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]]> Review7000324005 Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:24:57 -0800 /review/show/7000324005 Jared gave 4 stars to A Beautiful Poison (Kindle Edition) by Lydia Kang
A mystery and some history.

This book takes place in 1918 in NYC. The time is important because WW1 and a major flu epidemic are part of the backdrop. That and one of our characters is a radium girl.
Our lead character is an 18 year old girl. Most of the characters are around that age. She is from a well to do NYC family and has all the advantages of such. Not all her friends do though.
One evening during a party at the lead character’s house a young female guest falls down the stairs and dies. Is it murder? The police say no but the group of friends say yes.
This leads the book down the direction of danger and a murder mystery as secrets in the friend group come to light.
I liked this book. I liked the historical angle as well as the mystery. The characters were all well done and I enjoyed the various angles they were playing. To me the book was as much a character piece of the times as it was a mystery. I liked that. ]]> Review7056253820 Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:22:57 -0800 /review/show/7056253820 Jared gave 4 stars to The Elias Network (Caspian Anderson, #1) by Simon Gervais
Hit men, hit women, and hit squads galore!

This is a book about an “Operator.� That’s what they call military James Bond types these days. It’s book one in the Caspian Anderson series and it’s the only one I’ve read so far.
Cas is a hit man of sorts who works for the US department of defense. He’s on a mission in
Europe and things go wrong. Now he had to find a way to survive and figure out what exactly
happened?
I liked this book. It wasn’t the most original but it was a good story. There was a lost of action
and some romance. In general it’s the kind of action oriented thriller that I enjoy.
I’d read some more books in this series. ]]> ReadStatus8624583998 Tue, 12 Nov 2024 18:47:25 -0800 /review/show/7000324005 Jared is currently reading A Beautiful Poison by Lydia Kang
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