I read these co-authors all the time, they write about the body farm. There are some loose strings at the end which I don't like..where is the ex pregger? The lead character Dr. Brockton gets dragged around on a missing-body-in-the-casket case to find body parts sold on the black market, the FBI asks him to help. Something about this book I just didn't feel it for some reason. It was pretty clinical and methodically written so it took me awhile to plod thru it.
The action scenes were ok but I think everything could have been better. The doc isn't emotional, he's too removed mentally from his own actions. From a previous book relationship with a murderer (he has GREAT taste in women BTW) whom he knocked up -she's younger than his son if I remember correctly -and she is 'disappeared'. He's a real pig when it comes to women. Totally unprofessional but isn't that how most men deal? If it moves they'll screw it. Also his co-worker who he's been with for YEARS, he can't tell about his secret FBI work- so she quits? Overdone much? And applies to work for the competition? Something just wasn't real about that for me. If there is some explanation for her weirdness get into her head or something cuz it all seems so puppet-on-a-string to me.
NEXT!
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Thursday, May 27, 2010
WHERE THE DEAD LAY by David Levien **
Started it. About boxing or fighting. "Yay" she moaned dully from her box in hell.
So some gym rat dies and some other gym rat shall track down the killers. Meanwhile there's a group of -ex cons? more gym rats? Related brother gang? About every word out of their mouth I have no clue what it means. Am struggling thru their street slang crapola.
I finished it up. It's about a family of over-built steroidal men trying to cash in on whatever the fuck a pea house is. I dunno and it's only explained as something like bingo but one number wins? WTF. Anyways so our hero ex-cop is a huge meathead with a girlfriend who's knocked up but he once had a son and wife? or girlfriend? one never really knows and a child who somehow killed himself with the ex-cop hero's gun. You never ever find out at what age, who was responsible, how that went down. And the way it's written ya don't really care.
There's a lot of innuendo and no answers at the end. You only get suggestions of endings and surmises. Personally I would have passed after I started on the boxing/kick fighting/ju jitsu crap but it's a holiday weekend and I only got one other unread book.
Sucked for me.
So some gym rat dies and some other gym rat shall track down the killers. Meanwhile there's a group of -ex cons? more gym rats? Related brother gang? About every word out of their mouth I have no clue what it means. Am struggling thru their street slang crapola.
I finished it up. It's about a family of over-built steroidal men trying to cash in on whatever the fuck a pea house is. I dunno and it's only explained as something like bingo but one number wins? WTF. Anyways so our hero ex-cop is a huge meathead with a girlfriend who's knocked up but he once had a son and wife? or girlfriend? one never really knows and a child who somehow killed himself with the ex-cop hero's gun. You never ever find out at what age, who was responsible, how that went down. And the way it's written ya don't really care.
There's a lot of innuendo and no answers at the end. You only get suggestions of endings and surmises. Personally I would have passed after I started on the boxing/kick fighting/ju jitsu crap but it's a holiday weekend and I only got one other unread book.
Sucked for me.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
The EX MRS. HEDGEFUND by Jill Kargman *
If you GAS about Sex & the City or chick lit you might like this but I detest those and this book. This rich broad who drops name brands like an ad exec sees her husband kissing someone and they're getting divorced. The entire novel is all MeMeMeMeMe. Entitlement much? Babies in limos dropped at day care? WTF?
Names: Kiki, Sherry, Petri (like the dish), Miles<--her kid. The jokes are old and tired, I think most come from Jack Benny. Dusted off mummies.
She writes "'I beg your pardon' I had never uttered that phrase in my life (it seemed so old school)" yet she refers to women as gals as if they are cartons of milk. Gals? Really? How ancient are you, old crone? She also uses "gussying up" so this must be a western- giddyup. Fer shore!
Honestly not much about main asshole Holly's marital relationship before the divorce, some referrals mostly to husband Tim's financial status as PIG and hers as PAID FOR. So when the divorce comes I can only imagine the tears being shed are dimes falling from her tear ducts. Shallow Hal pales in comparison. I shall continue reading and see if it gets worse. So far it's all marshmallow fluff for dollars.
Here's an example of her superficial take on life in general: I could wallow in self pitying misery till the Crypt Keeper giggled (WTF?) ....or I could buck up and jump back into life (like she took time off). Cliche overbearing crap.
