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books read in 2024: play the fool by lina chern

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Tues. May 16, 2023: Trying To Balance The Writing Needs

View across the Clark Art Institute Reflecting Pool. Photo by Devon Ellington Tuesday, May 16, 2023 Waning Moon Mercury Went Direct on Sunday Pluto Retrograde Cloudy and chilly Busy weekend. Good busy, but still busy. So, I hope you have your favorite beverage handy for our Tuesday catch-up. Today’s serial episode is Legerdemain. Episode 85: Attack on Brone Brone is attacked in the…

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BOOK REVIEW: Play the Fool by Lina Chern

Play the Fool is billed as a thriller, but in reality it’s more of a women’s fiction with a mystery thrown in. Katie True is a strong female protagonist, but at times her actions border on sheer stupidity. She’s failed an attempt to live in Chicago and come home to Lake Terrace, a suburb of Chicago. There she’s living in a crappy apartment and holding down a crappier job at a shop that sells…

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ARC Review - Play the Fool

New #BookReview PLAY THE FOOL by Lina Chern "This was an easy read with some entertaining characters and a decent mystery." 3⭐ #NetGalley #Mystery #bookblogger #MurderMystery

Hello, everyone! Today I’m reviewing Play the Fool by Lina Chern, which will be published tomorrow (March 28, 2023). Mystery isn’t a genre I read often, but I was intrigued by the synopsis and the inclusion of tarot in the story. (more…) “”

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#BOOKREVIEW - Shuffled Scrutiny - #PlayTheFool #blog

A tarot card, and people, reader is determined to learn the truth about her friend’s strange and sudden death in Lina Chern’s Play the Fool. Katie True has a good eye for reading people and is quick-witted, which serves her well when she reads tarot cards, but her life beyond the cards is a bit of a mess; she’s returned to her hometown after a failed attempt to establish herself in Chicago,…

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New Title Tuesday: Mysteries

Play the Fool by Lina Chern

For Katie True, a keen gut and quick wit are just tools of the trade. After a failed attempt at adulting in Chicago, she's back in the suburbs living a bit too close to her overbearing parents, jumping from one dead-end job to the next, and flipping through her tarot deck for guidance. Then along comes Marley.

Mysterious, worldly, and comfortable in her own skin, Marley takes a job at the mall where Katie peddles Russian tchotchkes. The two just get each other. Marley doesn't try to fix Katie's life or pretend to be someone she's not, and Katie thinks that with Marley's friendship she just might make it through this rough patch after all. So one day, having been encouraged by Marley to practice soothsaying, Katie reads tarot for someone who stumbles into her shop. But when she sneaks a glance at his phone, she finds more than just clairvoyant intel. She finds a photo. Of Marley. With a gunshot wound to the head.

The bottom falls out of Katie's world. Her best friend is dead? Who killed her? She quickly realizes there are some things her tarot cards can't foresee, and she must put her razor-sharp instincts to the ultimate test. But the truth has deadly consequences, and Katie's recklessness lands her in the crossfire of a threat she never saw coming. Now Katie must use her street smarts and her inner Strength card to solve Marley's murder--or risk losing everything.

Murder on Bedford Street by Victoria Thompson

Hugh Breedlove is far from the most agreeable client private investigator Frank Malloy has ever had, but his case is impossible to refuse: his young niece, Julia, has been wrongfully committed to an insane asylum by her cruel and unfaithful husband, Chet Longly. Though Breedlove and his wife seem more interested in protecting the family reputation than their niece’s safety, Frank and Sarah agree to help for the sake of Julia and the young son she left behind.

Frank and Sarah’s investigation reveals a dark secret—a maid at the Longly home died suspiciously under Chet’s watch, and now it seems Julia’s son might also be in danger. The Malloys fear they are dealing with a man more dangerous than they had anticipated, one who will do anything to defame his wife. But all is not as it seems in the Longly family, and perhaps another monster is hiding in plain sight....

This is the 26th volume in the “Gaslight Mystery” series. 

Just Murdered by Katherine Kovacic

Peregrine Fisher is unexpectedly summoned to a meeting of the Adventuresses' Club of the Antipodes, where she learns some incredible news.

When Adventuress Florence Astor is accused of murder, Peregrine jumps at the chance to help on the case. Detective James Steed, initially dismissive, quickly finds Peregrine's flair for investigating and headstrong nature leave him little choice.

A second shocking death occurs and Detective Steed's boss, Inspector Sparrow, demands the case be brought to a close with suspicious speed.

With Sparrow issuing threats, time is running out for Peregrine. It seems she's set herself an impossible task, but then, as Detective Steed says, 'never underestimate a woman named Fisher'.

This is the first volume in the “Ms. Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries” series. 

The Body in the Web by Katherine Hall Page 

Faith Fairchild joins the rest of the world in lockdown mode when reality flips in March 2020. As the pandemic spreads, Faith and her family readjust to life together in Aleford, Massachusetts. Her husband, Tom, continues his sermons from Zoom; their children, Ben, who's in college, and Amy, a high school senior, are doing remote learning at home .

Faith is happy to have her family under the same roof and grateful for her resilient community, friends, and neighbors in Aleford. Town halls remain lively and well-attended, despite residents joining from their living rooms. It is at one of these town halls that scandal breaks out. In the midst of a Zoom meeting, damaging images suddenly flash upon everyone’s screens. Claudia, local art teacher and Faith’s dear friend, is immediately recognized as the woman who has been targeted.

When Claudia is later discovered dead, Faith, with the help of her friends, journeys deep into the dark web to unravel the threads of Claudia’s mysterious history and shocking passing.

This is the 26th volume in the “Faith Fairchild” series. 

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Title: Play the Fool

Author: Lina Chern

When a man stumbles into the shop where Katie True works, she decides to do a tarot reading for him. But when she sneaks a glance at his phone and finds a photo of her friend Marley — with a bullet hole in her head — everything changes. Now she’s gotten herself tangled up in a world of lies and deceit, putting her own life in danger while searching for Marley’s killer. But how well did she truly know Marley and how far is she willing to go to find the truth?

For me, this book was just okay, but I think I enjoyed the idea of the story more than the actual story itself. Some parts dragged on and were a bit anticlimactic, and when Katie discovered what really happened to Marley, I have to admit, I was surprised but also a little disappointed. I felt bad for Katie getting dragged into something that had nothing to do with her, all because she cared so much about Marley and wanted her to get the justice she deserved.

Overall, it was a decent story but I’m not sure if I’d recommend this one.

*Thank you to NetGalley and Bantam for providing a copy of this book to review.*

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (3-3.5 stars)

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Play the Fool by Lina Chern

Published: March 28, 2023 Bantam Genre: Friendship Fiction Pages: 313 KKECReads Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I received a copy of this book for free, and I leave my review voluntarily. Lina Chern has been published in Mystery Weekly, The Marlboro Review, the Bellingham Review, Rhino, The Collagist, Black Fox Literary magazine, and the Coil. She lives in the Chicago area with her family. Play the Fool…

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Titles Out Today

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Lone Women by Victor LaValle and Play the Fool by Lina Chern are out today.