Book Review: Tamora Pierce’s Terrier
George Cooper’s mother bemoans the depths to which she and her son have fallen and begins Beka’s story, as Mrs. Cooper strives to turn George’s thoughts from thieving.
Publisher: Random House
Book Review: Janet Evanovich & Lee Goldberg’s The Job
Secretly taking down the world’s worst felons, the next job for charming con man Nicolas Fox and dedicated FBI agent Kate O’Hare is the brutal leader of a global drug-smuggling empire.
Book Review: Chrysler Szarlan’s The Hawley Book of the Dead
An ancient journal seems to hold the truth that could keep Reve Dyer and her daughters safe from the stranger who destroyed her family and has followed her to Hawley.
Book Review: Alison Weir’s Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster
A vivid portrait of a passionate spirit who lived one of medieval England’s greatest love stories. A woman ahead of her time–making her own choices, flouting convention, and taking control of her destiny.
Book Review: Dianne Emley’s Night Visitor
A beautiful woman’s romantic past comes back to haunt her in the form of an otherworldly visitor seeking justice.
Book Review: Lee Child’s Personal
The army never really leaves you alone as the retired Jack Reacher discovers when someone takes a shot at the president of France…and makes it personal.
Book Review: Philippa Carr’s The Changeling
A tale of love and betrayal in a three-cornered sibling relationship involving Rebecca, her half-sister, Belinda, and Lucie, a country waif informally adopted by Rebecca.
Book Review: Jennifer L. Holm’s The Fourteenth Goldfish
With a light touch and plenty of humor, Jennifer Holm celebrates the wonder of science with fascinating questions about life and death, family and friendship, immortality…and possibility.
Book Review: Laurell K. Hamilton’s A Lick of Frost
Ordered to conceive a child, Meredith Gentry, a half-mortal, half-faerie princess, returns to Los Angeles, only to find herself trapped between faerie and human law.
Book Review: Anne Perry’s A Christmas Hope
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 A Christmas Hopeby Anne Perry historical mystery in a hardcover edition that was published by Ballantine Books on November 12, 2013 and has 197 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo 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, Paragon Walk, Resurrection Row, Rutland Place, Farriers’ Lane, Bluegate Fields, Midnight at Marble Arch, Dark Tide RisingEleventh in Anne Perry’s Christmas Stories historical mystery series and set in Monk’s Victorian world of 1868, although Monk doesn’t appear in this. My Take It’s a bleak existence, attending parties for the sake of social and business advancement. Things get out of hand, however, and everything in Claudine’s world is overturned. And we encounter the double standards and the huge preference for appearance over character that are so disgusting in a society. People’s prejudices and expectations condemn another, mostly because it’s easier. Don’t want to rock the boat, do we? […]