Excerpt: Review: Cormac "the Hurricane" O'Connell made plenty of mistakes with his life until he met Em who inspires him to be a better man. Fiercely protective, only three things in life matter to O'Connell: his wife, his family and his boxing career. The Aftermath follows O'Connell as he trains for a career defining fight while supporting his wife during her abusive step father's trial. With their future on the line in more ways than one, O'Connell struggles with anger management issues and 'faces the temptation of crossing a line he can never uncross. Life ... Continue Reading...
Review: Wishes for Christmas
Wishes for Christmas is a set of three Christmas cheer tales written by the prolific author Fern Michaels. In each tale we meet the cast of Fern's various groups: The Godmothers, The Sisterhood and The Vigilantes. In the first story, And The Angels Sing, Maggie reveals that she once knew a school teacher who was assaulted before disappearing. Since the day she found her teacher bruised and battered, Maggie has blamed herself for the woman's disappearance. The Vigilantes decide that they will track down this lost teacher and bring her Christmas cheer, but the task is ... Continue Reading...
Review: MemoRandom
MemoRandom is a novel about David Sarac, an informant handler at the Intelligence Unit of the Stockholm Police. His main priorities are to identify, recruit and manage people who can provide information and tips about organized crime in the city. David is one of the best and he's been able to recruit one of the nation's most top-secret and most successful informant, Janus. When David suffers a stroke and wakes up in the hospital he realizes he doesn't remember anything about his life from before. He can't remember who he is, why he is in the hospital or what secrets ... Continue Reading...
Review: Depraved Heart
Okay, so first off, this book is LONG. I don't mean "this took forever to read because it was lengthy", I mean "the first half nothing happened". I haven't read a Scarpetta novel before so I wasn't sure what to expect. I knew she was a leader in her literary niche with plenty of novels under her belt but I had no idea she's wrote 23 of this series! This knowledge still didn't prepare me for all the history and past experiences the characters have under gone during the previous novels although Cornwell did an excellent job of catching me up. Depraved Heart was easy ... Continue Reading...
Dave vs The Monsters: Ascendance
It took me awhile to get through book three of the Dave Hooper trilogy. I've never been much for military fiction so I think that perhaps the amount of fighting scenes in Ascendance might have slowed me down. It's not that Ascendance wasn't very good or that I disliked it, in fact I still loved it, but I found the beginning fighting scenes that take up a good 40% of the book were unnecessary for someone reading this series for the wit, sarcasm and fantasy elements. Birmingham is extremely well written and his action sequences are believable and inspiring. I struggled ... Continue Reading...
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