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Book Review: Charlie Huston’s No Dominion

Book Review: Charlie Huston’s No Dominion

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.No Dominionby Charlie Huston urban fantasy in a paperback edition that was published by Del Rey Books on January 1, 2006 and has 251 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Already Dead, Half the Blood of Brooklyn, Every Last Drop, My Dead BodySecond in the urban fantasy series, Joe Pitt, a new kind of paranormal crime fiction. Yup, the name says it all — gritty, pulp noir about a 17-year-old runaway who gets infected with the Vyrus turning him into a vampire. My Take This was good! I never saw it coming. The truth about Luthor X. How DJ Grave Digga fits into the whole. The past history between Vandewater, Terry, and Predo. Huston had me going back and forth like a ping pong ball! How Huston kept getting Joe out of one mess and into another and then the manner in which Huston wrapped it all up. Sneaky bugger. I ever do a job for him, I’m having my lawyer check out […]

Posted June 20, 2011 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

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