Elizabeth

Homophobic

Revisado: 05-29-22

Refers to discrimination laws as “elite demonization of evangelical faith”—ok buddy, that’s kind of a tell on your faith. Sounds hateful. Also he spent his career promoting forced childbirth. Returning so I don’t give him my money.

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Quitting it

Revisado: 09-25-19

I have five hours left and am dead bored... the plot is going no where. I can do circular in literary fiction, but this is genre so it just feels messy and pretentious...

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Wow! Warning: vague spoiler alert

Revisado: 09-12-19

Lives up to the hype IMO. Yes I’m frustrated by the lack of resolution of one of the two gripping mysteries present in this story. But on one hand I know that’s probably realistic and the resolution of an old, cold case might have felt too convenient. On the other I’m hoping we find out whodunnit in subsequent books! Just bought next two books, the author know how to manage a cliff hanger...

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Eh

Revisado: 09-07-19

Have read every Penny and mainly enjoyed them- though I find her penchant for platitudes and sentimentalism corny- I am in the mood for a very cozy cozy sometimes and this suits. Like so many loyal readers, I’m always happy to reunite with my old friends in the bistro- even if many of them are beginning to feel two-dimensional and predictable. While I’m being critical, does anyone else find Ruth’s racist and homophobic “repartee” terribly unfunny- it just doesn’t land, no thank you. Also agree with other reviewers who are tired of the boogeyman being shadowy, elite forces in the Surete. Yawn. But back to this series’ excellence in the genre of “cozies”- have loved the food descriptions, the (inoffensive) comraderie, the rural idylls, and, like doing a puzzle on a rainy day- the fun challenge of a well-crafted whodunnit. Well, A Better Man isn’t one. To me it was obvious who the killer was from the beginning, and the detectives were just all being painfully obtuse. Perhaps the author was making a point about missing what’s in plain sight- the purloined letter- when emotion clouds judgment. But the result was that my reading experience lacked energy and suspense. Something else really, really bugged me. That. Is. Not. How. Instagram. Works. At. All. I know too well as a borderline millennial how Instagram works and she either just totally misunderstood or fictionalized its functionality- if the latter, why not just invent a new platform that better suited her plot? Or, as an editor, I can easily imagine other existing social media platforms to suggest to the author, which better resemble what she described. With the subplot in the book about Clara coming to realize her latest work was indeed lazy, was the author telegraphing a mea culpa? The narrator is great at narration but some of his character voices are distractingly odd. Could be the diversity of Québécois accents he’s trying to capture, but I feel like he could use better direction.

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Redundant and rambling

Revisado: 03-24-13

Would you try another book from John Perkins and/or David Ackroyd?

Read "Confessions..." if you haven't -- it's amazing! This book repeats that one and preaches as well. I hate to give JP a bad review. I've met him and I think he is an inspiring, genuine and truly good and great person -- I just wish I hadn't spent my monthly credit on this book that doesn't really add anything new to "Confessions" -- plus I already share a worldview with JP -- therefore, listening to him preach the basics of responsible consumership and criminal corporate-government behavior, etc., made me wonder who the audience for this book was supposed to be and if that was a muddled concept. I was expecting more detail into the 2008 crisis but JP only goes over that in broad strokes and briefly.

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