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Fiction

bahboo

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19. just finished Better Off Dead by Lee and Andrew Child...

Reply to hermetic (Original post)

Sun Jul 10, 2022, 02:44 PM

Jul 2022

it was better than The Sentinel, which was their first collaborative effort, but some of it still reads like someone imitating Lee Child. Sometimes happens when series get long in the tooth. Readable, but not at the exalted level of the previous Jack Reacher novels...

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What Fiction are you reading this week, July 10, 2022? [View all] hermetic Jul 2022 OP

"The Wonder Garden" by Lauren Acampora bif Jul 2022 #1

Sounds good hermetic Jul 2022 #6

Who Moved My Goat Cheese, Lynn Cahoon SheltieLover Jul 2022 #2

Ooooh, hermetic Jul 2022 #7

She was apparently rsised in Idaho & wanted to write about the area. SheltieLover Jul 2022 #8

Also finished Fern Michaels' "Need to Know" yesterday SheltieLover Jul 2022 #3

The Other Einstein. PittBlue Jul 2022 #4

by Marie Benedict? hermetic Jul 2022 #9

Yes...I love it. PittBlue Jul 2022 #32

Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2022 #5

Provocative title hermetic Jul 2022 #10

That description is a bit misleading. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2022 #28

Aurora by David Koepp cbabe Jul 2022 #11

Creepy, eh? hermetic Jul 2022 #12

Creepy yes. Want to run out and stock up. Meanwhile, cbabe Jul 2022 #16

"Dark Wind" by Tony Hillerman randr Jul 2022 #13

I love the Hillerman books hermetic Jul 2022 #14

I thought I had read all his books until I searched for this randr Jul 2022 #22

Oh good hermetic Jul 2022 #24

Just started "Weaving Shadows" Polly Hennessey Jul 2022 #15

Mixed reviews for this one hermetic Jul 2022 #17

I love complicated characters and twists. Polly Hennessey Jul 2022 #18

just finished Better Off Dead by Lee and Andrew Child... bahboo Jul 2022 #19

I read that one hermetic Jul 2022 #20

I read and collected all of the original Reacher series. Not buying any of the collaboration. Paper Roses Jul 2022 #27

Listening to C.S. Friedman's "Black Sun Rising" TexLaProgressive Jul 2022 #21

All right! hermetic Jul 2022 #23

Still reading that haunted book by Louise Erdrich, The Sentence, and japple Jul 2022 #25

Me too hermetic Jul 2022 #29

Her latest? cilla4progress Jul 2022 #33

Yes, it is hermetic Jul 2022 #34

Excellent cilla4progress Jul 2022 #35

Misjudged by James Chandler. Half way thru, great so far. Paper Roses Jul 2022 #26

Sounds good hermetic Jul 2022 #30

I am still with the Deschanels in New Orleans (mostly) am n ow up to 1975 yellowdogintexas Jul 2022 #31