To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee ★★☆☆☆

“Let the dead bury the dead.  

Let the dead bury the dead.”

That was an exhausting journey through ugliness.  

A Murder of Quality by John LeCarré ★★☆☆☆

Come With Me by Ronald Malfi ★★★☆☆

When Aaron Decker loses his wife to a spree shooter he inherits her secrets, her obsession:  Allison had been hunting a serial killer.  

It felt like a dramatized version of Patton Oswalt’s life, but the epilogue indicates the author had more personal motives. 

I would like to say this was an exciting, or scary, story but it wasn’t.  Really, is there anything more boring, and depressing, than a serial killer targeting young women?

The epilogue gave him sympathy points otherwise it would have been an angry two stars.

Final Girls by Riley Sager ★★☆☆☆

No no no no no. You cannot talk big game slasher movie talk and then give me a weak Girl on the Train. Ninety percent of this book could have been called Lying Paranoid Bitches. 

Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente ★★☆☆☆

This book is what comes from combining refined sugar, cocaine, and a word processor. The comma to period ratio was about 100:1. They were frenzied, rabid sentences.

Hunting the Merrow (The Merrow Trilogy #2) by Heather Rigney ★★☆☆☆

Gruesome, brutal, and bleak.

Lots of rape and slaughter.

With a hopeless ending. 

Why? Why? Why?!?!

Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep #1) by Mira Grant ★★☆☆☆

"They sang no songs of their own, only songs stolen from the victims of their hunger.” 

Boo to that ending! Boo I say! This book did not live up to the vicious promise of Rolling in the Deep.