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A Great Read – Darius the Great is Not Okay

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I just finished reading Darius the Great is Not Okay, by Adib Khorram. A great showcase of Persian culture, family relationships, and depression, this YA book would definitely be on my recommended reads. The descriptions of the buildings and historic sites in Iran, Persian cuisine, and tea are rich and fascinating. As a teen living in a dual-culture home suffering from mental illness, the relationships are often fraught as Darius tries to find his way in the world.

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Feast on A Banquet of Consequences

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A Banquet of Consequences is book #19 in Elizabeth George’s Inspector Lynley series. I have read a few other books in this series and they are always full of interesting characters with complex backstories, and a good murder you can really dig into. Though they are police procedurals, there is a lot of information given about the characters before the murder, similar to an Agatha Christie like Death on the Nile. You don’t really hear a lot from the police detectives to start with. In a lot of police procedurals you only view the crime through the eyes of the investigator, but that is not the way the Inspector Lynley books are written.

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Where is The Vanishing Man?

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hiring practices aside, Charles Lenox is an interesting protagonist, finding his way into a new profession and figuring out the ropes and new investigative techniques from various different circumstances, books, and people. In this case, he is searching for the Duke’s stolen painting, which is the key to a much larger mystery. Lenox has to unravel the various half-truths and hints to figure out what is really going on, since the Duke doesn’t actually seem interested in recovering the paining.

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Intrigued by The Stranger in the Mirror

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The Stranger in the Mirror by Liv Constantine is not the only suspense book about amnesia that I have read lately. It’s not that long since I was reading You Will Remember Me. Amnesia is not an uncommon trope in suspense fiction, even though forgetting your entire past is pretty rare in real life. Like serial killers, it happens a lot more in fiction than in real life.

The Stranger in the Mirror does include some unique twists, and I still am not sure where it is going. Addison apparently has a pretty scary past, but we haven’t been filled in yet on what happened and how she lost her memory. As we enter Addison’s life, she is preparing to marry Gabriel, who she has known for six months (and yes, the author actually does cover how Addition came to have identification that allows her to work and to get married, two things that are impossible to do if you can’t prove who you are.)

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What it is like to be A Stranger at Home

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June is National Indigenous History Month and June 21 is National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada, so my reading app gave me some suggestions of books by Indigenous authors. I picked up a short book, A Stranger at Home, by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton, about Margaret-Olemaun’s experience returning home from residential school. This is the sequel to Fatty Legs, her experience at residential school, but I have not read that one yet. I’ll probably pick it up later on this month.

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Looking for A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder?

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I’m not sure of the title of this book, since it really doesn’t describe what the book is about or the tone of the piece. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson features a young woman investigating the murder of another girl in her town five years earlier, becoming friends with the brother of the boy accused of murdering her and digging down deep to find the truth behind what really happened to Andie Bell.

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A new twist in You Will Remember Me

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I am currently reading You Will Remember Me by Hannah Mary McKinnon. Who doesn’t love an amnesia thriller and the excitement of unwrapping one layer after another of the patient’s story to find out who they really are and how they came to be there. It goes without saying that there are secrets, things that maybe even the sufferer does not want to remember. McKinnon does a masterful job of setting things up from the moment “Brad” wakes up on the beach with no memory of how he got there—or who he is. I am looking forward to finding out just what happened to bring him to that point.

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Let this book take you Hostage

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This week I am reading Hostage, a novel by Clare Mackintosh. Lots of interesting characters with different backgrounds and secrets, a daughter on the ground in peril and hundreds of people up in the sky at the mercy of a hostage taker. The tension is building… it will be interesting to see how the main character manages to take control of the situation and—presumably—land the airplane!

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Glimpse a dark past in Friends Like These

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I have just recently begun Friends Like These by Kimberly McCreight. You’ve heard this story before… friends who share a horrible secret gather for a weekend reunion. Trapped by a storm, something happens, and one of them is dead. It is up to the police/detective to sort out all of the misleading clues and lies, probe and tease out the mass of secrets covering secrets to get to the heart of the matter.

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