Final Girls by Riley Sager - Quincy Carpenter is a Final Girl, she's the only survivor of a brutal knife attack that left all her friends dead. Forcibly linked by media outlets with two other Final Girls, her world is rocked when the oldest Girl commits suicide and the second turns up on her doorstep. Quincy has no memories of her trauma and would like to keep it that way. Because she has a niggling doubt about her own role in it. I blazed through this one, it really kept my mind whirling. Dabs of language, sex, and violence.
4 stars
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A Royal Experiment: The Private Life of King George III by Janet Hadlow - Americans know this king as the one fought against in the Revolutionary War and for his madness. The author takes a look at his family life, one that he was determined would not be like previous generations, known for infidelity and coldness towards their children. He was very purposeful in the qualities he looked for in a wife as he wanted to form a warm family life. He and his wife, Caroline, had 15 children, 13 of whom lived to adulthood. Unfortunately, George wasn't quite able to live up to his own ideas, growing colder towards his children as they grew up and wanted to live their own lives. And his descent into madness altered the way the queen viewed him. This was a very long book and I was only able to read about 50 pages at a time. The writing was good but there were just so many people. I don't think I ever got all the princes figured out and which was the duke of what.
3.5 stars
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Reykjavik Nights by Arnaldur Indridason - a prequel to the Inspector Erlender novels. This goes back to the very beginning of his career as a policeman. He's working nights as a traffic cop and begins dwelling on the drowning death of a homeless man he's acquainted with. His unofficial investigation leads him to believe it was murder. This was rather a plodding book, Erlender goes through several suspects and there is some repetition. A low
3 stars
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Her Last Day by T.R. Ragan - Jessie Cole became a private investigator primarily so she could search for her sister, missing for the last ten years. When reporter Ben Morrison comes to her with the idea of doing a story about her search, she reluctantly agrees. Ben lost his memory in a fiery crash ten years ago and it may have something to do with her sister. Meanwhile, the whole city is on edge because the Heartless Killer has struck again. The book switches back and forth between these two stories with a couple of subplots in between. Too graphic when the Killer is the focus. And I didn't warm up to the two main characters. For me, the writing wasn't stellar. Once again, I'm in the minority on Goodreads.
2 stars
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