I’ve been on a mystery / thriller kick lately and “My Sister’s Grave” really hit the spot. It was like reading an episode of “Bones” meets “Law and Order: SVU”. I shouldn’t really compare books to TV shows but forgive me this, I don’t read a ton in this genre all the time so TV shows are the easiest comparisons I can make. It didn’t have any of the TV show “Bones” absurd science where you magnify the pixels from a reflection in a doorknob to positively I.D your killer (which is a good thing) and it didn’t spend an inordinate amount of time describing the heinous crimes like in SVU, it gave you enough so you got the idea and then moved on (also, a good thing). Instead, Dugoni gives us a no-nonsense female homicide detective who started her career not as a cop, but as a high school chemistry teacher who also competed in shooting competitions. She’s smart. Tough as nails. She’s a believable badass and I love it.
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Keeping it strong with my Kindle Unlimited and keeping true to my book resolution this year of branching out into other genres of fiction. Enter “Everything We Keep” a book where the first half of it reads like the worst Lifetime movie you’ve ever seen before, about 60% in, turning into that chick flick that you’ve seen about 80 times already. There were parts I sincerely liked and then other parts where I was shaking my head, and not in the good way, at the “easy outs” the author used…. So this is another one of those Kindle Unlimited books I decided to give a try. Another self-published fantasy novel. While the first one I read was pretty disappointing, Cardoso’s book was much better. It still had its hiccups, but over all, it restored some of my faith that it is indeed possible to self-publish a decent book! |
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