Since 2010
Audrey J. Cole
★★★☆☆
You know what, this was a wee bit cheesy and more than a little far fetched, but it kept me guessing most of the way through, and everything was neatly tied up at the end.
S. J. Bennett
★★★☆☆
Much to my own surprise, I really enjoyed the setting and the characters: The actual British royal family in the actual Buckingham Palace! But when you get down to it this was one of those “cosy” murder mysteries which had way too many characters for me to keep track of, especially towards the end, by which stage I didn’t really care or understand who had murdered who.
R.F. Kuang
★★★☆☆
A recommendation from a friend 😏 It took me ages to get through this one. It had some properly thought-provoking ideas, but it had too many of them so as a result nothing was properly explored. It kept turning in directions I didn’t expect though which I always enjoy, so it gets a star for that at least.
Also it has footnotes? A fictional story with fictional footnotes?? No. No no.
Andy Weir
★★★★★
Sixth read. I could feel my love of reading waning after the last book so I reached for an old friend.
Jason Pargin
★★★☆☆
Good grief this was a long book that took me ages to get through. Always fun enough to keep me interested though. There were a few long-winded monologues that perhaps could have been cut. Thought provoking in a pointing-out-the-obvious kind of way.
Matthew Evans
Abandoned
I got fed up reading lists of what is and is not in milk. Was hoping it would be more about the production and distribution of milk.
Janice Hallett
★★★☆☆
This was on track for an easy 4-stars until about 80% of the way through, at which point it kind of went off the rails and lost me. Up until then I was enjoying the storytelling method and the twists, but it ended up feeling more complicated and far-fetched than it needed to be.
Ian Fleming
★★★☆☆
Decent beginning, exciting middle, but the final third was repetitive and unsatisfying.
Andy Weir
★★★★★
As is tradition around here, starting the year by reading my favouritest of all time 🙂
Craig Brown
★★★★☆
A good title - loads of stories of stuff that happened around the queen. A behind-the-scenes, if you will. Good fun.