Monthly Archives: October 2015

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Ready Player OneReady Player One by Ernest Cline
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Short and Sweet: Such a fun book! If you liked the 80’s music and movies, you’ll really like this book. If you were a gamer in any form, you’ll freakin love this book! The writing was good and appropriate for the topic. Wil Wheaton’s narration was perfect for this story!

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Darkling by K.M. Rice

DarklingDarkling by K.M. Rice
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I love a good spooky story, especially this time of year! The story has a little of everything: misery, love, patience, revenge, rage, and regret. I found myself crying at times, and grinning like a fool at other times. It’s an easy, comfortable read, and well written. It would have been an excellent audiobook, and if it ever becomes one, I will happily throw down money to hear it!

DARKLING is K.M. Rice’s debut novel. Well done!

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Re-enjoying a couple of series.

I’m
spending a lot of time re-reading or re-listening to books during the last
month and a half. The two series that earned this time from me?
“No secret stays hidden forever.”

A phone call from an old friend sets Dr. Giovanni Vecchio back on the path of a
mystery he’d abandoned years before. He never expected a young librarian could
hold the key to the search, nor could he have expected the danger she would
attract. Now he and Beatrice De Novo will follow a twisted maze that leads from
the archives of a university library, through the fires of Renaissance
Florence, and toward a confrontation they never could have predicted.

A Hidden Fire is a paranormal mystery/romance for adult readers. It is the
first book in the Elemental Mysteries Series

A richly inventive novel
about a centuries-old vampire, a spellbound witch, and the mysterious
manuscript that draws them together. 
Deep in the stacks of
Oxford’s Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a
bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. Descended from
an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery;
so after a furtive glance and a few notes, she banishes the book to the stacks.
But her discovery sets a fantastical underworld stirring, and a horde of
daemons, witches, and vampires soon descends upon the library. Diana has
stumbled upon a coveted treasure lost for centuries-and she is the only
creature who can break its spell. 
Debut novelist Deborah
Harkness has crafted a mesmerizing and addictive read, equal parts history and
magic, romance and suspense. Diana is a bold heroine who meets her equal in
vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont, and gradually warms up to him as their
alliance deepens into an intimacy that violates age-old taboos. This smart,
sophisticated story harks back to the novels of Anne Rice, but it is as
contemporary and sensual as the Twilight series-with an extra serving
of historical realism. The first book in the All Souls Trilogy.

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Back and forth

I can never seem to decide what type of blogging I’m feeling like.  I do love reviewing books, movies, whatever, but I also sometimes want to just say something. Like… I don’t know, hi! Whatever. Anyway, I’m going to be adding the books I’ve read over the last few months to this blog, and take down my review blog. Cause screw it.  I don’t feel like keeping up 2 blogs, and in fact I haven’t kept up two blogs, only one.  I don’t even know why I bothered typing this up to explain it. Hmm. Well, it’s done now, so there ya go.  Peace.

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Rage’s Echo by J.S. Bailey (Goodreads Author)

Rage's EchoRage’s Echo by J.S. Bailey
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This was a perfect read for this time of year! I love ghost stories, and it’s been a long time since I’ve read one.

Basically, a young woman (Jessica) who fancies herself a paranormal investigator, is asked to check out and see if a church’s graveyard is haunted. It turns out that not only is it haunted, but she can speak to the ghost, and he follows her home against her wishes. From there, the story gets not just creepy and spooky, but it also becomes quite scary. There is also some seriousness woven through the story, but it’s not so heavy that you’ll feel it weigh the story down. The seriousness is what I think will give you something to think about after finishing the book, at least it has felt that way for me.

The writing is good, and I will definitely read more from Bailey, she is a fantastic story-teller. This would make a great book club read!

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