.5 stars. I had heard wildly different opinions about this book before actually reading it, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. I’ve seen reviews lambasting it while others raved about it. And I’ve read more than a couple of think pieces lambasting it for its treatment of disabled people and a few defending the story. It feels a bit anticlimactic to read it and shrug my shoulders with a meh, but that’s exactly what happened. I can definitely see why the disabled community would […]
The female characters in 9 to 5 would probably approve
3.5 stars. The Assistants is just the kind of book that’s fun to read, but hard to find anything to say about it. To be fair, it probably would have been easier to review if I was up to date on my reviews and not writing it a month after finishing it. Yikes. Tina Fontana is the assistant to Robert Barlow, a multinational media mogul in the vein of Rupert Murdoch. He’s richer than God but Tina is the underpaid lackey who makes his life […]