Author: Kathy Davie

Book Review: Linda Howard & Linda Winstead Jones’ Blood Born

Book Review: Linda Howard & Linda Winstead Jones’ Blood Born

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.Blood Bornin Paperback edition on April 27, 2010 and has 466 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon First in the Vampire paranormal romance series. Warrior Rising, the second in the series, was to be published in the spring of 2011 and the publishers have chosen not to go ahead, so I’m guessing that this first installment didn’t do well. My Take A bit cold, detached…I really can’t put my finger on what is so different about this story. Possibly, the lack of heat between the major protagonists as well as the agonizing process involved in the Warriors contacting their conduits. It seems like one heckuva lotta work for a human to go through and fraught with failure. There’s a foreword that explains the Warriors followed by a prologue which sets the scene about the conduits and introduces Sorin. The rebellion certainly proves that vampires are still human in their emotions. Envy, jealousy, and a desire for power is not constrained to only non-vampires. It certainly does confirm that life is cyclical as Luca […]

Posted October 27, 2012 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Day 3: Skeletons on My Bookshelf

Day 3: Skeletons on My Bookshelf

Five books that I have owned forever but have never gotten around to reading. Those volumes that lurk upon my shelves, squinting down at me with their beady little words, shaming my guilty conscience with my procrastinating ways. #1 – The complete set of Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire Chronicles I bought this set ages ago because I fell in love with his great-granddaughter’s work, Joanna Trollope. I have absolutely no excuse for not having dived in to read these… #2 – Diet & Self-Help Books Well, I hate to cook or pay attention to food, so all those diet books that blather on and on about weighing this and tracking that just do not appeal. It’s too much work. I don’t want to be bothered…especially when I have all these luscious books to read and kittens to play with. As for the self-help books… Such books are primarily about commonsense or they rattle along about some odd metaphysical, abstracted reasoning. And I’d rather be reading something fun. Self-help is just NOT fun. #3 – The Bible A religious friend thought that I should have my own bible. While I appreciate the thought and I do mean to get round to it […]

Posted October 26, 2012 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Book Review: Elizabeth Lowell’s Beautiful Sacrifice

Book Review: Elizabeth Lowell’s Beautiful Sacrifice

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.Beautiful Sacrificein Paperback edition on May 22, 2012 and has 400 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon A thriller combining the end of the Maya Long Count and archeology with a crazy family. My Take I enjoyed this. Of course, it does combine archeology with suspense, so I am a bit prejudiced. I did enjoy the explanation of the Maya religion and the slightly more in-depth information about the importance of blood sacrifice. An interesting mix of historical significance and the perversions modern man will twist it. As an artist, I appreciated the description of certain of the artifacts and how they were made and displayed. Most of the story is the romance between Lina and Hunter as well as their “escape” into Mexico, additional interest via Jase and Hunter’s tracking down clues about the stolen artifacts, and a short, dramatic visit with Lina’s family. This was a new one: The “nine-millimeter warrant”. Lina really only has her grandmother for support in the family. Her parents are cold and self-absorbed and her cousin […]

Posted October 22, 2012 by Kathy Davie in / 0 Comments