Book Review: Gena Showalter’s Awaken Me Darkly
Snow is in the forecast with Mia Snow ridding the world of evil, one alien at a time.
Format: a paperback
Book Review: Julie Kagawa’s The Iron King
A dark stranger begins watching her, and her prankster best friend becomes strangely protective, Meghan discovers she’s the daughter of a mythical faery king and a pawn.
Book Review: Meljean Brook’s The Iron Duke
Investigating a dead body that drops from the sky onto the Iron Duke’s doorstep, Detective Inspector Mina Wentworth uncovers a conspiracy that threatens the lives of everyone in England.
Book Review: Richelle Mead’s Succubus Blues
Something wicked is in Seattle’s demon underground. And all of succubus Georgina Kincaid’s charms and one-liners won’t help against creatures both heaven and hell want to deny. . .
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 […]
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.
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.
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 […]
Book Review: Colleen Gleason’s Rises the Night
The saga of Victoria Gardella continues as the glorious nineteenth-century city of Rome gives rise to a new threat from the immortal undead…
Book Review: Lynsay Sands’ A Quick Bite
That hot guy tied to Lissianna Argeneau’s bed? He’s not dessert – he’s the main course!