Dec 24 2012
Most books that I finish get their own reviews but here are some that either I didn’t finish or I didn’t think warranted a separate review. The Terrorist – Caroline Cooney / Fabulous writing. Intense, page turning, I was 50 pages into it before I even realized it when I finally came up for air.(…)
Nov 14 2012
“The dead don’t speak, but Kelsey Quinn knows their secrets. As a forensic anthropologist at the Delphi Center crime lab, Kelsey makes it her mission to identify bodies, often using no more than shards of bone. Her find at a remote Philippines dig hints at a sinister story. When Kelsey’s search for answers puts her(…)
Jul 31 2010
Dear Ms. Rice: About a month ago, I went on a reading binge of your books. As I stated in my previous summary, you have some writing tics that carry from book to book and Into the Crossfire is no exception. The hero is Sam Reston, a former Navy SEAL, who is part owner in(…)
Apr 24 2008
Dear Mrs. Butcher, A friend of mine recommended this book as one in which there isn’t too much gratuitous violence. Since I loathe play-by-play descriptions of the evil people can do to each other, I paid attention and noted the title. As she said, it isn’t so much a slice by slice commentary of what(…)
Oct 30 2007
Dear Ms. Stuart, The latest book in your Ice series, Ice Storm, opens with a bang. Literally. In a prologue set sometime in the past, we are introduced to nineteen-year-old the heroine this way: Mary Isobel Curwen had never shot a man before. She stood there, numb, unmoving. She’d never fired a gun before, and(…)
Feb 15 2007
Dear Ms Webb, I’m sorry but I can’t get the Bee Gees’ song (“Ah, ah, ah, ah Staying Aliiiiiiiiiiiiive!”) or visions of John Travolta in a white suit, striking a pose out of my head. OK, I’ll stop that now since it has nothing to do with a plot about a teacher dodging terrorists with(…)
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