Another recommendation from Bookriot for people who enjoyed Stranger Things. Not quite as good as I expected — the author seemed to be having trouble keeping any consistency with the tone of the novel. “You must remain pure of heart on this journey… Be courageous but remember to also be noble and everything will be all right.” Odilia spends all of her time watching her four younger sisters, since their father left and their mother works constantly. One day at their favorite swimming hole (on the Texas […]
“I was holding someone captive and all that was going through my mind was a Billboard Top 40 love song.”
I spent most of this book trying to figure out if I was reading good dark comedy, or bad fan fiction. Judging by the Goodreads reviews, most people felt the same way. By the end, I concluded it was more on the dark humor side — but enough of it had me rolling my eyes to drop my rating a bit. “Did I love them because they were the only boys in my life who consistently told me that I was beautiful? Probably. I loved […]
“In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug.”
I am so behind on my reviews! I’m going to try to post the 7 (!!) that I owe at some point today — wish me luck! Starting with Redshirts: A Novel with 3 Codas. 5 stars for the novel itself. About 1.5 stars for the totally unnecessary codas. “God is a hack,” he said. “He’s a writer on an awful science fiction television show, and He can’t plot His way out of a box. How do you have faith when you know that?” Set in […]
A Moriarty masterpiece
So I’ve read a lot of Liane Moriarty books. In fact, I’ve read all the Liane Moriarty books. And here’s how they go: there’s a group of people (women, or women and their husbands), something happens prior to the beginning of the novel, we don’t really know what that thing was, but it’s affecting everyone in different ways. Moriarty will spend the course of the novel dropping little hints, until the big explosive reveal (which is always something I thought I had figured out but never actually do), after which […]