Do you “hear” the voices of characters when you’re reading a novel? Do you begin to imagine what characters look like, perhaps even making some assumptions about their personality and values? Do you feel their emotions, from joy to anguish? In other words, do you let your imagination bring the story’s characters to life? I […]
Tonight’s review is of the Audible book, although you may also obtain it as a Kindle, a print book or a CD on Amazon. The author is Richard Roper, who is a Brit. This warrants mention, as the situation portrayed in the book seems to be a particularly – and even peculiarly – British thing. […]
Note: This review is of the Audible version of this novel. Wishing to step just a bit outside my normal Audible book-listening – which, to some extent, mirrors my interest in reading what I call “airplane novels” or “brain candy” mysteries and thrillers by well-known authors, I downloaded The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan, an Irish […]
This week, following my dour review of Lee Child’s latest “thriller,” I continue in the genre with two novels by home-run hitter Lisa Gardner. The first is her brand-new Never Tell, and the other is Alone from 2005. Lisa is in top form in her latest novel but that said, one of the great things […]
I’ve just finished listening to Lee Child’s new Jack Reacher novel, Past Tense, and am quite disappointed. I’ve been a Reacher fan since Child began writing these stories and never disappointed – until now. This one is as dull as a box of rocks. The highest praise I can proffer is that Scott Brick has […]