Review- Pretense For Murder by Karen L. Abrahamson

Review- Pretense For Murder by Karen L. Abrahamson

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This short story starts with teenage Vallon Drake. She is at a high school for the gifted of power, (the AGS Prep Academy in Seattle) but even there she feels different. She knows she is more powerful than most of them and she feels their powers. Her guardian Landon just wants her to follow the rules but the itch that she gets when she doesn’t use her powers gets her to disobey the rules discretely and go into the woods and use them. While coming back to sneak into the prep academy she finds a girl who looks like her dead. Vallon wants to investigate but both her guardian and the headmaster want her to stay out of the investigation but Vallon feels an obligation to investigate. She feels that they are not investigating closely because it is a crime of the gifted.

This is a very enchanting read. I truly enjoyed getting to know the character of Vallon.A very interesting compelling read.

I give this book  

4★★★★ out of ★★★★★ 5

Review -Run the Hunted by Patti Larsen

Run the Hunted by Patti Larsen

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Reid is sixteen years old and overjoyed when he’s older sister gets him out of foster care that he has been in for a year and takes him home saying she has a good job. Reid is amazed by the extras she has for him. Reid wakes up after going to sleep to men grabbing him and hustling him into a van. They take him somewhere blindfolded and tied. After they set him down he manages to get free only to realize he is the Hunted. Fleeing to survive, he learns to adapt he then meets others kidnapped and fleeing from the killers; soon he must choose to be a leader and stay one step ahead of the hunters.

If you have read Lord of the flies by William Golding then you will certainly enjoy Run the hunted. It is a story of survival of the fittest and the most inventive.A thrilling suspenseful book you won't want to put down. I truly enjoyed reading this book and hope to read the next book in the series Hide. 

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5★★★★★ out of ★★★★★ 5

Review -Shades Of Gray

Shades of Gray by Andy Holloman

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John Manning is a single father raising his daughter but his travel business has been bad since 9/11 and his little girl is ill and needs a kidney transplant .A client (whom he guesses is a drug mule) owes him back travel money so when he spies her at a McDonalds he attempts to blackmail her into paying him what she owes him. She offers him a way to obtain the money to help his daughter and so they go into business together transporting drugs. I won’t tell you much more about the story as I don’t want to spoil it however I will tell you “Shades Of Gray” Is an intricately layered story of intrigue twist and turns that will keep you enthralled until the end of the book. The characters are ordinary people deeply flawed (as most people) are just trying to live the life the dice has rolled to them. Each is faced with a dilemma the solution that is a shade of gray. The choices these individuals make is the basis of the thrilling, emotion filled story.

5★★★★★ out of ★★★★★ 5

Review The Childe (The Childe Series book 1)

Review The Childe (The Childe Series book 1) by C.A. Kunz

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Cat Colvin always thought she was the average teen except for her taller than average height and her one blue eye and one amber eye. But something is happening. She’s dreaming weird dreams and reading minds and fainting. She tries to hide these abilities and meet new people at her new high school. She acts like the average teen girl even to falling in love with the friend of her enemy putting her at even more odds with the people who don’t like her. Meanwhile something is happening in the small town and girls are going missing; so her overprotective brother and parents are even more protective making Kat upset. She wants to take her independence from what seems to her to be an overprotective family.

The Childe is fascinating take on the vampire series mixing human and vampires told in multiple voices as you hear from other characters points of views. The characters are complex and make for a compelling read as you wonder what will happen next. This is a captivating book that will keep you reading until the very last page and make you want to read the next in the series Dark Days

Now available at Amazon http://amzn.to/w23Z4p . I know I can hardly wait to read the next book.

5★★★★★ out of ★★★★★ five 

Review of Pirate King

Pirate King By Laurie R. King

Video  trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2L7s7ZDJDQ&feature=youtu.be

Excerpts- http://www.laurierking.com/books/book-excerpts/pirate-king

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzLHUK5pQVM&feature=player_embedded

Available at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Pirate-King-suspense-featuring-Sherlock/dp/0553807986/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_2

         If you haven’t read the series let me stop you right now and send you back to the beginning with The Beekeeper's Apprentice (1994) ISBN 0-312-10423-5    The Beekeeper's Apprentice is the first in the series of books about Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes. I never thought that anyone could do Holmes the justice that the original author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, but Laurie R. King comes awful close. Scroll down to below the list of the Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell for the review of Pirate King.

