by Isabel Allende
DNF @ 25% Maybe I have been spoiled by the many excellent and tightly plotted reads that I have finished recently, but this feels all over the place. The characterisations are good, the interactions between Amanda and her grandfather are delightful, but for a mystery story, there is a lack of comp...
Don't read it for the mystery, read it for the things which make an Allende novel so rich and satisfying: a large, diverse cast with complex backstories and complicated relationships. Solving the mystery is the driver of the plot, but it isn't compelling in the way that Amanda's relationship with he...
I was really looking forward to Ripper. I like Isabelle Allende and enjoyed Maya's Notebook. Ripper is supposed to be her first foray int o the Thriller genre. Well, it never got thrilling for me. I was bored to tears and by the middle of the book, I decided it was never going to get better. Th...
This is a crime novel, but still undeniably and wonderfully Isabel Allende. It's a great story, but lots of time is spent in filling out the characters fully, which usually doesn't happen in the average crime novel. But the book is all the better for it.
Ripper is an online who-done-it game with a difference. The game master is Amanda. Amanda is as introverted as she is intelligent, yet she likes to take charge. She and her on line group of fellow social misfits enjoy investigating long ago crimes coming up with their own solutions. When a local...
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