Imagine waking up as a different person every day. You aren't really them, but you have been inserted into their body and their mind for the day. Imagine not having a family or ties to anybody. That was A's life. It has been that way since A was "born" and he has come to accept his life.
Until Rhianna, she changes everything. A risks the people he is a guest in and himself to see her, to be with her. Can this work?
I've heard a lot of good things about this book and it wasn't a bad book, it just didn't live up to my expectations. I kept expecting it to go somewhere and it didn't. Nathan, Poole, Rhianna, even A had really no storyline development or conclusion. The book wrapped up too nicely and not at all.
I'm not sure who I would recommend this to, but I also wouldn't tell anybody to stay away from it. It was just ok.
Pages: 324
Friday, May 31, 2013
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Faithful Place by Tana French
I've come to expect a lot from Tana French and she did not disappoint with Faithful Place. I figured the ended out about two thirds of the way through, but wasn't totally sure until she wanted me to be.
Frank Mackey, and undercover cop, gets a frantic phone call from his sister Jackie. Since she is the only family member he has been in contact with in the last couple of decades, Mackey assumes that the bad news is about his family.
He is completely shocked and through off guard when he finds that his young sweetheart's suitcase was found in a run down building. The two had intended to run off together in the evening hours, but they never met up. Frank assumed that Rosie had left him and he didn't blame her... but the suitcase changes everything. Maybe Rosie didn't leave him. Maybe something bad happened to her.
The suitcase forces Frank to return to Faithful Place, a place he has avoided for almost thirty years. From the moment he steps foot into his own neighborhood he is pulled into the family drama, his desire to escape, and a mystery that has haunted him for most of his life.
I liked Faithful Place. In French's style it gets a bit wordy at times. I was hooked from the first chapter and I believe most people will be. If you like mysteries, stories set in other countries, or tragic love this book is for you.
Pages: 400
Frank Mackey, and undercover cop, gets a frantic phone call from his sister Jackie. Since she is the only family member he has been in contact with in the last couple of decades, Mackey assumes that the bad news is about his family.
He is completely shocked and through off guard when he finds that his young sweetheart's suitcase was found in a run down building. The two had intended to run off together in the evening hours, but they never met up. Frank assumed that Rosie had left him and he didn't blame her... but the suitcase changes everything. Maybe Rosie didn't leave him. Maybe something bad happened to her.
The suitcase forces Frank to return to Faithful Place, a place he has avoided for almost thirty years. From the moment he steps foot into his own neighborhood he is pulled into the family drama, his desire to escape, and a mystery that has haunted him for most of his life.
I liked Faithful Place. In French's style it gets a bit wordy at times. I was hooked from the first chapter and I believe most people will be. If you like mysteries, stories set in other countries, or tragic love this book is for you.
Pages: 400
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Dead Ever After by Charliane Harris
I read Deadlocked in the days leading up to the release of Dead Ever After so that I had the plots fresh in my mind. While I don't seem to hate this book like many other fans do, I did not like it as much as I did the first couple. Harris seems to grab every character/storyline in this series to revive in the last book. Her bows are a little too tight and the wrong color.
In the 13th book in the Southern Vampire (aka Sookie Stackhouse) novels, Sookie is charged with the murder of Arlene, former friend and would-be murderer. She deals with her lover and vampire husband being betrowed to the Queen of Oklahoma. Vampire friends shut her out and Sookie is alone and hunted by multiple creatures.
Seriously. I get the instinct to give closure to the story lines and characters, but when you shove so much into one book it becomes disjointed and desperate.
Finally SPOILER (highlight to read)
After 12 books of just friends and no feelings, Sookie falls out of love (a most passionate, enduring love according to Sookie) and in love/lust/happily ever after with another? Wow, talk about rebound. Again I get the instinct, but it was a horrible way to consummate that relationship.
In the 13th book in the Southern Vampire (aka Sookie Stackhouse) novels, Sookie is charged with the murder of Arlene, former friend and would-be murderer. She deals with her lover and vampire husband being betrowed to the Queen of Oklahoma. Vampire friends shut her out and Sookie is alone and hunted by multiple creatures.
