Maeve Maddox
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| I can usually finish a work of fiction in two or three days. I spent two weeks reading this. The narrator is trapped in a country house named Backheath. At the outset, he is trapped in a body that is not his and he does not know what is happening. Fo ...more | |
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| Set in a British retirement center near Gatwick airport. A rapacious builder and former drug lord is expanding the facility and wants to dig up a cemetery. The Murder Club is made up of four residents who investigate cold case files. Then the builder ...more | |
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| Probably shouldn't enter this one. I got about 100 pages into it and have set it aside. It's like walking through mud. I may go back to it because I bought it, so no deadline to return it. I bought it because I'm interested in multiple time lines. Th ...more | |
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| Published by Minotaur, so I expected it to be good. Not anything special. The protagonist isn't very appealing, complained a lot. Book is promoted as "witty." I didn't find it so. ...more | |
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| Not horror. Someone in a Mercedes plows into a crowd of job-seekers, killing several. The killer is called Mr. Mercedes. He involves a suicidal retired detective. Lots of twists. | |
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The first chapter is narrated by a giant Pacific octopus named Marcellus. From there, it is unputdownable. The two main characters—apart from Marcellus—are Tova, a woman in her seventies whose only son died at 28 in a boating misadventure, and Cameron ...more |
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| Picoult is an excellent writer, but I can't say I'm too impressed with this book. I find the main character disagreeable, self-centered, and she doesn't change. The soul-searching goes on far too long and the ending is dishonest and cowardly. Why sho ...more | |






















