pickWhile I think she could have chopped about 50 pages off the back end of this one, I really did love this Jackson Brodie ♥️
Because each book is an ensemble narrative, with Brodie as just one part rather than a traditional MC, they really live or die on those "secondary" characters. And I loved Crystal and Harry and their step mom/son relationship so much, and the return of Reggie Chase.
Just one more to go!
so-soNot my favourite Jackson Brodie so far. It took far too long to get into, and I found it unnecessarily complicated at parts. But they can't all be winners, and I'm still looking forward to the rest of the series!
A slow night at work, so I'm starting in on the next Jackson Brodie. Wasn‘t expecting to find a character with a degree from my alma mater! I've never seen it referenced outside of CanLit.
pickI'm trying to read this series properly in order. I enjoyed the reread of the first one and remembered precious little.
pickSo glad I finally got around to reading the first book in this series - I loved it! Can‘t wait to read the others. 😁
pick16 year-old Reggie drops out of school after her mother's death but is still studying for her A levels with tutoring from a retired teacher while she's working as a part-time mother's help (aka nanny) for a doctor. But then her employer disappears. Meanwhile, a train crashes on the line just behind her tutor's house, leaving an injured Jackson Brodie with amnesia. ⬇
She was wearing an aggressive three-piece outfit that was probably very expensive but had the kind of pattern you would get if you cut up the flags of several obscure countries and then gave them to a blind pigeon to stick back together again.
'Pliny the Younger,‘ Ms MacDonald always emphasized as if it was of crucial importance that you got your Plinys right, when in fact there was probably hardly anyone left on earth who gave a monkey‘s about which was the elder and which was the younger. Who gave a monkey‘s about them, period.
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O tempora! O mores!
