Author: Kathy Davie

Book Review: Max Barry’s Lexicon

Book Review: Max Barry’s Lexicon

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.Lexiconin Hardcover edition on June 18, 2013 and has 390 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo A fantasy thriller about the power of words as a weapon of mass destruction. It’s won one award, the ALA Alex Award (2014), and been nominated for another, the Aurealis Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (2013). My Take WOW. This was excellent! Love, betrayal, and greed for power fuel this story, and Barry drives you mad at the start with all the confusion, and it takes most of the book before he reveals what you think is the truth. Hah. This story has more twists and turns than a handful of jacked screws! He pulls you in from the beginning, forcing you to want to know what’s happening: Who is this guy? What has he done? Why are they after him? Part of the confusion is Barry’s flipping back and forth in the timeline, and it works well at keeping you confused and questioning what’s happening. Yeah, it’s like this throughout. You’re constantly questioning. […]

Posted February 19, 2014 by Kathy Davie in / 0 Comments

Book Review: Anne Perry’s A Christmas Hope

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? […]

Posted February 18, 2014 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Book Review: Joey W. Hill’s Natural Law

Book Review: Joey W. Hill’s Natural Law

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.This book may be unsuitable for people under 17 years of age due to its use of sexual content, drug and alcohol use, and/or violence.Natural Lawin eBook edition on March 10, 2004 and has 318 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo Second in the Nature of Desire erotic romantic suspense series. This story focuses on two cops: one’s a city detective who happens to be a submissive who volunteers to go undercover at a BDSM club while the other is with the state police and a natural mistress. I borrowed this eBook from the library and the moving process has screwed up my being able to do a proper review, so I’ll simply provide what basics I can from my memory. My Take Truly excellent. It’s the first time I’ve read a story on BDSM which features an alpha male as the submissive, and Hill did an excellent job of convincing me of both his alpha qualities AND his desire to submit. Without compromising either. I also loved how she treated […]

Posted February 12, 2014 by Kathy Davie in / 0 Comments