Status Updates From Bad Chemistry

Final GarbAugust Notes:
Anything Goes Week
Read for the Prompts: Stepback Cover, Drugs
Assessment: Compulsively readable, and Kate was a great protagonist - but in the end it's a bit of an average Thriller. It's first-novel-ness starts to show. I liked it, didn't love it. Perfect for two GarbAugust Prompts, though!

I’ll save the big finale for tomorrow morning. This is a 3.5 or 4 star book for me - a weak ending might put me in a ‘rounding down’ mood, but let’s hope for the best.

I’m really engrossed in this one; so far, I seem to be siding with the blurbs on the book, as opposed to the low website ratings average. It’ll be interesting to see what happens to Evan from here on in, And Kate is a terrific main character.

It's official: this book would have worked as well for the Drugs Prompt of the GarbAugust reading event, but it's my only stepback cover on a book (and that's because I went into a local Crime & Mystery bookstore, where they have a lot of older titles - new and used - and picked out the first suitable book I found, days ago). The hand on the stepback cover is actually not on the corpse. Inaccurate depiction!

Powerful and scary first chapter. I think it’s gonna be to Kate’s advantage she’s an ex-cop. I think she’s gonna be doing cop stuff…

For GarbAugust prompt: Book with Stepback Cover.. This is the only book I have specifically purchased for GarbAugust, besides Killed By Cannibals. Extra bonus for GarbAugust: the cover is damaged…see on it where it says the last name Krist? Now, don’t see it, imagine it ripped off and missing, this making this book even better for trashy reading. Anyway, this is a (damaged) stepback cover.