Best: The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie
Worst: The Haunting of Blackwood House and The Thin Man
Best book is a tie between If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio and Lover Revealed by J. R. Ward.
Worst book is easily Bleeding Earth by Kaitlin Ward. Hopefully it will remain the worst.
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Wait what???? That's the premise of the book?
Worst: Ghoul by Marc Alexander
I'm updating my best: Either Hag's Trail or Ghoul by Brian Keene.
Aside from one of the books I'm currently reading, and the entire The Thin Man experience, I've actually had a pretty pleasant set of books.
If I had to choose the best, at this point in the game, I might actually pick Nora Robert's Blue Dahlia, with The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada coming in close second.
Worst would definitely be The Thin Man, but it really amused me more than enraged or frustrated me.
However, I'm feeling a proper worst coming on in the book I'm reading right now, Dear Maggie by Brenda Novak, which is a disappointment, because I don't think I've ever felt this frustrated with a Brenda Novak book. Truth is, it doesn't even feel like she tried very hard with this book.
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Yes. I don't read romance for this reason. The premise of women being desperate and looking for sex with handsome men circulating like sharks offering their dicks disgusted me.
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Then you obviously have never read a real romance novel.
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well yes I have read some, not a lot, of romance. To say I have no read real romance is another non true Scotsman logical fallacy.
I do realized that how I interpreted these romance novels. No matter how much internal dialogue was written on how these women characters fooled themselves.
Best so far was Frail Human Heart by Zoe Marriott
Worst so far was The Thin Man but I didn't hate it.
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Yick! That's annoying. Sounds terrible.
I think I outgrew my mom's romance books. Way too problematic.
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Same here. I just couldn't stand romance any more.
I have only read three and am on my fourth but...
Best so far was Rituals by Kelley Armstrong because I love the whole series it's based on; and
Worst so far was The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie only because I am not used to that time period of writing.
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I do enjoy romance books, but I realize that the 80s/90s romance books were not for me. I do love Amanda Quick books, along with some older Julie Garwood. I would recommend taking a look at her historical books. I think contemporary romance books are really good and I always tell people to look at Courtney Milan.
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Kell's I hope that you give Christie another try!
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