I don't know if this is gonna be a series, if so, it is the first one volume. Anyway, the narrator is a big rock, recounting the adventures of Eolo, who is aide to Lord Marat.
I like it a lot, I'd read the next no problemo.
Quote:
"I'll have to kill them both, then," she said, her voice slightly exasperated, as though she had just been presented with a minor, unexpected chore. -- pg. 338
Interesting book about names. I've heard the author speak on the radio and television so many times that I read the book in the author's voice. And I think I've heard a lot of this material before.
A Liaden Universe novel. I found the romance lame. Spy Val Con and mercenary Miri Robertson eventually team up to fight their common enemies. Good story...except for that romance!
(Theo Waitley, #1; Liaden Universe, #12)
Clumsy teen Theo goes on a trip with her mother, meets new people, and expands her horizons. I liked this book very very much!!
I really did not enjoy reading this book until the second half or so. And it really is a "...fun if high-body-count story involving a long game of cat-and-mouse between two very different personalities. "(Yoon Ha Lee in The Book Smugglers blog Posted on June 16, 2016)
A writer of scripts has an affair with Princess Diana. Some charactors continue from "The Deal".
QUOTE:
Rivera was sitting in one of the Edwardian armchairs, his feet up on the table, smoking. I asked him his advice. "Go and take," he said. "You think I can?" "Sure. She's beautiful. She will drive you crazy. What can you do?"
QUOTE:
"What are we supposed to do, Rivera?" "Suffer." --pg. 48.
My mother recommended this author. I was not TOO excited by this novel, but I am inspired to read Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, so I guess that is a worthy accomplishment for Mr. Lehrer.
Interesting mystery story that takes place in Venice. Commissario Guido Brunetti series. The world famous Maestro dies between acts at the opera. Nicely written, too.
Chile Palmer gets involved in the record business.
QUOTE:
...Edie peeling off the robe as she went into the bathroom and stepped out of her panties, the widow in her bereavement forgetting to shut the door. (page 73-74)
BONUS QUOTE:
Chili said, "What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?" And Elaine said, "Bogart in the The Maltese Falcon . That's the best line in the picture. Everything else is expository." (page 129)
Takes place mostly in Africa, mostly Djibouti, a place with which I was not familiar. The story moved along pretty slowly, I thought, but the ending is, well, an ending. Chapter five, paragraph, three, I think, it says "Yahama". Did no one notice, or no one cared, or the author did it on purpose?