Welcome to this week’s post. I must apologise because this is going to be as unsatisfactory as last week’s! Unfortunately, I have been very ill and have really struggled to read books. In addition, I have made some poor choices. I don’t think that my low mood has affected my response to these books, but perhaps it has.

I managed to finish one, but the other has been put aside after I read a third of the book and I may return to it later. Here is the first cover:

This is the book that I finished: To Make Them Pay by M A Comley, #03 DI Sam Cobbs series. The blurb seemed to be interesting enough…

“A Lake District thriller.

A twisted mind can be deadly…

When Brian Coltman is murdered after a night out with a friend, DI Sam Cobbs and her team need to find the motive behind the gruesome crime.

Intrigue and false starts threaten the investigation until a second body is found.

With her husband on the missing list, does Sam have what it takes to find the killer before they choose another victim, with one intention… to make them pay.”

I wrote a very short response on Goodreads. OK, I wasn’t feeling well!

To Make Them Pay by M.A. Comley
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This was an OK kind of read. I found the relationship between the main character and her sidekick irritating and the plot rather predictable. I don’t think I will return to the series.

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After this, I was so pleased when I found a book by one of my favourite authors, Adrian Tchaikovsky: 

This stand alone book, Cage of Souls, sounded really interesting…

“The sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human souls. Built on the ruins of countless civilisations, Shadrapar is a museum, a midden, an asylum, a prison on a world that is ever more alien to humanity.

Bearing witness to the desperate struggle for existence between life old and new is Stefan Advani: rebel, outlaw, prisoner, survivor. This is his testament, an account of the journey that took him into the blazing desolation of the western deserts; that transported him east down the river and imprisoned him in the verdant hell of the jungle’s darkest heart; that led him deep into the labyrinths and caverns of the underworld. He will meet with monsters, madman, mutants.

The question is, which one of them will inherit this Earth?”

Just my kind of book, I thought. Well, I managed around 30%, but really struggled to even reach that point. Anyway, I have decided to set it aside for a while (perhaps forever) and look for something that will hold my interest whilst I am struggling so much. I haven’t written a response on Goodreads because I thought it would not be fair.

So, can you wish me luck?

Happy Reading to you all!

Love and best wishes,

Anne

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