And so her mortification went on until the end of the paragraph where she is cured of her divorced situation.
In one breath she castigates blondes showing a chart about how slutty they are the blonder they get when she just dyed hers BLONDER! LOL STUPID ass.
It all reads like it's "tell" not "show" so much blahblahblah inane empty headed bleach blonde ruminations. YAWN.
Don't like it much. I only blog so I don't write INSIDE the books my frustration at having to put up with so much SHIT! I am always so tempted to scribble in the books and they come from the library, they would fine me. Blog, blog instead of rewriting the book on the pages. This one would be delete delete delete.
I'm reading along and this is supposed to be set in 2006 but Kiki goes out dressed 'chic' in fishnet, short mini dress and thigh high boots...Twiggy (1967?), is that you? Then they pound on someone else for dressing old fashioned in St. John knitwear whatever that crap is.
She seemed like a "chill boss", even if she had a "tough-cookie" vibe; my "gut" was that she was a "straight shooter". Whatever!! Cliche-girl. AND cutesy word inventor...Jill liked BranJolina so much she copulates all her words together like STARachitect....GET OUT!!!! True! True.....sadly, miserably, cutesily, true.
Do not bother with this one unless you are a material girl, star fucker wannabe. HOW the FUCK did she get published? Ohhhhhh fuck......who tho?
Names: Kiki, Sherry, Petri (like the dish), Miles<--her kid. The jokes are old and tired, I think most come from Jack Benny. Dusted off mummies.
She writes "'I beg your pardon' I had never uttered that phrase in my life (it seemed so old school)" yet she refers to women as gals as if they are cartons of milk. Gals? Really? How ancient are you, old crone? She also uses "gussying up" so this must be a western- giddyup. Fer shore!
Honestly not much about main asshole Holly's marital relationship before the divorce, some referrals mostly to husband Tim's financial status as PIG and hers as PAID FOR. So when the divorce comes I can only imagine the tears being shed are dimes falling from her tear ducts. Shallow Hal pales in comparison. I shall continue reading and see if it gets worse. So far it's all marshmallow fluff for dollars.
Here's an example of her superficial take on life in general: I could wallow in self pitying misery till the Crypt Keeper giggled (WTF?) ....or I could buck up and jump back into life (like she took time off). Cliche overbearing crap.
And so her mortification went on until the end of the paragraph where she is cured of her divorced situation.
In one breath she castigates blondes showing a chart about how slutty they are the blonder they get when she just dyed hers BLONDER! LOL STUPID ass.
It all reads like it's "tell" not "show" so much blahblahblah inane empty headed bleach blonde ruminations. YAWN.
Don't like it much. I only blog so I don't write INSIDE the books my frustration at having to put up with so much SHIT! I am always so tempted to scribble in the books and they come from the library, they would fine me. Blog, blog instead of rewriting the book on the pages. This one would be delete delete delete.
I'm reading along and this is supposed to be set in 2006 but Kiki goes out dressed 'chic' in fishnet, short mini dress and thigh high boots...Twiggy (1967?), is that you? Then they pound on someone else for dressing old fashioned in St. John knitwear whatever that crap is.
She seemed like a "chill boss", even if she had a "tough-cookie" vibe; my "gut" was that she was a "straight shooter". Whatever!! Cliche-girl. AND cutesy word inventor...Jill liked BranJolina so much she copulates all her words together like STARachitect....GET OUT!!!! True! True.....sadly, miserably, cutesily, true.
Do not bother with this one unless you are a material girl, star fucker wannabe. HOW the FUCK did she get published? Ohhhhhh fuck......who tho?
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
TRUST NO ONE by Gregg Hurwitz ****
Not a bad read, about a kid who watched his step dad die, took the blame and had to disappear. He comes home and has to deal with a current presidential election and his past which are connected.
It was sort of paced well with good descriptions. I liked the main character but there was a lot of stuff that I personally don't care about like politics, agents, spies, rumors. Too little about the murder and too late for me to care. I mean I LIKE mysteries but this didn't seem in my realm. So in the end who hired Kim and for what reason? There are small spots I skipped over but thought it was basically a good story well written. Don't have a lot of complaints but wasn't one of my favorites either.
