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Ann Patchett: Run (Paperback, 2008, Harper Perennial)

It's a winter evening in Boston and the temperature has drastically dropped as a blizzard …

Review of 'Run' on 'Goodreads'

Superb. Compact, wonderful in its brevity and intensity. So many areas where she could have expanded and added many, many more chapters but instead allowed the reader to take those wanderings themselves.

Nora Roberts: Thankless in death (2013, Putnam Adult)

As the household of NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas and her billionaire husband Roarke prepares for …

Review of 'Thankless in death' on 'Goodreads'

The story itself was very good but there was way more gratuitous violence in this book than in previous. It's just not entertaining reading that.

On the positive, books heavy on Roarke's Irish family always lend a deeper level to the characters and are among my favorites in the series.

I'd probably give it a 3.75 but not a 4.