Nikki D

Perfect and odd

Revisado: 01-03-24

This is an odd book that is so exactly my thing! It is a story about a family and a murder but more importantly about a relationship between a politician’s wife and a government fixer. Or maybe it’s about Vietnam. It’s not a whodunnit or whydunnit but the questions are asked. It’s about Hawaii and more.

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Alma Katsu doesn’t miss

Revisado: 08-13-23

I love spies and office politics. This was a delightful story. I’m off to read all her backlist now.

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The bad three-way

Revisado: 05-19-23

YES PERFECT EXCELLENT

I wanted more but the story ends in the perfect place. These friends. This couple. This terrible marriage. It’s all so good. I loved the structure. How each pov section forwards the story without retreading what you’ve just found out. It was real and vicious and perfect.

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When the neighbor is HOT...(slightly spoilery)

Revisado: 12-13-22

Listen to this for the mystery but stay for the friends. May Cobb wrote these women so vividly! I laughed and shook my head at them. They are not bad people but life has put them in particular boxes and when things don't go their way they go to extremes. The drama is dialed up past 11 with them and their friendship, all of them stirred up by a man who is a temptation for one wife, attractive but suspicious to another wife and a golden boy who puts stars in the eyes of one divorcee. MY SUMMER DARLINGS is worth your time. Pop the cork on a good wine and get comfortable with this book.

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Yorick!

Revisado: 11-14-22

This book broke my heart a little. Loved it. Might need to replay the trilogy now

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Bernie forever

Revisado: 10-21-22

Bernie Rhodenbarr is back and he’s got an itch to steal a diamond. Block brings back old favorites in this one and I’m so glad to see them. It feels a little bittersweet to hear Richard Ferrone giving life to Bernie now that he himself has died but there’s no one else I would’ve wanted to hear more.

Overall it’s different from what you might expect a Burglar tale to be but it worked for me.

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Perfection

Revisado: 08-13-22

This book is one of the rare ones where the author narrating works well. Melissa Bank was a spectacular writer and I’m forever sad she’s gone. I wish she’d written more books but I’m so glad we have two.

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Shirley Jackson was a force

Revisado: 07-18-21

Perhaps there will be a book with more letters from both sides of the conversation or her letters will be printed in their entirety but this book (and its narrator) brought her wit and charm and strength into my life and I am forever changed.

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Murder mystery with a side of magic

Revisado: 06-06-19

This isn't my first Gailey book (see all the Hippo books!!!) so believe me when I say Magic for Liars is better. MfL is a book about family and grief and desire. Desire for what we want versus what we actually need. Did I know whodunit before the end? I had an inkling but, like the main character Ivy, I was too caught up in the world of a magic school and maybe, just maybe, a new love, to stop to consider the clues. This book has a lovely beating heart and it surprised me and by the end, broke my heart.

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The new Kinsey Milton’s?

Revisado: 05-04-18

Roxane Weary might just be my favorite PI now. This second book of Lepionka’s is excellent. Without Sue Grafton there will never be another Kinsey Milhone book but at least we have Roxane.

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