Enjoyed the thoughtful approach to “nothing is ever certain”…even if you’re a genius at determining risk!

I like Pete's robot

I like fairytale because I like dad is mean to uncle stripe and I also like when Bluey and bingo say our fairytales true and I also like when uncle rad jinx dad and they say made you look you dirty crook

This is a thrilling book that surprises you turn after turn, and in the end, it connects everything so well!

Kids loved reading it

An interesting dive into the different ways gardening and plants have inspired different authors of mysteries. Discusses different books (and shares them at the end for ease of finding when you inevitably decide some of them sound like amazing reads themselves). I appreciated the concept, having not read something like this before. Marta does an excellent job infusing her own interests and humor into the information she is sharing. I read Sherlock Holmes as a child and have not delved too deeply into mysteries beyond cozy ones as an adult but this book is a great launch off point. My husband has been getting into gardening so this was a fun juxtaposition of both of our current interests and it was fun to share tidbits as I went along through the chapters.

LGBTQ characters in the novel. Very enlightening novel.

This book was super funny and very adventurous I highly recommend this book. My favorite part of this book is when the narrator explains that he can not tell you anything about the characters and he says this in a really funny way.

While a continuation of the Bill Hodges story (book 2 of 3) he doesn't enter into the story until the back-half. The front half is all set up; the theft of $20,000 and priceless manuscripts and subsequent murder of the reclusive author at the hands of a maniacal fanatic, the obsessive's subsequent arrest for an unrelated crime, and many decades later the discovery of the berried treasure, an apparent miracle in the eyes of a young man whose family desperately needs one. King methodically sets up all the dominos, and puts all the pieces in place, clearly foreshadowing the Rube Goldberg conclusion, but it is still an enjoyable ride. One can't help but feel like this novel is an tantalizing amuse bouche served between a particularly delicious appetizer and a potentially dubious entree; While this and the previous instalment have been straight thriller suspense (not mysteries per say as the audience knows the killers), the epilog hints that the third and final instalment will have more traditional Stephen King themes of ESP and/or supernatural horror.

I was sobbing through this entire book. Bravo!