Books...Zombie Edition

There have been a lot of frustrations this week. I'm kind of all done and it is only Tuesday. :( On the flip side I found a new used bookstore and promptly forgot my vow to buy no more books until I read and get rid of a few. :)  Also, we have finally had a week of no rain, so things have been drying out. I have been soaking in the sunshine like a cat on a windowsill. :D

This week's books ended up with way more zombies than I normally read. LOL It wasn't planned and as I think I have mentioned to a few of you Zombies in movies and tv shows freak me out and I just cannot watch them.  But books are different they aren't quite so visual so I can read them especially if they are on the lighter side of the genre.  
This week I read one mystery, one paranormal romance, one thriller, one YA fantasy, and one childrens/middle grade book.

The Dog Who Knew Too Much by Spencer Quinn
This was another great Chet and Bernie mystery. Although in this one Chet is off on his own a lot and since it is from his pov you don't get as much Bernie as usual. I love these two. The author does such a good job of telling the mystery from the pov of a dog that I totally forget the book was written by a human. I enjoyed the mystery as it evolved and from a bodyguard job to a missing person's case. I especially liked how Suzy and Chet got to team up in order to help out Bernie. All in all, a great book and I look forward to the next one! (I am going to use this one for the LJ Book Bingo rec for the month of January. Thanks to severina for the rec!

The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse
An imposing, isolated getaway spot high up in the Swiss Alps is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. But Elin's taken time off from her job as a detective, so when her estranged brother, Isaac, and his fiancée, Laure, invite her to celebrate their engagement at the hotel, Elin really has no reason not to accept. Arriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge--there's something about the hotel that makes her nervous. And when they wake the following morning to discover Laure is missing, Elin must trust her instincts if they hope to find her. With the storm closing off all access to the hotel, the longer Laure stays missing, the more the remaining guests start to panic. ~Goodreads Description

This is a hard book to review because there were some parts that I really loved and others that I REALLY did not. The main character Elin was an interesting protagonist to follow around. Unfortunately, when we met her, she is so very fragile, at times ridiculously so. She is suffering from PTSD from a bad case and still grieving from losing her mother a few months before the book begins and from the traumatic death of her little brother when they were kids. I did love the setting of an old sanatorium way high up in the Swiss Alps being turned into a very modern hotel. I love a good closed-circle mystery, and this was a well-done one. So that was good. Sadly, the author's writing style could be a bit on the dramatic side so there were times when I would roll my eyes at certain parts of the story. The last 25% of the book has lots of great tension which I really liked but then the killer's motivation was revealed, and I hated it so so sooooooo much. Although I had some serious hang-ups about this story, I am willing to read the next book in the series.
( Three Zombie Books Under the Cut... )

How's your week so far?