Book Review: Kim Harrison’s Black Magic Sanction
Denounced and shunned for dealing with demons and black magic, Rachel must trust to her enemies to free her from life imprisonment—and a lobotomy!
Publisher: HarperCollins
Book Review: Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe’s Battle: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro
Captain Richard Sharpe must decide whether to destroy the entire Real Compañía Irlandesa or only those who betrayed Wellington’s army in this fight to the death.
Book Review: Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe’s Escape: Richard Sharpe and the Bussaco Campaign
Only Capt Richard Sharpe and a land wasted and stripped of food stands between Napoleon’s mighty army and the conquest of Portugal. Can they prevail against treachery?
Book Review: Lisa Kleypas’ Somewhere I’ll Find You
Julia Wentworth has all London at her feet even as she guards a dread secret, the stranger to whom she was wed. The same who wants her as his mistress.
Book Review: Laura Lippman’s Butchers Hill
Once Tess Monaghan starts snooping in her case as a private investigator, the witnesses start dying. Like it or not, Tess is embroiled in a case that encompasses the powers-that-be, a heartless system that has destroyed the lives of children, and a nasty trail of money and lies leading all the way back to Butchers Hill.
Book Review: Kim Harrison’s White Witch, Black Curse
Kist is dead. Rachel Morgan’s memories gone. But she’s determined to solve his murder. Then a new predator moves in, and Rachel’s past comes back to haunt her.
Book Review: Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe’s Havoc: Portugal 1809
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 Sharpe’s Havoc: Portugal 1809by Bernard Cornwell historical fiction, military fiction in Paperback edition that was published by HarperCollins on 2003 and has 370 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Sharpe’s Fortress: India 1803, Sharpe’s Trafalgar: Richard Sharpe & the Battle of Trafalgar, October 21, 1805, arpe’s Prey: Denmark, 1807, Sharpe’s Rifles, Sharpe’s Eagle, Sharpe’s Escape: Richard Sharpe and the Bussaco Campaign, Sharpe’s Gold: Richard Sharpe and the Destruction of Almeida, Sharpe’s Battle: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro, Sharpe’s Company, Sharpe’s Sword, Sharpe’s Fury: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Barrosa, Sharpe’s Enemy: The Defense of Portugal, Christmas 1812, Sharpe’s Honor, Sharpe’s RegimentSeventh in the Richard Sharpe military fiction series revolving around a lieutenant promoted up from the ranks. The action encompasses a retreat from Soult out of Oporto just before Wellesly arrives. My Take It’s an interesting contrast between the “superior” upperclass blue blood values and those of scum from the gutter. Cornwell is […]
Book Review: Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe’s Prey: Denmark, 1807
Richard Sharpe’s career is at an end, when an old friend suggests a secret mission to Copenhagen, Sharpe leaps at the seemingly simple errand that blows up mercilessly.
Book Review: Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe’s Trafalgar: Richard Sharpe & the Battle of Trafalgar, October 21, 1805
Ensign Richard Sharpe is captive on a French warship and in gravest peril on the eve of the one of the most spectacular naval confrontations in history.
Book Review: Laura Lippman’s Charm City
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.Charm Cityby Laura Lippman mystery, private investigator in a paperback edition that was published by Avon Publications on October 1, 1997 and has 304 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include The Girl in the Green Raincoat, Baltimore Blues, Butchers Hill, In Big Trouble, Games Creatures PlaySecond in the Tess Monaghan mystery series set in Baltimore, Maryland and revolving around a former journalist turned private detective. My Take The primary theme is one of betrayal. Betrayal of one’s ethics and of friends. Using and manipulating friends to help is one thing; doing it to achieve one’s personal goals is another. A preponderance of the latter weighs very heavily in Charm City from a battering of journalistic ethics, making that career leap, destruction of lives to maintain past secrets, and hiding one’s primal enjoyment of the kill. Most of which can be traced to one man’s pride. Lippman keeps the action moving forward as Tess tells the story with some of my guesses teetering wildly […]