I cannot emphasize enough how much I am loving the Red Rising series. I’m pre-grieving my reading and finishing of the next and final book. But, I’m also so addicted that as soon as the library checks it out to me, I’m going to devour it. This is dystopian fiction at its finest: fully fleshed out, incredibly exciting, completely believable, deeply poetic. The protagonist, Darrow has my heart. He’s driven, he’s thoughtful, he’s pure but emotional, and he’s young and beautiful. The villains of the […]
Another Easy Summer Read
This review is for the audio book version of The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan. This book is the first in a series about disgraced news reporter turned newspaper journalist Jane Ryland and her friend, Detective Jake Brogan. It is a fast paced thriller, full of political intrigue, family drama, jealousy, and unrequited lust. It isn’t groundbreaking, but it was entertaining enough to pick up the second in the series. The book begins with Jane, freshly unemployed after getting her employer sued, interviewing for […]
Everything old is new again, and I want to inhale it all
This is the first time since The Passage that my brain has DEMANDED MORE when I’ve gotten to the end of a Book 1. I want, I want, I want. I freaking fracking loved Red Rising, and it was a huge surprise to me, because as per uzh, I had totally forgotten what the book was about by the time it was checked out to me, making it a totally shocking, harsh deep dive into an incredibly complete and consuming future dystopia. There’s a lot […]
Pretty 1%ers doing terrible things in gorgeous villas
A house party turns a millionaire’s hacienda hideaway into a crime scene in this classic detective novel from an Edgar Award–winning Grand Master. If actual wealthy people died at the rate that they do in murder mystery novels, we would be down to one Kardashian. My bet is on the short scrappy one. Ellery is a writer maybe? Gentleman playboy? Private Eye? Not sure, don’t care. It’s summer in New York and Queen and his buddy, retired Judge McClain (I kept picturing Bruce Willis from […]