cbr10bingo… Cover Art THIS IS MY FIRST BINGO! (I plan on having more, but we’ll see) I chose this book for “cover art”, because it’s obviously a cool / disturbing cover. We start out the story with a British detective (or inspector, or whatever rank he was at the time) talking to a family about how the pedophile who sexually abused their six year old daughter won’t be brought to justice. It’s devastating to both the family and the detective, because he’s a bad dude […]
I wish I liked the characters more
cbr10bingo… Underrepresented I really wish I liked the main character more. I picked this audiobook (in CD form) up from the library on a whim. The cover looked cool, and the story sounded interesting. I’m always up for a murder mystery with a dash of hidden identities. The main character is Polly / Pauline. She starts out by abandoning her daughter and husband on their beach vacation and driving to Delaware. I don’t know if this was the point, but I didn’t like her right […]
John Rain goes to Rio
So after the events of book two, where John almost gets killed a few times, he activates his escape plan. John had been cultivating a false identity in Brazil for years in the eventuality that he’d need to get out of Japan and start a new life. Unfortunately, one of the women he met in Japan is actually from Brazil, and she returns home and they start seeing each other again. She unknowingly (he thinks knowingly) leads them to John, and he’s almost killed again. […]
Some good ideas, but the execution could use some work
I get early reviewer lists every month from LibraryThing, and I got the chance to read and review The Portal & The Experiment: Two Novellas of Suspense by Lynn L. Clark. I was provided this book free of charge in exchange for an honest review. The Portal Our main character Emily has inherited an antique shop from her mother, who recently passed away. In searching for more stock for the shop, she acquires a tiger-stripe desk with a mirror. Once back in the shop, she thinks […]