ofclumsywords's Reviews (486)

This gets four stars for the ending alone. Instead of the usual ending stories like these have where the cops burst in at the last second to save a victim, the victim rescued themselves. It was such a great moment for Mattie as she went from a housewife whose husband is a complete jerk but refuses to acknowledge it to a woman who took control of the situation and saved herself and her unborn baby by any means necessary. The story was original and much like the other books so far in the Rizzoli and Isle series, I did not see the outcome coming. The author gives nothing away as she is unfolding the mystery and I was clueless as to who the murderers were. Once again very excited to continue this series.

Another great book in the Rizzoli and Isle series! The mystery was well done and not at all predictable. Both Rizzoli and Isles are strong female characters and it's exciting going along with them solving different cases. There wasn't too much side story besides Jane and Maura's romantic relationships which in Maura's case pertained to the storyline while Jane aided in her character development and saw a different side to her than the cop who has to keep up with all the guys she works with.

Some of the comics were great and others not so much. It definitely had good lead ups to Revenge of the Sith with Grievous’ origin story and how the Wookies joined the GAR because of the princes death. While also holding amazing stories after Revenge of the Sith when we get to see Obi-Wan and Maul have their final dual and also seeing Mon Mothma become a little more human in learning her son died on Hoth. The art was pretty cool, some of the stories had very strange art but most of them were interesting to see. 

The adventure part of this book was good, we didn't stay in one place for the entire 300 pages. Instead we got to go along with Gabriela to different places around the world to solve the mystery of the Seal of Solomon and got a history lesson along the way.

But while the adventure was good, I was not a fan of anything else. To me the dialog was too "young and hip" for me. This is a middle aged woman writing about a 30 year old woman and the "sexy's" "omigods" and "hotties" were just too much. Not to mention all the name dropping of all the designer clothes and fancy cars and jewlery this woman had. I did not need to know that the main character was wearing a $400 bra that she was sacrificing as a tourniquet for someone who was shot. It was unnecessary. I wanted a simple book about a Tomb Raider style adventure and not a bunch of hip lingo or names of designer clothing just to signify how rich this character was.

What the hell did I just read? 

1/5⭐️

I managed to speed my way through the main book and gave up during the bonus features of the 2014 World Cup. 

I really wanted to like this book, and it did have its moments. But after the second or third time the sound effects happened, I started to lose hope. I do not need to hear zooming noises as I am listening to the history of how each player position was explained or why they chose the names for each ball. And then the history of the golden snitch came and this book completely lost me. 

Why it was necessary to come up with a terrible story about poor golden birds that were used as the original snitches for YEARS before someone deemed it as animal cruelty is beyond me. The birds end up dying by the end of the game when they are caught and then end up on an endangered list when everyone realizes that there are no more birds to murder during their stupid game. I know this is a fictional book, but it was taken way too far. There is magic in this world, why couldn’t JKR just make something stupid up about some magical metal and fancy spells instead of people winning 150 points to kill a bird?! She never painted wizards/witches in a good light since the beginning. They had always been arrogant and thought they were better than all the other creatures and non-human characters and now JKR adds this to her ever growing list as to why wizards are terrible. 

The only part I did like was the tiny history we got about each of the teams we only hear about in passing in the books. It gave a small paragraph of each UK team and then went into a long explanation of why America doesn’t play Quidditch and instead came up with their own game, which seemed unnecessary as well. 

Well… that hurt. Qui-Gon’s grief can be felt through these pages. Seeing him so happy a few books ago as they pledged their lives to each other and feel his grief build as the days passed since her death was a lot. It was well written and heart wrenching. 

But that doesn’t stop the fact that this was another very long drawn out plot. Barely anything plotwise happened the last book other than Tahl’s death. Then this book was so fast paced in one of the quickest wrap ups ever. There were too many names and things happening and it was such a large plot that it needed to be one 300 page book instead of multiple short books. It was a good book; but like the other multi-book subplots in this series they should have been reworked a little better. 

This read just like an episode of Doctor Who, right down to the TARDIS sounds. It was a great addition to Rose and the 9th Doctor adventures and certainly makes up for how the later seasons (I’m looking at you 12) become terrible. I missed 9 and when the show was actually good and this book had everything I wanted in it. Twists and turns, snark, and especially the time travel. 

The steampunk 1920’s was such a fun world to be in and the added twist of the Romanov family was a great addition. Now I can’t wait to see what new adventures these books take me on!