Review: Hafenmord

Hafenmord by Katharina Peters
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Lent with Kindle Unlimited.
Liked the writing, the case and the MC.
As it is playing in the time it was published (2014) good use of technology, just the right amount, not too much or too SF-like, keeping it real.
Recommended, will probably read more in this series, but the other books are currently too expensive and not on Kindle Unlimited (for now?).
Rated 3.5 stars rounded up to 4 stars for a first in a series.

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Review: Hafenmord

Hafenmord by Katharina Peters
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Lent with Kindle Unlimited.
Liked the writing, the case and the MC.
As it is playing in the time it was published (2014) good use of technology, just the right amount, not too much or too SF-like, keeping it real.
Recommended, will probably read more in this series, but the other books are too expensive and not on Kindle Unlimited (for now?).

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Review: Sühnekind

Sühnekind by Caroline Parker
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Lent with Kindle Unlimited, read most of it in FF mode, ok-ish, but not really interesting for me.
The crime-scenes are well done, the MC and others do not interest me enough.
Glad I lent it, paying for it would have been too much, writing is just not gripping enough for me.
Others may like it.

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Review: Kalte Wut ... TODESFLUT

Kalte Wut ... TODESFLUT by Paul Rheinfels
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

Lent with a 2 month 99 ct./month Kindle Unlimited Trial.
DNFed it after 2-3 chapters. Writing was a detailed description of a few bloody massakers, could have been my kind of book, but did not grip me. Detected so far no errors and did what KU is for: gave it back unread, the author will not receive much money for it, as the authors of KU ebooks are paid by pages read ...


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Review: Blue Monday

Blue Monday by Nicci French
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

As the family (my mother, my sister and my nice) are reading this in German translation and are all quite fond of the series, I tried it in english.
Not a book for me, ok-ish, and as I have another book by Nicci French, Secret Smile (already bought), I will look into that, but probably not read more by her.
If you are into lots of inner musings by the MC, this might be the book for you, Frida Klein is a rather interesting character and I like her style of living.
The book takes place in the UK (London again, big yawn), with a lot of walking by foot taking place and a few rather good descriptions of places, but somehow that did not grip me as it did in other books taking place in the UK. Also, due to the timeframe (no smartphones) and the MC not even owning a mobile phone, not a lot of technology.
The crime-story is not very suspenseful and the investigation takes too long.

So, 2 nice unexpected twists near the end could not save this for me, barely 3 stars for a first in a series I will not recommend and most probably not visit again.

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Review: The Pros of Cons

The Pros of Cons by Alison Cherry
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Pre-ordered this as I highly anticipated this. Also really like the clever word-play-title.
OK, but in the beginning no page-turner, no suspense. But as it is ok lengthwhise, I finished it fast.
A bit much with the (sexual) diversity, just glad no disabled or coloured person was added to the group, it would have been too much.
The different MCs where all likeable and even the minor characters like Beige (a toddler singing German Opera...) and her Mother where well fleshed out and believable.
The MCs all really grow in the short time of the cons.

Recommended, but 1 star less as it could have been more suspenseful. Not sure wether there will be series / sequel, but I would pick it up in an instant without thought. Or maybe wait for the price to sink though - and this also goes for this one.
For fans of comic con and other cons, and books about them like two Fangirls, this Fangirl and this one FanGirl (not finished yet) and also Queens of Geek Queens of Geek ) and also "If I was your Girl" If I Was Your Girl (inserted links to books on Goodreads a day later, as it was not working due to some reason yesterday).

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Review: Flammenkinder

Flammenkinder by Lars Kepler
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

Blurb sounded ok, so I bought this for a promo price from a lesen.net email - which I also saw as a recommendation... was I wrong in that.
No suspense, style boring, and I DNF'ed it after more than a year pretending to read it at 19%. FF through some of the rest of the book. Nothing to write home about.

Read the German translation. And it was even for a promo too expensive for that.

Deleted this one from my Amazon account, never to read it again (a first).
I have two more books from that author, and will skim about 5% and then probable delete them.

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