![]() ![]() "Maybe I've lost my mind, but damn, if I'm not ready to hunt down her ghosts and slay every one of them."Ĭrown of Ghosts is the nineteenth book in the Lost Kings MC Series. If you are a fan of the series (like me), this probably won't bother you as you will simply be giddy as hell to be with your favorites, but I feel like it's definitely worth mentioning as it might be an issue for some.Īnd, honestly, a 3+ AJL star is like gold in my book. ![]() ![]() I also feel like not much really happened in this book in general. As such, I has a hard time buying into their feelings and story. I will say, however, that Grinder and Serena's relationship felt vert insta-love (which is very out of character for AJL in my opinion). ![]() I loved just being back in this world with characters that feel like they are "my people." (I did the same thing with Miles and Heidi's story arc.I had no interest for a year or so and then came back and read them).Īs a longtime reader and re-reader of the series, I was excited when I saw that Grinder was getting his own story. Tangent: I will say that, for some reason, I have no interest in Rooster and Shelby's story at this point in time.which means I have yet to read books 16-18 however, I have no doubt I will read them eventually. I just love this world and these characters. Since then, I have read and re-read my favorites in the series numerous times and impatiently waited for almost every single new release. I have been a fan of Autumn Jones Lake and this series since I first read book one in 2014. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Who knows, maybe this is from a different timeline than the one I live in? (You can get away with a lot in Science Fiction). Not really enough, but I am ok with the anachronisms. There are also a few explanations in this book to why technology seems to have made steps backwards since today. I know it's not a new idea in a mystery novel with sub prominent examples as Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes, Hastings and Hercule Poirot and even Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey, but it does seem less common nowadays. I like the way these Alex Benedict books are told by his companion, Chase Kolpath. Trying to find out more about it, it becomes both a mystery and a thriller, as someone seems willing to use extreme violence to prevent Benedict from reaching his goal. In Seeker Benedict gets his hands on a plastic mug that seems to come from a 9,000 year old spaceship. Those 9,000 years (or more) have not been without trouble and there are a fair amount of lost records and mysteries to investigate. Alex Benedict is an antiquity dealer some 9,000 years into the future, in a world where humanity is spread across the galaxy. This is the third of the Alex Benedict books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cassie has been oblivious not just to the harm she’s been doing to herself with alcohol, but to a complex network involving American spies, Russian oligarchs, chemical weapons and Cassie’s family and co-workers. Was the murderer the mysterious woman she blurrily remembers visiting the suite? Has Cassie been set up for the crime? Might she be so out of control that she committed the murder herself?īohjalian lets Cassie torment herself for a time, but it’s soon clear the killer was a Russian assassin hired by one of the fund’s wronged investors. And then worse: She notices her hookup has had his throat slashed in bed. In the expertly turned thriller The Flight Attendant, the woman is Cassie, a flight attendant whose hard-partying ways are degenerating into alcoholism as she exits her 30s.ĭuring a layover in Dubai, a blackout-drunk liaison with a hedge-fund manager she met in first class leads to some familiar morning-after regrets. It was only a matter of time before somebody gave it wings. ![]() Ruth Ware took it out to sea in The Woman in Cabin 10. ![]() Paula Hawkins put the formula on rails in The Girl on the Train. The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian Doubleday, 354 pp. ![]() What should you read this weekend? USA TODAY’s picks for book lovers include Chris Bohjalian's high-flying thriller The Flight Attendant and Anna Quindlen's new novel, Alternate Side. ![]() ![]() ![]() With resources already overstretched, the last thing Will and Taylor need is another client. ![]() Then again, not everyone loves the Brandts. Unfortunately, not every member of the Brandt clan loves Taylor the way Will does. Will is finally braced to bring Taylor home to meet the folks. A romantic holiday in the City of Lights could be just the thing to bridge the ever-growing distance-if it doesn't kill them first. The strain of a long distance relationship is beginning to tell after eleven months of Will being posted in Paris. ![]() In other words, another day at the office. It's a bad time for DSS Agents Brandt and MacAllister to find themselves stranded in the middle of the New Mexico wilderness responsible for the health and welfare of a suspected terrorist. If it was complicated before, it's even trickier now that Will has been assigned a case which guarantees he'll be working side-by-side with ex-boyfriend David Bradley. Yeah, it's complicated.įriends, partners, and now lovers. Special Agents for the Department of Diplomatic Security, Taylor MacAllister and Will Brandt have been partners and best friends for three years, but everything changed the night Taylor admitted his feelings for Will. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lion is more like a Dementor from Harry Potter than the cowardly guy I remembered. Tin man probably got his scary hands from Scarecrow, who dabbles in experimental surgery. "He had fingers like knives and needles, each one of them twisted into a slightly different shape. Is the Good Witch evil? Are the Wicked Witches her allies? Meet the Tin Woodman: Of course she lands in Oz, just like that other girl from Kansas. Pink haired Amy ends up alone in her trailer with a tornado approaching. "if we lived in a regular house, with one and a half bathrooms, I wondered, would she hate me this much? Was resentment something that grew better in small places, like those flowers Mom used to force to bloom inside in little vases?" Once that baby comes, it will ruin her life!" Ouch! Thanks Mom. ![]() Amy's mom's response? She laughs and basically says, "Don't you see? She's already getting hers. She's sent home from school after getting blamed for a fight with a very pregnant Madison Pendleton, the nasty girl who's tormented her since grade school. This is a wonderfully dark and twisted take on Oz starring an unlikely heroine.