occasionalhope ([personal profile] occasionalhope) wrote2024-06-01 12:29 am

May 2024

Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House, very good, A
Diana Pullein Thompson, I Wanted A Pony, enjoyable in a retro way, B
Jenny Lecoat, The Girl From The Channel Islands - very good indeed, gripping and well researched, A
Kate Simantis, Freeze, pretty solid thriller, B
Anne Glenconner, Murder On Mustique, pretty good, but rather name droppy, B
Carrie Vaughn, Refuge Of Dragons, quite good but very slight, B-
C S Lewis reread, The Magician’s Nephew; The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe; The Horse And His Boy
Jilly Cooper, Emily – terribly dated and distinctly questionable but somehow a guilty pleasure
Holly Black, The Stolen Heir, good, but not as engaging as its predecessors, B
Shari Lapena, Everyone Here Is Lying, excellent, A
Val McDermid, Past Lying, maybe a bit self indulgent writery, a bit Horowitz lite, but pretty good, A-

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