The Red Scrolls of Magic is a lot of fun. The Red Scrolls of Magic by Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ It’s not a perfect book-I wish we’d taken one step farther back, because I felt there were still a few gaps that could’ve been filled-but overall I really enjoyed Genuine Fraud and would recommend it to anyone who likes thrillers or mysteries. There is a lot of reread potential for Genuine Fraud. There’s something very exciting and different about a story that makes a mystery out of what happens at the beginning rather than what happens at the end (or what happens next). Her books-or, at least, the ones that I’ve read-are bonkers and they make the readers doubt everything they’ve read. As the story unfolds, I found myself getting sucked deeper and deeper in until I couldn’t put the book down. When I first started, I had a hard time orienting myself around who the characters were and what exactly was going on. Thrillers aren’t my genre of choice (though I do like them occasionally), and that may have contributed to my lackluster response to a novel that has so many fans, but in the end Sadie did nothing to win me over. Although the writing is good, as a whole the novel repeats itself too much, and I closed the book feeling unfulfilled by the ending. Sadie deals with some extremely dark subject matter-abuse, murder, pedophilia, revenge, violence-so it’s not a cheery read. Instead of using the dual POVs to reveal a wider picture, the novel repeats itself. I think the main problem is that its two storylines are too similar. Sadie is actually a decent book, but it never fully grabbed my attention. There’s a reason there aren’t many books about it. Bridge is never going to make a riveting story. When the plot and the characters are given second billing to a complicated, basically obsolete game with no observable action, the final result is going to be lackluster no matter who writes it. Although it does occasionally have touches of his usual brilliance, it gets much too caught up in the mechanics of playing bridge. ‘No one’s going to want to read a book about bridge!’ they told me on more than one occasion.” Sachar’s publisher, editor, wife, and agent were right. In his forward, Sachar writes that, “My publisher, my editor, my wife, and my agent all said I was crazy. And, yes, I did make up some of the genres. Since I read pretty erratically genre-wise, I’ve also indicated roughly what kind of book each entry is. I read more three-star books than usual recently, particularly compared to what I read in the first three months of the year.įor the books that I reviewed in full, I’ve put an excerpt of the most relevant bits of my own review, usually one specific paragraph and one paragraph of wrap-up. I have also, unfortunately, read some less-than-great books. Yikes! I’m not on par to meet my reading goals for this year, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t read some great books. It’s hard to believe that we’re already halfway through 2019.
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