In my review of The Tomb, I lamented getting wrapped up in yet another series, but to quote Britney: Oops, I did it again. Crashed is the first novel in the Junior Bender series and I can’t wait to dig into these books! Again, it’s all about a main character who is intriguing enough to keep me turning pages. Junior… Read more
Okay, on to book two in the series, Werewolf on the Western Front. It’s 1916 and the height of World War II. Sam Carter and Lucas Avery are back – Sam serving with the Americans after sorting out his problems with the French Foreign Legion, and Lucas with British Intelligence. They find themselves at Kilometre Zero, near the Swiss border,… Read more
This book is brilliant. I feel like I read a long love poem about a futuristic war fought by time travelers. It took a minute to figure out just what was happening, but it was so easy to get swept up in it. Red and Blue are agents on opposite sides of the Time War. Red belongs to the Commandment,… Read more
Joanna and Esther are sisters who were raised around books. Magical books. Books full of spells – add a drop of blood, read them aloud, and anything can happen. You could become invisible, make your houseplants sprout golden blossoms, protect your home. Or something more sinister. Joanna has a gift – she can “hear” the hum of magical books, and… Read more
If you are looking for a fun series that combines element of horror and historical fiction, have I got a series for you! Shane Carrow’s Avery & Carter series (3 titles) has a lot of great historical detail, plenty of action and adventure, and some classic horror movie characters. The first book in the series is Vampire on the Orient… Read more
Bunny is one of the best books I’ve read this year – and one of the strangest. I mean, I love strange books, but there were times when I had to set the book down and say “What the [heck] did I just read? Seriously, what did I just read?” Crazy stuff, but worth the effort. Samantha is an MFA… Read more
This is a great addition to this series. It stays in the universe of Camino Island and draws on many of the characters we’ve already met. The new story is still about books and the book business, with some history and some courtroom drama mixed in. (After all, this is John Grisham – I knew there would eventually be a… Read more
This is the second book in the Camino Island series and, like most second installments, isn’t quite as good as the first. Still, it’s a page-turner with a plot that would make a great movie. We rejoin our bookseller, Bruce Cable of Bay Books, after the hubbub surrounding the Princeton manuscripts has died down. Mercer is coming back to town… Read more
Camino Island starts out with a caper, and I love a good caper. A group of men are planning a heist. They are scoping out their target, getting familiar with the security, and devising a plan to break into the rare books library at Princeton University and steal the original manuscripts written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It’s a cunning plan… Read more
This is really a lovely book. Ashlyn is a rare book dealer and in a box of books from an estate, she comes across an oddity: a bound book with no author, no publisher, no end pages, none of the usual stuff. Only a title – Regretting Belle – an inscription: How, Belle? After everything…how could you do it? Intriguing!… Read more