Book Review: Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe’s Regiment
Corruption threatens the end to the South Essex regiment and Major Richard Sharpe when he discovers an illegal recruiting ring selling soldiers to other divisions.
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Book Review: Carrie Vaughn’s Kitty in the Underworld
I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: the library Kitty in the Underworldby Carrie VaughnIt is part of the Kitty Norville #12 series and is a urban fantasy in Paperback edition that was published by Tor Books on July 30, 2013 and has 305 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Dark and Stormy Knights, Kitty Goes to Washington, Kitty and the Midnight Hour, “Kitty Meets the Band”, Hex Appeal, Kitty and the Silver Bullet, Kitty and the Dead Man’s Hand, Kitty Raises Hell, Kitty’s House of Horrors, Kitty Goes to War, Kitty’s Big Trouble, Kitty’s Greatest Hits, Kitty Steals the Show, Kitty Rocks the HouseTwelfth in the Kitty Norville urban fantasy series and revolving around Kitty, a werewolf radio talk show host. My Take Normally, I enjoy the Kitty stories. Vaughn makes them fun and informative. This one? Not so much. It caught the informative bit as Vaughn delves into various Underworld myths, but how it related to the story was weak. It seemed more of stretch […]
Book Review: Janet Evanovich’s Takedown Twenty
Uncle Sunny has skipped out on his bond, and it’s Stephanie’s job to bring this much-loved crook — and Joe’s godfather! — back into the jailhouse fold.
Book Review: Abigail Roux & Madeleine Urban’s Armed & Dangerous
Special Agents Ty and Zane must get across cross-country and endure TSA pat-downs, blizzards, uncooperative prisoners, CIA kill teams, a desperate lack of sleep or caffeine, and each other.
Book Review: Jill Shalvis’ Animal Attraction
Vet Dell Connelly is suspicions of their new uber-efficient receptionist. For her part, Jade Bennett happily left the big-city behind and enjoys the views of her ruggedly sexy boss.
Book Review: Devon Monk’s Magic to the Bone
It’s Allie’s birthday, and all she wants is some time out of her stinking magic-infused building and a hot coffee. But when Mama calls, Allie feels compelled to respond.
Book Review: Anne Perry’s A Christmas Hope
I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: the library A Christmas Hopeby Anne Perry historical mystery in a hardcover edition that was published by Ballantine Books on November 12, 2013 and has 197 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Death in the Devil’s Acre, Cardington Crescent, Silence in Hanover Close, Bethlehem Road, The Cater Street Hangman, Callander Square, Paragon Walk, Resurrection Row, Rutland Place, Farriers’ Lane, Bluegate Fields, Midnight at Marble Arch, Dark Tide RisingEleventh in Anne Perry’s Christmas Stories historical mystery series and set in Monk’s Victorian world of 1868, although Monk doesn’t appear in this. My Take It’s a bleak existence, attending parties for the sake of social and business advancement. Things get out of hand, however, and everything in Claudine’s world is overturned. And we encounter the double standards and the huge preference for appearance over character that are so disgusting in a society. People’s prejudices and expectations condemn another, mostly because it’s easier. Don’t want to rock the boat, do we? […]
Book Review: Margaret Frazer’s The Hunter’s Tale
When the vicious Sir Ralph Woderove is found murdered near his estate, Dame Frevisse finds that the evil that men do sometimes does live after them.
Book Review: Diana Rowland’s My Life as a White Trash Zombie
A dropout with a pill habit and on probation for a felony who’s been fired from more crap jobs than she can count. And blackmailed into a job at the morgue.
Book Review: Larissa Ione’s Reaver
Harvester sacrificed her wings to spy in hell, but now her cover has been blown, and she’s doomed to agonizing torture unless Reaver can steal into Hell.