one book leads to another
Barry Eisler Fangirl Post The Chaos Kind is a tight, tense tale of vengeance featuring some of my favorite fictional characters: John Rain, Livia Lone, Dox, Delilah, Larison and Kanezaki. Friendship, love and allegiance elevate this Barry Eisler novel over other popular thrillers and while everyone has their moment to shine, for me Dox steals … Continue reading The Chaos Kind
In which AI becomes all too real. What do you do when you read a near-perfect book (Conclave)? You find out what else the guy wrote, that's what you do. Robert Harris has many historical fiction novels in his substantial body of work, but it was his 2011 The Fear Index that caught my eye. … Continue reading The Fear Index
Under the sea and under pressure Lately it feels like I'm living through a disaster movie - two major hurricanes in two weeks?! - but I still can't get enough of the genre in movies and books. The cover of Deep Storm and blurb on the back immediately appealed to me. An oil rig in … Continue reading Deep Storm
Serving up a flight of reviews for your reading pleasure. Prepare to knock back tastes of gritty novellas, a refined spy thriller, a complex memoir, and family fiction with both sweet and sour notes. Cheers! Owning Up by George Pelecanos (2024) What’s better than a new George Pelecanos novel? Four new Pelecanos novellas! Quality and … Continue reading Short Shots
I finished this book two months ago and have been trying to write a review ever since. But I've been distracted, unfocused, uninterested. With reading, too, unfortunately. I've been listening to audiobooks of the Joe Pickett series (literally back to back, like a chain smoker) but haven't read a physical book in a while. I … Continue reading Falling
I’m behind on reviews so I’m going to try two-in-one, bullet point style. These books don’t have much in common on the surface but I think I can tie them together. American Assassin: A Thriller by Vince Flynn (2010) The first of the popular series featuring Mitch Rapp, CIA badass The main characters are mainly … Continue reading Thriller twofer
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