I’m getting closer! I should just do the rest of December as one post. Kidding! That would just take way too long to do in one sitting. Week 49 covers December 4 – 10. As always, your feedback is encouraged. Let me know what you think.
Dead Ever After by Charlaine Harris – I borrowed this as an e-book from the Boston Public Library. This is Sookie Stackhouse #13. It took me an absolutely absurd amount of time to pick this up and read this final book in the series. It’s almost as if I completely lost interest in these at some point, or this came out after I read the last one or something. I have since devoured almost every other Charlaine Harris book in the meantime, so it isn’t the author. In this one, the big thing is that you learn who Sookie will end up with (romantically). There was a lot of speculation about this when it was first published and I think a lot of the readers weren’t happy about the ending. I think that it wraps up nicely and that you can imagine this will be the best course for Sookie. I’m not sure if Sookie will be back, but I think that might be okay. I’m giving this 3 stars.
The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine – I have an actual book in this case. It came in the October MyPageHabit mystery box. The book is annotated by the authors. Liv Constantine is the pseudonym of a pair of sisters that write together. I thought this book was excellent. The first narrator is Amber and she has plans to take over another woman’s life and husband. She’s the worst. You aren’t supposed to like her. But you need to stick with this because it gets even better when the narrative turns to Daphne. Because you never know what’s really going on in another person’s marriage. And also, be careful what you wish for. I really enjoyed this. I’m leaning more and more toward this psychological thriller genre as being my favorite. Historical fiction may be losing it’s crown. I’m giving this 4 stars.
Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty – I borrowed this as an e-book from the BPL. I really like this author. Most of her books follow a similar outline, which I like (the outline itself, not that they’re the same). It starts out with a puzzle that works its way out in the end. In this, there is an accident. A little girl falls into a fountain during a party. Everyone present feels like they are to blame for the incident. And all of them are sort of guilty of their part in the event. Some are distracted, some have left the area near the fountain, some have drunk too much, some are doing the distracting, and someone does something they shouldn’t have. When the elderly neighbor turns out to have died when no one has noticed, things slowly fall into place and everyone finds a way to move on with their lives. It’s like the movie Clue, where they all turn out to have been guilty of something, but with less murder and not nearly as funny. I really liked this book. I’m giving it 4 stars.
And that’s it for Week 49. There should only be 3 more weeks and then 2017 will be wrapped. It’s sort of nice to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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