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.Better Part of Darknessin Paperback edition on November 24, 2009 and has 394 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon First in the Charlie Madigan urban fantasy series set in Atlanta. What has Atlanta done to the world to be the setting for so many urban fantasies? My Take I enjoyed this very much, but every once in a while, there’s a tiny disconnect and it can be a bit juvenile, and it makes me take a step back, but for the most part, I liked this start to this series. There’s a wide range of interesting characters from the truly good to the truly evil with a nice sprinkling in between. Gay has already set up differing levels of conflict between them with lots of potential for romance. There’s even a dystopian element to it as well as a challenge to our own perceptions of devils and vampires of all sorts. Devils? Vampires? Not the usual character type I think of when I hear the word “alien”. Our heroine has a nice bit […]

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.HeatseekerIt is part of the , series and is a in Paperback edition on January 29, 2013 and has 352 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Sixth and last in the Goddard Project; second in the Atrati. Both are romantic suspense. The primary couple focus is on Rachel Gannon and Kadin Marks. A secondary focus is on Spazz and Cowboy. My Take Don’t bother picking this one up. I really expected more of Monroe, and she has NOT delivered. This story is so surface with a lot of whiny Sturm und Drang. Even the lame bits are simply dull. I found myself skimming a lot of it just to get it over with. Full of cutesy clichés with flimsy excuses masquerading as drama to give the story its major plotline. Yawn. Oops, sorry. yawwwwwn. Oops, I just keep doing that. Oh, well, at least it’s consistent with Monroe’s storyline…yawn. Jamila’s attitude is confusing. When her father’s actions are displayed, she acts as though she hasn’t a clue and then she turns around and […]

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.Semper FidelisIt is part of the , series and is a in Hardcover edition on January 8, 2013 and has 327 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Fifth in the Gaius Petreius Ruso, a.k.a., Medicus, historical mystery series based in 122 A.D. York, England. My Take It was a bit of a shock to learn that Ruso was back with the army. Although, events in Caveat Emptor, 4, may well have made it seem like the safer choice, LOL. I’m not sure if it was Tilla’s boredom or the family that encouraged Ruso to go back! Do read the character list at the start of the book. Downie has been clever, and it’s a fun read. Even more fun is how skeptical Tilla is about how this reading thing could be. The bit about the medication and blaming it on Tilla was roughly done. I did enjoy the setting, but for the most part, this is as confusing and frustrating to read as a contemporary police procedural with all sorts of hints dropped, […]

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.Cover of Snowin Hardcover edition on January 15, 2013 and has 336 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Police procedural and mystery about corruption in a small town up in the Adirondack Mountains in New York. This is Milchman’s first novel. An impressive tale. My Take This was excellently written and incredibly depressing. I just cried and cried at the start, the middle, and the end at all the loss. All the stupid, senseless loss. Milchman was amazing at how well she strung this out, how she built the suspense. The reasons behind Brendan’s suicide, those initial scenes as Nora goes back in her mind about the night he died. It still makes me cry. All that love and happiness. Gone. And it’s only worse at the end. I wanted to be annoyed with Nora’s character for behaving so stupidly, but I kept remembering that she’s a normal person. An everyday, average woman who simply happens to be married to a cop. She never intended to be an investigator, and Milchman portrays this […]