Here will eventually be every review for everything I have read. For the time being only some of the more recent ones will be listed as transferring my older reviews to this new format requires a lot of manual labour and rewriting.
Pines (Wayward Pines #1)
Whilst it doesn’t reach the heights of Blake Crouch’s other books, Pines is still a solid mystery thriller. It feels a bit more cliché and the ending whilst it is a solid twist isn’t a particularly strong motivator to read the sequels.
Happy Place
It’s disappointing to see Emily Henry fall into the trap of fully relying on the lazy and frustrating “characters won’t talk” cliché. Happy Place doesn’t really tell a story outside of its flashback sequences and the protagonist pretending to be the victim doesn’t make her any more likeable.
Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures #1)
A bit bland given the blurb and the cover’s flavour but unfortunately both romance and mystery end up a bit underwhelming even if it never becomes boring at least.
Legends and Lattes (Legends and Lattes #1)
The story has no ambition to try to be bigger than it is which is rare to see in fantasy. Legends and Lattes is a comfortable fireside story that I could greatly see become a laid back family TV show.
The Corset
Depressing to a fault, The Corset is not a good time. However, what really brings it down is the racist secondary protagonist who faces no repercussion for her beliefs. To top it off, some chapters serve no purpose outside of padding out the word count.
The Guest List
The Guest List is a murder mystery where the murder happens in the last 50 pages which makes it a pretty bad murder mystery. For the other 250 odd pages before it’s just depressing people being depressed about their depressing lives.