Book recommendations

This page is for book reviews, although I've never written a formal review prior to this time [August 2015], so I think I'll call it book recommendations instead.

Here's the "star scales" as noted by two major sites.  Note how inconsistent they are, especially the middle ranges.


                               Goodreads                  Amazon
5 stars                   It was amazing             I love it
4 stars                   I really liked it               I like it
3 stars                   I liked it                         It's okay
2 stars                   It was okay                   I don't like it
1 star                     I didn't like it                 I hate it

Let's try a regular school-based grading scale:

A - Excellent
B - Good
C - Fair
D - Poor
F - Fail

I don't think I'll take the time to write reviews for books lower than a C.  So I'll start with this scale, expanded to A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, and C.

Book recommendations:

Adult mystery:

Abbey, Sparkle - THE GIRL WITH THE DACHSHUND TATTOO

Andrews, Donna - DUCK THE HALLS

Andrews, Donna - THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE EMUS

Atkins, Ace - ROBERT B PARKER'S SLOW BURN 

Barnes, Emily - THE FINE ART OF MURDER 

Barrett, Lorna - MURDER IS BINDING 

Beaton, MC - DEATH OF A LIAR  

Beaton, MC - PUSHING UP DAISIES 

Carl, JoAnna - THE CHOCOLATE CLOWN CORPSE 

Cass, Laurie - LENDING A PAW 

Challinor, CS - MURDER COMES CALLING 
 
Clement, Blaize and John - THE CAT SITTER'S NINE LIVES

Connelly, Michael - THE CROSSING 

Connolly, Sheila - BURIED IN A BOG 

Deaver, Jeffery - THE STEEL KISS 

Dugoni, Robert - IN THE CLEARING 

Evanovich, Janet - TOP SECRET TWENTY-ONE

Evanovich, Janet - TRICKY TWENTY-TWO  

Evanovich, Janet and Goldberg, Lee - THE JOB 

Evanovich, Janet and Goldberg, Lee - THE SCAM

Evanovich, Janet and Sutton, Phoef - WICKED CHARMS

Ferrell, Sean - MAN IN THE EMPTY SUIT

Grippando, James - GONE AGAIN  

Hess, Joan - DEADER HOMES AND GARDENS 

Hess, Joan - MURDER AS A SECOND LANGUAGE 

Jones, Falafel - LIFE'S A BEACH, THEN YOU DIE


Larsen, KJ - BYE, BYE LOVE

Nesbo, Jo - BLOOD ON SNOW 

Patterson, James and Karp, Marshall - NYPD RED 4 

Quinn, Spencer - A FISTFUL OF COLLARS 
 
Quinn, Spencer - PAW AND ORDER

Quinn, Spencer - THE SOUND AND THE FURRY

Robb, JD - DEVOTED IN DEATH

Rosenfelt, David - HOUNDED 

Rosenfelt, David - OUTFOXED 

Rosenfelt, David - UNLEASHED 

Ross, Loretta - DEATH & THE REDHEADED WOMAN

Weir, Andy - THE MARTIAN 


Young adult:

Andrews, Jesse - ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL

Asher, Jay - THIRTEEN REASONS WHY
 

Middle grade:

Almond, David - SKELLIG 

Bell, Cece - EL DEAFO 

Cavanaugh, Nancy J - THIS JOURNAL BELONGS TO RATCHET 

Creech, Sharon - MOO

Palacio, RJ - WONDER

Sachar, Louis - HOLES 

Sloan, Holly Goldberg - COUNTING BY 7S 


Other: 

Backman, Fredrik - A MAN CALLED OVE 

Barry, Dave and Zweibel, Alan - LUNATICS

Dorsey, Tim - SHARK SKIN SUITE



Mitchell, David - SLADE HOUSE



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