Dacia

If I were half as clever as Percival Everett, I would go to cocktail parties and everyone would fall in love with me.

Above average for its genre. A fun summer vacation read.

Stark, but tender. I enjoyed reading this.

Heart-breaking book that should make anyone rethink the death penalty. I've read other books that tied the stories of multiple characters together, but I think this one did it better than most. A good book to read when you feel like reading something sad. Going to need some kind of silly paperback to buoy my spirits after this one.

Forgettable.

A beautiful fairy tale for a magical city.

Feels like this book was written by someone older than me, trying to impress an audience younger than me. Reading it gave me contact embarrassment for the author.

This book was so not what I expected and I loved every damn page.

I was expecting more action, something more thrilling. It was just ok. Repetitive, which maybe comes with the time loop territory.

3.5-4 stars: Good, not great.

I enjoyed that the story was unexpected–I didn't see where it was going, and that's unusual for me, and highly appreciated. It was quite different from your typical paranormal books–a newer mythology, which was also welcome. It's a quick read. I went in expecting a zombie book, and it's not that at all. The book has a different view on death and the dead and I found it refreshing.

Suddenly I want to buy myself a Juicy sweatsuit?

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be child stars.

Definitely some funny parts, classic Sedaris observation stuff. But also some tone-deaf old, rich, white guy moments, which I don't remember from his earlier books.

I enjoyed one Lucy Foley book and after reading more I'm starting to think that might have been a fluke.

Well-written little tale of a different time in a different place that left me longing for my own swampy escape.

I love Ronnie Spector.

Exhaustive to a fault. Halfway through I was tired of hearing the same exact thing from anyone who had spent a day with Bourdain or only communicated with him via email. This book would have benefitted from a much tighter edit.

History is a motherfucker.

Loved the first book, but this one didn't hold me as tight. There will be a third, and will I read it? Eventually, perhaps.

Found this one dull & predictable.

To paraphrase John Waters: “Get more out of life, read a fucked up book.”

Peter Falk is everyone's granddad.

Dumb.

Who doesn't love a tough female lead? I'm a sucker for any story that has a scene where a guy bursts into a room, hoping to save the damsel in distress and she's all “Hey, while you were forming a plan, I just went ahead and took care of business on my own, k?”

Beautifully written. Now I want to go to Ireland and solve a mystery.