Lisa

This would have been 5 stars had I not been hung up on second person narration. The flow of this book was hands down amazing and by the end hit a fever pitch.

just not my style....I'm sure many will find it fab.

Delicious, challenging and fun. Exquisite characters wrapped in glorious rivalries.

I'd love to see this translated to film by Terry Gilliam.

The concept is great, but I had a hard time getting connected to characters or wading my way through the dialect.

This book is the perfect length for MSP to AUS. Saw the preview for Mirren and Hopkins' film and had to do a little source material reading. Very strange and very good - written in 1959.

This book is beautifully written so it tempers the brutal scenes. I will definitely be looking at the author's other books for my next read.

Actually 2.5, had glorious moments, but not much momentum over all.

Again, interesting until the very end....

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Another darn book that drew me in and then turned lackluster at the end. Sigh.

Would have been 5 stars, but ending was weak in comparison to all that led to it.

This one had some great moments they kept me reading in hopes of more, but overall unremarkable.

Read it years ago after finding it by chance in Half Price. Picked it up again while home sick with the flu. Excellent storytelling....great read!

While never a fan of the short story, these were sublime and lingered long after I closed the cover for the last time.

I kept thinking this would make an interesting screenplay as reading. I've never read Winter's Bone, but could see how this novel could be similarly excellent if adapted.

Fiction, but not supposed to be.

Just lovely....

This book started off so well and then sadly very quickly went south for me. Less than 100 pages in and two male characters are completely and ridiculously sexist along with poorly written and I'm our.

Final straw you ask?

‘In a nutshell: this one hasn't a single bone of obedient-little wife material in her heavenly body”.

I'm just not here for it.

Had to read this again for the first time since high school because you know, Josh Brolin and Jason Mamoa will be in the new film release in October.

I will say that for me, the first 3/4 of the book is much more satisfying than the final 1/4, making the reading experience a bit of a let down the second time around. So much of what happened went by too quickly and would have been best served by taking time with it, or giving way to the second in the series.

I might pick up Dune Messiah on Libby for bed time stories time, but not any time soon.

Took 2 days to read, compelling enough to keep me reading, but story felt rushed. She could have spent more time developing characters along the way. The twist at the end with the Swiss was pretty stupid.

Well.... If you like using cats as a self defense method when you get in close contact fights on your yacht, dead bodies in the trunks of cars, snorting cocaine and smoking weed, coffee, men who love their doggies so so much, Los Angeles, endearing amputee drug addicts, twisty plots, long lost loves, floating brothels, nefarious intentions, gluttons for punishment, guns, bribery, revenge, forgiveness and codependency this novel is for you!

Chuck Chuck Palahniuk meets Dashiell Hammett? Perhaps.

Received this book in Goodreads book giveaway. Thanks!

I really loved Borne and was hoping to be swept up in this trilogy. Sadly it is being shelved away before finishing it.

Quick get your copy before all of them say Major Motion Picture on the cover.

Drawn in initially by book reviews and captured just enough by prose and boredom to finish it off. Some aspects of this novel were compelling, but a few weak characters and unexplored plot lines keep it worthless to recommended to others.