Review: Broken Harbour

Broken Harbour by Tana French
My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Rating: Psychologically complex and painful

This series, and this book in particular, is far more than a police procedural, rather stories that delve deeply into people's hidden fears and messed up lives and minds. They deal not just with murder, but with broken lives and psychological scars that really never heal, but that the best you can hope for is scar tissue to paint them over so the agony isn't always front and center, but yet are always there to come to the surface under certain conditions.

Not easy to read, but horribly realistic, at least in my experience.

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Review: The Beautiful Mystery

The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

not my favorite of the series

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Review: An Autumn War

An Autumn War by Daniel Abraham
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

excellent view of war, humanizing both sides but showing the futility and misery also

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Review: Sleeping Giants

Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Rating: Fun and interesting, not to mention a nicely different take on artifacts.

Really enjoyed the story. I wasn't a fan of the format at first but it grew on me. Nicely mysterious and alienist.

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Review: The Autumn Republic

The Autumn Republic by Brian McClellan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Good wrapup to the series, but I still have questions! Guess I'll have to read the next trilogy.

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Review: Two for Sorrow

Two for Sorrow by Nicola Upson
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Not as enjoyable to me as the previous two books in the series.

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Review: The Crimson Campaign

The Crimson Campaign by Brian McClellan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Flintlock fantasy. Good second book in the trilogy with a little too much slogging on, but otherwise, lots of action and character development. The world he's created is complex and interesting.

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Review: A Betrayal in Winter

A Betrayal in Winter by Daniel Abraham
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

powerful second entry to the series

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Review: A Betrayal in Winter

A Betrayal in Winter by Daniel Abraham
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

powerful second entry to the series

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Review: A Shadow in Summer

A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A re-read so I can continue the series. Very nicely done world-building and complex and interesting characters. The writing is lyrical.

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Review: A Conjuring of Light

A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Satisfying conclusion to an intriguing series

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