Publisher: Ballantine Books

Book Review: Anne Perry’s Paragon Walk

Book Review: Anne Perry’s Paragon Walk

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 Paragon Walkby Anne Perry historical mystery in a paperback edition that was published by Ballantine Books on August 12, 1986 and has 248 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, Silence in Hanover Close, Bethlehem Road, The Cater Street Hangman, Callander Square, Resurrection Row, Rutland Place, Farriers’ Lane, Bluegate Fields, Midnight at Marble Arch, A Christmas Hope, Dark Tide RisingThird in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Victorian mystery series revolving around Inspector Thomas Pitt and his very curious wife Charlotte. My Take While a young girl is murdered, the emphasis is on how it will affect everyone else socially with a number of the neighbors putting all the blame on the girl. Well, obviously she must have had low morals to have invited rape! How do people actually twist their minds to believe something like this? They are like a snarling pack of dogs. Ooh, that’s rather mean. To the […]

Posted December 16, 2011 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 1 Comment

Book Review: Jill A. Davis’ Girls’ Poker Night

Book Review: Jill A. Davis’ Girls’ Poker Night

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.Girls’ Poker Nightby Jill A. Davis chick lit that was published by Ballantine Books on February 3, 2004 and has 256 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon A standalone chick lit romance. My TakeThe focus here is on the wanna-don’wanna relationship with her editor, Michael. I almost stopped reading so many times in this book but, because I’m obsessive, I kept going hoping for something redeeming about it. I was right . . . thank god! About the last few chapters . . . well, not really chapters per se, more like entries in a journal . . . Ruby finally, for some reason, gets her act together and writes a very illuminating column. It is good. It made me wish that Davis had produced other columns. I did enjoy the alternative betting the girls indulged in; it was much more of a challenge to cough it up when your thoughts and feelings are on the line. Escaping an unwanted relationship in Boston, Ruby Capote takes a job as a columnist in New […]

Posted April 4, 2011 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments