I found this book quite hard to get into but as I had enjoyed Savage Garden by this author was determined to give it a go. Maybe because it was written from a male point of view or the convoluted plot It was a bit confusing. I think the story itself was good but some of the routes it took to ge...
I normally enjoy spy novels, but for some reason I had a very difficult time getting into this book. I kept picking it up and putting it down again. Too much exposition, or a hard-to-relate-to setting (rich folk in France between the wars), or something. I thought the pace would get better after ...
Haven't received my copy yet, just received notice I had won. 10/23/13Received and hope to start soon. I have 7 plus my current read in front. 11/12/13Started around 12/20/13 and finished around the same time. I was sick and got behind on posting my reviews. Tom Nash is living a quite life in Fra...
A very confident, polished debut novel (©2004) from the author of 2012’s outstanding HOUSE OF THE HUNTED. AMAGANSETT (see a helpful but hard-to-read map on the endpapers) is intimately set in the summer of 1947 in Suffolk County on the South Shore of Long Island, a seaside area first settled by E...
Andrew Strickland is a somewhat unfocused art history student at Cambridge University. His work is rather lackadaisical, drawing heavily on his source material without coming to many original conclusions. He prefers to spend his days drinking with friends and has given little thought to his thesi...
She could use pretty much any pretext in the book, given his soft spot for her, but she opts for a game of pool, billing it as an opportunity to avenge herself for her last defeat at his hands. They’re well into their game when I slip silently past them and into the office. ‘Hey, Megan. A quick w...