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Bezig met laden... Ripped From the Pages (2015)door Kate Carlisle
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Brooklyn and Derek are summering in Dharma (California wine country) while their apartment is bein renovated. The Dharma Commune (where Brooklyn grew up and her family lives) is having their wine storage cave enlarged but when the workmen come across a bricked up cavern, Brooklyn is the one who notices the body during the exploration. Not only is there a body which appears to be mummified, but that are hundreds of antiques and pieces of artwork. Where did it all come from? How did it get bricked up? Who is the dead man? The ensuing search for answers was completely mesmerizing, the historical aspects interesting. And as usual Brooklyn and Derek alluring in their connection to each other and the people around them. This is not a good book. The only redeeming feature is that, once i realized how truly bad it was a third of the way in, I still needed to know who’d done the deed and why, so I ended up skimming the rest of the book to find out. An incomplete list of things which bugged me: the protagonist is not a strong personality the protagonist’s boyfriend reads almost entirely like a blend of wish-fulfillment and “well, I need someone to know this thing” whole pages were devoted to book restoration, wine tasting, and kittens without any link back to the mystery, so everything dragged most of the book and wine facts read almost like encyclopedia articles and for the wine especially, were shared in-world with people who should really know them already the solutions to the mysteries were anti-climactic and not just because I didn’t care enough about any of the characters the protagonist kept reminding us of things we only learned a chapter or two ago (like, “my boyfriend, who’s British, did I mention he’s from Britain?”) the narration otherwise felt really clunky a lot of the setting and secondary characters felt twee and flat there was a string of coincidences that had next to no bearing on the plot in the end so why was it even there? Now, I know this is part of an already-started series, so maybe if I’d read from the start I’d have more connection to everything, but good writing to me means being able to make readers care regardless of which book they pick up. I’ve also come to expect better of my cozy plots too. It also doesn’t perform well on the diversity front (there are two POC, one of whom is white-passing, and no other minorities I could see) but at least it’s not actively bigoted? 2/10 Very pleasant and engaging mystery. For me, the ending was a bit unsatisfying (in that it turned out just how one would expect it to do in real life: independent actions that only looked to be part of a larger, complex plan), and the "bibliophile" angle was minimal. But still, it works very well as the latest (ninth) episode in the evolving storyline of the protagonists. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML:In this novel in the New York Times bestselling Bibliophile Mystery series, book-restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright visits California Wine Country where she uncovers murder and intrigue... While Brooklyn has temporarily relocated to her parentsâ?? place in Sonoma, she attends an excavation of the caves hidden deep under their commune. A room is unearthed, revealing artwork, rare books, cases of wine, a chest of jewelry...and a perfectly mummified body. A closer examination of the murdered manâ??s possessions reveals a valuable first edition of Jules Verneâ??s A Journey to the Center of the Earth containing a secret treasure map. Word of the explosive find draws in reporters, art appraisers, and questions. After a new presence threatens the townâ??s peace, itâ??s clear that not all crime is buried in the past. So Brooklyn decides to do a little excavating of her own and solve the mystery of the treasure before anyone else is Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Ripped from the Pages was no exception and should have been a 4.5/5 star read because the plot takes place in Dharma, her parents commune (Dharma redefines the term 'commune', btw) and involves secret treasures discovered in caves, the French and a bit of WWII history - what's not to love?!?!
Well, Brooklyn's moments of angst and downright bubble-headedness, that's what. The angst has a touch of "I'm the centre of the universe" to it and some of the flights of fancy she takes when speculating on the suspects are just down right ridiculous, when I think the author was aiming for endearingly wacky. There were enough of these moments to leave an impression, but not significantly alter my enjoyment of the book, so still a 4 star read. Cheers to Ms. Carlisle though for keeping Brooklyn from making any TSTL moves, and I genuinely love watching her and Derek together. (Also, thank you for bringing Gabriel back, although he seems disconcertingly legitimate.)
The murder mystery was well plotted, although I had more fun reading about the treasures. This series firmly remains on my auto-buy list. ( )