Tarheel reviewed The chalk pit by Elly Griffiths
"Norwich is riddled with old chalk-mining tunnels, but no one's sure exactly how many. When …
These people's love lives my goodness
3 stars
Get ready for another complication.
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OMG I love books. I was trying to think what instance to join when I left [ahem] and the one constant in my life (nearly 3/4 of a century so far!) has been a love of reading. Mom taught me phonics before I even entered kindergarten and I've been hooked ever since.
I am a Fahrenheit 451 baby--I cut my political teeth on that book. I firmly believe that everything you could ever possibly want to know can be found in a book, somewhere.
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Review of 'The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 10 Books Box Set by Elly Griffiths - The Dark Angel, A Room Full of Bones, The Outcast Dead, The Janus Stone, The Ghost Fields, The Crossing Places, A Dying Fall' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Not quite up to the first two?
It's good, don't get me wrong, but it's formulaic and when everything unfolds at the end the villain gets the kind of verbal diarrhea we used time see in the old Bond films instead of just getting on with it. And it's always their undoing, isn't it? I've always wondered if real-life serial killers do this.
Otherwise, of course, it was a good read. On to the next one!
Tarheel reviewed The Peacekeeper by B.L. Blanchard
Against the backdrop of a never-colonized North America, a broken Ojibwe detective embarks on an …
Review of 'The Peacekeeper' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Blazingly creative, deeply moving
In a small port town in a modern-day, never-colonized Ashinaabe nation, two murders rip apart two families, revealing rot at the core. Family secrets and redemption are tired tropes in mystery novels and when I'm looking for something to read and see a book blurbed that way, I tend to roll my eyes and move on. That would be a real mistake with this one.
In Blanchard's hands, there's nothing trite, superficial, or syrupy about it. The ethical choices that Chibenashi faces are complex, the waters of his reasoning muddied by shame, love, conflicting duties, and guilt. The very term "Peacekeeper", both Chibenashi's job and his role in the family, assumes layered and conflicting meanings over time. And the redemption he strives for offers hope of rebirth and renewal to the reader as well. It is this, not the question of whodunit, that makes the book …
Blazingly creative, deeply moving
In a small port town in a modern-day, never-colonized Ashinaabe nation, two murders rip apart two families, revealing rot at the core. Family secrets and redemption are tired tropes in mystery novels and when I'm looking for something to read and see a book blurbed that way, I tend to roll my eyes and move on. That would be a real mistake with this one.
In Blanchard's hands, there's nothing trite, superficial, or syrupy about it. The ethical choices that Chibenashi faces are complex, the waters of his reasoning muddied by shame, love, conflicting duties, and guilt. The very term "Peacekeeper", both Chibenashi's job and his role in the family, assumes layered and conflicting meanings over time. And the redemption he strives for offers hope of rebirth and renewal to the reader as well. It is this, not the question of whodunit, that makes the book a page-turner.
Tarheel reviewed Parable of the talents by Octavia E. Butler
Environmental devastation and economic chaos have turned America into a land of depravity. Taking advantage …
Review of 'Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Powerful
Powerful, and heartbreaking.
Also amazingly prescient. Butler died 10 years before Trump was elected but here he is in all his Christo-fascist glory.
Tarheel reviewed The Wife by Alafair Burke
Marrying an economics professor she met while catering an East Hampton dinner party, Angela finds …
Review of 'The Wife' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Dont lie to your readers
No spoilers. It's a well-written page turner until the last couple of chapters. I'll just say I felt like I'd been played by the time I got to the end.