So this is my very first review. Hopefully it’s not so terrible that I get kicked out. I read Mary Kubica’s suspense novel Every Last Lie. The novel revolves around a women named Clara who has a 4 year old daughter and a newborn son and who loses her husband in an automobile accident just days after her sons birth. Even though there is absolutely nothing suspicious about her husband’s death Clara comes to suspect literally EVERYONE of having murdered her husband. She bases this […]
I’m pretty sure I hate this book
So I was right when I made the title of this post. I definitely hated this book. It promise to be single white female on steroids. Sounds exciting right? What I got was nine and a half hours of nothing happening between people, no single white female anything, and characters that I really had a hard time rooting for. I would’ve given it 1 star, but the last half hour was pretty good. Why oh why did I have to slog through the other […]
I can’t muster enough feelings for this to come up with a snappy title
I really enjoyed The Good Girl but was a bit “meh” on Don’t You Cry, my ambivalence towards Kubica’s Every Last Lie has sealed the deal for me- I’m just not a fan of her delivery. Our story is told from two perspectives: Clara Solberg in the present and her husband, Nick, in the past. While Clara is home with her week old son, Nick manages to wrap his car around a tree while driving his daughter home from ballet. Maisie, their daughter, walks away without a scratch but Nick […]
“My mind considers for one split second a world without Esther, and it makes me feel sad.”
First of all- it’s the midway point of the year/ CBR9! With 70 read books behind me Goodreads tells me I am 17 books ahead of schedule to meeting my goal of 107… I figure this is a good time to update my goal so I am going to push myself to 120 books. This averages to 10 books per month but gives me some wiggle room in case my pace continues to drag (12 books in May only 7 in June) . Wish me luck! […]