This book is a hot mess. And I mean that in the best possible sense. *minor spoilers* There’s a dog that wanted half its body shaved so that it could steal food easier. She figured she wouldn’t be recognized that way. Ronald McDonald eats his own intestines. Jennifer Lopez, Morgan Freeman, and (maybe) Fred Durst are in this book – but not really. The main character, Dave, is bitten by a drug named “Soy Sauce” that John, Dave’s friend, got from a mysterious Jamaican. The […]
Reefer Madness
I’m not buying that “Anonymous” crap. Sparks claimed that this was a journal of one of her patients, a teen addicted to drugs that ruined her life. Sparks has this amazing luck with finding kids with hot button issues that also loved journaling AND letting their therapist have all their old diaries. These teens also were really focused in their writing, only covering said moral panic issues and not the usual crap that all of us other teens wrote about. The irony is that Sparks wrote […]
Great tell-it-like-it-is legal tale with just the right mix of humor and courtroom hijinx
A late work that hadn’t caught my eye before, The Litigators brought me hurtling back into the Grisham fold. This book offers a fast-moving and painfully realistic story about mass tort litigation, along with a satisfying array of characters, and just enough laugh-out-loud moments and real-life horror stories to keep those pages turning til the end. The story opens just as young corporate lawyer David Zinc is having a full-scale panic attack on the way to his 93rd floor cubicle where he does mind-numbing financial […]
An unsuccessful glimpse inside the mind of a killer
Nesbo steps away from his standard Norwegian detective fare with this slim new novel that starts and ends with the blood of a murdered man soaking into the snow. Blood on Snow is written from the viewpoint of a mob “fixer,” a contract killer named Olav who is kept on the payroll of Oslo’s biggest crime boss to take care of problems that his boss doesn’t want to think about. These problems range from snitches to competitors to an unfaithful wife. And until Olav catches […]