Seriously. I get the instinct to give closure to the story lines and characters, but when you shove so much into one book it becomes disjointed and desperate.
Finally SPOILER (highlight to read)
After 12 books of just friends and no feelings, Sookie falls out of love (a most passionate, enduring love according to Sookie) and in love/lust/happily ever after with another? Wow, talk about rebound. Again I get the instinct, but it was a horrible way to consummate that relationship.
Saturday, April 6, 2013
Executive Privilege by Phillip Margolin
This was a Free Friday book from Nook and I am glad it was as I really enjoyed it. Since I assume that authors participate in Free Friday to gain loyal readers, this one worked. I will be looking for other books by Margolin to read.
Executive Privilege follows two main storylines; one of private detective/ex-cop Dana Cutler and the other of new attorney Brad Miller. At first I found it hard to follow as I couldn't imagine what the two storylines had in common.
Dana Cutler is hired to do a simple surveillance job. Follow Charlotte Walsh, take pictures, and report back to the mystery client. It sounds simple and like easy money until Cutler follow Walsh to a farm house and the Secret Service. When Walsh is found murdered just hours after Cutler's last picture, Culter is forced to go on the run.
Meanwhile, Brad Miller is assigned a pro-bono case for a serial killer. He begrudgingly meets with the killer who professes his innocence in ONE of the multiple murders he is accused and convicted of. His alibi? He was too busy murdering two other people and could not have possibly murdered the one girl.
Both murders seem to have a common theme, but can either Brad or Dana figure it out before they too are murdered?
Executive Privilege follows two main storylines; one of private detective/ex-cop Dana Cutler and the other of new attorney Brad Miller. At first I found it hard to follow as I couldn't imagine what the two storylines had in common.
Dana Cutler is hired to do a simple surveillance job. Follow Charlotte Walsh, take pictures, and report back to the mystery client. It sounds simple and like easy money until Cutler follow Walsh to a farm house and the Secret Service. When Walsh is found murdered just hours after Cutler's last picture, Culter is forced to go on the run.
Meanwhile, Brad Miller is assigned a pro-bono case for a serial killer. He begrudgingly meets with the killer who professes his innocence in ONE of the multiple murders he is accused and convicted of. His alibi? He was too busy murdering two other people and could not have possibly murdered the one girl.
Both murders seem to have a common theme, but can either Brad or Dana figure it out before they too are murdered?
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Sabotage and Torn by Margaret Peterson Haddix
I'm going to put my review up here so that one does not have to read through the spoilers to get to it.
I love these books. I love how there is a bit of history to them (though Torn is not always accurate) and that at the end of the book the author tells a little about the time and the "missing" doomed child.
I can't wait to read the fifth book and then I will anxiously await the next in the Missing series. While I wait, I think I will be picking up some more of her books.
Sabotage and Torn are books three and four in The Missing series. I recommend reading the other books before reading this review.
In Sabotage, Jonah and Katherine are sent back to 1603 with Andrea aka Virginia Dare to help fix time. Unfortunately Amanda had been enticed by a strange man who told her if she messed with the Elucidator she would be able to save her parents who were killed in a car accident. The kids end up in the wrong place and maybe in the wrong time.
Once landed they find tracers all over, but not Andrea's. Jonah and Katherine are concerned about messing up time as each set they take may set off a chain reaction, but their bigger problem is the two light skinned- Native American looking tracers who don't seem to have humans to go with them. The kids must follow the tracers and try to recreate their moves in order to not change history.
STOP READING HERE TO AVOID SPOILERS
The kids discover that Andrea's mystery man calls himself Second and is trying to give second chances to those in history. Andrea meets her grandfather and his fate is changed, changing all time after. But Second doesn't anticipate time collapsing on itself in a way that may just end it all...
Leaving the others behind, Jonah and Katherine are pulled out of 1603 and bounce through time landing in 1611 on board the Discovery, Henry Hudson's ship. They must fix 1611 in order to keep time from ending, but the missing child, John Hudson, is no wear to be found and even scarier is that there are no tracers showing the original events.
