I badly need to catch up with writing reviews, but don’t really have the inclination to write long and individual reviews for books that were mostly ‘meh’. I sometimes pick up thrillers when I need a break from fantasy, and this review covers several that I’ve read since the early summer, in order that I read them. In some cases I have to cast my mind back rather a long way–and some definitely made an impression more than others. Most of these I read pretty […]
Grasping at Straws
Four women, innumerable lies, one secret. One morning, three women in London get a text message saying only “I need you” – and all three know at once what to do and where to go. The women were schoolmates and best friends at an out-of-the-way boarding school years before, and their penchant for making a game out of lying to their peers and teachers made them fast friends while isolating them from those around them. Now, a secret in their shared past is threatening to […]
More audiobooks
The Lying Games – 1/5 Stars Well I thought this book was pretty bad. It’s a 1/5 because what I thought was absolutely horrendous about the mystery became merely annoying by the end. For one, the stakes were so incredibly low for the actual crime, until they tightened toward the end, but mostly because, well, you can have a low stakes kind of book…so many contemporary novels are that way, but the writing has to be good enough to carry it. That’s what’s going in […]
Are people really like this? Really? In real life?
So, immediately after reading The Break, I needed a palette cleanser – something a bit more mindless and light. This hit the spot for that. A fairly generic mystery that was entertaining, but it wasn’t a complete home run for me. The Lying Game is about four friends who are living their separate lives in England, all while hiding a secret that they have been lying about since they were in high school together. When something threatens to expose their secret, they come together […]