March 2020

Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver – adored the story and setting. What didn’t work for me was the first person POV from multiple characters, because the author failed to make the voices distinct. A-
Dorothy L Sayers, Clouds of Witness, very good, A-
Mike Carey, The Devil You Know, brilliant, A+
Tara Westover, Educated, wondered how much was really true, B
Lee Child, Echo Burning – good, B+
Tanya Tucker, Nickel Dreams, very frank autobiography, B
Louise Penny, The Brutal Telling, A
Morris West, The Second Victory – interesting depiction of post-war Austria, a bit deus ex machina at the end, B+
Karen Rose, Into The Dark, C+
Tim Weaver, No One Home, excellent, although the advertising is a touch misleading – it’s not a whole village going missing, it’s four houses, that’s not even a hamlet, A
Denise Mina, The Field Of Blood, very good, B+
Sophie Hannah, Pictures Or It Didn’t Happen, quite good novella, B+
Charlaine Harris, Three Bedrooms, One Corpse, quite good, B