What are you currently reading?

[QualityBookReviews]

An open discussion on what everyone is currently reading. Make recommendations to others, discuss what is new, hot, bestsellers, anything and everything related to books and the authors.

[Kemosabe]

Hear! Hear!

[Suzanne]

Yeah, I forgot about that one.  I do think her earlier books are better.

[Karen from AustCrime]

Having one of those dreaded summer lurgies has an upside in that you get a LOT of reading done.  I've been grazing (for want of a better term) - Saints of New York by R.J. Ellory, Dark Blood by Stuart MacBride, The Genesis Flaw by L.A. Larkin, Harbour by John Ajvide Lindqvist, The Sex Club by L.J. Sellers, Rumpole and the Reign of Terror by John Mortimer and now The Redeemer by Jo Nesbo.  Next up... goodness knows but I do have one more "N" book to go and then onto "O" in my self-imposed alphabetical challenge.  Or I could get distracted by something alluring from the stacks - it has been known to happen....

 

[Jacqui Horwood]

what are your thoughts on the Stuart MacBride, Karen?  I haven't read it yet.  Just finished Michael Robotham's Bleed for Me which was creepy and dark as usual. 

[Karen from AustCrime]

Loved it Jacqui - not quite as gory as recent outings - but it's another one that features Steel and it's quite an interesting premise as well.

[Jacqui Horwood]

hmm, the macbride is now on to-be-bought list!

[I. J. Parker]

Robotham is very good, as I recall.  McBride was very good to start with, but the constant dismemberment stories finally got too sickening and repetitive. Perhaps his new one is better.

[Jacqui Horwood]

As much as I enjoy MacBride, I have to agree.  The dismemberment and the constant harrassment of poor old logan macrae started to get me down in the last one.  So my hopes are up for this one.

[Joy Calderwood]

I have MacBride's COLD GRANITE and haven't read it yet. Word of mouth on that one is great. You don't usually find much repetition in a first novel, so I expect to enjoy it.

[Jacqui Horwood]

yeah, i loved cold granite - got me hooked.

[Kemosabe]

I hate to be negative but part of the reason I'm here is to warn people not to buy inferior novels. Cold Granite is one of those. I only gave it one star and couldn't even get halfway through it.

[Kemosabe]

I'm sorry I didn't mean MacBride's Cold Granite but Broken Skin. Cold Granite was somewhat entertaining. I gave it two stars.