Runner by Patrick Lee: Book Review
Stars: 3. Sam Dryden, retired special forces, lives a quiet life in a small town on the coast of Southern California. While out on…
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Hero at the End of the World by Erin Claiborne: book review
Stars: 4/5 Blurb: Sixteen year-old Ewan Mao knows one thing for certain: according to prophecy, it’s his destiny to kill the evil tyrant whose dark…
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The Keeper of Lost Causes, Department Q series, book 1 by Jussi Adler-Olsen, translated by Lisa Hartford
Stars 3.5 Blurb: The #1 international bestseller from Jussi Adler-Olsen, author of The Absent One—perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo….
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The White Magic Five and Dime by Steve Hockensmith: Book Review
Stars: 4 Blurb: Much to Alanis McLachlan’s surprise, her estranged con-woman mother has left her an inheritance: The White Magic Five & Dime, a shop in…
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Neverwhere by BBC 4: audiobook review
Blurb: Under the streets of London there’s a place most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and…
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Brilliance by Marcus Sakey: Book Review
Stars: 3.5-ish. I would happily ride a train all day just to be able to finish this book. Blurb: In Wyoming, a little girl reads…
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Mortal Gods by Kendare Blake: Book Review: Bella Swan for a new generation of readers
Stars: 2.5/5. Because I admit, I did like the other characters in the book. If only the main character, Cassandra, wasn’t in it. Blurb: Ares,…
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Antigoddess by Kendare Blake: Book review
Stars: I did not want to put it down and go to work (AKA 4/5) Blurb: The Goddess War begins in Antigoddess, the first installment…
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Larque on the Wing: Book Review
Blurb: Larque Harootunian is having a mid-life crisis. But Larque, wife, mother and painter isn’t like most 40-year-olds. All her life she’s been generating “doppelgangers,”…
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MapleCroft: Book Review … almost
Blurb: Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks; and when she saw what she had done, she gave her…
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