I Have to Try to Remember

that if someone on goodreads has tagged a book as "romantic suspense," it is probably not for me.  You would think I would have learned this by now.  The Third to Die is probably a great book!  And I feel bad only giving it a 3 star rating because I am sure that as far as romantic suspense books go, it is probably a 5!  It is first in a series but I won't lower the overall star ratings by reading any more because it just isn't my cup of tea.  But if you like romance with your detective fiction, go for it!

You Don't Have to Say I Love You

just because I ask, you don't have to stay forever, I will understand.
Believe me. Who doesn't remember hearing Dusty Springfield's heart breaking while she sang these words?  Very powerful song.
Believe Me, the book.  Not so much.  For me anyway.  Yes, twisty, yes a bit confusing, but not enough to confuse even me, the easily confused, by the end.  So I figure, if I can figure a book out, and it's main purpose is to be tricky and twisty, it probably didn't do a great job.  Not bad.  Just okay!  Maybe it was more that I didn't care about any of the characters.  I think what bothered me most about it was that it seemed to hint at that Shades of Grey thing.  Which is so uninteresting to me at my age (I was into those kind of books when I was 12 and 13) that I was just so turned off by the Grey-ish aspect of this one. 

I didn't know!

That Best Day Ever was set at Lakeside!  In the first chapter when the narrator talks about his wife wanting to stop in Port Clinton I wondered and then, boom!  There was Sloopy's and the gate fees and the grocery store and all the rest!
The rest of the book isn't very Lakeside-ish, it is dark and grim!  But GREAT!  Even if you don't go to Lakeside!
But you should.
Just not with this guy.