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another nice month for you,barryagree about the slaughter. she's amazing
I'm so excited to have this new series from Slaughter. I loved this one
Barry: Nice list - another assassin-filled month for you. :) The Karin Slaughter definitely deserves to stand alone at the top of anyone's heap, I bet you wished you had a few more above-average books. Good to know I am not missing anything with the recent RWW books. I always liked Tomlinson in the early days.
BarryP wrote: "Best books
We Are All Guilty Here: Karin Slaughter
Maybe I should call this a character study in which a few abductions occur. Nobody writes a character like Slaughter, but equally, nobody builds ...
Tomlinson’s Wake: Randy Wayne White
Last book ended with the presumption that Tomlinson was dead. That gets answered in the first few pages of the book, and begins a South American adventure full of intrigue and mysticism. I started this series when there were no more Travis McGhee novels to read. For a while, it was a reasonable replacement, not so much anymore."
At first I really had trouble with this Slaughter, but she made it clear that all the excesses were intentional. Very good book.
Everyone is talking about the Slaughter - have to get to it sooner rather than later. Looks like you had a great month!
ChrisQ wrote: "Everyone is talking about the Slaughter - have to get to it sooner rather than later....Looks like you had a great month!"Me too!
Great month Barry. I'm going to check those you marked as "farce". I think I need some of that.
Entertaining summaries as always!
We Are All Guilty Here: Karin Slaughter
Maybe I should call this a character study in which a few abductions occur. Nobody writes a character like Slaughter, but equally, nobody builds flaws into her characters like Slaughter. This might be the most complex set of personalities she has ever had interacting, but it all works and results in a masterful work.
Average books
Midnight Burning: Paul Levine
A big change for Levine here. His normal genre is legal farces, but now he delves into historical fiction, with Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin combining forces to fight Nazism in America.
Nemisis: Gregg Hurwitz
An Orphan X novel, quite derivative of the Grey man, and then The Equalizer. This time, there are more assassins than you can shake a stick at, some very good, some not so good, and out to kill each other like an old Mad magazine spy vs spy.
The Grave Artist: Deaver/Moldando
The problem with being known for your plot twists is that to stay ahead of the curve, you constantly need more of them. Well, here we get more as a hybrid police team chase a serial killer.
Terminal Velocity : “Clancy”/Wodward
A not so bad thriller with jihadis trying to avenge all of their perceived wrongs with an attack on millions of people, and the good guys who try to stop them. Will they???
The Accused: John Grisham
A YA novel, much like an adult one, but with younger characters. I’m not sure how well adults do the misunderstood teen thing, but certainly they all try. A high school kid is framed for a robbery, and needs to call on his friends to help him solve the case.
The Widow’s Strike: Brad Taylor
Low budget susperspy/Special Forces thriller. Rogue Quds Force general tried to take down the US with a super virus.
Ghost Soldier: “Cussler”
In a break from previous works, the megalomaniac in this novel does not want to destroy the world, nor even just rule it. He simply wants to kill Americans. Of course, somebody gets the job of stopping him.
Tomlinson’s Wake: Randy Wayne White
Last book ended with the presumption that Tomlinson was dead. That gets answered in the first few pages of the book, and begins a South American adventure full of intrigue and mysticism. I started this series when there were no more Travis McGhee novels to read. For a while, it was a reasonable replacement, not so much anymore.
Full Speed: Evanovitch/Hughes
What can I say? Book bub, 99 cents, light summer reading.
The Retirement Plan: Sue Hincenbergs
This reminds me of an old Jack Lemon movie, how to murder your wife, but with many more twists and turns. A bit of a romance too, and people plot to kill other people, and the assassin tries to figure out how to stay ahead of it all.
Castles in the Air: Donald Westlake
Another farce. An international group of criminals gangs together knowing that a castle which was to be moved to France contained a wealth of treasure. So they decided to steal the castle. That part worked, but then, they all turned on each other.
Pfft
nothing to see here