Month: December 2011

Book Review: Anne Perry’s Paragon Walk

Book Review: Anne Perry’s Paragon Walk

I received this book for free from my own shelves in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: my own shelves Paragon Walkby Anne Perry historical mystery in a paperback edition that was published by Ballantine Books on August 12, 1986 and has 248 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon 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, Resurrection Row, Rutland Place, Farriers’ Lane, Bluegate Fields, Midnight at Marble Arch, A Christmas Hope, Dark Tide RisingThird in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Victorian mystery series revolving around Inspector Thomas Pitt and his very curious wife Charlotte. My Take While a young girl is murdered, the emphasis is on how it will affect everyone else socially with a number of the neighbors putting all the blame on the girl. Well, obviously she must have had low morals to have invited rape! How do people actually twist their minds to believe something like this? They are like a snarling pack of dogs. Ooh, that’s rather mean. To the […]

Posted December 16, 2011 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 1 Comment

Book Review: Patricia A. McKillip’s Song for the Basilisk

Book Review: Patricia A. McKillip’s Song for the Basilisk

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 Song for the Basiliskby Patricia A. McKillip fantasy in Paperback edition that was published by Ace Books on December 1, 1999 and has 320 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Solstice Wood, In the Forests of Serre, The Bards of Bone Plain, Ombria in Shadow, Alphabet of Thorn, Od Magic, Harrowing the Dragon, Wonders of the Invisible World, Kingfisher, Winter RoseA fairy tale for adults…and, no! I don’t mean sex. In 2009, Song for the Basilisk was nominated for the Tähtifantasia Award, and in 1999, it was nominated for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature. My Take A typical McKillip with its lilting, poetic, jewel-like phrases richly packed with tension and description. My one issue with this story is that McKillip keeps skipping chunks. I spent more time than I wanted trying to figure out what was happening in various parts of the story. I was also irritated with how stupid Hexel was in his final opera. […]

Posted December 14, 2011 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments