This review can also be found at Carole's Random Life.The best part of this book was finishing it. Seriously, I was absolutely thrilled to finally be done with this one so that I could move on to something else. I actually almost stopped listening pretty early on in the book because it just wasn't...
Is Fat Bob Dead Yet? is essentially an Elmore Leonard book written by . . . someone else. It doesn't have the zip, style and the panache of Leonard, though. It has a style and panache all of its own (almost no zip, though, but that's okay).Things get kicked off here with a nasty motorcycle accident ...
DNF @ 25%I was looking forward to a fun quirky story. I've read 25% of the story and I just don't have any desire to pick this book up again. I haven't found anything to be even remotely funny and I don't care about any of the characters. This book just does not work for me at all.ARC provided by...
Charlie is a misanthrope. When his mother, who owns the hotel where he works as the house dick, asks him what he would do with a million dollars, his response is that he'd like to buy a boat, anchor it offshore, and fish and read. (Sounds good except for the fishing.) If people wanted to come visit ...
Weird things happening in a small town, but everything comes together in the end in a believable conclusion (of sorts). That alone makes it worth the read. Also, this book has hints of Stephen King... actually, it's more like a bouillon cube of Stephen King. It has Stephen King flavorings, but ste...
I finished this book in two days, literally staying up until ungodly hours of the night to do so. Upon finishing, I can say it was a messy, creepy, action-filled suspense-y thriller set in a small New England town. However, while reading this book, I couldn't stop grousing!The novel opens dramatical...
I was excited to start this one – Eliza at Penguin rarely guides me wrong. After the first few chapters, though, I was wondering what I’d gotten myself into. Things were going so s.l.o.w.l.y. Sure, there’s the snake-in-the-hospital-crib thing and the requisite hullabaloo that follows. And then I was...
Full review up at http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/the-burn-palace/...Stephen Dobyns has an impressive back catalog of well-regarded poetry collections, a long-running detective series set in Saratoga Springs, and a handful of genre-jumping novels that invariably draw rounds of applause fro...
I read this book years ago, and still think of it often. I've been reading the reviews on this site, and it seems that those that gave it only 2 or 3 stars really didn't get it. It's OK guys, you just need to go back and read a whole bunch of fairy tales and different versions of fairy tales, and it...
I read this a while ago and don't remember much, except after reading the Church of Dead Girls, this one was an extreme disappointment. I sent it to a used book store.
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