Thursday, January 19, 2023

Ihre Letzte Chance von Blake Pierce

Rachel Gift setzt ihre Abenteuer fort und versucht, Serienmörder zu stoppen, während sie an einem Hirntumor im Endstadium leidet. Ein sich langsam auflösendes Mysterium mit melodramatischen Familiendrama und mittelmäßiger Übersetzung. 1/5 Sterne. Ich muss bessere deutsche Originalbücher in meiner Bibliothek finden. Ein Freund hat mir https://www.ardaudiothek.de/ empfohlen, dass ich mir Hörbücher ausprobieren werde.

Sunday, January 15, 2023

Lay the Hate by Jason Anspach & Nick Cole


Fun story, lots of action. 4/5 Stars.

Thursday, January 12, 2023

Dinosaur Summer by Greg Bear

Lots of 1947 swashbuckling adventures along with Indios dream mythology.  Well-crafted and fun, I did not like any of the characters, though; 3/5 Stars.

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Trouble on Paradise by Craig Alanson


The misadventures of the humans stranded on "Paradise" continue without the main characters of the series.  More mysteries and political intrigues are started and the backstories of minor characters are fleshed out. Enjoyable, 4/5 Stars.

Sunday, January 8, 2023

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan


The story is exciting and dramatic. But the historical settings, travel, and technology of the era are poorly researched and inaccurate.  I also found the excessive racism and some of the one-dimensional cardboard characters unappealing and boring.  2/5 Stars. 

Friday, January 6, 2023

Paradise by Craig Alanson


The silly, funny dialogue, good space opera plotting (complete with awe, wonder, & mystery) continue. 4/5 Stars.  I shall read all the others in this series.

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte


Tiago's book is a nice manifesto about why you should take notes and organize them for yourself in the future, especially if you have no external process and structure.  I especially appreciate Tiago's technology-independent library of tools and approaches to each element of his system. 3/5 Stars. The book is a good edition to your "self help" library if you read in the genre.

The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre


The best of Macintyre's books yet.  Extremely interesting, informative, and entertaining. 5/5 Stars.

SpecOps by Craig Alanson


Fun, interesting, entertaining. 4/5 Stars.

Eine unbeliebte Frau von Nele Neuhaus


Die Hauptfiguren sind sympathisch, das Ermittler-Duo +Team sind erfreulich normal und der Kriminalfall bleibt auch lange Zeit spannend.  Leider war die Geschichte ein bisschen zu kompliziert. Das Buch ist jedoch sehr gut geschrieben und unterhaltsam. 4/5 Sterne.