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Very Unique - Amazing

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-21-25

I am a huge fan of Anthony Horowitz.
This book is not my normal genre....futuristic (no), Sherlock (been done to death).
This book though!!!
I loved the characters, the world-building, the mystery, and pulling for John Watson to get his act together. It's so cool the way the future has reverted to the past in a lot of ways, but the necessary technology is in place to move the story forward.
John is a hospital orderly, walking home from work, when he finds a seemingly mortally wounded man and rescues him. The man has amnesia so John names him Sherlock. When he comes around, they make a great team, along with a co-worker of John's that he pulls in to help.
I love this book and hope there is a sequel!

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OK but Bland

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3 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
3 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-21-25

I just finished this title last week and can't remember "who did it".
This book, like the entire series, is OK. I have no trouble finishing the titles, they pass the time, but are very forgettable.
The characters are not very relatable to me, and every paragraph seems to have a pun or cringe-worthy bad joke. I think the premise of this book is an interesting one: a married woman and a man-about-town Italian playboy are murdered in L.A. Police Investigator Milo calls his best friend Alex (a psychologist) to help investigate...leads are uncovered, procedures are followed, mystery is solved, the end.
The narrator is OK, sounds rather wimpy and bored, so probably perfect for the character (it's an "I" story from Alex's POV).
I pick these up if they are on sale, would not pay full price, would neither recommend nor warn anyone off this book.

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Twisty Family/Legal Drama

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-21-25

I loved the character TJ in this book - he is truly an underdog, a recovering alcoholic who got out of prison 4 months ago and works as an investigator for his family's law firm. It was a little frustrating at first how unsympathetic his family behaves toward him (especially his dad) and how much TJ is willing to put up with from them.
The book starts with the whole family at a birthday party for TJ's dad, when TJ's brother John pulls him away to ask for his help with a work-related potential murder of a corporate client's accountant. The situation, and TJ's life, spirals after that and it's hard to know who to trust or what is happening. His love for his mother and sister, and his craving for his father's respect, is hard to understand at times but he is a determined investigator. It's a complicated mystery as well as family drama.
I love the narration. Edoardo Ballerini is one of my favorites since the Matthew Corbett series.
I highly recommend this one and will look for similar titles from Ms. Scottoline.

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One was Better than the other

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-27-25

I really, really liked The Mysterious Affair at Styles which was set shortly after WWI, and is more of Clue-type mystery. Hastings is invited to the estate of a friend for an extended holiday. During the visit, there is a murder and Poirot coincidentally is living in the nearby village and comes in to assist with the investigation. The characters and the setting were so charming, Poirot is so brilliant yet ridiculous at the same time. I loved the story.
The 2nd part of this book is The ABC Murders, and it wasn't nearly as good. Poirot and Hastings are older (retired) and the story is more of a police procedural, with Poirot outshining the police and still making a fool of Hastings. The 2nd story is set in the late 1930's and is a serial-killer story, a genre I usually don't like even in modern books.
I had previously read and loved The Mystery of the Blue Train, so Ms. Christie has a 66% success rate with me and I'll probably read some more of her earlier works.

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VERY much like Rene Ballard books

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-27-25

This is a straightforward police procedural, set in LA. It is so much like the Rene Ballard series I had to keep reminding myself it wasn't. There is a lot of place-setting: referencing every road name Eve turns on and mentioning the Sierra Nevadas over and over. Overall I like the book, like the characters, and like the narrator.
I mainly got this one because I read, and loved, Malibu Burning (Sharpe and Walker series) and realized that that series and this one merge in Ashes Never Lie, so I wanted to "meet" Eve Ronin before reading that one.

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Nostalgic and fun

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-21-25

This is a twisty story of a 40-ish couple from Florida and a 21year old girl looking for her biological father.
1/2 of the story is told in flashbacks to Scarlet's senior picnic and the high-school drama leading up to it.
Pepper was Scarlett's best friend in school, but left town right after that and had Zoey.

The book is really twisty and fun. The story of all the high school kids in a "small" town and how their lives are still intertwined was relatable to me. The motives and actions of the characters were realistic. None of the characters are "all good" or "all bad" and it kept me guessing until the end.

