Book Review: Margaret Frazer’s The Widow’s Tale
Dame Frevisse is embroiled in political intrigue when she aids a widow who is holding on to secret information that could be damaging to the lords closest to the king.
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Book Review: Louise Penny’s The Cruelest Month
A decision to celebrate Easter with a séance at the new B&B ends with one dead of fright and requires Chief Inspector Armand Gamache to face his own ghosts as well as theirs.
Book Review: Keri Arthur’s Darkness Unmasked
The search for the keys that keep the gate to Hell closed grows more intense, and Risa begins to unravel mysteries that will have startling consequences for her.
WARNING: Potential Phishing Site Selling Books to Access Your Credit Cards
Image courtesy of Game Pill Learn about online safety from your friends at the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communication Commission. Nasty bit from Kate Douglas’ newsletter this evening about a Chinese website that is selling a slew of her books for really cheap prices. And I thought it may not be only Douglas’ books that may be offered up. My concern is that Douglas mentioned that this is “a suspected phishing site based in China. We’re trying to get them shut down, but if you give them your credit card information, you could be setting yourself up for a lot of trouble. Some of these sites not only steal your personal data, they also plant malware on your computer capable of copying keystrokes and taking password information.” Be wary.
Book Review: Jennifer Estep’s Killer Frost
It’s bittersweet with Logan believing he doesn’t deserve Gwen, while she loves him as is. And Logan’s dad too full of greed and his desire for power.
Book Review: Diana Rowland’s Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues
Hunters popping up, a felony record rearing up, throw in a secret lab, zombie mafia, a lot of conspiracy, and Angel may need that brain smoothie to get through it all.
Book Review: Melissa Marr & Kelley Armstrong’s Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions
An anthology of 16 short stories with a theme of journey whether it was a trip, a diversion, or a path.
Book Review: Louise Penny’s A Rule Against Murder
Chief Inspector Gamache must unearth secrets long buried and hatreds hidden behind polite smiles when fa family reunion ends in murder.
Book Review: Veronica Roth’s Insurgent
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 Insurgentby Veronica Roth dystopian, science fiction in Hardcover edition that was published by Harlequin, HC Children’s Books on May 1, 2012 and has 525 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include DivergentSecond in the Divergent dystopian Young Adult series and revolving around Tris and her friends. In 2012, Insurgent won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Young Adult Fantasy and Best Goodreads Author; in 2011, it won the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award for Young Adult Protagonist. My Take This story is a weird combination of good storytelling and stupidity. I don’t know if I’ve been too long a “mature” adult and so far removed from my teens that I can no longer relate or if Tris’ actions are simply part of that annoying trope of the gormless but stubborn “child” who leaps into danger without telling anyone anything — because, sob, no one will believe her or, sob, she’s suicidal or, sob… I got dizzy with all the […]
Book Review: Alena Graedon’s The Word Exchange
I received this book for free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: NetGalley The Word Exchangeby Alena Graedon dystopian, science fiction that was published by Anchor Books on April 8, 2014 and has 384 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon An ARC I received through NetGalley set in a dystopian horror of a world, an age-old story of progress and greed with a “rags-to-riches” success story in which greed overcomes commonsense. My Take Wow. Just wow. This was/is terrifying. When you think of how ubiquitous the computer is in our world, how reliant we are upon it, upon the Internet. How much I rely upon it! The “progress” our world is making in conjoining human with machine — think of Google Glass! I’ve always been so impressed with how much people in the past could remember, could quote passages from memory. I wondered why we no longer did such a thing. A large part of it, I suspect, is that we have too many books in the world today. We read a book, and we’re done with it. We move on to the […]