CONSPIRATA by Robert Harris
ROMAN HISTORY AS THRILLER! Robert Harris does it right, dramatizing Cicero’s struggle against Pompey and Caesar. B PLUS
CONSPIRATA: A NOVEL OF ANCIENT ROME
Simon & Schuster
2010
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews
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ROMAN HISTORY AS THRILLER! Robert Harris does it right, dramatizing Cicero’s struggle against Pompey and Caesar. B PLUS
CONSPIRATA: A NOVEL OF ANCIENT ROME
Simon & Schuster
2010
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews
ROMAN HISTORY AS THRILLER! Robert Harris does it right, dramatizing Cicero’s struggle against Pompey and Caesar. B PLUS
CONSPIRATA: A NOVEL OF ANCIENT ROME by Robert Harris
New York: Simon and Schuster
February 2010
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: Ancient Rome, B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels, Thriller
INTERESTING IDEAS just never quite jell in this novel of snarky New York media and environmental terrorism. B MINUS
AMERICAN SUBVERSIVE
Scribner Book Company
2010
Grade: B MINUS
Tags: B Minus Reviews
FASCINATING LOOK inside the science of earthquakes and the quest to find a way to predict them, well-presented. B PLUS
PREDICTING THE UNPREDICTABLE: THE TUMULTUOUS SCIENCE OF EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
2009
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews
TIGHTLY CRAFTED legal thriller is full of plot twists, sharp dialogue that redeem over-the-top storyline. SOLID B
FALSE CONVICTIONS
Grand Central Publishing
2010
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: Solid B Reviews
SLEUTHING TAKES A BACK SEAT to interpersonal drama in this ninth Brodie Farrell mystery from Jo Bannister. B MINUS
LIARS ALL
St. Martin’s Press
2010
Grade: B MINUS
Tags: B Minus Reviews
SWEET, NEVER SYRUPY novel about a family in crisis focuses on dreamer dad, autistic son, and memorable others. B PLUS
THIS IS JUST EXACTLY LIKE YOU
Penguin Group (USA)
2010
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews
SURELY THE BEST high school football zombie novel ever written. Great concept, well excuted, scary and funny. B PLUS
PLAY DEAD
Gallery Press
2010
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews
A YEAR ON THE INSIDE of a couples’ therapy group brings us absorbing stories of five marriages in transition. SOLID B
THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB: A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF A COUPLES THERAPY GROUP
Touchstone
2010
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: Solid B Reviews
FASCINATING, IF FLAWED, historical thriller features author Charlotte Bronte as an unlikely spy and sleuth. SOLID B
BEDLAM: THE FURTHER SECRET ADVENTURES OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Overlook Press, The
2010
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: Solid B Reviews