It was sort of paced well with good descriptions. I liked the main character but there was a lot of stuff that I personally don't care about like politics, agents, spies, rumors. Too little about the murder and too late for me to care. I mean I LIKE mysteries but this didn't seem in my realm. So in the end who hired Kim and for what reason? There are small spots I skipped over but thought it was basically a good story well written. Don't have a lot of complaints but wasn't one of my favorites either.
Friday, May 21, 2010
STILL MIDNIGHT by Denise Mina **
Around page 50 and this is a sample of her style which is irritating:
Paragraph begins with Pat and stuff he did in the past, next about Eddy and him running, next must have flashback about coke, missus leaving Eddy, next coke being cut with something and there's a boy. (Where are we? Why? WTF is going on?) next the boy hit Eddy? (I can't be sure it's so disjointed), next para. Eddy off balance (mentally? yup physically? guess so) next para. the very very past about Pat rallying when Eddys wife left and lost jobs, next para. Walking in mud (present?) Malki smoking a fag (I didn't know the gays were smokable), next para. Pat grabs Malki? This is her style. Back and forth, up and down. You're a yoyo. Past and present, future and present, hopping from one person to the next.
So far it's about some coke heads who kidnap an asian from Scotland. Yup. Makes sense to me too! Esp. since they were looking for BOB and everyone else is saying they were looking for ROBBIE. WTF?
And so it goes.
So it's a flippin English bird writer. What's a 'scheme' dipshit? I have no clue but it's something to do with a neighborhood. Do I care?
So you never learn anything about Morrows baby dying. You never learn about the problems she's having with her husband. Or why she hates him until his finger touches her. LOL
You never learn why the criminals selected these people to kidnap and ransom. I thought stories had beginning, middle and end. No end in sight and I'm all done reading the trash. I've never ended a book so pissed off there isn't an ending to anything PLUS some asshole kidnapper age 28 is happily pursuing a 17 year old with the author's blessing. COME ON ARSEHOLE.
Paragraph begins with Pat and stuff he did in the past, next about Eddy and him running, next must have flashback about coke, missus leaving Eddy, next coke being cut with something and there's a boy. (Where are we? Why? WTF is going on?) next the boy hit Eddy? (I can't be sure it's so disjointed), next para. Eddy off balance (mentally? yup physically? guess so) next para. the very very past about Pat rallying when Eddys wife left and lost jobs, next para. Walking in mud (present?) Malki smoking a fag (I didn't know the gays were smokable), next para. Pat grabs Malki? This is her style. Back and forth, up and down. You're a yoyo. Past and present, future and present, hopping from one person to the next.
So far it's about some coke heads who kidnap an asian from Scotland. Yup. Makes sense to me too! Esp. since they were looking for BOB and everyone else is saying they were looking for ROBBIE. WTF?
And so it goes.
So it's a flippin English bird writer. What's a 'scheme' dipshit? I have no clue but it's something to do with a neighborhood. Do I care?
So you never learn anything about Morrows baby dying. You never learn about the problems she's having with her husband. Or why she hates him until his finger touches her. LOL
You never learn why the criminals selected these people to kidnap and ransom. I thought stories had beginning, middle and end. No end in sight and I'm all done reading the trash. I've never ended a book so pissed off there isn't an ending to anything PLUS some asshole kidnapper age 28 is happily pursuing a 17 year old with the author's blessing. COME ON ARSEHOLE.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
SAND SHARKS by Margaret Maron ***
I've only just begun...to live....I mean read this. So far I'm disappointed. There are approx. 2 new names per page and it hasn't slowed down up to page 36. One of my pet peeves.
Main character Deborah (do NOT call her Deb), has a 9yo stepson she has a need to manipulate along with her new husband. First she forces him to smell a scent that reminds him of his dead mommy, then she gets all crazy because he and dad would rather eat fast food on their day out together instead of an apple and PBJ sandwhich. I mean she gets a bat up her ass over it. Very controlling and manipulative thruout. This horror is going on a convention out of town where she's fucked everything moving in the past so of course her new husband seems a tad worried cuz he's not going with her.
She's a judge, on a judge convention at the beach, one of the judges get murdered, then a hit and run, then another murder. Not very mysterious yet all the clues are hidden until the very last page.
Someone's name is Jonna...is that like John married Anna? They get Jonna? What the hell kind of name is that? Continuing on.....as I must.....
Wasn't the worst book I ever read but not on the top 100 list either. It's fair, stays interesting, moves along. Some mindlessness about shopping, clothing, makeup, and hard to tell her take on gays (People are whoever they are I don't care).
