katy rinehart

The best so far.

Revisado: 03-10-25

Hated to see it end. The characters get more developed with each addition to the series.

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Can I move to Three Pines?

Revisado: 02-02-25

When the world seems to be teetering on the edge of apocalypse an Inspector Gamache mystery seems like the only refuge.

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Hated to see it end

Revisado: 01-13-25

Juliet Stevenson is hands down the best reader of audiobooks I’ve ever listened to, and particularly so when the book is a 19th century British novel. I couldn’t stop listening and hated to see it end. Another perfect marriage of author and reader.

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The Booker winner? Really?

Revisado: 01-13-25

Like others here, I am dumbfounded that this won the Booker. (Percival Everett must be seething.) While the endless descriptions are at times lyrical, inventive, and thought-provoking, the key word here is ‘endless.’ Turns out that mere description does not a novel make. In the last several orbits (that is, chapters) the writing seemed to run down just like the spaceship the characters were riding, devolving into tediously repetitive list-making. The characters were paper dolls; although the author spent a great deal of time describing their thoughts, I never felt that there was a person inside any of those six creations who was actually thinking or feeling those thoughts. It’s a rare feat for a short novel to feel endless, but the number of times I checked to see how much time I had left may have set a new Audible record.

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Major disappointment

Revisado: 12-20-24

Hard to believe that this is the same author whose last novel was the magnificent The Night Watchman. A boring, tedious story weighed down by the main character’s dumb decisions, and delivered by the worst reader I’ve encountered in over 100 audiobooks. Six hours in and I’m sending it back.

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Like listening to paint dry.

Revisado: 12-08-24

This felt like a literal experiment in tedium. Some interesting, even fascinating, ideas, but the flat scorn with which the narrator, herself apparently without human qualities, regarded every other character made it almost impossible to engage in her…what? Journey? Task? Rumination? Perhaps if the author’s unvarying monotone had been replaced with an a professional reader’s it might have been more captivating. Instead, a promising beginning devolved into a turgid slog.

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Compelling story, tedious details

Revisado: 11-18-24

Phillips’ writing is at times virtuosic, and the plotting and characters were masterfully conceived. But oh, the details. The devil is definitely in them, and in this case, to a molasses-like degree. Wasn’t a fan of the breathy, often stilted narration either.

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Please say #9 is ready for release.

Revisado: 11-06-24

These just keep getting better and better. Can’t stop listening and can’t bear to see them end.

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Practically inhaled this story

Revisado: 10-18-24

Love everything about this series—the writing, the characters, the edge-of-your-seat plot twists, the darkly funny dialogue. I’ll be sorry when I finish it.

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I’m addicted.

Revisado: 10-11-24

I listened to the last few chapters of Real Tigers twice while wandering in the woods. It’s a miracle I didn’t get lost or walk straight into a tree.

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