Kari

Fun and strangely sweet.

Is it weird that I laugh so much reading Sandford's books. Especially now that Virgil and Lucas are working together. Their insults to each other are top notch. A great read as usual. I am sad that it doesn't look like there will be anymore standalone Virgil books, but at least he didn't disappear completely. And at least Lucas didn't get shot this time.

I think I'm going to start making a note of my guesses of who the killer could be and the page number when I read books from now on. I knew who it had to be, but I don't know if I figured it all out. There were many pieces to this and nothing was obvious until it was. I had a hard time with Ffion for quite awhile until all of sudden I realized she'd grown on me.

Just when I was about to give up on this series this book comes along. So much better than any that have come before! Though the subject matter was probably the most depressing of all. It had all the triggers, so beware. But the story wasn't far fetched and justice came unconventionally.

I was all over the place with this book. I liked it, hated it, then liked it and so on. Isabelle drove me nuts sometimes, but in the end I really liked this one. Just when I figured out what was going on, it shifted. It didn't do a complete 180, but it would be enough for me to question if I really knew what I thought I knew! Good stuff!

I didn't think this was quite as suspenseful and tense as it was billed to be, but that ending! What!?

I started out listening to the audiobook, switched to the ebook and then went back to the audiobook. I'm glad I did listen to the audiobook though! It was a full production with several different voice actors and Netflix “commercials”. I also liked how the audio quality changed when it switched to the podcast recordings. Despite this being very Single White Female, I still spent a good portion of the book trying to figure out what was actually going on.

Fun and sweet. Loved the art, especially once the house woke up. Hope this is a series!

I enjoyed the Scrabble inclusion and the mystery of what happened to Trina, but it did kind of fall apart a bit for me in the end. I did wonder how a murder mystery involves 15 year olds, but I didn't think too hard on it.

Yotsuba always makes me happy but this time the ending was a little bittersweet! Still her adventures are fun and full of wonder. Hoping it's not the last we'll see of her!

I picked this one for Libro.fm's audiobook challenge prompt “Narrated by your favorite narrator”. Neil Gaiman will always be one of my favorite everythings. While I don't love the short stories as much as I have his novels, there is still so much here to revel in.

I literally had no idea what was happening 86% of the time. The other 14% was still somewhat confusing.

I should have DNF'd this as soon as I realized it was an absolute rip off of Empire Records, but I had to see just how much of a rip off it was. How gross. There was not one original thought here. Someone already did all the work for her and frankly, did it better.

This reminded me of Hayley Mills's memoir Forever Young. She writes about how brilliant and wonderful her parents were, but really, they were awful. Selma Blair writes the same about her mother. She laughs at the scathing remarks her mother made to her when she was a child and says but she was just so honest and she loved me so much. Did she? I'm not sure about that.

Well that was wacky. Fun and just downright crazy!

I thought I liked the first one enough to read the second one and oh my god. Does it get better than this, or was this the best of the series because how??

If you're not paying close enough attention you will be completely lost. There were so many names, so many connections, at times it was hard to keep track. I thought the unusual names would help, but they didn't. All of that kind of took away from the book itself. I really just wanted to know what happened to the kid!

It was good and a good ending at that. I would have loved a short story to come after though to see what happens in Talamh next. There's so much promised and we never get to see it!

Probably the most political book that had little to do with politics I've ever read from King. Mired in Covid and recovering from Trump, the time period here was depressing. But the story itself was tense and full of near misses. I was glad we weren't going to read about another Outsider.

Back on the faerie wave. When it comes to the fantasy genre, I'm fae all the way. The Unseelie Court, the cruelty and slyness calls to me. All the machinations keep my giddily entertained and Holly Black almost never disappoints. My heart was racing, I was biting my nails and I did not see that ending coming!

Better than the last, but not by much. The suspension of disbelief you must have to just accept that all of a sudden all around him, Brockton is surrounded by donation cases. The missing limbs of a buried body coincidentally connect with a case the FBI suddenly needs Brockton's help on and is also related to Eddie's hands and is also related to a company building and designing replacement parts for people. It was just too many things that end up being connected. And Miranda is intolerable. Get her out of here.

This is one of those books that's fine. An example of why I don't really go out of my way to read romance, but when I need something that's entertaining and distracting this is pretty perfect. I wasn't super invested in Harriet and Wyn, but I did feel myself rooting for them and trying to figure out how they could end up together.

Not quite what I was expecting, but it was interesting to read about the beginnings of ASMR. I used to listen to a lot more, but recently haven't been despite knowing how relaxing it's been for me in the past. Maybe I'll go back to it!

This book just made me incredibly happy. It was like comfort food. The coziest of cozies.

The beginning really caught me, but then about halfway through it lagged. When Part Three starts it really picks up again and I found myself sucked in again. I like the whole premise of the story, though I'm not sure if I really care for the setting or the characters too much if that makes sense.