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Zoran B.

Zoranbee@bookrastinating.com

Joined 1 year, 4 months ago

Voracious reader, occasional writer, retired journalist. Canadian in Croatia, permanently. I like smart stories to challenge my imagination, or tug on my emotions. That goes for character and plot driven stories, I don’t care as long as it grips me and keeps me going through the end. Genre agnostic. I do despise lazy writing, when too little is explained and too much left to reader’s’ imagination, unfinished stories and illogical plot developments or character’s’ behaviour.

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Zoran B.'s books

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Jennifer Egan: The Candy House (2022, Scribner)
Matthieu Aikins: Naked Don't Fear the Water (Paperback, 2022, HarperCollins Publishers)
Margarita Montimore: Oona Out of Order (2020, Flatiron)

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Kawakami Hiromi, Hiromi Kawakami, Allison Markin Powell: Strange Weather in Tokyo (2013, Portobello Books)

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Gillian Flynn: The Grownup (AudiobookFormat, 2015, Random House Audio)
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Milorad Pavlović: Unique item (2005, Dereta)
J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (AudiobookFormat, 2007, Listening Library)

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reviewed Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley

Angeline Boulley: Firekeeper's Daughter (2021, Holt & Company, Henry) 3 stars

As a biracial, unenrolled tribal member and the product of a scandal, Daunis Fontaine has …

Review of "Firekeeper's Daughter" on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

Secret squirrel? I get it’s a YA novel, but there’s just too much I couldn’t swallow. The endless repeating of the secret squirrel term Daunis used to describe her snooping for the law enforcement quickly stopped being funny and turned from amusing to annoying.
A teenage girl with dubious grasp of reality being recruited by FBI? Nah, don’t think so! I may be just too old for this type of the story and this type of shallow writing and storytelling.