Kelly Corn

I love Gillian Flynn's writing. Her ability to weave a tale has brought me to read all three of her major novels. Unfortunately the subject matter is so so dark and disturbing. Chances are I'll read anything this woman writes though!

I very much enjoyed the format of this book, I love the changing perspectives and timelines and the way the story came together .... almost completely. Except! I absolutely cannot figure out the killer's motive. Why did Tom kill Violet when he had the $65,000 already he stole from Cora? Why did he give Violet a dog? I suspected so many characters but honestly not Tom.

I borrowed the audiobook of this novel, and I'm glad I came across it. I've completely given up on Robert Parker's Spenser series after Judas Goat, so I'm very pleased to have a new hard-boiled series to try out. I've been watching HBO's The Deuce so it was so easy to picture the scenes in the novel in 1970s NYC. I like Scudder, I fully believe that he cares and doesn't care equally, makes for a great hard-boiled detective.

Might be the medium that this book was delivered to me (I listened to the very long audiobook), but it never grabbed me or intrigued me. Might be that legal thrillers just aren't for me. I should have stopped reading, another lesson in the sunk cost fallacy. The 90 to 95% part of this book was fine. The rest was forgettable - dull (I generally keep reading a book I find dull that also has a good rating on Goodreads, but this one never got exciting), ridiculous (this chubby guy is sleeping with all of these women? not even a month after his wife's suicide? and I'm supposed to like this character??), long (way too long). Probably my last one in this series unfortunately.

Well I liked this one much more than I thought I would. The suspense and pacing were on point, and I looked forward to getting to listen to the audiobook. Although it's a “serial killer” book, it's different in some regards - the killer is a woman, a very traumatized woman, and the author skillfully weaves sympathy into the story. I'm looking forward to the next in the series.

Excellent. And inspired me to read about and poems by Keats, Shelley and Byron. I always enjoy the style of storytelling by having so many different perspectives. I do wish there was more than one female pilgrim BUT at least Brawne Lamia is an awesome and well-developed character and not just “the girl in the group”. Amazing world building, character development, and I can't wait to read the sequel.

I feel like this series has been getting better for me, but it was already pretty good. I love the Arizona desert setting, I love a strong woman as main character - and single mom at that! Joanna appeals to me more than Kinsey Millhone or the Stephanie Plum types of characters for a lot of reasons. Jance has written her as fierce and independent as Millhone/Plum/et al, but so much more subtle and I just really like that difference. I'm glad there are many more Joanna Brady books to read. The mystery was very satisfying and great character progression as well. Overall a great addition to a great series.

Well turns out I really enjoy Agatha Christie's short stories, I loved every one of these.

Very fast paced novel that I enjoyed more than I thought I would. I did find the few female characters rather troublesome in their lack of depth, but the theme of the path not taken just really struck me at this particular point in life, maybe because I just turned 40 and goodness has that been on my mind a lot lately.

Story was predictable (which is a surprise really), but otherwise well written like most of Connelly's works.

I loved a lot of things about this book. The switching between so many characters toward the end was very effective. The suspense of the last 100 pages was so taut and so perfect.

There was not enough “thriller” for me to really enjoy this thriller. That said, this is a nice character-driven novel that did hold some surprises. It is well-written, in-depth, but it's just not really my kind of thriller novel.

This book was fun to read. I still didn't figure out who done it, but there were definitely enough clues that I should have :)

First Miss Marple story I've read, so I don't know how it compares to others. It was a very quick read, and not really Christmas-y.

Surprisingly really great book! I loved all the near-future science fiction, and the engrossing battle of science vs. religion. Dialogue and exposition was mediocre, but the themes bringing the whole novel together made up for that easily.

Merged review:

Surprisingly really great book! I loved all the near-future science fiction, and the engrossing battle of science vs. religion. Dialogue and exposition was mediocre, but the themes bringing the whole novel together made up for that easily.

Merged review:

Surprisingly really great book! I loved all the near-future science fiction, and the engrossing battle of science vs. religion. Dialogue and exposition was mediocre, but the themes bringing the whole novel together made up for that easily.

Not my favorite VI Warshawski, still enjoyable though.

I was not blown away by Sanderson's novel by any means, however, it is a solid book nonetheless. My biggest issue was the lack of much interesting in about the first 80% of the story. There was a lot of political and religious back story being set up, and while that is certainly necessary, I as a reader personally prefer more action, intrigue, and suspense. All the little breadcrumbs dropped throughout the novel do come together so nicely at the end like much of Sanderson's other works. I felt the characters were well-developed and the setting of Elantris was fascinating. All in all a solid first novel by one of my favorite authors.

I loved every minute of this mystery. I think the style is a little different from the other in the series, and I really enjoyed the whole investigative process. It's very lightly inspired by a true case, so maybe that's where the different tone comes from.

I'm not going to say that these mysteries are full of suspense or even that satisfying once you reach the end, but I sure like Agatha Raisin as a character and all of her antics.

Not my favorite Hillerman novel.

I know this is silly since the killing of a human is kind of the core of most mystery novels, but the references to the killing of animals is not something I like in my mysteries.

I like this mystery a lot so far. Great setting in the Arizona desert, and a great main heroine Joanna Brady. Although there is a fair amount of action, many scenes are full of emotional development and introspection into the characters. It's a great balance.

I'm a big fan of basketball, so I had a lot of fun reading this book which is about a professional basketball player who has gone missing. Unlike many other mystery books that I have read, the middle of this book was very ho-hum to me while the end was fantastic. The clues were all there and wrapped up so nicely!

4 short stories of varying length, I like that I could read each one in a single sitting.

Great cozy mystery.

Funny and entertaining as always. I love Agatha Raisin.