Critical reviews of books by a lifelong reader--with an emphasis on mysteries and thrillers--plus the occasional film, TV series, or other genre... all, spoiler-free.
If Cupid Wore Fur...
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A little something (erm... make that a BIG something) sweet for you... guaranteed to be calorie- and cavity-free...
A fan of Cupid? Perhaps... :) Hope it's a lovely day, no matter how you spend it...
A whirlwind courtship—followed by a lavish wedding in Beverly Hills, with a handsome, successful groom and his younger, beautiful blonde bride. It sounds like a fairy tale. But—as with many things that appear picture-perfect on first glance—something much darker lies just beneath the surface of this glamorous marriage... and is about to shatter the beautiful illusion, in Natalie Barelli’s twisted tale of marital bliss, The Housewife . ____________________________________________________________________ Many women want a fabulous career... followed later by marriage and perhaps a family. Not Jodie. With chef-level culinary skills and housekeeping wizardry, she’s always longed to become a housewife... the mistress of her own carefully-curated home, adored by her doting husband and the envy of their friends. And, following a chance meet-cute with hunky Dr. Roy Davies—a psychologist, best-selling author, and esteemed resident of his tony Beverly Hills neighborhood—it seems she’s set t...
Aside from a few dozen or so songs--the unremittingly-cheery sort of dreck I can only charitably term “uplifting”--there seems to be something of a universal consensus that life can be pretty awful. Sound overly harsh? Let’s look to some experts then, shall we? Consider that the first of Buddhism’s Four Noble Truths is that “life means suffering”. Think back to John Hobbes, who concluded in his 1651 book Leviathan that life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”. “ Of course, if you prefer your proof to be of the less-erudite variety, there’s always that late-20th-century classic, “Life sucks, and then you die”. ( Lacks a bit in the eloquence department, but it gets the same point across, in inimical Bill-&-Ted fashion. ) With such depressing thoughts bearing down on us like so many dark, angry stormclouds--and the fact that most of us have just seen too much bad to fall for the false promises in those sappy songs--it's no wonder a lot of people look for ways to escap...
Picture, if you will, the bucolic English countryside... traveling along a narrow road as it wends its way along verdant hills and valleys... making the occasional detour through a small, picturesque village—the sort comprised entirely of quaint buildings and... well, let’s go with interesting townsfolk, shall we? It’s all quite lovely, really. Ah, but something vital is missing from this picture. What’s that, you say? Why, a murder, of course! (I’ve never figured out exactly why these charming little places are such hotbeds of murder most foul, but they clearly are , as anyone up on his/her Agatha Christie—or the works of any number of other British authors, not to mention rather a lot of TV shows—can attest.) So, then... let’s say we also happen to have a recent murder to pique our avid curiosities. Surely now the stage is set, yes? Well, not quite... at least, not in this case. The final piece of our tableau involves a bear, you see... and not ...
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