Book Review: Janet Evanovich’s Takedown Twenty
Uncle Sunny has skipped out on his bond, and it’s Stephanie’s job to bring this much-loved crook — and Joe’s godfather! — back into the jailhouse fold.
Format: a hardcover
Book Review: Anne Perry’s A Christmas Hope
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 A Christmas Hopeby Anne Perry historical mystery in a hardcover edition that was published by Ballantine Books on November 12, 2013 and has 197 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Death in the Devil’s Acre, Cardington Crescent, 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, Dark Tide RisingEleventh in Anne Perry’s Christmas Stories historical mystery series and set in Monk’s Victorian world of 1868, although Monk doesn’t appear in this. My Take It’s a bleak existence, attending parties for the sake of social and business advancement. Things get out of hand, however, and everything in Claudine’s world is overturned. And we encounter the double standards and the huge preference for appearance over character that are so disgusting in a society. People’s prejudices and expectations condemn another, mostly because it’s easier. Don’t want to rock the boat, do we? […]
Book Review: Richelle Mead’s The Fiery Heart
“Betraying” her Alchemist mission holds greater peril when Sydney Sage’s younger sister, Zoe, arrives, and Sydney must keep her secrets or suffer exposure—and re-education.
Book Review: MaryJanice Davidson’s Undead and Unsure
The Devil is dead and Betsy and Laura are in hot water, especially with Laura having to take over for her mother, um, Satan, and Betsy has to be responsible!??
Book Review: Joanne Harris’ The Girl With No Shadow
Blown to Paris, Vianne Rocher has a new identity, a new chocolatarie, and two daughters. Then Zozie de l’Alba blows into their lives with her lollipop shoes and treachery.
Book Review: Jo Nesbø’s The Bat
Never one to sit on the sidelines, Inspector Harry Hole dives into a murder case only to discover a string of unsolved murders leading to a psychopath who may be onto them.
Book Review: L.A. Weatherly’s Angel Fire
It’s a lightweight drama with a gentle lap of shallow melodramas with an interesting premise: deadly, life-sucking angels with no conscience.
Book Review: Stephanie Evanovich’s Big Girl Panties
Can a man whose whole life depends on looks commit himself to a woman who doesn’t fit his image? Now that Holly’s turning other men’s heads, does she even need Logan anymore?
Book Review: Michelle Gagnon’s Don’t Turn Around
Sixteen-year-old Noa has been a victim of the system ever since her parents died. Now living off the grid and trusting no one, she uses her hacking skills to stay anonymous and alone. But when she wakes up on a table in a warehouse with an IV in her arm and no memory of how she got there, Noa starts to wish she had someone on her side.
Book Review: David Weber’s House of Steel
The ultimate guide and companion to the Honor Harrington series also contains a new short Honorverse novel, “I Will Build a House of Steel”, plus a compendium of tech, specs, and history.