Wulf's Book Reviews

It's Always Been You by Samantha Brinn My rating: 4 of 5 stars Love, Loss, and a bit of a Letdown: Molly’s Story I don’t even remember what put Samantha Brinn on my reading radar. She’s a new-ish romance author who definitely deserves to be much better known. I fell in love with Brinn’s stories, world and, most of all, her fantastic quartet of female protagonists with the second instalment of her “ Laws of You ” series, “ When I'm with You ”, and the third one, “ Anything for You ”, absolutely sealed the deal for me. Thus, I was immensely looking forward to this final instalment, “ It's Always Been You ”, about the fourth major character, Molly “Rory” Jenkins. Molly has been a delight and spectacularly fun to read about in the previous novels so what could be better than an entire book about her? » Molly Jenkins contains multitudes. It’s my favorite part about myself. « Well, turns out that Brinn took a step back into more “traditional” romance: Her long-lost love Gabe i...

by Angela Marsons My rating: 5 of 5 stars Kim Stone #12 to #21 I went down a rabbit hole with Kim Stone . After eleven novels starring Angela Marsons' brilliant, abrasive, sympathetic Detective Inspector, I was so enamoured with these characters, the mysteries, and all the other greatness that make these novels, I just couldn’t get enough of them. Every waking minute that could be spent on the novels, would be. Ok, a few times I would start to despair at the loss of the rule of law in the USA, witnessing how people like you and me are impacted by what that despicable orange person does. And then I would immediately return to Kim Stone and her team. Penn, Stacey, Bryant (whose given name I now finally know!), Frost, and, interestingly, Leanne - they all have their moments. The stories always address relevant contemporary issues, they’re believable, suspenseful and thrilling. I cannot review those novels individually anymore because once I had finished one (without taking the time f...

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe My rating: 2 of 5 stars Randall Munroe's “ What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions ” certainly has a clever premise, and I recognise its appeal to the science-curious. Drawing from his background as a physicist and former NASA roboticist, Munroe sets out to tackle (mostly) nonsensical questions with rigorous scientific logic. While that might sound fun in theory, in practice I found the book trying far too hard to be clever, and as a result, it came off as more smug than smart. Admittedly, some of the questions Munroe attempts to answer are genuinely imaginative, but his tone often feels too enamoured with its own geekiness. Rather than inviting the reader into a playful exploration, it too often felt like being caught in an endless lecture by someone who delights excessively in their own intellect. I couldn’t help but feel that the answers to these questions were...