Wulf C. Krueger
During this extremely warm summer, I'm writing bite-sized reviews at best.
Oh, well, this is kind of mistitled and the pen name is strongly misleading: This should have been called "Running" because our self-styled "Slutty Cheff" sounds more like a manic-depressive person who's telling us about how she starts to live up to her dream, then either gets bored, proficient, or panicky, runs away, and then restarts the cycle.
She's not "slutty" but constantly drunk while not in a kitchen, while also abusing cocain, ketamin, and heroin, indulging in (mostly) unsafe orgasm-less sex with the wrong people (puppy-eyes-style barman, cheating chef, asshole chef). Also, despite knowing full well about her mental health challenges, she only looks for professional help *very* late in the game, then proceeds to "hesitatingly" take her medication and wash it down with more alcohol...
You're really making those of us struggling proud, "Drunken Junkie Maybe-Cheff"! Also, don't hold your breath for another book of hers - she's sufficiently competent at writing now, so I guess she's drunkenly running away already...
Meh!
During this extremely warm summer, I'm writing bite-sized reviews at best.
Oh, well, this is kind of mistitled and the pen name is strongly misleading: This should have been called "Running" because our self-styled "Slutty Cheff" sounds more like a manic-depressive person who's telling us about how she starts to live up to her dream, then either gets bored, proficient, or panicky, runs away, and then restarts the cycle.
She's not "slutty" but constantly drunk while not in a kitchen, while also abusing cocain, ketamin, and heroin, indulging in (mostly) unsafe orgasm-less sex with the wrong people (puppy-eyes-style barman, cheating chef, asshole chef). Also, despite knowing full well about her mental health challenges, she only looks for professional help *very* late in the game, then proceeds to "hesitatingly" take her medication and wash it down with more alcohol...
You're really making those of us struggling proud, "Drunken Junkie Maybe-Cheff"! Also, don't hold your breath for another book of hers - she's sufficiently competent at writing now, so I guess she's drunkenly running away already...
Meh!
During this extremely warm summer, I'm writing bite-sized reviews at best.
FINALLY! Bruno is back in local crime and not up against international, state-sponsored, or other high-profile crime and/or terrorism right there, in the darkest backwaters of rural France.
It's a sensible, enjoyable novel that's very much about Bruno and his friends, the Greems, the Left, and the Right who all decide to go up against our noble hero policeman. There's a newly-dead woman, a new very-much-alive woman, dinners with everyone and, literally and metaphorically, their dogs, a woman who finally says good-bye, and, perhaps, a new job on the horizon for Bruno.
If you liked the earler Bruno novels, I'm sufficiently sure you'll enjoy this one. If you dislike this one's predecessors, you'll also like this one. So, what are you waiting for?
During this extremely warm summer, I'm writing bite-sized reviews at best.
FINALLY! Bruno is back in local crime and not up against international, state-sponsored, or other high-profile crime and/or terrorism right there, in the darkest backwaters of rural France.
It's a sensible, enjoyable novel that's very much about Bruno and his friends, the Greems, the Left, and the Right who all decide to go up against our noble hero policeman. There's a newly-dead woman, a new very-much-alive woman, dinners with everyone and, literally and metaphorically, their dogs, a woman who finally says good-bye, and, perhaps, a new job on the horizon for Bruno.
If you liked the earler Bruno novels, I'm sufficiently sure you'll enjoy this one. If you dislike this one's predecessors, you'll also like this one. So, what are you waiting for?
During this extremely warm summer, I'm writing bite-sized reviews at best. As for this one, it's fine. No third-act breakup, no excessive drama, a cute story. Never reaches the level of Brinn's pervious series but I still enjoyed it. Just all that sex is a bit much. I like smut but if there's more smut than "I love you", my brain gets embarrassed.
During this extremely warm summer, I'm writing bite-sized reviews at best. As for this one, it's fine. No third-act breakup, no excessive drama, a cute story. Never reaches the level of Brinn's pervious series but I still enjoyed it. Just all that sex is a bit much. I like smut but if there's more smut than "I love you", my brain gets embarrassed.