Īmy Gumm has had a rough go of it, living in a trailer with her druggie mom in Dusty Acres, Kansas. I'm not a big Wizard of Oz fan, so I wasn't sure Dorothy Must Die would be for me. ![]() ![]() If you were looking for faults in Sutton’s drive in race two, you’d be looking for a very long time. ![]() A last lap charge from Jake Hill put Sutton under pressure, but the Laser Tools-backed BMW could not find a way past the Focus. The softer tyres picked up pace after a third of the race was in the books, but it would ultimately be too little, too late. Despite running the hardest of the three Goodyear tyre options in race one while four of the next five were soft-shod, Sutton gapped the field in the opening laps, pulling out two seconds in the first lap alone. Ingram had an awful start and dropped from second down to sixth after just two corners. ![]() Starting from pole position after a qualifying session where he never looked like he’d qualify anywhere else, Sutton leapt off the line in race one, leaving reigning champion Tom Ingram in his wake. ![]() Now with arguably the strongest car in the entire paddock underneath him in the shape of the NAPA Racing UK Ford Focus, the Sutton-Ford pairing looks close to unbeatable. ![]() Very few can argue with the theory that Ash Sutton is one of the most talented drivers on the grid, as was evidenced by his ability in past seasons to drag both the Subaru Levorg and Infiniti Q50 to the sharp end of the grid where his team-mates couldn’t. ![]() ![]() Lily, from Virginia, is a delicate, bird-boned creature who's been battered by her husband, but is now taken under the wing of Adam Wolfchild, Willa's Indian half-brother. The youngest sister, cowgirl Willa, manager of the Mercy ranch and daughter of an Ute mother, matches wits and strong wills with Ben McKinnon, lusty part owner of the Three Rocks spread. Roberts has always been a winner at sexual tension and sexy dialogue, and so the reader gets to see not one but three couples get past the preliminaries and into the sack. During the long winter, the women bicker and bond and get entangled with three sexy, strapping fellows. According to his will, his three daughters, who've never met and whom Jack had by three different wives, must live together for a year at his big Montana ranch house in order to win their inheritance. ![]() ![]() Jack Mercy was a mean son of a bitch when he was alive, and as a corpse, buried with his Stetson and his bullwhip, he's not much better. Three bridegrooms for three sisters: Roberts ( True Betrayals, 1995, etc.) stylishly moseys into Big Sky romance. ![]() ![]() They reached #8 and #18 on the New York Times bestseller list in August of that year. Hoover published her first novel, Slammed, in January 2012 and a sequel, Point of Retreat, in February. ![]() After a few months, her novel was reviewed by book blogger Maryse Black and she was given a 5-star rating, and sales of her first two books increased rapidly. Because of this, she included the Avett Brothers lyrics throughout the story. She was inspired by a songs lyric “decide what to be and go be it” from an Avett Brothers song, and “Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise”. In November year 2011, Hoover began her first novel, Slammed, with zero intention of publishing it. She worked in various teaching and social work positions before beginning her writing career. Hoover has a degree in Social Work from Texas A&M-Commerce. In 2000 she married Heath Hoover, with whom she has three children. She grew up in the Saltillo, Texas and graduated from the Saltillo High School in year 1998. Hoover was born on December 11, 1979, in Sulfur Springs, Texas, the son of Vannoy Fite and Eddie Fennell. ![]() ![]() ![]() Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. This stunning edition features gorgeous illustrations by Joe Berger. Ian Fleming, best known for his James Bond novels, wrote only one children’s bookand it is a classic Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is the name of the flying, floating, driving-by-itself automobile that takes the Pott family on a riotous series of adventures as they try to capture a notorious gang of robbers. ![]() Fleming was inspired by a celebrated English racing car nicknamed 'Chitty-Bang-Bang', which was built and raced by Count Louis Zborowski in the 1920s. First published in 1964, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was Ian Fleming's only children's book, written for his son Caspar. Chitty and the eccentric, plucky Pott family set off on a succession of increasingly perilous adventures that take them across the English Channel and all the way to Paris. Series: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1) A read aloud with super appeal ( ) What a fun book I really enjoyed this book, and probably enjoyed it more than I. It looks like a wreck, but once restored it turns out to be no ordinary vehicle Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang is a magical car which can fly, swim and even think. With the proceeds from his latest invention, Crackpot Whistling Sweets, Commander Caractacus Pott buys his family their first car. ![]() ![]() Print Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: Book 1 (Macmillan Collector's Library) ![]() ![]() So Harleen is a painfully long - 200+ pages - retelling of Harley Quinn’s silly origin that adds almost nothing to what’s already known while managing to say the same stuff again in a far more laborious fashion. Because, when you look into that off-the-cuff origin even a lil closely? Yeah, it looks as flimsy as it always was. ![]() Given how it all just kinda happened, it’s a fine origin so long as you don’t think too hard about it or go into too much detail.Īnd then Stjepan Sejic did just that. But then people wanted to know more and so Dini came up with the best origin story he could - her original name was improbably Harleen Quinzel and she was a psychiatrist who fell for the Joker’s charms while working at Arkham Asylum. ![]() And then the fans began asking questions like “Is she the Joker’s girlfriend?” so Dini came up with a cutesy name - she was Harley Quinn, like a harlequin - and yes, she was the Joker’s girlfriend. ![]() Back in the early ‘90s in Batman: The Animated Series, Paul Dini and Bruce Timm introduced a female goon as part of Joker’s entourage who had no name. ![]() Harley was an accident - a happy accident, it turned out, but an accident nonetheless. ![]() |