Book Review: Sandra Dallas’ Prayers for Sale
An unforgettable tale of a friendship between two women, one with surprising twists and turns, and one that is ultimately a revelation of the finest parts of the human spirit.
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Book Review: Ian Rankin’s Exit Music
Inspector John Rebus may be retiring, but if he has a chance to take Ger Cafferty down and solve the murder of a Russian dissident poet, he’s all over it.
Book Review: John Ringo’s Live Free or Die
To free the world from the grip of the Horvath is going to take an unlikely hero. A hero unwilling to back down to alien or human governments, unwilling to live in slavery and with enough hubris, if not stature, to think he can win. Fortunately, there’s Tyler Vernon. And he has bigger plans than just getting rid of the Horvath.
Book Review: Ruth Downie’s Medicus
Divorced and down-on his luck, Gaius Petrius Ruso is an army doctor who intends to seek his fortune in an inclement outpost of the Roman Empire, namely Britannia. Then he rescues an injured slave girl, Tilla and gets caught up in the investigation into the deaths of prostitutes working out of the local bar.
Book Review: Piers Anthony’s Harpy Thyme
The beautiful Gloha is the only creature of her kind in all of Xanth, and she wonders where she would find the one true love with whom she could share her life. She’s sure that the Good Magician Humfrey can answer this riddle. But Humfrey, for mysterious reasons of his own, sends her on a perilous quest.
Book Review: Angie Sage’s Physik
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 Physikby Angie Sage fantasy in a hardcover edition that was published by Katherine Tegen Books on March 27, 2007 and has 545 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Flyte, Queste, Syren, Darke, FyreThird in the Septimus Heap fantasy series for middle-grade readers. My Take I’ve finally figured out why I enjoy this whimsical, fantasy series so much — it’s the focus the books have on seeing everything from the children’s rather adult perspectives. I adore the detail and feel of the scenes which Sage writes as well as the connection she builds between the reader and the characters. Each is an individual and one bonds with them. In this third installment of the Septimus Heap series, Septimus is enthralled with the medical discoveries of a, he thinks, 500-year-dead wizard. Naturally, Marcia, his boss, thinks it’s dreadful nonsense and insists that Sep study for his upcoming predictions test. Unfortunately for everyone, Septimus’ dad, Silas, has just unSealed a Sealed […]
Book Review: Kresley Cole’s The Captain of All Pleasures
The free-spirited Nicole Lassiter has overcome all obstacles…until she meets Captain Derek Sutherland whose kisses leave her longing as her blood boils at his disdain.
Book Review: Kelley Armstrong’s Frostbitten
Unseen and unsuspected, this realm of witches, ghosts, and werewolves is now threatened with exposure by a brutal series of bizarre murders that has left even the supernatural world baffled—and cold with terror….
Book Review: David Weber & Eric Flint’s Torch of Freedom
Master spies, and enemies, Anton Zilwicki and Victor Cachat, are bent on uncovering the truth of a wave of assassinations against Manticore and Torch.
Book Review: Angie Sage’s Flyte
Extra Ordinary Wizard Marcia Overstrand is trailed by a menacing Darke Shadow, Jenna is enjoying life as a princess, and Simon, Septimus’ brother, is bent on revenge, even as Septimus Heap learns his craft.