I read Gone Girl when it first came out and loved it; Sharp Objects a few months which was great but not as good as Gone Girl, and I just finished Dark Places which I think was the weakest of the three, but still a good thriller. Gillian Flynn has a talent for both plotting and writing, but her main characters tend to be incredibly unlikable. Libby Day, of Dark Places, was the worst offender of the three (Day, Camille Preaker of Sharp Objects and of course, Amazing Amy from Gone Girl). Although […]
Vortexes and Tarot Cards
I downloaded Steve Hockensmith’s The White Magic Five and Dime from the public library solely based on the cover, so I guess that works out sometimes. It was well-written and very funny, and had enough twists and turns to make it just fly by. The illustrations of tarot cards were great. I’m definitely going to put the sequel on my “to-read” list (although it doesn’t appear to actually be out yet…). Alanis McLachlan (she made that name up when she was 18, and admits that it shows) has been out […]
Well, this was kind of terrible
Look, I know that Dean Koontz is hardly a literary genius, but I’ve been reading him since middle school and I enjoy his books. They can be repetitive, and once you notice what kind of themes and characters he likes to re-use, it’s hard to unsee that. But I like his flowery, occasionally babbling style, I like his over the top bad ass ladies, I’m a big fan of golden retrievers and I’ve truly enjoyed probably 90% of the books he’s written. The City, however, kind […]
Terrifying time travel
How have I never read anything by Octavia Butler before? This book was fantastic, and I have got to find more of her work — does anyone have any suggestions?? Kindred stars a black woman named Dana, who lives in California in the 1970s. On her 26th birthday, she starts to feel dizzy, then suddenly finds herself on the side of a riverbank next to a drowning boy. She saves the boy, almost on instinct, and later realizes that she’s traveled back in time & […]