The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 202

Countdown City by Ben H. Winters

Goodreads Blurb: There are just 77 days to go before a deadly asteroid collides with Earth, and Detective Hank Palace is out of a job. With the Concord police force operating under the auspices of the U.S. Justice Department, Hank’s days of solving crimes are over…until a woman from his past begs for help finding her missing husband.

Brett Cavatone disappeared without a trace – an easy feat in a world with no phones, no cars, and no way to tell whether someone’s gone “bucket list” or just gone. With society falling to shambles, Hank pieces together what few clues he can, on a search that leads him from a college-campus-turned-anarchist-encampment to a crumbling coastal landscape where anti-immigrant militia fend off “impact zone” refugees.

The second novel in the critically acclaimed Last Policeman trilogy, Countdown City presents a fascinating mystery set on brink of an apocalypse – and once again, Hank Palace confronts questions way beyond “whodunit.” What do we as human beings owe to one another? And what does it mean to be civilised when civilisation is collapsing all around you?

(Goodreads Page)

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: Absolutely fantastic – once again another thrilling tale in one man’s journey to find meaning during the coming end of the world. Really makes you think 🤔

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s Seven Main Characters of the Gilmore Girls Franchise: The Heir Apparent

Lane Kim is one of the best characters on the show and I will stand on this hill and fight you on that point, if I have to. Oh, no one wants to fight me? We all agree that Lane Kim is often the best part of any scene she’s in and that her story of finding and building her own life, her own love and joy, away from the restrictions of her childhood far from falling short of what it could have been actually holds up even in the horror that was ‘A Year in a Life’?

Good, because it does people.

Lane isn’t a failed musician because she doesn’t appear to be famous – which by the way that’s not an indication of anything, it’s the 2020s fame looks very different than it did in the Original run of Gilmore Girls – because she’s still playing. She’s still rocking with her band. Yes, her and and her husband have day jobs – which they’re succeeding at by the way – but that doesn’t mean their art has failed. They’re making money, they’re making music, and they’re doing it all while raising two happy, healthy, twin boys. Okay, so we don’t get to see a lot of their dynamic in the sequel – but that’s mainly because unlike Rory and Paris, Lane is happy. There’s no drama there. Gee, I can totally see how a happy life equates to failure in the eyes of Gilmore fans – that’s not bizarre alien logic at all.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s Seven Main Characters of the Gilmore Girls Franchise: The Third in Line to the Throne

The Man, the Myth, the Legend. A Good Father? Debate able to the extreme. A Good Grandfather? Heck yes. This man, more than any other man in her life forged Rory Gilmore into the woman she is today. Which now that I’m actually writing it down seems less of a compliment than it was really intended to be. I mean sure she’s a spoiled, self-centred, cow, who thinks the world revolves around herself but … at least she appreciates a good book. Hey don’t look at Richard – he was barely involved with her until she was a teenager. Why is this guy so high on the list again? Oh yes, that’s right – his actor died. So it’s a pity slot? Yes, it’s a pity slot.

The Wee Writing Lassie’s Seven Main Characters of the Gilmore Girls Franchise: To the Power of Four!

Sookie St. James

Truth time, I first encountered the talented Melissa McCarthy on a little show called Mike & Molly – so you can imagine both my surprise and delight in finding her face amongst the residents of Stars Hollow. However my fondness for Ms. St. James goes beyond merely her actress – whether she’s terrorising her kitchen staff with her accident prone ways, falling in love with the most repugnant man in a town that includes Taylor, or repeatedly getting pregnant Ms St. James is the 100 percent original VIP.

The Wee Writing Lassie’s Seven Main Characters of the Gilmore Girls Franchise: Number Five Alive!

Paris Geller

Okay, I’ll say it now – Paris was better than Rory. In every way – yes she was a bit of a controlling bitch but so was Rory. At least the narrative never tried to pretend that she was something she wasn’t. We were shown Paris at her worst, whether she was running the Yale paper into the ground or trying to sabotage her rival at Chilton and yet we still loved her because she was never anything but herself. Uptight, controlling, desperate for love Paris Gellar. We saw her struggle, we saw her failure and in the end we saw her rise.

The Wee Writing Lassie’s Seven Main Characters of the Gilmore Girls Franchise: The Sixth Level of H**l

I think that title is probably going to be more interesting than anything in the post but who cares – onwards wee readers, onwards!

