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<blockquote data-quote="Mad_Jack" data-source="post: 8668554" data-attributes="member: 6750306">Just finished reading a couple of books...Finally killed off Past Tense, one of the Jack Reacher books by Lee Child - I usually like them, but this one was kind of dull. left off reading it in the middle and it took me a long time before I got motivated to finish it. I've got the next one in the series on the unread pile, and it seems like it'll be more interesting.I liked Good Me, Bad Me by Ali Land - the author is a career mental health nurse working with troubled teens, so her novel about a teenaged girl whose mother is a notorious serious killer is well-grounded in realism. The main character turns her mother in to the cops after years of abuse, but after being sent to live with a new family, with a new name, and at a new school, she begins to wonder just how much like her mother she really is... By the middle of the book it's fairly obvious how it's going to end, but it's an enjoyable read.Now going to reread Thieftaker by D. B. Jackson - Boston, ten years before the revolutionary War. Ethan Kaille is a conjurer in a place and time where it's not exactly illegal to use magic but doing something flashy in public can still get you burned as a witch. He makes his living as a thieftaker, hired to retrieve people's stolen goods, but not a very good living - his business rival is a woman who has dozens of men, money and social connections, and she &quot;allows&quot; him to work in her town, letting him take the cases that she can't be bothered with. In some ways, it's kind of your standard noir &quot;down-on-his-luck private eye gets dragged into a high-society mystery&quot; story, but the setting and the addition of magic makes it interesting. Apparently there are other books in the series, so one of these days I'll have to see if I can find them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mad_Jack, post: 8668554, member: 6750306"] Just finished reading a couple of books... Finally killed off [I]Past Tense[/I], one of the Jack Reacher books by Lee Child - I usually like them, but this one was kind of dull. left off reading it in the middle and it took me a long time before I got motivated to finish it. I've got the next one in the series on the unread pile, and it seems like it'll be more interesting. I liked [I]Good Me, Bad Me[/I] by Ali Land - the author is a career mental health nurse working with troubled teens, so her novel about a teenaged girl whose mother is a notorious serious killer is well-grounded in realism. The main character turns her mother in to the cops after years of abuse, but after being sent to live with a new family, with a new name, and at a new school, she begins to wonder just how much like her mother she really is... By the middle of the book it's fairly obvious how it's going to end, but it's an enjoyable read. Now going to reread [I]Thieftaker[/I] by D. B. Jackson - Boston, ten years before the revolutionary War. Ethan Kaille is a conjurer in a place and time where it's not exactly illegal to use magic but doing something flashy in public can still get you burned as a witch. He makes his living as a thieftaker, hired to retrieve people's stolen goods, but not a very good living - his business rival is a woman who has dozens of men, money and social connections, and she "allows" him to work in her town, letting him take the cases that she can't be bothered with. In some ways, it's kind of your standard noir "down-on-his-luck private eye gets dragged into a high-society mystery" story, but the setting and the addition of magic makes it interesting. Apparently there are other books in the series, so one of these days I'll have to see if I can find them. [/QUOTE]

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