by Serena on July 24, 2011
Mailbox Mondays (click the icon to check out the new blog) has gone on tour since Marcia at A Girl and Her Books, formerly The Printed Page passed the torch. This month our host is A Sea of Books. Kristi of The Story Siren continues to sponsor her In My Mailboxmeme. Both of these memes allow bloggers to share what books they receive in the mail or through other means over the past week.
Just be warned that these posts can increase your TBR piles and wish lists.
Here’s what I received this week:
1. To the Moon and Back by Jill Mansell for review in September from Sourcebooks.
2. Out of Breath by Blair Richmond for review in October.
3. Mr. Darcy's Undoing by Abigail Reynolds from Sourcebooks for review in October.
4. Mr. Darcy's Bite by Mary Lydon Simonsen from Sourcebooks for review in October.
5. Becoming Marie Antoinette by Juliet Grey from Random House for review in the fall.
Library Loot:
Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire and Marg that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr. Linky any time during the week. And of course check out what other participants are getting from their libraries!
1. Now You See Her by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
2. Sugar in My Bowl by Erica Jong
What did you receive this week?
by Serena on July 7, 2010
Worst Case by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge is the third book in the Michael Bennett detective series. Readers will not have to read the other two books in the series to follow along as this New York Detective takes on a child kidnapper with a social agenda. Bennett is a single father with 10 children — not all of them biological — whose holy grandfather Seamus and nanny Mary Catherine make his life a little less hectic and in some cases even more so.
Bennett must not only balance his fatherly duties with detective work, but also must learn to separate the cases he works on as part of major crimes. New York is an excellent location for this detective, with its high crime boroughs and its high class residents. Worst Case is narrated superbly by three narrators, Bobby Cannavale, Orlagh Cassidy, and John Glover as each voice takes on either Bennett, FBI child kidnapping expert Emily Parker, or the serial murderer.
“Without pausing, he veered to my left, bounded up onto the low iron railing, and dove without a sound off the bridge.
I think my heart actually stopped. I ran to my left and looked down. The guy was plummeting toward the water when there was a strange bloom of color that at first I thought was an explosion. I though he’d blown himself up, but then I saw the orange canopy of a parachute.” (page 187)
Readers will enjoy the fast paced, short chapters with their clipped sentences as tension builds and Bennett runs in circles around the city at the behest of the killer. The narrators of the audio pulled off the New York and Virginia accents as they read through the book, although the sound effects of gun shots and other items were a bit disturbing, especially when driving late a night on dark highways.
Worst Case is another sign that this series about Michael Bennett is just heating up. Another suspenseful winner.
This is my 11th book for the 2010 Thriller & Suspense Reading Challenge.
