Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Once again, it took me a few years to get around to reading a great book, but, at long last, I read this book and it was great.  This was one of those books that held my interest throughout, to the point that I was thinking of the book and about what might happen next when I wasn't reading it.  Gillian Flynn wove a tail of suspense that always had me guessing: who's the "good guy"?  Who's the "bad guy"?  What really happened?  Who's telling the truth?  Of course, it was hard to tell what the truth is because the author kept the truth from the reader over the course of book.  And that truth-withholding was an ingenious plot device here.  From chapter to chapter, she fills the reader in on what's really happening, then, she changes point-of-view and, at the same time, changes what's "really" happening.  This built suspense as the book went on and constantly changed which character(s) you liked and which one(s) you hated.  There was nothing boring in this book, that's for sure!

My one gripe is that I didn't like the very end of the book.  Maybe this is because of whom I liked and disliked by the end, but, if I had written this book (and boy, do I!), I would've ended it differently.  Nonetheless, I'm not going to change my overall impression of this book.  It was excellent from start til (almost) finish and I would recommend that you check it out!

The Pulptress by Tommy Hancock, et al.

This was a good anthology, but not a great one.  Some of the stories were good, some not so good.  However, the character - The Pulptress - is excellent and a great addition to the New Pulp world.  I liked the mystery of her background that is slowly revealed throughout the stories.  I wanted to read more of these stories to get more of her back story.  She's been trained by many others, including my favorite New Pulp hero, Dillon, but we still don't know a lot about her.  And despite the uneven quality of the various stories, they all had two things in common: the Pulptress was in them and they make the reader want to read more stories like these.