THE FEVER by Megan Abbott
THERE’S GREAT WRITING in Megan Abbott’s latest; alas, the ripped-from-the-headlines plot doesn’t deserve it. B MINUS
THE FEVER
Little Brown and Company
2014
Grade: B MINUS
Tags: B Minus Reviews
Posts tagged with ‘B Minus Reviews’
THERE’S GREAT WRITING in Megan Abbott’s latest; alas, the ripped-from-the-headlines plot doesn’t deserve it. B MINUS
THE FEVER
Little Brown and Company
2014
Grade: B MINUS
Tags: B Minus Reviews
A COMPLEX, UNEASY THRILLER with a likable protagonist, but a far too tangled web of suspects and motives. B MINUS
THE WATCHER : A NOVEL OF CRIME
Pegasus Books
2014
Grade: B MINUS
Tags: B Minus Reviews, Mystery, Novels, Thriller
APPEALING TIME-TRAVEL TALE with spunky heroine, intriguing premise, Minnesota local color, but uneven pacing. B MINUS
THE RUNESTONE INCIDENT
47North
2014
Grade: B MINUS
Tags: B Minus Reviews, Novels, Science Fiction
ENGAGING RIFF ON the science-fiction standby of alien abduction shines with its humor, but could use editing. B MINUS
SEQUENCE
Adam Moon
2013
Grade: B MINUS
Tags: B Minus Reviews
ENGAGING RIFF ON the science-fiction standby of alien abduction shines with its humor, but could use editing.
Grade: B MINUS
SEQUENCE
Adam Moon
2013
Tags: B Minus Reviews, Humor, Novels, Science Fiction, Self-Publisher Sundays
AN EXERCISE IN SELF-MYTHOLOGIZING more than a work of psychology, this memoir by a sociopath still intrigues. B MINUS
CONFESSIONS OF A SOCIOPATH : A LIFE SPENT HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT
Crown Publishing Group (NY)
2013
Grade: B MINUS
Tags: B Minus Reviews
THE END OF A MARRIAGE, explored in beautiful prose, but with so little candor that the memoir falls flat. B MINUS
AFTERMATH: ON MARRIAGE AND SEPARATION
Picador
2013
Grade: B MINUS
Tags: B Minus Reviews
A YOGA TEACHER, BUDDHIST practitioner shares thoughts for women on making peace with body and mind. Candid!
Grade: B MINUS
MAY I BE HAPPY: A MEMOIR OF LOVE, YOGA, AND CHANGING MY MIND
Dutton
2013
Tags: B Minus Reviews, Health, Memoirs, Mental Health and Illness, Non-Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Women's Issues, Yoga
AN ARTIST RETURNS to Galveston, Texas, and searches the island’s history and her family’s secrets. Overwrought.
Grade: B MINUS
THE DROWNING HOUSE
Knopf Doubleday/Nan A. Talese Books
2013
Tags: B Minus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels, Women's Fiction
A CHILD’S SUDDEN DEATH fractures a family, reveals its secrets. Upper-middle-class melodrama, a bit formulaic.
Grade: B MINUS
THOSE WE LOVE MOST
Hyperion
2012
Tags: B Minus Reviews, Novels, Women's Fiction