Killed by the Narrator

And the narrator was good.
And the book was good.
But...the book was set in the American South...at a college...the main character is a college student...so why a middle age British narrator.
Just pretty much ruined the whole thing.
I didn't have high hopes for Watching, the first in the Making of Riley Paige series. 
Blake Pierce and the series and all of the others books and series written under the name Blake Pierce are one of those...what are they called...I can't remember the term...hang on...syndicate is the word I found right now, but there is another word for it.  Like Nancy Drew but for adults.  But all of these books under this name are on hoopla and when there is nothing else to read, I have been tempted.  But man...the British narrator?  Just weird and maybe lazy. 

Jack McEvoy kinda troubles me...(NOT!)

Of course, one doesn't have to love a character to appreciate a book or series.  And Jack McEvoy didn't trouble me until The Scarecrow.  I really did enjoy The Poet but then I didn't like Scarecrow so much I was surprised by how much I really did enjoy Fair Warning. But FW was so good that I will read the book about Jack.  Even though I do find him troubling...I don't remember why...but there were some things in Scarecrow that really made me raise my eyebrows...but maybe I am just being picky.

NO NO NO WAIT!

Dude while I didn't like Scarecrow, it wasn't Jack that bothered me...it was the guy from the other book by that woman who writes about a woman priest and a sheriff.  And the sheriff guy is a HUGE Blame-the-Victim dude.  BIG Time!  This one! 

So I had to change my title of the "review."  Jack is just a regular dude.  I mean, do feel bad for him because he lacks a lot of self confidence, especially when it comes to love.  But he isn't a creep like the law guy in that other series!  Sorry! 

Years and Years and Years Ago

I listened to Wild Fire.  On a CD!  At the drive-in!  This was a LONG time ago!  And I LOVED it!  I just finished Plum Island, which is the first in the John Corey series and I loved it, too.  Because John Corey is hilarious. 

Here is just one of my favorite quotes:
She has clear, grey eyes, grey hair and a sort of interesting face with translucent skin.  A face that reminded me of an old painting.  Not any particular painting.
Or artist.
Or style.
Just an old painting.

I LOVED THAT!

Anyway...fantastic cop.  Fantastic book. 

It Might Just Be

the time...this time of great uncertainty and worry and fear...it is hard to get sucked into a book.  Maybe had I read Eight Perfect Murders in January or this November or last December, I would feel differently.  It just didn't hold my interest as much as I had hoped. But if you have read a lot of mysteries you might really enjoy this one.  I have not read a lot of "classic" mysteries and this book very creatively refers to them, so it might be really neat if you were already familiar with the titles referred to in the book! 

The Last One

Keep in mind, I don't like romance mixed with murder.  This is just me...but The Last Sister will be the last book I will read in the new Columbia River series.  WAY too much love WAY WAY WAY too much love.  But if you like thriller chick-lit, it might be for you!

Spot on Dot

Dot Hutchinson is a new-to-me author and while the romance is something I can live without, I still found The Collector to be a very guilty-pleasure kind of read.  And I really enjoyed it!  I do wonder if agents really have this kind of relationship though...it does seem a little like Scooby Doo.  Still I loved them all!  Oh wait-wait!  I just discovered she is a YA author!  That makes sense!  I like it even more!  

This is how it happened

How It Happened  was one of those books that, when it came in through a library hold, I couldn't remember why I had wanted to read it, but then once I started to I didn't care, I was just thankful that I got it!  Michael Koryta did a great job weaving a really interesting mystery that kept me guessing right until the end.  I loved it!

A New Series!

Stuart Woods has started a new series.  This one features Teddy Fay!  I have compared Stuart Woods books to YA guilty pleasure fun and I can compare them yet again.  This time recall Private and Privilege.  You can't get all you need out of Privilege without first reading some of the Private series. That is true for the Teddy Fay series.  You really have to read Stone before you jump into Teddy. Still, this was really good!  And I didn't even know it wasn't a Stone book until I went to log into goodreads!  So if you are waiting for the new Stone book, but need something to hold you over, this will do it!  Smooth Operator is the first and it is written by Woods and Parnell Hall.  I have not read any of Hall's other books, though I see he has a lot of them.