Reginald Williams

Not that tightly told

Revisado: 03-25-22

Took me way to long to get through this book. It's way too slow in some parts. David is my favorite character, so the abrupt ending was not that satisfying. The addition of the film noir motif somewhat works, but falls flat in my opinion at the end. The best part is when the truth about Anna's family comes up. The narrator does her best with middling material. Not that strongly recommended.

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Amazing!

Revisado: 12-01-21

So complicated and so intricate. Worth another read. The narrator is amazing. Highly recommended!

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Unusual

Revisado: 01-24-21

An odd book. Part story, part bio, part treatise on his culture. Give it a try...

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Satisfied...

Revisado: 01-14-21

Good story. Not sure Cline could have gone in a better direction considering how excellent RP1 Was.

My favorite character is Wade. Not a perfect dude at all, but good if not naive intentions. Very flat parts for Shoto and Aeche. Artemis was gone most of the story, and their love story seemed incomplete. The low five were pointless really to me. Nolan Sorento's role seamed really forced and cliche.

Was a little uneasy with how Haliday's character developed. Not a good message for very smart gifted eccentric people.

I finished the book. It was well paced. I hope Cline does not write a second sequal. Not sure of where he could go after this one....

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Nice ans Full Deep

Revisado: 07-02-20

Phillip Dick gives a deep story of a. salt post WW2 world. giving us a 3D look, not a surface one where Hitler won.

Juliana is my favorite character, and her murder of her German boyfriend was scary. will read again.

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Marvelous!

Revisado: 05-09-20

What can I say? Excellent from page to page.

Orczy is uses detail,.drama, and whimsical phrases in her book. Percy by far is my favorite character. My favorite part was the scene in which Chauvelin came into the ballroom looking for the Pimpernel leader only to find Percy sleeping on the couch.

No struggle here. Michael Page is a wonder moving from Engliah to French at a moment's notice. Going to reread for sure.

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Cozy=Bland At Least For Now

Revisado: 02-08-20

I've been watching Fluke's books for a while now. The titles are enough to get one interested. This is my first one...and my first "cozy murder mystery book". You know the kind: "Murder, She Wrote" murders that happen in small towns...often out of inconvenience rather than conspiracy focused. My first impression: ZZZZZZ...until the final 20 minutes or so.

Hannah Swensen is my favorite character because she really is the only one with a quantify of personality. The other characters are bland, cliched, and just plain boring. Besides, they have very little to do in this story. It's so "color-by-numbers" and predictable that I had to will myself to keep listening. No surprises. Too many convenient plot twists and complications that I could see coming for miles. There is Fluke's writing style: just plain boring. I like words on a page that "snap! crackle! and Pop." I like some surprises in word use...a unique turn of phrase, word image, motif, or point of view. Some of the dialogue just seemed to be used to take up space because the story had no where to go. This story would make a perfect lifetime G-rated movie...hint hint...because I think it has been adapted.

The one positive: Suzanne Toren. She does a very nice job with this substandard material. She was good at differentiating the voices of men (using low for one...and lower for others...with different inflections than with women). When women were talking she did JUST enough to make them sound different, so I could tell them all apart. If it wasn't for her, I might have taken twice as long to get through this book.

I'm not a one and done reader when it comes to an author. This is, after all, my first Cozy mystery. It may take some time getting use to the style. I MIGHT one day give another of her books a try. They can't get any worst right?

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Deep Storying

Revisado: 07-18-19

Yorick, my favorite character, is the icing on the cake of a very complicated story by Pullman about "northern lights." Lyra is on a hesitant mission in connection with "dust" with the help of her "Daemon" Pan. My favorite part is in the last part of the book in which Lord Azrael explains...pretty much everything to Lyra with the help of a peculiar "bible." I would recommend multiple readings of this book...so much to absorb. Ready for Book 2:)

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Flynn's Preaker Elevates Plain Small Town Mystery

Revisado: 04-13-19

Flynn's Camille Preaker elevates an otherwise run-of-the mill journalist/detective story based on the small town/big city dichotomy of personable/impersonable emphasis of life.

Camille struggles to find meaning in having a straight-shooting life as a gifted Chicago reporter working in far less conditions than her talents belie, and it doesn't help when her amazingly supportive boss volun-tells her to go back to her hometown of Wind Gap, Missouri to investigate a recent murder. Everything then comes back, especially her relationship with her mother Adora and the complexity of her younger half sister Amma.

My favorite character in this story is Curry because he is the only one who loves Camille genuinely, and he tries HARD to keep doing it. I expected more from Detective Willis...just way too cliché...as was a lot of the story...but has some color due to Camille's personality and struggles.

Probably won't read it again, eve though Ann Marie Lee did fine with her vocals...even the male voices sounded pretty good.

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Self Centeredness Destroys Marriages

Revisado: 04-10-19

Dufris does a fine job with Evans' unsettling story. Frankly, I find Annie to be one of the most unlikable heroines I have yet to experience in a post-WW2 novel. For all her talents and smarts, she is one unthinking, self centered, thoughtless, selfish person. She has to be to justify what she does in this story to her Husband (granted, not perfect himself,..but who is?) and Grace her daughter whose climatic reaction is scary, but totally understandable considering how betrayed she felt under such fragile mental circumstances. I found it despicable, and, as a man who loves marriage and embraces its challenges, Evans gives a story on "how not" to deal with "10+ marriage platitude." My message to you as you thumb through this head,-shaking story of a married woman with dangerously low self esteem: Affairs are NEVER justifiable no matter what, especially as a form of vindication marriage is for real problem solvers, not stupid people. Forgive...forgive...forgive...a sad story.

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