Toss Me That Book

Format:  Kindle Date Started:  June 23, 2019 Date Finished:  June 24, 2019 It had all the right pieces -- an unreliable narrator, an atmospheric location, and disappearances -- but it didn't come together for me.  The narrator, who had lost a daughter, was justifiably distraught and probably not paying attention to anything but her loss, but she must have been some special kind of dumb not to figure out what was really going on and who was the actual perpetrator.  This was not a good one for me.

Format:  Kindle Date Started:  June 21, 2019 Date Finished:  June 23, 2019 Guts and grit - two modern day words that get thrown around a lot.  Two qualities that my favorite real-life heroines - including both of my grandmothers - and my fictional favorite ladies - now including Constance, Norma, and Fleurette Kopp - have in spades! I'm thrilled and delighted to have met the Kopp sisters, and I'm even happier that they have a series, so I don't have to leave them behind after only one adventures.  What I especially like is that even though the series is set in 1914, all of these women feel incredibly modern to me in their attitudes and their opinions. 

Format:  Kindle Date Started:  June 23, 2019 Date Finished:  June 24, 2019 As previously stated, my genre of choice is dark and preferably involving a body count.  However, thanks to some self-diagnosed post-partum anxiety, anything that happens to children hits way, way, way too close to home. Thus, I began "Descent," the story of an abduction and its aftermath, and I was 100% ready to close the book in the event that it was just TOO MUCH.  To my great surprise, it wasn't.  While part of me was relieved/disappointed - it's a delicate balance for me - that we didn't get to know much about Caitlin's disappearance and captor, I was really fascinated by the way the author explored the aftermath of her abduction in the lives of her family.  

Format:  Hardback (First Edition - woot!) Date Started:  June 20, 2019 Date Finished:  June 21, 2019 I am a Murderino.  I blame my parents who let me read whatever I wanted.  I was probably in 6th grade when I stumbled onto the author Lois Duncan and quickly plowed through all of her scary/thriller books for pre-teens.  Browsing the bookstore with my dad one afternoon, I found her book, "Who Killed My Daughter," which is the true story of her own daughter's unsolved murder.  I must have read that book over a dozen times, and I'm dying to read it again...after I re-buy a copy because mine was donated to the library in the early 2000s.  Thanks, Mom. I feel like Georgia & Karen have similar origin stories as to how their interest in true crime developed.  And while I was originally extremely nervous to read this book -- it was billed as a memoir, so I thought I'd have to hear in detail about their formative years -- I LOVED IT....

Format:  Kindle Date Started:  June 13, 2019 Date Finished:  June 20, 2019 I realize that this review is over a month behind.  In my defense, I went on vacation, and since then, everyone in my entire family has been sick at least twice.  Including me -- I think I had Zika.  Anyhow, I like books about cults that aren't too scary.  I couldn't handle The Girls by Emma Cline, and I am too chicken to read anything about the Manson Family.  But if you're going to write a book about a cult, it would be helpful to have something happen at some point during the course of the story.  I was hoping for psychological tension - but no.  It was like the author spritzed "Eau de Vaguely Menacing But Not Enough for the Protagonist to Do Anything About It" all over the book.  Alas.