Month: July 2014

Book Review: Mary Brown’s Pigs Don’t Fly

Book Review: Mary Brown’s Pigs Don’t Fly

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.Pigs Don’t Flyin Hardcover edition on 1994 and has 370 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon, Barnes & Noble Second in the Pigs Don’t Fly fantasy series with the focus on the naïve and newly orphaned Somerdai. My Take It’s a life’s journey undertaken as Summer finds herself, blossoming from the waddling duckling to the graceful swan in her year of travel and adventures. For the most part, it’s a lively, adventurous, and fun tale as Summer learns more about herself and begins to take charge of her own happiness. My one niggle is how stupid she keeps being, never seeming to learn from her mishaps with larcenous travelers. That mother. What a mother of a mother, she was! I find myself wishing that Summer had left while her mother was alive and was forced to care for herself. Sir Gilman. Well, that was definitely the best decision she could make, although I could wish she would warn the poor boy. As for the villagers . . . what a bunch of scumbags! My […]

Posted July 26, 2014 by Kathy Davie in / 0 Comments

Book Review: Vicki Lewis Thompson’s Riding Home

Book Review: Vicki Lewis Thompson’s Riding Home

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.Riding HomeIt is part of the Sons of Chance #16 series and is a on July 15, 2014 and has 224 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo Other books in this series include [books_series] Sixteenth in the Sons of Chance western romance series and revolving around the Chance family. The couple focus is on Jeannette Trenton and Zach Powell. My thanks to NetGalley and Harlequin for providing this ARC for my enjoyment. My Take This was sweet and very thoughtful. I love all the inward-looking thoughts going on in this one. That’s not to say there weren’t some rough patches, but on the whole, it’s a great story that shows us the path Jeannette has followed to understand where she went wrong and where she needs to go for a more fulfilling life. It’s an opportunity for both of them to look back over their lives, see what outside influences nudged them in those wrong directions. A weekend in which each forces the other to re-think their choices, re-think why they […]

Posted July 25, 2014 by Kathy Davie in / 0 Comments

Book Review: Walter Mosley’s “Jack Strong”

Book Review: Walter Mosley’s “Jack Strong”

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.Jack Strongon July 29, 2014 and has 52 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo This 52-page short story is a prequel introducing Jack Strong in this science fictional urban fantasy, a potential series that I suspect will roam the world. My thanks to NetGalley and Open Road Media for providing this ARC for my enjoyment. My Take It started as I expected a Walter Mosley to start, with an excellent use of dialect and sentence structure, but Mosley quickly took me into a completely different world. One that was both small and yet expansive. I’m both curious and apprehensive, but then again, I remember: Mosley. The apprehension comes from wondering how he can bring the tension to the inner men of Jack Strong, seeing as how it was so easy for Lance to meld. The curiosity comes from wondering where he will take us on this journey of redemption, and seein’ as it’s Mosley, how he will create the tension. I know, I seem to be repeating myself, and actually I’m […]

Posted July 24, 2014 by Kathy Davie in / 0 Comments

Book Review: Cordelia Frances Biddle’s The Conjurer

Book Review: Cordelia Frances Biddle’s The Conjurer

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 Conjureron June 10, 2008 and has 319 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo First in the Martha Beale historical mystery series and revolving around a newly orphaned woman, Martha. Set in 1842 Philadelphia. My thanks to NetGalley and Open Road Media for providing this ARC for me to read. My Take As the page or percent indicator as to where I am in the book isn’t available, all I can say is I stopped at “I will be the mistress of my fate. I’ll rule my own house, and demand that Simms leave it.” It starts off interestingly and too quickly descends into a morass of timidity and domination. Biddle takes way too long to turn Martha into a strong character — I’m assuming that Martha becomes a strong person simply because the series is about her as I still haven’t read far enough to find out. She was too annoying to read. Yes, there is an interesting story in here with lots of possibilities and odd subplots, but the […]

Posted July 24, 2014 by Kathy Davie in / 0 Comments

Book Review: Kate Hewitt’s Expose Me

Book Review: Kate Hewitt’s Expose Me

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.Expose Meon July 29, 2014 and has 272 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo Third and last in the Fifth Avenue Trilogy romance series revolving around a few friends seeking revenge against Jason Treffen. This story concludes the trilogy with the friend focus on Alex Diaz with Chelsea Maxwell as his romantic counterpart. My thanks to NetGalley and Harlequin for providing this ARC for my reading pleasure… My Take …one which I enjoyed very much. A strong woman who is broken and struggling to rise above it up against a man who also fought his way up, both with an end goal they are determined to reach. “She never denied anything. Denying rumors put you on the defensive, and ended up just stoking the fires of gossip higher. “ I love that they’re both so attracted to each other and struggling so hard to ignore it. Chelsea has her issues, and she is determined to not give in to a man. Alex sees a woman who’s used her body to get […]

Posted July 23, 2014 by Kathy Davie in / 0 Comments