The narration was great. I recommend this one.

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Cohesive, stand-alone story

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
3 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 02-18-25

In this edition of Kay Scarpetta stories, Kay and Benton are brought into a case where a female "little person" has been murdered and her boyfriend (also a dwarf) has turned himself in to a federal psychiatric hospital and asked to speak to Kay specifically. Meanwhile, Pete Marino is working for Jamie Berger (the ADA) investigating the murder itself, alongside a local cop that is difficult to work with.
Another POV, for alternating chapters, is from an anonymous female referred to as Shrew (her ex-husband's nickname for her) who is contributing to a blog called Gotham Gotcha that sounds like the one on Gossip Girl. The blog frequently includes items about Kay, most recently a very unflattering one.
As usual in Ms. Cornwell's stories, all the convoluted loose ends come together eventually. This story begins and ends in this book - which is a relief as I'm sometimes frustrated by her books seeming to take off in the middle of a story or end on a cliffhanger.
The narrator is just OK. I hate the way she voices Lucy, who sounds like a man talking through clenched jaws, and the way she does Marino, who should have a tough-guy New Jersey accent but instead sounds like a cartoon character.

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First Charlie Donlea I didn't like

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2 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
2 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 01-24-25

This author has been one of my favorites, but this title missed the mark.
It starts out VERY good, with a Forensics Fellow from North Carolina finding out that she was actually a "missing" baby from Nevada back in 1995. She starts working with the Sheriff from the town where she went missing, whose father was the original investigator. Both she and the sheriff are Cross-Fit obsessed and I briefly thought a romance might blossom. The book really went downhill in the last half: our heroine starts doing very stupid things (one of which leads to a death), an extremely unlikely (impossible) event leads to needed evidence which was (impossibly) overlooked for the 30 years since the crime. The last 10-15 chapters jump back and forth from 3 different POV's that are trying to solve the mystery. a second-by-second play by play is given from each POV with each ending on a "when she saw it, she gasped.....", "then he suddenly understood..." type cliff-hanger before switching back to the other POV. It is so far-fetched and over the top that I was shaking my head the last 3 hours of the book.
I'm not going to take Charlie Donlea off my 'authors to read list' yet, but I will be less optimistic. Can't recommend this one. :(

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Perfect for my commute

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 01-16-25

I haven't nearly finished this course, but I'm so glad I got it.
I am determined to learn Italian this year. I'm using a paper-copy workbook as well as Duolingo. I have a 45-minute each way commute to work, where I obviously can't work in my workbook or use an app. I looked for a way to use that time constructively and this is perfect!
The narrator has the smoothest, most patient delivery and really explains the basics of Italian. A great thing about this one is that he explains it specifically for English-speaking learners, explaining how the articles are different and which words are similar etc. There is a lot of practice speaking. The narrator says "how would you say...." then there's a long pause to figure it out and say it out loud, then the female narrator says it in Italian twice. Since pausing the audio to practice in the car would be impossible, this format seems just made for a commute. The same words and concepts are repeated a lot, while adding in new ones, so I haven't gotten frustrated.
I have been recommending this course to EVERYONE. I can't stop talking about it, and I found out there are Paul Noble books for other languages too.

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Very unique

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 01-16-25

This series has the most unique format I've ever "read". It's a first person POV from a real author, incorporating true information (like his writing the Alex Rider books and working on the Amazon series) into a fictional story. It's hard to tell what's real and what's not, which makes it very interesting.
I would not read this one without reading the previous Horrowitz/Hawthorne books first. It's a stand-alone story, but the characters and POV make more sense if you start at the beginning.
In this book, Anthony is trying to write a book based on a 5-year-old case that Daniel Hawthorne is telling him about, He's having a hard time getting the right information for the book, so starts investigating the murder himself to re-create the investigation Hawthorne did 5 years ago. It turns into a Clue-esque mystery with a limited number of suspects and all with a potential motive. It's very twisty.
This author, and this series, have become must-reads for me. I'm loving it! There is a note from the author at the end of the audio book saying that there are 7 more books to be written in the series. I can't wait to read them.

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