THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY (Patricia Highsmith) - December 20/18

Well, okay, I guess Patricia Highsmith isn't for me. I liked parts of this book but god almighty is it meandering in stretches. I can't help but wonder if she wrote it stream of consciousness style, because that what it feels like during the more descriptive portions. ** out of ****

EVERY BREATH (Nicholas Sparks) - December 11/18

Ehhh. I liked the core of this story but Sparksy has taken what could've been a pretty great novella and padded it out to a frankly unreasonable extent. We get all this backstory on these two people but little of it is actually interesting. Meh. ** out of ****