Emily Gilmore

Well, it’s quite the journey going from one of the most despicable of the Gilmore Clan – to well, at the very least the one with best ending. Don’t get me wrong I liked Lorelai’s ending too but it did feel a bit like she was just running in place until her creators got to put it on the screen. Emily’s ending however felt like a direct result of everything that had come before – every moment of Emily Gilmore’s life both what we got to see on screen and what we did not lead to that moment of her sitting in a chair in front of her new place enjoying a glass of wine. I don’t want to go into spoiler territory at least with this post, so I can’t give anymore details by splice to say it was perfect.

The Wee Writing Lassie’s Seven Main Characters of the Gilmore Girls Franchise : She’s Seven Years Bad Luck

What Ho Wee Readers, and welcome to the newest Wee Writing Blog Series – The Wee Writing Lassie’s Seven Main Characters of the Gilmore Girls Franchise. The title’s a tad clunky I know but stay with me, this should be fun. Especially Since we’re starting with the worst character of all.

Rory Gilmore

Rory Gilmore is a terrible person. I think maybe that goes without saying for most people after A Year in the Life – but I would just like to say that I thought she was terrible long before the world stopped bending over backwards to give her an easy ride. That’s right I hated her from the very first episode – and I will stand on the highest mountain top and scream it to the heavens above. May the Gods strike me down if I speak false council this day. So, why is she on this list at all? Why not just dump her on the side of the road like the trash she is? Look she’s a main character, if anything it could be argued she’s almost the main character. So I had to include her, I don’t like it, you don’t like it, but this is the world we live in.

Let’s just be grateful it’s not the world she lives in.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 201

Too Good To Be True by Ann Cleeves

Goodreads Blurb: Too Good To Be True is a gripping Quick Read from Ann Cleeves, featuring Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez from the bestselling Shetland series.

When young teacher Anna Blackwell is found dead in her home, the police think her death was suicide or a tragic accident. After all, Stonebridge is a quiet country village in the Scottish Borders, where murders just don’t happen.

But Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez soon arrives from far-away Shetland when his ex-wife, Sarah, asks him to look into the case. The local gossips are saying that her new husband, Tom, was having an affair with Anna. Could Tom have been involved with her death? Sarah refuses to believe it – but needs proof.

Anna had been a teacher. She must have loved kids. Would she kill herself knowing there was nobody to look after her daughter? She had seemed happier than ever before she died. And to Perez, this suggests not suicide, but murder . .

(Goodreads Page)

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: Once again another ending the reader won’t see coming unless they’ve been paying very close attention – as close as a copper one might say.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 200

The Bloody Red Baron by Kim Newman

Goodreads Blurb: WAR IS HELL…

It is 1918 and Graf von Dracula is commander-in-chief of the armies of Germany and Austria-Hungary. The War of the Great Powers in Europe is also a war between the living and the undead. Caught up in the conflict, Charles Beauregard, an old enemy of Dracula, his protegé Edwin Winthrop, and intrepid vampire reporter Kate Reed go head-to-head with the lethal vampire flying machine that is the Bloody Red Baron… In the brand-new novella Vampire Romance, Geneviève Dieudonné, newly returned to England, infiltrates a singular vampire gathering in the service of the Diogenes Club.

A brand-new edition, with additional novella, of the critically acclaimed, bestselling sequel to Anno Dracula. Written by popular novelist and movie critic Kim Newman, The Bloody Red Baron takes the story into the 20th century.

(Goodreads Page)

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: This is a bloody, bloody, book – with a twist you’ll wish you saw coming. I think my favourite character is a toss up between Kate Reed and the Bloody Red Baron himself 😁

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 199

The Best Worst Christmas by Kate Forster

Goodreads Blurb: Lily is back from Australia for the first time in seven years to spend Christmas at her mum’s house in a small, gossipy English village. To her surprise, she returns to find that her mother is dating the man next door, who also happens to be the father of her ex-boyfriend Tom. Tom, who broke Lily’s heart all those years ago. Tom, the real reason Lily fled to the other side of the world and stayed there. Tom, who is also home for Christmas and right there, next door.

In what is shaping up to be the worst Christmas ever, somehow Lily and Tom have to try to get along and play happy families, but living with the man who she is clearly not over is proving to be difficult, and tensions are high. Add in some drunken caroling, a reindeer bite, a potent Christmas pudding and some meddling parents and Lily’s trip home will turn her entire life upside down.

(Goodreads Page)

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: *metaphorically closes book* ….*sits in silence for two whole minutes* … *bursts into hysterical laughter*.

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