Rachel's Friend Comments

I don't know why stupid GoodReads isn't letting me rec stuff, but this is great: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21... Extremely well-written.

Rachel wrote: "Maybe I should read that next. I'm reading more Courtney Milan now."

I have the OCD thing going so once I start reading a series I typically power through as much of it is available/I really like. Then I use it up too fast and get sulky.

Maybe I should read that next. I'm reading more Courtney Milan now.

Rachel wrote: "Yes, I liked it. I have the sequels but haven't had a chance to read them yet."

The first book wobbled here and there (esp toward the end) and the voice was a little stuff, but the first half was pretty good and then in the second half it went into fourth gear. Sadly enough the sequel started off with an overly long confusing spoiler-ridden cast list. Also maps ALWAYS look shitty on the Kindle. sigh. But we're starting off with the Great Fire of London, boo-yah!

Yes, I liked it. I have the sequels but haven't had a chance to read them yet.

Did you read Midnight Never Come? If so, what did you think of it? I'm about halfway through it and the plot really kicked in - I've been enjoying it a lot.

No, I've never read it, but keep meaning to.

FML Gmail won't let me even load its page right now, but did you review this?? I thought you had.... http://www.leewind.org/2011/06/catch-...

Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, off to an eight hour trauma workshop I go.

Very nice!

I mean, just listen to this guy; "One of the reasons I love Murder is that the victims are, as a general rule, dead....I don't make a habit of sharing this, in case people take me for a sicko or -- worse -- a wimp, but give me a dead child, any day, over a child sobbing his heart out while you make him tell you what the bad man did next. Dead victims don't show up crying outside HQ to beg for answers, you never have to nudge them into reliving every hideous moment, and you never have to worry about what it'll do to their lives if you fuck up. They stay put in the morgue, light-years beyond anything I can do right or wrong, and leave me free to focus on the people who sent them there." Isn't that GREAT? He's all I AM SO TOUGH, YES I AM, and there's those little giveaways ("if you fuck up," "worse -- a wimp") that make it clear just how much being tough means to him and how hard he clings to it. It's great.

(Despite him being this total tough guy, tho, he's not one of those macho asshole types - he's almost painfully by the book, highest solve rate in the squad, every box ticked &c &c. She's really good at portraying his tough laser-focused work persona, but showing you what's under that, and in a 1P narrative! Admirable.)

Rachel wrote: "I have been liking the quotes you've been posting."

The guy is one of those really tightly-wound types who has to wind up that tight to keep from flying apart, and there are women in the book too - good real characters. It's in first person but there are enough people interacting with him and calling him on his BS that the narrative doesn't feel totally self-justifying, like it did in the FIRST (ugh) book, and the black humour repartee between him and the crime scene tech types is excellent. There's also a subplot about him breaking in a rookie detective who's been on the job two weeks that's really good. (It's also set in Ireland - all her books are - and she's good at conveying different local speech patterns without resorting to phonetic dialect, too.)

I have been liking the quotes you've been posting.

The GR recommend-a-book autocomplete field is not working for me (argh) but I think you might really like Tana French's latest. Broken Harbor I know you (JUSTIFIABLY) really hated her first one, which sucked, but this one's excellent so far - it's her fourth. (I forget whether or not you looked at the second novel, about Cassie - the voice in that was good too, but the plot was terribly flimsy, and this has a lot more of all the actual investigatory details I think we both like a lot).

Er, and procrastinating on Goodreads. Actually, I'm typing notes while I'm studying.

Shveta wrote: "Well, hello, lovely! I miss you! <3"

Me too! I am madly studying.

Well, hello, lovely! I miss you! <3