Jonah must disguise himself as John and hope he doesn't do something that causes time to cease.
I love these books. I love how there is a bit of history to them (though Torn is not always accurate) and that at the end of the book the author tells a little about the time and the "missing" doomed child.
I can't wait to read the fifth book and then I will anxiously await the next in the Missing series. While I wait, I think I will be picking up some more of her books.
Sabotage and Torn are books three and four in The Missing series. I recommend reading the other books before reading this review.
In Sabotage, Jonah and Katherine are sent back to 1603 with Andrea aka Virginia Dare to help fix time. Unfortunately Amanda had been enticed by a strange man who told her if she messed with the Elucidator she would be able to save her parents who were killed in a car accident. The kids end up in the wrong place and maybe in the wrong time.
Once landed they find tracers all over, but not Andrea's. Jonah and Katherine are concerned about messing up time as each set they take may set off a chain reaction, but their bigger problem is the two light skinned- Native American looking tracers who don't seem to have humans to go with them. The kids must follow the tracers and try to recreate their moves in order to not change history.
STOP READING HERE TO AVOID SPOILERS
The kids discover that Andrea's mystery man calls himself Second and is trying to give second chances to those in history. Andrea meets her grandfather and his fate is changed, changing all time after. But Second doesn't anticipate time collapsing on itself in a way that may just end it all...
Leaving the others behind, Jonah and Katherine are pulled out of 1603 and bounce through time landing in 1611 on board the Discovery, Henry Hudson's ship. They must fix 1611 in order to keep time from ending, but the missing child, John Hudson, is no wear to be found and even scarier is that there are no tracers showing the original events.
Jonah must disguise himself as John and hope he doesn't do something that causes time to cease.
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Sent by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Sent is the second book in the Missing Children series by Margaret Haddix. If you haven't read Found, the next couple of lines may be spoilers.
Found ended with the missing children stuck in a cave that was not in time. JD is determined to send the children wrongly pulled from time back to their correct time period. Just as he aims the Elucidator at the Chip, Jonas and Katherine grab Chip and are transported back in time with him.
Sent begins with the children being transported back in time; to Chip's real time and real identity...Edward the V of England, King Edward that is. Joining them is Alex, aka Richard, Edward's little brother and prince. JD gives the four children the opportunity to correct the time that was displaced with the kidnappings of Chip and Alex. If they succeed, the boys may return to the current time and live the rest of their lives as Chip and Alex. If they fail, they will meet the same fate as Edward and Richard...presumably death.
I love the way Haddix writes. She stays fairly true to historical accuracy while still taking some artistic liberty. This second book is not as suspenseful as the first, but it kept me turning the pages. I read the book in two nights and started the third. For me, that is the true measure of a series...reading the next book right away or being disappointed that there isn't another book to read.
I'd recommend this to kids (probably 5th or 6th grade and up) and those who like younger fiction and/or historical based fiction.
Found ended with the missing children stuck in a cave that was not in time. JD is determined to send the children wrongly pulled from time back to their correct time period. Just as he aims the Elucidator at the Chip, Jonas and Katherine grab Chip and are transported back in time with him.
Sent begins with the children being transported back in time; to Chip's real time and real identity...Edward the V of England, King Edward that is. Joining them is Alex, aka Richard, Edward's little brother and prince. JD gives the four children the opportunity to correct the time that was displaced with the kidnappings of Chip and Alex. If they succeed, the boys may return to the current time and live the rest of their lives as Chip and Alex. If they fail, they will meet the same fate as Edward and Richard...presumably death.
I love the way Haddix writes. She stays fairly true to historical accuracy while still taking some artistic liberty. This second book is not as suspenseful as the first, but it kept me turning the pages. I read the book in two nights and started the third. For me, that is the true measure of a series...reading the next book right away or being disappointed that there isn't another book to read.
I'd recommend this to kids (probably 5th or 6th grade and up) and those who like younger fiction and/or historical based fiction.
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