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The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
My rating: 1 .5 of 5 stars
Series: Thursday Murder Club (Book #1)
Genre: Murder Mystery
Pages: 355 pages (Hardback edition)
Published: 3rd September 2020 by Penguin (UK) and Pamela Dorman Books (US)
The Thursday Murder Club is a very light-hearted murder mystery novel with zero suspense.
“If you fail to prepare, you prepare to fail.”
This review is a copy of the transcript of my video review of The Tainted Cup.
ARC provided by the publisher—Del Rey Books—in exchange for an honest review.
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The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars
Series: Shadow of the Leviathan (Book #1)
Genre: Fantasy, Murder Mystery, High Fantasy
Pages: 432 pages (Kindle edition)
Publish date: 6th February 2024 by Del Rey (US) & Hodder (UK)
The Tainted Cup is a compelling and rewarding murder mystery in a high fantasy setting redolent of Attack on Titan and The Last of Us. …
Legacy of the Brightwash by Krystle Matar
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Series: Tainted Dominion (Book #1)
Genre: Fantasy, Grimdark Fantasy, Murder Mystery, Romance
Pages: 664 pages (Kindle edition)
Published: 18th February 2021 by Imburleigh Publishing (Self-Published)
I thought I would end up disliking Legacy of the Brightwash. I was wrong.
“You should still help… Even if you don’t think you’re good at it. The best way to learn something is to not be good at it first.”
A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie
My rating: 4 of 5 stars.
Genre: Mystery, Murder Mystery, Fiction
Published: June 1950 by Collins Crime Club
All hail the queen of murder mystery, Agatha Christie!
I recently finished The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, my first ever Agatha Christie read and a masterful display of writing. As that book is now among my favourites, I was quite eager to sample more of the author’s works and decided on a book in her Miss Marple series. It was not a completely random choice, rather the blurb was extraordinarily compelling and promised a very intriguing plot.
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
My rating: 5 of 5 stars.
Genre: Mystery, Murder Mystery, Fiction
Published: June 1926 by William Collins, Sons
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is singularly spectacular.
After recently enjoying some mystery fiction, I decided to explore the genre a bit more and my research concluded that there was hardly a better option than an Agatha Christie novel. I did not plan on reading any specific one until I perused an article on some of the best murder mysteries and saw an Agatha Christie book listed. First published back in 1926, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was voted the best crime novel ever in 2013 by the British Crime Writers’ Association. I had found my next read.
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Shadow Of A Dead God
Shadow of a Dead God by Patrick Samphire
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Series: Mennik Thorn (Book #1)
Genre: Fantasy
Published: May 27th, 2020 by Five Fathoms Press
Copy provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.
A real page-turner; Patrick Samphire has crafted an excellent, mage-ical adult fantasy debut.
I am for the most part very wary regarding what I choose to read, and as such, I rarely read books that I have not heard a lot of good things about, with the exception of authors whose previous work I loved. Shadow of a Dead God by Patrick Samphire fell smack-bang in the middle of this category, with neither the author nor the book being known to me, but I was seriously tempted from the first time I read the blurb and it shows the importance of a well-written description. Still, I wavered until my co-blogger, Emma, said that she was also interested in this fun sounding book and ready to give it a shot, and I thought, what the hell, let me join in. I am SO happy I made that decision.
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