I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The Gatesin Hardcover edition on 2009 and has 296 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo First in the Samuel Johnson vs the Devil urban fantasy series for Young Adults and revolving around the very precocious Samuel who lives in Biddlecombe, England. My Take It’s an intriguing trio of names in this: Samuel Johnson, Boswell, and the Devil, and I’m curious as to why Connolly chose them. Does Connolly love words and dictionaries? Perhaps, he’ll go back in time? I guess we’ll see as the series unfurls. What am I yammering on about? Well, the original Samuel Johnson wrote the first definitive dictionary, and James Boswell was his biographer. Hmmm, I wonder if that original Boswell was a “dog with a bone”? And the Devil? Well, the first Samuel Johnson wrote a parody making fun of a speech Edmund Burke, a politician of the day, wrote pleading for the English to reconcile with those testy Americans in which the Devil makes predictions. In this case, it’s a Devil with great expectations, LOL, […]

I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Shadowdancein Paperback edition on December 17, 2013 and has 427 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo Fourth in the Darkest London historical paranormal romance series and revolving around three sisters and their friends. The couple focus is on Jack Talent and Mary Chase. You have to at least have read Winterblaze, 3, and it wouldn’t hurt to have read Moonglow, 2, as it’s the first book in which Jack and Mary make their appearances. My Take This is the sweetest love story, and mostly due to all the twists and turns and misperceptions and trials and tribulations. Hey, it’s deserving of all these nouns! There’s lots of action, and it’s also confusing. There are so many double dealing characters and those who were impersonating someone else that it was hard to keep straight who was doing what and to whom. Mostly I simply ignored trying to figure it out, even as I grew frustrated with the bewildering changes. It is worth reading. Jack and Mary’s love story is heartbreaking, and there […]