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I was a huge fan of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, and this book, which has a similar time loop premise, but came out ~15 years earlier, is perhaps even...

Another solid entry in the Victor the Assassin series. This one could’ve been 5 stars if it made better use of a new character, who is intriguing, but after a lot...

Although these are “Crime Stories by the Author of Jack Reacher,” they don’t feature Reacher. But that’s not really the biggest problem. The biggest problem is th...

I found the final book in this series to be a little disappointing. It falls into the classic trap of fantasy stories where, in each book, the stakes get higher a...

Another solid entry in the Bosch series. This one was 5 stars for me for the first 80% of the book, but the last 20% seemed a bit convoluted, including an abrupt,...

Another solid entry in the Gamache series.

An entertaining murder mystery. The meta references (breaking the 4th wall) are funny at first, but gets a little repetitive later. The solution to the mystery is...

The good Fun, three-dimensional characters. Beautiful writing. A deep look at the opioid epidemic. I enjoyed the show Dopesick, which...

It’s book 18 in the series, so I’m obviously a fan of the series, and more time with Joe and Skippy is always fun. That said, this isn’t the strongest entry in th...

An interesting continuation of the Robots series. Several fun characters return (Daneel, Gladia, Giskard), and we get more entertaining explorations of the laws o...