It's time for the Friday Book Club! What reads are you loving this week?
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This week I read Abigail Owen's Shadowcat Nation series: Andromeda's Fall (#1), Sarai's Fortune (#2), Tieryn's Fury (#3), and Seneca's Faith (#4). Sarai's Fortune was my favorite. The series was a different take on shifters.
I also enjoyed Jayne Ann Krentz' latest The Night Island (The Lost Night Files #2).
And read a few duds, but overall my reading year has gotten off to a grand start.
I was very excited to see who the other main character in Primal Mirror will be. So now I am fighting the urge to start my series reread early.
Just finished Remarkably Bright Creatures: life as viewed and assisted by an aquarium octopus. Not something you run into very frequently or as enjoyably.
My reading has been all over the place this week. Just finished Breaking Creed by Alex Kava and Born to Be Badger by Shelly Laurenston. Enjoyed both books.
I was looking for new or something to re-read. I found two new (for me) books by Stephanie Laurens.
The first is Miss Prim and the Duke of Wylde. This is part of the Cynster Next Generation series. Miss Prim is Meg Cynster, the youngest daughter of Harry (aka Demon) and Felicity (aka Flick) Cynster. This book caught my attention when Drago Helmsford, the Duke of Wylde was supposed to offer marriage to a young lady who lived basically next door. However, as the duke was hiding out and got drunk, he meets Meg Cynster. Meg was visiting her cousin and his wife nearby, noticed a carriage with a man slumped in the seat, and thought to help. One thing leads to another, and they find themselves engaged. There is a villain in the book, but I don't want to give the plot away. I really enjoyed the book.
The second is The Greatest Challenge of Them All: Devil's Brood Trilogy. This one is with Louisa Cynster, the daughter of Devil and Honoria, Duke and Duchess of St. Ives, and Drake Verisey, Marquis of Winchelsea, son of Royce and Minerva, Duke and Duchess of Wolverstone. Drake is asked by the Home Office to investigate a plot that is overlapped in the first two books of the series (Sebastian's and Michael's books). Drake is helpless to prevent Louisa from helping him with his investigation. The end of the book is hilarious with a conversation between Honoria and Devil once all the children are married. After reading their parents' stories, this book closes the circle with Wolverstone and St. Ives. It's hard to think of Royce, Minerva, Devil, and Honoria in their 50s and possibly early 60s. Louisa gets a little pushy at times, but I think that's due to her upbringing. Overall, it's a good book.
Now I'm re-reading Archangel's War. I am also following Ilona Andrews's blog. They have a Friday snippet with one of characters in Kate Daniels' books.
Can't wait to read the new books coming out this year!
Finished The Running Grave: A Cormoran Strike #7 By Robert Galbraith aka J.K. Rowling Loved the ending so much. So I subscribed HBO+ & started watching all the available 5 Seasons adapted from the first 5 Books. Amazing Series ~ C.B. Strike! Super happy to know that Season 6 has now begun filming. Maybe I'll get to watch this one by December?
Also Loved the mystery by my new to me author ~ Harlan Coben's FOOL ME ONCE.
I've been reading an old true crime biography called Finder by Marilyn Greene and Gary Provost. It's about her work creating and then leading one of the first search and rescue dog teams (the first with air search dogs) in New York State, back in then 60's and 70's, and then her shift into working as a PI specializing in missing persons. It was written in 1988. This was before NCMEC, before police had much training at all in dealing with missing persons, and before they started taking missing persons as seriously as they do today. (They often dismissed unsolvable cases as 'runaways' or 'not important enough'). And, of course, as a woman doing these things back then, the sexism was rampant! She more often encountered hostility than appreciation for even trying, never mind succeeding! It's quite an engaging book, and rather fascinating.
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This week I read Abigail Owen's Shadowcat Nation series: Andromeda's Fall (#1), Sarai's Fortune (#2), Tieryn's Fury (#3), and Seneca's Faith (#4). Sarai's Fortune was my favorite. The series was a different take on shifters.
I also enjoyed Jayne Ann Krentz' latest The Night Island (The Lost Night Files #2).
And read a few duds, but overall my reading year has gotten off to a grand start.
I was very excited to see who the other main character in Primal Mirror will be. So now I am fighting the urge to start my series reread early.
Just finished Remarkably Bright Creatures: life as viewed and assisted by an aquarium octopus. Not something you run into very frequently or as enjoyably.
My reading has been all over the place this week. Just finished Breaking Creed by Alex Kava and Born to Be Badger by Shelly Laurenston. Enjoyed both books.
I was looking for new or something to re-read. I found two new (for me) books by Stephanie Laurens.
The first is Miss Prim and the Duke of Wylde. This is part of the Cynster Next Generation series. Miss Prim is Meg Cynster, the youngest daughter of Harry (aka Demon) and Felicity (aka Flick) Cynster. This book caught my attention when Drago Helmsford, the Duke of Wylde was supposed to offer marriage to a young lady who lived basically next door. However, as the duke was hiding out and got drunk, he meets Meg Cynster. Meg was visiting her cousin and his wife nearby, noticed a carriage with a man slumped in the seat, and thought to help. One thing leads to another, and they find themselves engaged. There is a villain in the book, but I don't want to give the plot away. I really enjoyed the book.
The second is The Greatest Challenge of Them All: Devil's Brood Trilogy. This one is with Louisa Cynster, the daughter of Devil and Honoria, Duke and Duchess of St. Ives, and Drake Verisey, Marquis of Winchelsea, son of Royce and Minerva, Duke and Duchess of Wolverstone. Drake is asked by the Home Office to investigate a plot that is overlapped in the first two books of the series (Sebastian's and Michael's books). Drake is helpless to prevent Louisa from helping him with his investigation. The end of the book is hilarious with a conversation between Honoria and Devil once all the children are married. After reading their parents' stories, this book closes the circle with Wolverstone and St. Ives. It's hard to think of Royce, Minerva, Devil, and Honoria in their 50s and possibly early 60s. Louisa gets a little pushy at times, but I think that's due to her upbringing. Overall, it's a good book.
Now I'm re-reading Archangel's War. I am also following Ilona Andrews's blog. They have a Friday snippet with one of characters in Kate Daniels' books.
Can't wait to read the new books coming out this year!
Sanctuary serial on Ilona Andrews’ blog
Are you evil enough?
Finished The Running Grave: A Cormoran Strike #7 By Robert Galbraith aka J.K. Rowling Loved the ending so much. So I subscribed HBO+ & started watching all the available 5 Seasons adapted from the first 5 Books. Amazing Series ~ C.B. Strike! Super happy to know that Season 6 has now begun filming. Maybe I'll get to watch this one by December?
Also Loved the mystery by my new to me author ~ Harlan Coben's FOOL ME ONCE.
But the Best of the Best YA Fantasy series to date has to be Dark Star Burning, Ash Falls White~ Book #2 ~ by Amélie Wen Zhao❣️ A Brilliant Billion Stars ❣️
I've been reading an old true crime biography called Finder by Marilyn Greene and Gary Provost. It's about her work creating and then leading one of the first search and rescue dog teams (the first with air search dogs) in New York State, back in then 60's and 70's, and then her shift into working as a PI specializing in missing persons. It was written in 1988. This was before NCMEC, before police had much training at all in dealing with missing persons, and before they started taking missing persons as seriously as they do today. (They often dismissed unsolvable cases as 'runaways' or 'not important enough'). And, of course, as a woman doing these things back then, the sexism was rampant! She more often encountered hostility than appreciation for even trying, never mind succeeding! It's quite an engaging book, and rather fascinating.
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