Fiction

cbabe

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2. Two books:

Sun Jun 5, 2022, 12:13 PM

Jun 2022

‘The Last Widow’ by Karin Slaughter. Recommended by Lee Child in a guardian article. First book I’ve read by her.

Slightly slow start then becomes a page turner thriller. Some humor, mostly dark.

The plot is ‘ripped from the headlines’: white evangelical supremacists, pedophiles, domestic terror plot.

And ‘Run Rose Ron’ by Dolly Parton and James Patterson. Love Dolly so probably will power through. But characters are thin two dimensional characters, almost racist southern stereotypes. A mammy/maid/cook. Really?

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