Category: Review
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Review: ‘Unknown Sender’ builds suspense in tight 23 pages
“Unknown Sender” by Ryan Lanz starts as a somewhat predictable tale of a young college student haunted by a series of text messages from an anonymous source. The texter seems to know everything about our protagonist, Jessica, from the clothes she’s wearing to what she’s doing at a specific moment.…
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REVIEW: Flamboyant characters drive story of The Marauders
Bleak doesn’t begin to describe life in the bayou in the pages of The Marauders, by Tom Cooper. The novel follows the journey of several individuals who are trying to eke out their place in the world in the aftermath of the BP oil spill off the Gulf Coast. Even with the…
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Review: Paranoia runs deep in The Expats, leading to Poirot-like finish
It took me a little while to finish reading The Expats by Chris Pavone. That, of course, is one of the worst things an author wants to hear after the hours, days, weeks, months – maybe even years – of laboring over his or her novel. But, on a bright…
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Book Review: The Accident makes mistake of being too wordy
I like short, snappy sentences and paragraphs. And lots of white space. Stories read faster. Your eye swiftly races through the action, reading from left to right, from top to bottom, the pages turning. James Patterson novels are a perfect example. Most of his books feature paragraphs of two or…
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The Martian is smart, often tedious, tale of survival
by G. Robert Frazier The Martian by Andy Weir isn’t lacking for quality reviews on the Internet, so it was a little surprising to find the book was available for a free read in exchange for an honest review on Blogging for Books. Already a New York Times Bestseller, the…
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