The Help

When I don’t really care for a book, I generally just don’t write about it here. I have written some reviews of books I dislike, if I have specific reasons. If it was simply “this book didn’t grab me” then I just don’t write about it. I read so many books that [...]

Cleopatra’s Daughter

I wrote about Cleopatra’s Daughter for Bookbrowse.com.
Go check out my review – and other people’s review – of Cleopatra’s Daughter.
While you’re there, consider getting a membership. I find out about great books well before they show up on bookshelves and sometimes I get Advance Reading Copies to review. It’s pretty great and not [...]

The Mark of the Demon

I can’t believe I got suckered into yet another series but I did.
Mark of the Demon is the very first book by Diana Rowland, so obviously the very first book of this series.
Kara Gillian is a Louisiana detective. She’s only been a detective for three years and she’s been assigned her first homicide [...]

Destined for an Early Grave

This  is the fourth book of the series and it just keeps getting better.
Cat Crawfield is half-vampire and half-human.  Until six years ago, she was a vampire killer.  Then she met Bones.  She’s since learned that not all vampires are evil but that a good many of them aren’t all they appear to be.
She has [...]

Over My Dead Body: 43 Old Cemetary Road Book 2 – Kate Klise & M. Sarah Klise

Somehow, I wound up on the Amazon Vine list. This is the first of the books I’ve reviewed as an Official Vine Reviewer but I have two more books waiting for me to review and I think another one the way.
You can read the review here.

Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton

In Anita Blake’s St. Louis, vampires and werewolves aren’t figments of our imagination or the stuff of fiction. They are real and walking the streets, they own businesses and have jobs and lives, the vampires even have their own church.
Anita’s primary job is as an animator. She raises the dead – [...]

The Next Few Books

I had a hysterectomy on 6/17 and I’ve read nearly all the rest of the Home Repair is Homicide series. At the moment, I don’t feel like going back and writing about all of them so I’ll do a group summary of them.
Mallets Aforethought, Tool & Die, Nail Biter and Trap Door get progressively [...]

Unhinged by Sarah Graves

Interesting things keep happening to Jacobia Tiptree. 
An old woman that no one really liked has disappeared.  The locals think she has just run off to avoid creditors – until her body is discovered.  Of course, Jacobia (Jake) and her friend Ellie have to investigate.
It turns out that this series of murders is much closer to [...]

White Witch Black Curse by Kim Harrison

I love this series.  I really do. I have no idea when it will end but I hope not soon.  Harrison left plenty of things to tie in to the next book, so I hope it’s not another year before the next one.
Rachel’s boyfriend, Kisten, was murdered a book or so ago.  Jenks, her business [...]

Fatally Flaky by Diane Mott Davidson

It’s been a while since Davidson’s last book, Sweet Revenge, and since then Goldy has acquired a godfather who has moved in across the street.  Okay, I guess she’s had him all along but he’s pretty much just now showing up.  (Unless I just forgot about him, which is likely.)
Goldy is in wedding season – [...]