Redbery Books

August 2010

May 2010 Jefferey Deaver doesn't know about Wisconsin. That's the prevailing opinion about The Bodies Left Behind, which we reviewed at the Rivers Eatery. Most of us "enjoyed" the book in so far as it was an engaging plot, a fast-paced story, and a quick read, but we were not impressed with Mr. Deaver's lack of accuracy about Wisconsin's landscape, which was the story's setting. His poor knowledge of local plants jolted us out of the story, and we were REALLLY not impressed when a wolf encounter led one of the characters to recall that wolves "were being reintroduced into the state" (p. 169). (Fact - wolves returned to Wisconsin on their own; they were not re-introduced.) It should come as no surprise, then, that our ratings were the lowest we have given to any book this year. On a scale of 1 (poor) to 5 (great), this book ranked 3.75 for Readability and 2.8 for Interest.

March 2010 Readability: 4 stars; Interest: 4 stars (both out of five stars)

January 2010 (4.7 stars, out of five, for readability and 4 stars for interest)

October 2009