This seemed as though it was going to be an interesting novel, looking kinda askance at what life might be like if aliens showed up, then left without doing anything. What it turned out to be was 400 pages of characters slightly more annoying than nails on a chalkboard, random happenings with only the vaguest internal connections, and at the end a message about friendship and family and love.
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Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
This was a fun read, crackling with energy and anger and humor. It's an inverted supers story, where the "supervillains" are...
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This is a deeply romantic series of adventures in the pursuit of solving a mystery. There are references to Doyle, it's possible the aut...
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Wrapped the last couple-hundred pages of this after gaming tonight. It started a little slowly, a little dryly, but it got moving the last...
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A beautiful novel about life as a mobster (in 1940s Tampa) and all the contradictions and complications of it. Lehane clearly has an ear f...

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