Book Review: J.R. Ward’s Lover Avenged
His world darkening, Rehvenge turns to the only light in his life, Ehlena, a vampire untouched by the corruption that has its hold on him.
Format: a hardcover
Book Review: Jean Auel’s The Land of Painted Caves
Jean M. Auel brings the ice-age epic Earth’s Children series to an extraordinary conclusion. Ayla, one of the most remarkable and beloved heroines in contemporary fiction, continues to explore the world and the people around her with curiosity, insight, and above all, courage.
Book Review: Diane Mott Davidson’s Crunch Time
I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Crunch Timeby Diane Mott Davidson amateur sleuth, cozy mystery in a hardcover edition that was published by William Morrow on April 5, 2011 and has 471 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Sixteenth in the Goldy Bear Culinary Mysteries cozy mystery series set in the Aspen area in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado with an amateur sleuth of a chef. My Take While I enjoy the homey qualities of this series — Tom is so very patient and I just love the descriptions of the food that everyone creates in this story, I’m getting rather tired of Goldy. She’s so nosy and I don’t really see where she can really do that much anymore now that pretty much everyone in town knows about her detecting. I’m rather surprised that Tom hasn’t dumped her for being such a pain. And I miss Julian. Nor was there much interaction with Marla or Archie; things are rather tame without the Jerk. Not that I didn’t cheer when he died! This story just has a rather tired […]
Book Review: Yvonne Woon’s Dead Beautiful
Dead Beautiful is both a compelling romance and thought-provoking read, bringing shocking new meaning to life, death, love, and the nature of the soul.
Book Review: Pip Granger’s No Peace for the Wicked
Peace, a beautiful sixteen-year-old part-Chinese girl and Bandy Bunion’s niece, has run away from school, and is taken in by Lizzy. But Peace goes missing a second time, and Lizzy must visit the seedy dock area in Limehouse.
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.
Book Review: David Lawrence’s Down into Darkness
I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Down into Darknessby David Lawrence mystery in a hardcover edition that was published by Minotaur Books on November 13, 2007 and has 288 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include The Dead Sit Round in a Ring, Cold KillFourth in the mystery series, DS Stella Mooney, set in modern-day London where Stella is struggling with a serial killer who is not leaving a pattern — choosing people randomly with a purpose. My Take It’s an interesting cast of victims: a hooker, a researcher, a news editor, a retired teacher, and a politician. Finding the common thread is a tough task for Stella and her crew. As they tease out the connections, we are exposed to BIG money and its manipulations in our world as well as the depths to which such men will descend to accumulate it. Emotionally, Delaney is struggling between boredom and love while Stella is experiencing her own struggle between her never-there mother who has suddenly reappeared in her life and […]
Book Review: David Lawrence’s Cold Kill
Detective Stella Mooney is at a crime scene in a wintry London park where the brutalized corpse of a young woman has just been discovered. But Stella has her doubts when Robert Kimber confesses to the murder.
Book Review: Mary Hoffman’s Amazing Grace
With the support of her family, Grace learns that she can be anything she wants to be, and the results are amazing!
Book Review: Georgette Heyer’s A Civil Contract
Adam Deveril, a hero at Salamanca and the new 6th Viscount Lynton of Fontley Priory, Lincolnshire returns to find his magnificent home in disrepair and his family on the brink of ruin The only hope is marriage to a Cit’s daughter.