I've heard of Westlake, but this is the first of his novels I remember reading. Turns out the good things I've heard about him are true. This novel is clever and witty, living comfortably on the border between goofy fun and deadly serious. I wouldn't say the plot is plausible, exactly, but the behavior of most of the characters mostly is. What happens is pretty much the consequences of a small moral/ethical slip, and things going wildly non-linear; to the extent there's a theme, that's mostly it.
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None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
And again we have a novel where the best thing about it is the title. The text itself has more or less no charms, what with flat and lifel...

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Reading this novel reminded me a good deal of reading Processed Cheese . America Fantastica is more subtle, and the points it's makin...
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A neat little Horror novel (big shock on the genre, there, I'm sure) that plays some interesting games with PTSD and identity, with ma...
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This is early Vachss, all taut and violent, more than a little murky to my mind. It is not good to be a sexual offender in a Vachss novel....
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