The names do come fast and furious but I just skip over them all pretending none are necessary to the story line, sometimes I had to backup and figure out who was what but otherwise not too tedious. Read at your own risk of wakefulness memorizing names while falling asleep.
Main character Deborah (do NOT call her Deb), has a 9yo stepson she has a need to manipulate along with her new husband. First she forces him to smell a scent that reminds him of his dead mommy, then she gets all crazy because he and dad would rather eat fast food on their day out together instead of an apple and PBJ sandwhich. I mean she gets a bat up her ass over it. Very controlling and manipulative thruout. This horror is going on a convention out of town where she's fucked everything moving in the past so of course her new husband seems a tad worried cuz he's not going with her.
She's a judge, on a judge convention at the beach, one of the judges get murdered, then a hit and run, then another murder. Not very mysterious yet all the clues are hidden until the very last page.
Someone's name is Jonna...is that like John married Anna? They get Jonna? What the hell kind of name is that? Continuing on.....as I must.....
Wasn't the worst book I ever read but not on the top 100 list either. It's fair, stays interesting, moves along. Some mindlessness about shopping, clothing, makeup, and hard to tell her take on gays (People are whoever they are I don't care).
The names do come fast and furious but I just skip over them all pretending none are necessary to the story line, sometimes I had to backup and figure out who was what but otherwise not too tedious. Read at your own risk of wakefulness memorizing names while falling asleep.
Monday, May 17, 2010
LIARS ALL by Jo Bannister -*
That is MINUS a STAR.
Irish writer 'goolies, put the frighteners on him, squibs exploding behind his eyes, old lags?" Hate the language. More Irish crapola, tyres, kerb, roar of pistons (haha, like they have more than a 4 cylinder vehicle in her parts with piston noises).
Remove Daniel's glasses and he is so blind he can't see anything? He needs a seeing eye dog then. Someone tried to kill people with a car to get some jewelry (weird) and someone is hired to find it, Daniel. BUT the cops, the insurance agency have tried to find it and can't. Daniel asks ONE guy about the sapphire he's looking for and someone threatens and beats him. Did this happen to the cops or the ins. agent? NO????
In some part of this story a baby is sick, the mom wants people to pray to god to save it's life. A guy (Daniel) she asks to help pray is an atheist and doesn't want to. The fact is that it's almost IRL (not quite) proven that it's not WHO one prays to, it's the fact that a bunch of people may be able to psychically sway enough atoms or cells to perform so called miracles. So the atheist shouldn't have an issue which this writer seems to make it some big frickin religious deal.
BTW I hate religion in my fiction novels. I don't do THAT kind of FICTION. So thanx for the big YUK. Now the stupid coont is saying "We don't know why God keeps going when science stops to save one individual" blahblah. Well Miss Assholian- God wants the baby to die of cancer so STFU and stop trying to intervene in His plan! Douche.
Also a criminal's daughter unknowingly bought a hot necklace which in this country would be a slap on the wrist and her FATHER is going to jail?? PROOF OF WHAT BIATCH? With supposedly many charges to follow (?) says Deacon (<--hows that for Freudian; a priestly virginal boyfriend who knocked Brodie up without benefit of marriage...how frickin daring!)
And if that all isn't bad enough the coont has the main character Brodie give up her best friend as a sacrifice to god (he wants blood, is this 1700?) to save her moron son that HER god wants dead. AND the writer is such a hardcore biatch she/Brodie only lets the best friend (Daniel) have a cripple in a wheelchair to make up for losing herself. How absolutely DECENT of her to let him have a cripple in a wheelchair paralyzed from the waist down! LOL ROT IN HELL Daniel! U must have been very bad! Everything we do from cursing to farting gets marked against each of us you know says the NORTH IRELAND Lassy...so if your baby has cancer blame yourself for your rotten attitude- don't complain to me about this crap write to Jo Bannister who has her head up her ass. I think she must suffer brain damage or something, or maybe she's 'special'. You know 'short yellow bus'.
Irish writer 'goolies, put the frighteners on him, squibs exploding behind his eyes, old lags?" Hate the language. More Irish crapola, tyres, kerb, roar of pistons (haha, like they have more than a 4 cylinder vehicle in her parts with piston noises).
