Project: Catch Up On Review Backlog, review #6 out of 11 The Alienist has been on my TBR practically since I joined Goodreads ten years ago. I no longer remember whose review or what list prompted me to add this book. (But thank you, whoever you were! I really liked it!) I had this book on my TBR so long that it almost didn’t make it through several TBR purges. I distinctly remember being on the verge of deleting it at least twice, and then […]
I really dislike Peter now, FYI. #CBRBingo
Project: Catch Up On Review Backlog, review #5 out of 11 Glad to say I’m fully back on board with this series. I’ve decided to overlook its faults in favor of the things it does really well. I don’t think these same people in this same very small town are going to stop improbably encountering dead bodies anytime soon. And what it does really well is character. Penny’s characters are very human. The consensus for this one seems to be that it’s good, not great. […]
If you read the first book, don’t read this book. Imagine your own ending. #CBRBingo
No question, this is the weakest book in this series by quite a large margin. Before I read it, I saw the sharp drop in the ratings for it, and I almost couldn’t believe it. The first two books were solid, what could possibly be so bad about this one? Well. Those ratings make sense now, because this book was aggressively incompetent. What were cute and comforting levels of predictability in the first two books became clichéd and eyeroll-worthy in this one. The problem, I […]
Not as good as the first, but still fun.
This wasn’t as purely fun as the first one, but it was almost as predictable, hence my 3.5 star rating, instead of the full four (rounding up, though, because not as fun is still fun). Spoilers for the first book below. Seriously, don’t read any further if you haven’t read it. I’m about to spoil a central plot point. The Runaway King picks up a month after the close of the last book, with Jaron having taken the throne and left his false identity as […]