Book Review: Erin McCarthy’s Hard and Fast
Her thesis topic is establish the dating- and mating-patterns of stock race car drivers, and Ty McCordle is the ideal test subject.
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Book Review: Kat Richardson’s Underground
Pioneer Square’s homeless are turning up dead and mutilated with zombies roaming the underground. Quinton believes he may be implicated and persuades Harper Blaine to investigate.
Book Review: Laura Lippman’s Butchers Hill
Once Tess Monaghan starts snooping in her case as a private investigator, the witnesses start dying. Like it or not, Tess is embroiled in a case that encompasses the powers-that-be, a heartless system that has destroyed the lives of children, and a nasty trail of money and lies leading all the way back to Butchers Hill.
Book Review: Maggie Shayne’s Wild Thing
An anthology of four short stories on a paranormal romantic theme.
Book Review: Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe’s Eagle
Cowardly incompetence besmirches the South Essex and Captain Richard Sharpe must redeem it by capturing a golden French Imperial Eagle, the standard touched by Napoleon himself.
Book Review: Fern Michaels’ Deadly Deals
After buying twins through an unscrupulous lawyer, Rachel and Thomas Dawson end up childless and penniless. Just the case Lizzie Fox — and the Sisterhood — loves.
Book Review: Scott Westerfeld’s Goliath
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 Goliathby Scott Westerfeld steampunk in a hardcover edition on September 20, 2011 and has 543 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include BehemothThird and last in the Leviathan children’s steampunk series inspired by the events leading up to World War I and revolving around the friendship between the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne and an aviation midshipman, er, -woman. My Take This was a bit slow to get started especially compared to the first two in the series but I thoroughly enjoyed Westerfeld’s extrapolation of history as he combines it with the politics of technology whether it’s Clankers or Darwin. The contrast between the two is fascinating with the Clankers using metal, electrikals, anything man-made while the Darwinists tweak organic life forms to perform the same feats. Interesting to bring Nikola Tesla into this and push Edison into the background while playing up the showmanship of the time. The take Westerfeld had on Hearst and his San Simeon estate […]
Book Review: Sherrilyn Kenyon’s The Guardian
Tortured for millennia, Seth may gain relief if he retrieves a key, a mission complicated by kidnapping, torture…and falling in love.
Book Review: Carolyn G. Hart’s Design for Murder
Annie Laurence’s plans for the Mystery Nights for the house-and-garden tour go all awry when a corpse turns up in the town pond.
Book Review: Margaret Frazer’s A Play of Knaves
Dark deeds are brewing in the village of Ashewell, and Joliffe and his fellow players are sent to uncover its secrets and stop the murders.