Remove Daniel's glasses and he is so blind he can't see anything? He needs a seeing eye dog then. Someone tried to kill people with a car to get some jewelry (weird) and someone is hired to find it, Daniel. BUT the cops, the insurance agency have tried to find it and can't. Daniel asks ONE guy about the sapphire he's looking for and someone threatens and beats him. Did this happen to the cops or the ins. agent? NO????
In some part of this story a baby is sick, the mom wants people to pray to god to save it's life. A guy (Daniel) she asks to help pray is an atheist and doesn't want to. The fact is that it's almost IRL (not quite) proven that it's not WHO one prays to, it's the fact that a bunch of people may be able to psychically sway enough atoms or cells to perform so called miracles. So the atheist shouldn't have an issue which this writer seems to make it some big frickin religious deal.
BTW I hate religion in my fiction novels. I don't do THAT kind of FICTION. So thanx for the big YUK. Now the stupid coont is saying "We don't know why God keeps going when science stops to save one individual" blahblah. Well Miss Assholian- God wants the baby to die of cancer so STFU and stop trying to intervene in His plan! Douche.
Also a criminal's daughter unknowingly bought a hot necklace which in this country would be a slap on the wrist and her FATHER is going to jail?? PROOF OF WHAT BIATCH? With supposedly many charges to follow (?) says Deacon (<--hows that for Freudian; a priestly virginal boyfriend who knocked Brodie up without benefit of marriage...how frickin daring!)
And if that all isn't bad enough the coont has the main character Brodie give up her best friend as a sacrifice to god (he wants blood, is this 1700?) to save her moron son that HER god wants dead. AND the writer is such a hardcore biatch she/Brodie only lets the best friend (Daniel) have a cripple in a wheelchair to make up for losing herself. How absolutely DECENT of her to let him have a cripple in a wheelchair paralyzed from the waist down! LOL ROT IN HELL Daniel! U must have been very bad! Everything we do from cursing to farting gets marked against each of us you know says the NORTH IRELAND Lassy...so if your baby has cancer blame yourself for your rotten attitude- don't complain to me about this crap write to Jo Bannister who has her head up her ass. I think she must suffer brain damage or something, or maybe she's 'special'. You know 'short yellow bus'.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
LOST & FOUND by Jacqueline Sheehan *****
I like it and it's a quick read. Recently widowed a psychologist moves to an East coast island and does animal control. I did it AC work as well and some of the writer's stuff is so-so on the reality scale but nevertheless it's good reading. Nice story lines, good inside her head stuff, ok descriptions nothing weird, complicated, no magic flying unicorns or tigards whatever the fuck those are. Recommend the book.
NINE GATES by Jane Lindskold *
Should be labeled fiction fantasy and called nine gates of go to hell reader. Another weird inter dimensional beyond my GAS meter. Ya gotcha "Lands Born from Smoke and Sacrifice" (not Mirrors?), then magical spells, ch'i, weird ass names like Flying Claw or Righteous Drum???, no description of where the fuck the story takes place how they got there and why the hell I'm supposed to care. Too many unrealistic characters; a stupid battle with no intro to WHY. I thought writers were supposed to answer "who what why when where" but you can just chuck that out with this book. No dice. Maybe if you read into the next 150 pages your answers will materialize but I got to the 40th and ran out of give a shits. Off with her head.
Friday, May 14, 2010
BAD MOON RISING by Sherrilyn Kenyon
You gotta be under 14 to read this crap about vampires, bear people, tigards, were-wolves and everyone so far is blonde and stunning, exactly what you find IRL. Even if I was 14 I couldn't read this shit.
Some are human during the day and others are opposite, names of Vane, Fang,
Dev, Craig Keegan, Aimee. Very affected.
Supposedly humans don't know they're among these frickin weirdos and yet the author keeps referring to them appearing as human in a restaurant as pups and wolves. Get over yourself. I betcha if the author on the back smiled she'd show her vampire implants. Now that the vampires have lured in the teenie boppers everyone is on the bandwagon.
Some are human during the day and others are opposite, names of Vane, Fang,
Dev, Craig Keegan, Aimee. Very affected.
Supposedly humans don't know they're among these frickin weirdos and yet the author keeps referring to them appearing as human in a restaurant as pups and wolves. Get over yourself. I betcha if the author on the back smiled she'd show her vampire implants. Now that the vampires have lured in the teenie boppers everyone is on the bandwagon.
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