Category: Book Reviews

Book Review: James Lee Burke’s Creole Belle

Book Review: James Lee Burke’s Creole Belle

Healing since the shoot-out, it’s Dave Robicheaux’s morphine-addled mind that conjures spectral visions of Tee Jolie Melton, a young woman who really has gone missing. He becomes a man obsessed as he unearths connections between global and personal tragedies, facing down forces that can corrupt and destroy the best of men.

Posted September 10, 2012 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Book Review: Charlaine Harris & Toni L.P. Kelner’s An Apple for the Creature

Book Review: Charlaine Harris & Toni L.P. Kelner’s An Apple for the Creature

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 An Apple for the Creatureby Amber Benson, Charlaine Harris, Donald Harstand, Faith Hunter, Ilona Andrews, Jonathan Maberry, Marjorie M. Liu, Mike Casey, Nancy Holder, Rhys Boween, Sara C. Snider, Steve Hockensmith, Thomas E. Sniegoski, Toni L.P. KelnerIt is part of the Kate Daniels #5.3, , Sookie Stackhouse #11.5, Jane Yellowrock #4.2, , series and is a paranormal romance, urban fantasy in Hardcover edition that was published by Ace Books on September 4, 2012 and has 336 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books in this series include [books_series] Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Night’s Edge, Death’s Excellent Vacation, Must Love Hellhounds, Dead Reckoning, Bite, A Secret Rage, Home Improvement: Undead Edition, Deadlocked, Dead Ever After, The Sookie Stackhouse Companion, Games Creatures Play, After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse, Indigo, Night Shift, Sleep Like a Baby, The Pretenders, A Longer Fall, An Easy Death, The Russian Cage, Small Kingdoms and Other Stories, Real Murders, A Bone to Pick, […]

Posted September 10, 2012 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Wheel of Time Fans, Take Note

Wheel of Time Fans, Take Note

It is part of the , series and is a EBook retailers are offering From the Two Rivers for 99 cents at the moment on Kindle, Nook, and iPad). There is a bonus in purchasing The Eye of the World in two parts: there are illustrations in both books and the added “Ravens” prologue in From the Two Rivers while To the Blight also offers a bigger glossary. Although, unless your eReader displays in color, I don’t see much point in eBook illustrations… The reason for splitting the first two books in the WoT series in half is to entice those readers who are intimidated by the heft of the original books. This truly must be a psychological thing as, if the reader becomes enthralled, s/he’ll still have to read the whole thing… Y’all know how obsessed I am with chronology, so I’ll just mention that WoT begins with a prequel, New Spring, which brings Lan and Moraine together. The actual series begins with The Eye of the World which the publishers have split into two eBooks: From the Two Rivers and To the Blight. Second in the series is The Great Hunt which was split into The Hunt Begins […]

Posted September 10, 2012 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Reblog: Sarah Anderson on Names for the Vagina and Penis

Reblog: Sarah Anderson on Names for the Vagina and Penis

Over at Heroes and Heartbreakers, they’ve posted a blog by Sarah Anderson on what terms are used, hated, abused, or just downright turn you off when it comes to referring to the vagina [no longer available from Heroes and Heartbreakers as of 21 Apr 2018]. You might like to check out Sarah Anderson’s post on “A Penis by Any Other Name…” [no longer available from Heroes and Heartbreakers as of 21 Apr 2018] as well. You writers who are working on your own sex scenes, might want to take a look…at the least you’ll laugh your ass off!

Posted September 7, 2012 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments