REVIEW: #73 Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz

Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes Title: Odd Thomas Author: Dean Koontz ISBN: 0007695381 Pages: 446 Rating: Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com) The dead don’t talk. I don’t know why. But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as [...]

REVIEW: #69 Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott

Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes Title: Living Dead Girl Author: Elizabeth Scott ISBN: 1416960600 Pages: 176 Rating: Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com) When Alice was ten, Ray took her away from her family, her friends — her life. She learned to give up all power, to endure all pain. She waited for the nightmare to [...]

REVIEW: #63 We the Children by Andrew Clements

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes Title: We the Children (Benjamin Pratt & The Keepers of the School vol. 1) Author: Andrew Clements ISBN: 1416938869 Pages: 160 Rating: Synopsis: (Taken from back of book) Benjamin Pratt’s harbor-side school is going to be bulldozed to make room for an amusement park. It sounds like a dream [...]

REVIEW: #35 Night Runner

Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes Title: Night Runner Author: Max Turner ISBN: 0312592280 Pages: 292 Rating: Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon) For Zack Thomson, living in the Nicholls Ward isn’t so bad. After his parents died, he developed strange and severe allergies, and the mental institution was the only place where he could be properly [...]

REVIEW: #34 Dead as a Doornail

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes Title: Dead as a Doornail Author: Charlaine Harris ISBN: 0441012795 Pages: 295 Rating: Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com) When Sookie’s brother Jason’s eyes start to change, she knows he’s about to turn into a were-panther for the first time. But her concern becomes cold fear when a sniper sets his [...]

REVIEW: #32 Dead to the World

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes Title: Dead to the World (#4 in the series) Author: Charlaine Harris ISBN: 978-0-441-01218-3 Pages: 310 Rating: Synopsis: (Taken from back of book) It’s not every day that you come across a naked man on the side of the road. That’s why cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse doesn’t just drive [...]

REVIEW: #31 Club Dead

Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes Title: Club Dead (#3 in the series) Author: Charlaine Harris ISBN: 0441018270 Pages: 320 Rating: Synopsis: (Taken from back of the book) There’s only one vampire Sookie Stackhouse is involved with (at least voluntarily) and that’s Bill. But recently he’s been a little distant – in another state distant. [...]

REVIEW: #29 The Beneficiary

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes Title: The Beneficiary Author: Marshall Thornton ASIN: B001R4C07O Pages: 34 Rating: Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com) Set in the ’90s during the Los Angeles riots, this contemporary noir follows a struggling real estate agent who’s cooked up a plan to make a big pot of money. Hanging around a Narcotics [...]

REVIEW: #28 High Five

Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes Title: High Five Author: Janet Evanovich ISBN: 0312971346 Pages: 340 Rating: Synopsis: (Taken from Evanovich.com) Bail jumping in Trenton is down to small potatoes. Stephanie’s only open case is a small bond for a small violation, committed by a small person who raises Stephanie’s frustration level in big ways. [...]

Teaser Tuesdays: High Five

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: Grab your current read. Open to a random page. Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page    * BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make [...]

Teaser Tuesdays: WORST NIGHTMARES #meme

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: Grab your current read. Open to a random page. Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page    * BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make [...]

REVIEW: #21 Living Dead in Dallas

Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes TITLE: Living Dead in Dallas AUTHOR: Charlaine Harris ISBN: 0441009239 PAGES: 291 Rating: Synopsis: (Taken from Borders.com) When a vampire asks cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse to use her telepathic skills to find another missing vampire, she agrees under one condition: the vampires must promise to behave and let the [...]

REVIEW: #20 Precession

Reading time: 4 – 7 minutes Title: Precession Author: Abigail “Abby” Arrington ISBN: 1432735195 Pages: 296 Synopsis: (Taken from back of Book) ATTORNEY RILEY MORGAN is still recovering from a devastating personal loss when a long-time friend and colleague convinces her to take on a new high-profile client at her Florida law firm. Little does [...]

Teaser Tuesdays: Precession

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: Grab your current read. Open to a random page. Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page    * BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make [...]

REVIEW: #19 A Cold-Blooded Business

Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes Title: A Cold-Blooded Business- Adultury, Murder, and a Killer’s Path from the Bible Belt to the Boardroom Author: Marek Fuchs ISBN: 1602392544 Pages: 201 Synopsis: (Taken from Inside Flap) In 1959, Olathe, Kansas was made famous by the murder of the Clutter family and Truman Capote’s ground-breaking book on [...]

REVIEW: #18 Dead Until Dark

Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes Title: Dead Until Dark Author: Charlaine Harris ISBN: 0441008534 Pages: 292 Synopsis: (Taken from back of book) Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in a small-town Louisiana. She’s quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn’t get out much. Not because she’s not pretty. She is. It’s just that, well, [...]

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