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Books 2015: I'm slower than usual this year.
Books 2015: 81-89
81. Django Wexler, The Price of Valor. Roc, 2015. Copy courtesy of Tor.com.
Read for review for Tor.com. It's pretty amazing.
82. Rhonda Mason, The Empress Game. Titan Books, 2015. Copy courtesy of Titan Books.
Read for column. It's kind of ridiculously tropey and entertaining.
83. Cari Hunter, No Good Reason. Bold Strokes Books, 2015. Ecopy courtesy of the publisher.
This is a crime novel set in the Lake District. The two protagonists, cop Sanne and doctor Meg, are best friends and occasional lovers. When a badly injured young woman is found by hikers, who appears to have escaped from an abductor, both Sanne and Meg are drawn into the hunt for the perpetrator. It's a very readable novel, with very appealing characters, albeit with some pacing issues, and for that reason I went out looking for everything else Hunter has written when I was done. It transpires that No Good Reason is her fourth novel: the others aren't quite as good but they're still solidly enjoyable.
84. Cari Hunter, Snowbound. Bold Strokes Books, 2011. Ebook.
Hunter's first novel. A little too much hurt/comfort rather than Thrilling Crime? But very readable, with great characters. Fun.
85. Cari Hunter, Desolation Point. Bold Strokes Books, 2013. Ebook.
Hunter's second novel. Two women trapped by a storm race against time, weather, and white supremacists for survival. Odd pacing, but really appealing characters. Also fun!
86. Cari Hunter, Tumbledown. Bold Strokes Books, 2014. Ebook.
Hunter's third novel, and a sequel-of-sorts to Desolation Point. (Best described as Desolation Point: Revenge of the White Supremacists.) Characters still great, pacing and structure quite peculiar. It feels a bit tropey without feeling slight, which is an achievement in itself. Fun.
87. Karis Walsh, Mounting Evidence. Bold Strokes Books, 2015. Ecopy courtesy of the publisher.
A romance between a cop who comes from a family of dirty cops, and an environmental activist/single mother. Abigail Hargrove is a lieutenant with the mounted police unit. Kira Lovell is a wetlands biologist. They meet at the state fair, and murder and kidnapping and underhanded dealings interfere in their awkward courtship. Fun, although the prose is a touch clunky and the pacing on the uneven side.
88. Karis Walsh, Mounting Danger. Bold Strokes Books, 2013. Ebook.
Previous book in loose sequence to Mounting Evidence. It has horses, and a mounted police unit, and polo. Entertaining, but generally meh: not so convinced I should read any more of Walsh's work.
89. Molly Tanzer, Vermillion. Word Horde, 2015. Copy courtesy of the publisher.
Read for Patreon review. It should be going up on my Wordpress blog soon-ish. It's a very interesting book. And well-written. And full of incidents. I didn't love it, but I liked it a lot.
And some rereads. I am being slow this year. In my defence, thesis-finishing kind of killed bits of my brain.
81. Django Wexler, The Price of Valor. Roc, 2015. Copy courtesy of Tor.com.
Read for review for Tor.com. It's pretty amazing.
82. Rhonda Mason, The Empress Game. Titan Books, 2015. Copy courtesy of Titan Books.
Read for column. It's kind of ridiculously tropey and entertaining.
83. Cari Hunter, No Good Reason. Bold Strokes Books, 2015. Ecopy courtesy of the publisher.
This is a crime novel set in the Lake District. The two protagonists, cop Sanne and doctor Meg, are best friends and occasional lovers. When a badly injured young woman is found by hikers, who appears to have escaped from an abductor, both Sanne and Meg are drawn into the hunt for the perpetrator. It's a very readable novel, with very appealing characters, albeit with some pacing issues, and for that reason I went out looking for everything else Hunter has written when I was done. It transpires that No Good Reason is her fourth novel: the others aren't quite as good but they're still solidly enjoyable.
84. Cari Hunter, Snowbound. Bold Strokes Books, 2011. Ebook.
Hunter's first novel. A little too much hurt/comfort rather than Thrilling Crime? But very readable, with great characters. Fun.
85. Cari Hunter, Desolation Point. Bold Strokes Books, 2013. Ebook.
Hunter's second novel. Two women trapped by a storm race against time, weather, and white supremacists for survival. Odd pacing, but really appealing characters. Also fun!
86. Cari Hunter, Tumbledown. Bold Strokes Books, 2014. Ebook.
Hunter's third novel, and a sequel-of-sorts to Desolation Point. (Best described as Desolation Point: Revenge of the White Supremacists.) Characters still great, pacing and structure quite peculiar. It feels a bit tropey without feeling slight, which is an achievement in itself. Fun.
87. Karis Walsh, Mounting Evidence. Bold Strokes Books, 2015. Ecopy courtesy of the publisher.
A romance between a cop who comes from a family of dirty cops, and an environmental activist/single mother. Abigail Hargrove is a lieutenant with the mounted police unit. Kira Lovell is a wetlands biologist. They meet at the state fair, and murder and kidnapping and underhanded dealings interfere in their awkward courtship. Fun, although the prose is a touch clunky and the pacing on the uneven side.
88. Karis Walsh, Mounting Danger. Bold Strokes Books, 2013. Ebook.
Previous book in loose sequence to Mounting Evidence. It has horses, and a mounted police unit, and polo. Entertaining, but generally meh: not so convinced I should read any more of Walsh's work.
89. Molly Tanzer, Vermillion. Word Horde, 2015. Copy courtesy of the publisher.
Read for Patreon review. It should be going up on my Wordpress blog soon-ish. It's a very interesting book. And well-written. And full of incidents. I didn't love it, but I liked it a lot.
And some rereads. I am being slow this year. In my defence, thesis-finishing kind of killed bits of my brain.