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Good Morning, Everyone!

I hope everyone is doing well this morning and that you haven't had any cabin fever from being quarantined!

Currently, my sanity (and nerves) has been on edge for several days. While I have been out of the house to take out the garbage, mow the yard, and get the mail, I haven't been anywhere in over three weeks. As of Friday, Missouri is officially under stay-at-home orders until April 24th, which is something the governor should've done many weeks ago.

Good Morning, Bookworms! 

Today, I'm interviewing author Donald Firesmith, author of the science fiction tale Hell Holes 2: Demons on the Dalton.

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There's nothing geekier than spending your Saturday morning watching a little bit of Japanese superhero kaiju action!

That's right! This morning I watched the Ultraman Geed: The Movie (or otherwise known as Ultraman Geed: The Movie: Connect The Wishes!), which is the spinoff movie of the 2017 Ultraman Geed series. The 73-minute movie was recently released to Blu-ray by Mill Creek Entertainment. The film was previously released as in a Blu-ray Combo Pack last year with the Ultraman Geed series.

Welcome to the Book Blogger Hop! 

What To Do

1. Post on your blog answering this question:

Do you have more photos of books you saw in a bookstore or elsewhere or family photos on your phone?

  

My Thoughts

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Being released on April 7th from Poisoned Pen Press is the thriller "After She Wrote Him" by Sulari Gentill, winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction. There's been a lot of buzz around this title and I was fortunate enough to get my hands on an ARC earlier this year.

The novel centers around Madeleine d'Leon, a former corporate lawyer who quit her day job to write quirky whodunit mysteries. Her next writing project is a crime novel that centers around the character Edward "Ned" McGinnity, a literary author who finds himself in a middle of a murder mystery when the famous critic Geoffrey Vogel is murdered at an art gallery event.

Madeleine becomes obsessed with her creation and at times she cannot tell between what's real and what's fiction.

Final Thoughts

From my understanding, After She Wrote Him was originally released in 2017 under the title Crossing the Lines, though I'm not for sure if that was an Australian release, which is the author's home country. Sometimes titles do get changed for USA releases. Then again, I might be completely clueless on the subject and wasted an entire paragraph on nothing.

Anyway, I became interested in reading After She Wrote Him after hearing a lot of buzz about the novel, which resulted in me getting my hands on an ARC. To keep things short, let's just say I was both intrigued and disappointed by the time I read the final page. The constant narration switcheroo wasn't too big of a distraction for me. However, the two narrations caused many "show, don't tell" moments and became very repetitive throughout the entire novel.

To enjoy a book, I need to connect with a character and, sadly, this never occurred with Madeleine or her creation, Edward. I found both characters to be quite boring!

Overall, After She Wrote Him has an interesting concept but was poorly executed by the author. I had to push myself just to finish reading it. Maybe other readers will like it, but I'm not one of them.