That’s sort of the theme of this book– “I dunno” with a mild shrug. I liked all the people. They’re likable. The villain is comically despicable so no one cares that he’s dead. Vera herself…oh boy, somebody put their finger on it. She’s a treat. Who doesn’t love a bossy, nosy old lady? More Vera Wong in more books, please. But aside from being a vehicle for platforming Vera, there’s not a lot I cared about here. The plot felt secondary to Vera being Vera.
Read MoreIt doesn’t matter, you can know Le Morte D’arthur en français or Indiana Jones and Monty Python from their Comedy Central broadcast edits, you’ll end up at the same place in Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts. I appreciate the lack of judgement. Honestly, you really don’t even need to know more than their titles: Last Crusade, Holy Grail, bing bang boom you’re good to go.
Speaking of titular, Tuesday is a lady, and the type of protagonist we all love: misanthropic but actually super thoughtful; clever in a way people usually can only be when they’re going over what they should have said on the way home.
Read MoreI finally solved a mystery before a mystery book ended! It only took knowing the exact reference—and having that exact reference mentioned by name—for me to get there.
Read MoreFor Drive Your Plow, I didn’t know the genre. I knew I was going to read it, so I didn’t look at the book jacket. I didn’t read someone else’s thoughts first. If you’re looking at reviews to decide if a piece of media is worth your time, you’re not going to be surprised in the same way. You cannot be, simply as a function of how time and/or brains work. You already know stuff, at the minimum the stuff I have told you. Which I don’t think is bad: your free time is limited, maybe, or you already have a lot of books and you can’t read everything! But I just want to point out that I think it is weird not to care if you know whether a book is about fantasy warriors or cowboys or Victorian-era ghosts, but do care to know that Rey’s lineage comes up in The Rise of Skywalker.
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