MidnightBookGirl

All the Horror movies!

Revisado: 10-01-24

A great mix of well known horror, classics and indie horror. The host definitely knows his stuff and has a genuine love of the genre.

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Solid idea, failed execution

Revisado: 07-24-21

Solid idea, failed execution.

I wanted to love this book- I'm in a book club. Technically I'm in 7 of them (6 are for work). So a murder that has it's roots in a book club meeting? Here for it. Three very different women, all with a motive to kill, here for it. Plot twists and a timeline that alters between past and present and snippets of a trial? Here for it!

But the book club isn't a real book club. The three women are immature, often stupid, and their motives for anything but murder are murky at best. I have no real sense of why they do anything they do. The men in their lives, even less. The plot twist at the end just had me rolling my eyes. You know what would have made a great plot twist? A better murderer!


The trial was bizarre to say the least. You can’t just randomly accuse pretty much every witness of murder. And what morons are conducting this investigation? How terrible of a lawyer does the main suspect have?

At the end, this was not the book for me. At least I finished it in time to discuss it tonight at book club. I'm definitely interested to hear what my friends think, since a lot of reviewers really seem to have liked this book.

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A Wonderful Tale Made Better By Richard Armitage

Revisado: 12-22-20

Somehow I've never read The Christmas Hirelings, although it's one that I will be re-reading in Christmases to come. Richard Armitage narrates and that just makes a great story even better. This is heart warming and old fashioned charming, and I prefer it over Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol.

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Christmas Romance with some Heat

Revisado: 12-22-20

Part cute Christmas romance, part steamy sex, part soap opera (think cat fights and exes showing up constantly). Made for a fun listen, although this is not one I could listen to in the office due to the unexpected bow chicka wow wow sex scenes. Loved the playlist at the end, and will definitely be on the look out for more from this author!

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Always Take the Train

Revisado: 12-22-20

Two people meet on a train and get snowed in together. Both have a huge impact on each other's lives, and it's lovely and sweet and romantic and warm. The narrators are delightful (seriously, Amanda Ronconi is a vocal treasure)!

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An Angelic What Would You Do?

Revisado: 12-22-20

A short story to remind us all to be a little kinder, but also one that points out the way we treat people. How children are often naturally kind and loving and non-judgmental, how just because you go to church it doesn't mean you truly act in a Godly manner towards people, and how acts of kindness can affect the ones we bestow it on. The narration by Shayna Small was excellent!

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Loved it!

Revisado: 08-05-20

Like many Hunger Games fans, I was hoping that a prequel would feature Haymitch's story. I was weary of a story that might try to make Snow an anti-hero.

But I decided to trust Collins, and I'm so glad I did!

I loved reading about the the 10th Hunger Games- which are far from the Hunger Games we see Katniss and Peeta competing in. For one, the Capital is still rebuilding and recovering from the war. Snow and his grandmother and cousin live in a grand penthouse apartment, but that is the only remainder of their once grand fortune. When the school that Snow attends decides to use student's as mentors in the Games, Snow knows this is his best chance to win a scholarship to college and rebuild his family's fortunes.

What happens in the 10th Hunger Games is the setup for all the Games to come after. The man Snow will become is shaped by the events, although he is already on that path. Supporting characters Lucy Gray and Sejanus Plinth were, for me, the best part of the book, as they stand in difference to Snow. I honestly would have loved to see their POV's in the book too.

Narrator Santino Fontana was a perfect selection (or did he volunteer?), as nobody can narrate the story of a bad guy trying to pretend he's good as well as Fontana.

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Unflinching

Revisado: 08-05-20

We read this for our bookstore's True Crime book club and it made for a great discussion... for those that finished it.

For those that didn't finish the book, their major complaint was that there were too many timelines and too many characters to follow. It's a valid critique, but one that didn't bother me.

Keefe tackles the IRA in modern history- so mostly the 70's up to the 90's. It starts with a kidnapping of a young widow, one that happens in front of her ten children. The disappearance of Jean McConville is then interspersed throughout the rest of the book, as Keefe follows the lives of key IRA members.

The author does a great job of explaining the tensions in Northern Ireland at the time, and in particular how Catholics were treated. He presents it honestly, but never as an excuse for the crimes committed by the IRA and other factions during the time. This can be difficult to read at time- there's murder and bombings, and hunger strikes and forced feedings (the way the Price sisters were forced fed was particularly brutal), and the abuse and poverty McConville's children were forced to endure when their mother disappeared without a trace.

Narrator Matthew Blaney does an incredible job, his Irish accent lending authenticity to the story told. I would definitely recommend him, and I'm planning on checking out his other works!

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Sexy Fun for Everyone!

Revisado: 01-05-20

So much fun, don'tcha know?

Definitely recommending this for any reader that likes some humor with their steamy romance. Perfect for fans of Molly Harper!

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Still Magic!

Revisado: 01-08-19

I loved this book as a kid, and it's nice to see that it retains the magic even after all these years! Fantastic narration, the only downside is the lack of the Ed Gorey illustrations, but I have a few physical copies of the book too.

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