Robin Cook: Night Shift

Night Shift (affiliate link) is the 13th book in Robin Cook's Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery series

 

Laurie's good friend, Dr. Susan Passero, is killed, although only the reader knows this. Jack tries to find out the cause of death, which seems mysterious. Sue suspected that a serial killer was rampaging in the hospital. Soon, other lives will be in danger.

Some of the things about the main couple in the series were new and strange to me, and I only realized afterwards that I had not read the previous book in the series, Genesis, because it is not in the library.

 

Cons of the book

-constant forcing of the Covid vaccination

-crap dialogue, especially the constantly repeated same and corny "swear" words

 

Has Robin Cook always been such a bad writer? No, I recently read my favorite by him, Mutation.

 

 

Miranda July: All Fours

My fault is that I rarely leave a book unfinished. Miranda July's All Fours (affiliate link) is another popular and controversial book that I should have skipped.

A middle-aged woman goes on a road trip, but immediately stops in a nearby town. How crazy does a person have to be to hire an interior designer for her motel room for $20,000?

A middle-aged artist writes a book about a middle-aged artist. So should we assume that this is auto-fiction or an autobiography? I don't understand people's desire to write about themselves.

You can write about sex beautifully and arousingly, but the sex scenes in this book just made me nauseated. And I'm not even the only one who feels this way.

What was the purpose and point of this whole story? I guess I'm too stupid to understand it. At least there is no proper ending or resolution in the book. I read to the end in vain.

 

 

James Patterson: Honeymoon

James Patterson is a very prolific and popular author. I've had some of his books on my library list for years, but Honeymoon (affiliate link) is the first book of his I've read.

Why did Honeymoon catch my attention? There's just something so captivating about a Black Widow.

Nora Sinclair is a beauty who turns men's heads. But Nora is only interested in rich men, and there's a murderous reason for that.

L.T. Shearer: The cat who caught a killer

Here is a book that has garnered a lot of one-star reviews. One reader even summed it up by saying that this is a book written by a boomer about a boomer for boomers.

The Cat Who Caught a Killer (affiliate link) is apparently in the cozy crime genre, which is not suitable for me due to its boredom. I need some action, and some blood and guts.

Lulu is a retired police officer who has recently lost her husband. Then a cat named Conrad, who can talk, comes into her life. Then someone close to Lulu dies. Was it a murder?

I couldn't get over the cat talking alone. The book is also boring and constantly repeats things. There is no real murder mystery, and the cat doesn't solve the murder.

 

 

There are sequels to this book, but they don't interest me.