The Naming of the Birds by Paraic O'Donnell

On paper, this book was written for me. A sinister and twisty, gothic mystery set in Victorian London. A feisty — and queer — lady journalist, a clever and righteous Inspector, a soft touch of a Sergeant, all pulling together to solve some grisly murders.

I didn't like the writing style, didn't like the characters, hated the mystery, just… didn't like anything about it at all. In fact, I hated it. It received many accolades in the press, but for whatever reason (it's me, I'm the reason), this just didn't work for me. ★☆☆☆☆

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Tubi is a treasure trove... only there you can find this gem: https://letterboxd.com/film/new-world-order-2002/ #movies #1star #raw

Read my ★ review of Victoria Lewis' "Wild Nights: The Journey of a Marriage into Cuckoldry," book #6 of the seven (count 'em, seven) romance novels I'm reading in a row this month, to better understand the genre in order to help out my freelance clients who write romance novels themselves. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62824200-wild-nights

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Read my ★ review of Becca Levy's "Breaking the Age Code," one of a growing amount of nonfiction "books" that in reality are nothing more than blog articles padded out to 300 pages, but that particularly takes the cake here for conveying exactly one and only one piece of information (that being, "If you THINK young, you'll FEEL young!"). Worthless. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5151255600

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Read my ★ review of the 2022 film "See How They Run," which wants to be a clever and metafictional murder mystery (set behind the scenes of a stage production of a murder mystery, get it?), but is instead plodding, obvious, treacly and terribly acted. UUUGGGHHH. https://boxd.it/3vqXml

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