Category: Reading Books

Book Review: Anne Perry’s Silence in Hanover Close

I received this book for free from my own shelves in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: my own shelves Silence in Hanover Closeby Anne Perry historical mystery in a paperback edition that was published by Fawcett Books on July 30, 1989 and has 345 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Death in the Devil’s Acre, Cardington Crescent, Bethlehem Road, The Cater Street Hangman, Callander Square, Paragon Walk, Resurrection Row, Rutland Place, Farriers’ Lane, Bluegate Fields, Midnight at Marble Arch, A Christmas Hope, Dark Tide RisingNinth in the Charlotte & Thomas Pitt historical mystery series which finds a cop’s spouse collaborating with her husband in the London of Victorian England. My Take Another excellent tale from Anne Perry with an excellent understanding of the culture, mores, and style of speech for the late 19th century in England. She pulls in such a tangle of misdirected love and keeps the reader hopping as we try to determine who did what only to blow us away at the end. The Story Thomas has been ordered to look back […]

Posted April 25, 2011 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Book Review: Kelley Armstrong’s The Reckoning

Fifteen-year-old Chloe Saunders happens to be a genetically engineered necromancer who can raise the dead without even trying. She and her equally gifted (or should that be ‘cursed’?) friends are now running for their lives from the evil corporation that created them.

Posted April 22, 2011 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews, Target Audience, Young Adult readers / 0 Comments

Book Review: Loretta Chase’s Lord of Scoundrels

Tough-minded Jessica Trent’s sole intention is to free her nitwit brother from the destructive influence of Sebastian Ballister, the notorious Marquess of Dain. She never expects to desire the arrogant, amoral cad. And when Dain’s reciprocal passion places them in a scandalously compromising, and public, position, Jessica is left with no choice but to seek satisfaction…

Posted April 22, 2011 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Book Review: Elizabeth George’s In the Presence of the Enemy

The kidnapping of a young girl echoes into the Home Office and DI Lynley and DS Havers may be drawing closer to a grim solution—and to danger—than anyone knows.

Posted April 22, 2011 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Book Review: Orson Scott Card’s The Lost Gate

Danny North is an outsider in his own family. A boy with no talent in a house of secrets, great expectations, and so many rules, isolated far from town, from other people.

Posted April 20, 2011 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Book Review: Thomas E. Sniegoski’s Where Angels Fear to Tread

Six year-old Zoe York’s crude drawings are her visions of the future and make her a target for evil. It’s a search that takes Remy to dark places – and his soul may pay the price.

Posted April 20, 2011 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Book Review: Nora Roberts’ One Summer

Rivals, companions, lovers, complete opposites. A photographer and a photojournalist on a road trip to explore an American summer. And each other.

Posted April 20, 2011 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Book Review: Nora Roberts’ Second Nature

For Celebrity magazine reporter Lee Radcliffe, tracking down the world-famous, very private, horror-story writer Hunter Brown had become a personal quest.

Posted April 20, 2011 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Book Review: Rick Riordan’s The Lost Hero

A freak storm hits during the school trip, unleashing strange creatures and whisking her, Jason, and Leo away to Camp Half-Blood, where Piper will discover why her boyfriend no longer recognizes her and what trouble her father is in.

Posted April 20, 2011 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews, Middle-Grade readers / 0 Comments

Book Review: Anne Perry’s Cardington Crescent

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 Cardington Crescentby Anne Perry historical mystery in a paperback edition that was published by Fawcett Books on April 12, 1988 and has 304 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Death in the Devil’s Acre, 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, A Christmas Hope, Dark Tide RisingEighth in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series set in late 19th century London. My Take As ever, Perry does a lovely job of recreating the sense of the late 19th century through the dialog and the mores, culture, and styles of the time. The part I don’t understand is why Emily and George and Aunt Vespasia are even staying at the Marches. They all live in London. Why would they be spending weeks at a house where they can’t stand its matriarch or her son?? I also resent the summary on […]

Posted April 15, 2011 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments