Robin Cook: Blindsight

Robin Cook's Blindsight (affiliate link) is the first Cook book to feature Laurie Montgomery, but Jack Stapleton has yet to appear.

Forensic pathologist Laurie is courted by two men, homicide detective Lou and high-income eye surgeon Jordan (cough cough Robin Cook himself). Young and successful people are dying of cocaine overdoses, and Laurie begins to suspect that something is wrong. At the same time, seemingly random people are being executed mafia-style. Does the mafia boss under the eye surgeon's care have something to do with it?

As always, Robin Cook's older hospital thrillers keep me entertained. I don't like his newer work, though.

 

 

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter

Why did the local rural library acquire the English-language The Scarlet Letter (affiliate link) in 1959? The book is in surprisingly good condition considering its age, so it probably hasn't been borrowed much.

I had not read this classic of world literature, although I refer to it in one of my stories. So it was about time I read it.

What is The Scarlet Letter about? Hester Prynne is a fallen woman who, as punishment for her crime, has to wear a red letter A embroidered on her clothes for the rest of her life. She refuses to reveal who she committed adultery with.

I thought I would be able to get by with a little since the book was so small, but the pages were full of text and the English was not the easiest. There were too many (landscape) descriptions for my taste, and I skipped most of the text.

All in all, a book that was too fine for me. But I'm not the only one, many modern readers don't know how to appreciate this level of word art.

 

 

Ana Huang: King of Wrath

Ana Huang is one of the cult writers of our time. I had never heard of her before I saw an article about her visit to Finland by chance, her fans were excited.

It was difficult to get her books from the library, especially since she writes series and you should start reading from the first part.

King of Wrath (affiliate link) is about a forced marriage. Dante is a billionaire who is forced into an engagement with Vivian. This is the classic from enemies to lovers story.

For some reason, I didn't progress reading this book as quickly as I expected. That doesn't say anything about the book being bad, it's about me.