Current
TBR List: 16
Currently Reading: 9
Books Finished in January: 13
Currently Reading: 9
Books Finished in January: 13
Harry
Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
Crazy enough, but I liked the first book better during this reread. I love
meeting the characters all over again but this one opening with Dobby makes me
cringe and have a lot of negative feels with the abuse Harry suffers and that
Dobby suffers. It is amazing to know how the book ends, how the series ends,
and all the little details that wrap back into each other. I cannot wait to
read the rest of the series. So happy to be back in this world!
Origin
by Dan Brown
I was a little disappointed with this. It was getting so much hype and I had to
wait so long to borrow a copy from my library that I built it up in my mind a
little too much. Once again we are following Robert Langdon and the plot takes
off quickly and never stops. Don’t get me wrong. I was thoroughly entertained.
I was just hoping for a little more. I liked the Inferno much more than this
one, but again, that doesn’t mean this one was bad. Just more of the same.
Maybe I should have waited longer between reading Inferno and this one so I
couldn’t compare them so closely.
9th
Judgment by James Patterson
Chipping away at my old TBR lists! This is another series that I added to my GoodReads list in 2012 when I joined. I am still really enjoying the series. This one was really emotional for me though, and I recommend that you read the synopsis before you dive in if you are sensitive to crime against infants/young children. This was fast moving and had me hooked from the start. I really enjoyed how the two different plot lines linked up to each other! A young woman and her infant are gunned down the same night the wife of an A List celebrity is shot. Whose case should take priority? Body count raises and quickly and there is always more to the story.
Chipping away at my old TBR lists! This is another series that I added to my GoodReads list in 2012 when I joined. I am still really enjoying the series. This one was really emotional for me though, and I recommend that you read the synopsis before you dive in if you are sensitive to crime against infants/young children. This was fast moving and had me hooked from the start. I really enjoyed how the two different plot lines linked up to each other! A young woman and her infant are gunned down the same night the wife of an A List celebrity is shot. Whose case should take priority? Body count raises and quickly and there is always more to the story.
Sweetbitter
by Stephanie Danler
Regarding descriptions, 5 stars. Regarding overall content, I am still not sure how to rate this book. It is a coming of age story. Tess has made it to the big city and doesn’t know what she wants out of life, until she comes to The Restaurant. She interviews and miraculously gets the job at a very well-known and established restaurant in the heart of New York. All I could think was Coyote Ugly minus the music, add a ton of food and wine descriptors and some drugs. This was not a bad book. I was highly entertained throughout but it was more of a descriptive meandering piece of work that definitely was not plot driven and almost not even character driven even though we are following Tess around the city. This is written for a specific audience and you need to be in the mood for it or Tess will drive you insane.
Regarding descriptions, 5 stars. Regarding overall content, I am still not sure how to rate this book. It is a coming of age story. Tess has made it to the big city and doesn’t know what she wants out of life, until she comes to The Restaurant. She interviews and miraculously gets the job at a very well-known and established restaurant in the heart of New York. All I could think was Coyote Ugly minus the music, add a ton of food and wine descriptors and some drugs. This was not a bad book. I was highly entertained throughout but it was more of a descriptive meandering piece of work that definitely was not plot driven and almost not even character driven even though we are following Tess around the city. This is written for a specific audience and you need to be in the mood for it or Tess will drive you insane.
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