Let Me In -John Ajvide Lindqvist
Swedish vampire novel - disturbing, not creepy, just disturbing for certain reasons that should become clear fairly early on. Loved it at first, but the pedophile slant to it really wasn't my cup of tea, and it just got slow and depressing, but maybe, just maybe if you really luvvvv vampires, you will like this; it is well written and unconventional.
The Likeness - Tana French
This book is so fun and such a good, exciting read - reminded me of Donna Tartt's A Secret History combined with a really good undercover cop thriller. Yeah, thriller! Excellent book - deserves a big write up, but I'm behind and tired and considering abandoning this blog thing altogether. Highly recommend this - even if you don't like police procedurals, give this a try.
The Doomsday Book - Connie Willis
Loved this book! It's kind of billed as a Sci-Fi, but if you don't like that sort of thing, please don't pass this book by on that account. Sure it's got time travel, but it's set in almost present day Oxford and there's lots of curmudgeonly professor types who despise Americans and harummph and take their tea (I go wild for this sort of thing). They send a medieaval scholar back to the 1300's to do some research - a super-flu hits the modern day time and what could possibly go wrong? Well researched stuff on medieaval daily life, I just loved it. Quite the page turner - it really helped me put all this bad financial crisis stuff that we're going through right now into perspective.
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Found The Likeness to be just as thrilling as French's first novel, Into The Woods, except this one has something Woods did not: a satisfying ending. First rate thriller!
Doomsday Book took awhile for me to get into, but the payoff at the end is more than worth it. Entertaining and fun filled! Learned a lot about The Plague reading it as well. Not to mention bell ringing.
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