I often yelled at characters in The Last Child: “Do you really think that kid is going to stay home this time either??” [...]
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The beauty of so many of Trollope’s books is the way she can unravel relationships and then re-knit them, in a way that seems both inevitable and organic. [...] Past Imperfect is an intriguing history of a group of upper class people in the 1960s in Britain, of a way of life that’s now mostly vanished, and of a misconception that lasted more than 30 years. [...] The primary interest of this novel is the inner workings of the Shaikh’s household, and how Mariana achieves a layered, deeper understanding and acceptance of her nominal husband’s culture. [...] Zoe Ferraris has done an excellent job of capturing both the atmosphere of the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah and the complexity and growth of real human beings even within that constrained world [...] The one thing Giles Blunt does extremely well is show Cardinal’s humanity and deep love for Catherine. In many ways, his relationship with her is clearer in this book than in the previous novels when she was alive. [...] The Marriage Hearse is an enjoyable, kind of low-key mystery along the lines of Rhys Bowen’s books about the Welsh detective, Evan Evans. That means there isn’t a lot of breathtaking suspense or deadly action, but there’s a well-woven story, with intriguing clues and twists sprinkled throughout, and a very good and likeable main character. [...] Jonathan Cullen’s LOTR reviews on Goodreads are all done from Sauron’s point of view. People are so funny, aren’t they? [...] Any human hanging out with a vampire is the weaker member of the pair, by definition. If someone needs rescuing, it’s pretty much always going to be the human. But dang it – it’s always the girl who is weaker! [...] If one book is enough to go by, I’d say the Inspector Lynley mysteries by Elizabeth George are just as good as the various TV mystery series that are based on them. And yes, I know that’s going backwards. [...] |
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