Book Reviews

I got the books I requested at the library:

"Revenge of the Spellmans" by Lisa Lutz was funny like her other two books. She uses a lot of footnotes which I liked in the first two books but this one had way too many. And she referred to the previous stories a lot so you could pick this book up without reading the first two. There is going to be a fourth installment at some point so hopefully she do away with the footnotes and also the promoting of the other books "now in paperback". Kinda got old.

Maeve Binchy's book "Heart & Soul" was good. I like how she interweaves her characters lives together. She also refers to previous characters in her other books which is kinda neat. It is like she can't let go of these people she created. She also makes it seem like Dublin is a VERY small town and everyone knows each other.

I read Mary Higgins Clark's new book, "Just Take My Heart". Easy read; and very predictable. It usually takes me a little longer to figure out who the bad guy is and how things are connected but not this time. It is about a women who is prosecuting a man who she believes killed his wife. Yet as the trial moves forward she starts to be in her heart that maybe he is really innocent like he says.

Finally, I've just begun Joy Fielding's new book, "Still Life". It is about a women in a coma that can hear everything everyone says. What she thought was a hit-and-run that lead her to being in a coma, she discovers might be something more sinister. It's pretty good thus far.