Genre: fiction

Book Review: Joanne Proulx’s Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet

Book Review: Joanne Proulx’s Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet

After freakishly foretelling the death of a friend, Luke Hunter becomes big news in Stokum, his rank little pinprick of a hometown. Terrified, but pretending not to be, Luke holds everyone—the local media, his buddy Fang, the Polish widow next door—at arm’s length as he lurches through a personal minefield studded with previously unconsidered existential ponderings, Christian fundamentalists, a missing teen’s frantic mother, and a dream girl who isn’t his.

Posted September 29, 2011 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 1 Comment

Book Review: Jenna Maclaine’s Grave Sins

Book Review: Jenna Maclaine’s Grave Sins

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.Grave Sinsby Jenna Maclaine urban fantasy, historical fiction in a paperback edition that was published by St. Martin Paperbacks on February 3, 2009 and has 352 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include The Wages of Sin, Bound by Sin, HuntressSecond in the Cin Craven romantic urban-fantasy series. My Take Oh brother, I’ve been suspecting this character forever. I can’t believe Cin or anyone else never saw this coming! What?? She’s not sure if she can open the locks so Cin doesn’t even try!?? Considering the seconds it took, it would have been worth it…duh… Then there’s Clarissa being murdered in her cell and supposedly Hashim didn’t hear or see a thing. Well, as the ending indicates, there was plenty of action going on that something happened in that cell and I can’t believe Hashim could avoid all of it! Then I don’t believe that Cin got so pissy about Michael checking out a whore’s bosom. As Justine says, “he is still a man”. […]

Posted August 30, 2011 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments