The
Big Kahuna by Janet and Peter Evanovich. Another fine Fox
and O'Hare mess, with a bit of travelogue thrown in, probably on their
expense accounts for writing the book... Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. Thinking this was a X-men/Harry Potter type of fantasy, until the realistic fantasy photos showed up--50 of them. It turns out (spoiler alert) the author did what I'd done 20 years ago--taken a bunch of disparate photos (weird disturbing photos culled by collectors from early B&W photography) and made a compelling story. Well, he made a compelling story--I made the Hat War The Bitterroots by CJ Box. Having just driven through Montana, and stopped at Big Timber, the opening set in that locale drew me in to the thriller mystery. It didn't help get me to sleep... That series was too disturbing for my sensibilities--I quit the first one, and only started this one not realizing it was in the series about a ultra serious version of Stephanie Plum... (This one even had a car fire or two). Highfire by Eoin Colfer. As a fan of his juvenile fiction, I was initially put off by his PG13 for language and violence new take on a dragon fantasy. The new take involves a dragon living in a Louisiana swamp drinking and watching satellite TV with a cast of dysfunctional people that are hard to warm to. But I stuck it out and it was a pretty good ride by the end... |