Month: September 2017

Kisscut (Grant County #2)

I found the first Grant County book (Karin Slaughter’s debut, Blindsighted) decent, but I could tell that her storytelling improved by already reading some of her later works. It felt like a good first novel and wondered how long until her writing was where I had seen it later...

A Faint Cold Fear (Grant County #3)

In the previous two books in this series, there was a good balance between the cases and the relationships of the main characters in Grant County — Dr. Sara Linton, Chief Jeffrey Tolliver, and Lena Adams. In A Faint Cold Fear, the cases almost seem secondary to the character study...

Blindsighted (Grant County #1)

  It was interesting to go back and read Karin Slaughter’s debut novel after reading a few other more recent books by her. I could tell this was a first novel since the plot twists were a little more obvious than I have read in her other books, but...

The Walking Dead, Vol 20: All Out War Part 2

The Walking Dead, Vol 21: All Out War Part 2 by Robert Kirkman Pages: 136Genre: Graphic Novel, HorrorPublished: July 29, 2014 Purchase: Amazon | Powell’s 3/5 stars I liked most of how this war played out until the end. I didn’t buy the ending of this arc. Rick gives another long speech and then...

The Walking Dead Vol. 22: A New Beginning

The Walking Dead Vol. 22: A New Beginning by Robert Kirkman Pages: 136Genre: Graphic Novel, HorrorPublished: November 11, 2014 Purchase: Amazon | Powell’s 4/5 stars Even though parts of this volume drove me crazy because Robert Kirkman keeps turning Rick into a celebrity that everyone fawns over, I was still interested...

It

I haven’t reached It on my Stephen King reading list yet and I never read it previously. I also missed the Tim Curry miniseries from years ago. I really didn’t know much about the story going in besides there is a clown named Pennywise terrorizing children. Originally, I was...