A Monstrous Regiment of Women (1995) ISBN 0-312-13565-3

A Letter of Mary (1997) ISBN 0-312-14670-1

The Moor (1998) ISBN 0-312-16934-5

O Jerusalem (1999) ISBN 0-553-11093-4

(Although written fifth in sequence, the events in this book take place during the latter part of those described in The Beekeeper's Apprentice)

Justice Hall (2002) ISBN 0-553-11113-2

The Game (2004) ISBN 0-553-80194-5

Locked Rooms (2005) ISBN 0-553-80197-X

The Language of Bees (2009) ISBN 0-553-80454-5

The God of the Hive (2010) ISBN 0-553-80554-1

Author:Laurie R.King

Review of Pirate King

I love Pirates of Penzance I was very excited but I wondered how Ms. King would take this story and use it with in a story about people making a movie. At first I was disappointed that Sherlock Holmes didn’t appear in the story until much, much later but as I followed along with Mary and her adventure I became intrigued with the story and the characters she was meeting. The background and research for this story was done well as are all her books the historical facts are extremely accurate and fun to read. I loved how she tied the story together with the movie making and the actual events that take place, however I must say I was still a little disappointed in how tiny the role of Sherlock Holmes there was in the book itself .It takes nearly two one third of the book before you really even read about Sherlock and then it seems to be more of an after-thought then the Sherlock Holmes she wrote about in previous books. That said the storyline was very good despite the missing Holmes and I did enjoy it. It was a rich fun story and if you like a great pirate story you will enjoy this book.

3★★★ out of  5  ★★★★★

Review Paradox Progeny of Innocence

Paradox -Progeny of Innocence

By Patti Roberts
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I had read “Paradox-The Angels are Here" see review here http://bit.ly/wl0Otx and I looked forward to reading the second in the series and Progeny of Innocence did not disappoint. This book had such a captivating story woven intricately between the pages that this reader could not put down the story until its completion. I enjoyed the richness of the characters and all the facades of their personalities. The characters come alive and you can picture each and every one of them with the descriptions the author gives.All the questions I wondered about with the first book were answered. 

In the book Juliette narrates  and you learn how she was reborn repeatedly and finally settled in Grace. Grace doesn't recall all the details of her past lives though she doesn't sometimes get glimmers through dreams and impressions. She knows that she must recall the past when strange things start happening around her and a killer is loose. She is drawn to the new boy Damon and can’t understand the instant attraction. Angela is still trying to protect Grace but it is more difficult for her as Grace is getting older and will not be swayed as easy as she once was.

I liked the little girl Grace but the development in the character of Grace in this novel  makes you see how strong Grace really is becoming as a young woman.

I also really enjoyed was the introduction of Keyla of The Bakhna Rakna who is fighting the bad angels on her own terms. I look forward to finding more about her and her fight and how she and possibly Grace will come together in the next book to save the world in the battle between the warring Angels.

I truly enjoyed this book and if you like paranormal books with intricate plots and  a rich story you will too.

5 ★★★★★ out of  5  ★★★★★

Review of Bootscootin Blahniks

Bootscootin Blahniks

By D.D. Scott

Roxy Rae Vaughn is tired of living in her parent’s spotlight and on their dime. She wants to make a go of it her own as a clothes designer so she starts her own shop in a little corner of a feed store. She has sunk every dime of her money into this hop to make a go of it. so imagine her dismay when she rear ends a cowboy and doesn’t have the money to fix his truck. Cowboy turned tomato farmer Zayne McDonald is intrigued by Roxy and thinks hard to keep her around.

This book was alight feel good book.. Roxy is a feisty caring individual with a heart of gold and Zayne is just the kind of man you want the protagonist to find. The vivid descriptions took this reader on a bootscootin good time as she imagined all the reactions between Roxy and Zayne. Truly a book you’ll want to read if you love a good romance.

4 stars out of five

★★★★ out of ★★★★★

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