so-soPretty wildly uneven. The parents are so bland and self-absorbed I cldn‘t tell if they were intentionally satirical or not (Suzette‘s personality is Crohn‘s Disease, Alex is hot Swede Daddy) and there‘s no grip on Hanna‘s voice, who sometimes possesses an adult‘s intelligence, other times is astoundingly dumb. The plot varies between frustrating and fun, & I think the true #childhorror here is the potential regret of having a kid, psycho or not.
I haven‘t read Michael Connelly in years so I‘m looking forward to starting this one and meeting a new character in Bosch world.
so-soYeah, not so much with the believability, but the beginning was good and I kept turning the pages so ... So. 🤷♀️
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Another book I finished a while ago & didn‘t post a review for. My second April #Roll100 pick (#16 Any Library Book). While not my favorite Hendrix book (it didn‘t have as much dark humor as his others), I did enjoy it. It did drag a little in spots, but by the end I was anxiously turning the pages to find out what happened. Less about witchcrafty horror & more about the horrors done to unmarried pregnant girls & women in the era.😱
pickThere are many things I like about this book including the questions about human nature, religion, and monstrosity that it addresses. At first I was annoyed by the fact that Ruth bases her whole idea of a wonderful romance on Twilight, but her world has been severely limited and it was a miracle she found that. The ending was derivative, but it fits the characters. #audiowalk. I started To Say Nothing of the Dog as my next walking book.
Ooo - It references another book club book we read :) #HashTagBridgage
#TheLongWalk #StephenKing
#LosersClub @BarkingMadRead
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pickA page-turner even though I was listening. Two tigers are stolen from the zoo and Virgil Flowers is brought in to track them down. Then dead bodies start turning up. In the meantime, Virgil‘s girlfriend gets beat up for an unrelated case.
pickThis is the lower end of the pick scale for me because I don‘t think it needed to be this long. King could have conveyed everything — the tediousness, the hardships, and the slow descent into madness for some of characters of the long walk — in a novella. I‘m also not sure how I feel about the ending.
