Overall: 🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★ Writing Style: ★★.5 Characters: ★★★.5 Enjoyment: ★★.5 "'Want to tag team to break into the Air Force's disciplinary records?' 'We can tell them the FBI said it was OK'"
Book Review – Grimstone by Sophie Lark
Overall: 🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★ Writing Style: ★★★ Character Development: ★★★ Enjoyment: ★★★ “That’s what’s beautiful and tragic about human beings—for better or for worse, not a single one can be replaced.”
Book Review – The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell
Overall: 🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★ Writing Style: ★★.5 Character Development: ★★ Enjoyment: ★ "But we all behaved badly in that house; not one of us got out of there without a black mark. I’ve come to accept our sins as survival strategies."
Book Review – The Deep by Alma Katsu
Overall: 🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★ Writing Style: ★★★.5 Character Development: ★★★ Enjoyment: ★★★.5 "We are all, men and women, creatures of desires both good and bad. But everything has a pirce, and the price of indulging in that which is bad for us is often guilt; and too much guilt results in a sickness of the mind. We have poisoned our conscience, and something poisoned will need treatment one day or it will rot."
Book Review – Liquid Shades of Blue by James Polkinghorn
Overall: 🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★ Writing Style: ★★★ Character Development: ★★★ Enjoyment: ★★★.5 "This was a perfect example of the now-frequent problem at the swimming hole... Locals usually try to work things out, while hard-partying tourists tend to do their own thing without much concern for anyone not in their group."
March’s Monthly Reading List
It is the 3rd month into the year and spring is in the air, Finally! This winter was crazy cold. One of the coldest seasons I can remember at least. Plus, with it flipping back and forth between hot and cold this past month, I am so ready for it to stick with one side … Continue reading March’s Monthly Reading List
Book Review – Golem by PD Alleva
Overall: 🐢🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★★.5 Writing Style: ★★★★ Character Development: ★★★★ Enjoyment: ★★★★.5 "Think about it, Alena. To the fly the spider is the devil, or evil or whatever you choose to name it. But if that same spider chose not to eat the fly, well, then he would be a merciful god."
Book Review – Assassin’s Lullaby by Mark Rubinstein
Length: 317 pgs / 8 hrs 20 mins audio Overall: 🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★★★ Writing Style: ★★★★★ Character Development: ★★★★ Enjoyment: ★★★★★ "Why keep living a life that's nothing but a tangle of lies and deception?"Assassin's Lullaby by Mark Rubinstein The Story: In every life, there lurks catastrophe So believes Eli Dagan, a thirty-nine-year-old man whose … Continue reading Book Review – Assassin’s Lullaby by Mark Rubinstein
Book Review – Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson
Length: 270 pgs / 8hrs 3mins audio Overall: 🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★★★ Writing Style: ★★★★★ Character Development: ★★★★★ Enjoyment: ★★★★★ "Books are time travel. True readers all know this."Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson The Story: Years ago, bookseller and mystery aficionado Malcolm Kershaw compiled a list of the genre’s most unsolvable murders, those that are … Continue reading Book Review – Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson
Book Review – Treachery Times Two (Book 4)
Length: 336 pgs / n/a mins audio Overall: 🐢🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★★★ Writing Style: ★★★★ Character Development: ★★★ Enjoyment: ★★★★★ "Get your rain slicker on 'cause shit is gonna come pouring down."Treachery Times Two by Robert McCaw The Story: On Hawaii Island, a volcanic earthquake disrupts an abandoned cemetery - unearthing the body of a woman … Continue reading Book Review – Treachery Times Two (Book 4)