Patron Review: The Heiresses – Sara Shepard
I’m hoping there is a sequel because there were some questions left unanswered, and it had quite the cliffhanger ending. I would recommend this to fans of light, mystery/suspense books.
Patron Review: Conversion – Katherine Howe
Being a Danvers resident and a Katherine Howe fan I’ve been excited about this book coming out for months. My interest was further piqued by the fact that this book was based on similar circumstances which happened in a different town’s school a year or two ago.
Patron Reviews: John Sandford, Dale Bailey
Reviewed in this post: John Sandford’s Uncaged: The Singular Menace and Dale Bailey’s The Fallen.
Patron Review: The Witch of Belladonna Bay – Suzanne Palmieri
The Witch of Belladonna Bay by Suzanne Palmieri is a lovely book that has a little bit of everything: mystery, romance, suspense, and magic…
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I first became interested in this when I heard how much Joss Whedon loved it. Then I started reading and realized it was another version of the zombie apocalyptic genre and my heart sank because it’s a genre I personally am not fond of. I kept reading however and I’m so happy I did because it’s so much more…
Patron Review: The Silkworm – Robert Galbraith
Reviewed by Kim I thoroughly enjoyed this second book in the adventures of private investigator Cormoran and his assistant Robin. This time they are investigating the murder of an unlikable author Owen Quine, who has penned a bizarre and horrible book which is nothing but a thinly veiled attack on the people in his life…
Patron Review: Everything to Lose – Andrew Gross
Reviewed by Kim What would you do if you saw a car drive off the road, tried but failed to save the driver’s life, and found a satchel on the floor containing $500,000? Would you keep it or do the right thing and turn it into the police? This is the question facing law abiding…
Patron Review: Desperate – Daniel Palmer
Reviewed by Kim Gage Dekker, who has lost his wife and young son in a car accident, meets Anna Miller, who has also lost a child at a grief group, and marry within the year. After a miscarriage, Anna can’t bear to try again so they decide to adopt. Conveniently they stumble upon Lily who…
Patron Review: Resistant – Michael Palmer
Reviewed by Kim Although he was one of my favorite authors, I didn’t realize that Michael Palmer had died last Fall. He will be truly missed. As far as Resistant is concerned, it’s classic Palmer: He takes something that’s been in the news, in this case flesh eating bacteria, and gives it a unique twist…
Patron Review: While Beauty Slept – Elizabeth Blackwell
Reviewed by Kim From the first line of Chapter One, “I am not the sort of person about whom stories are told,” this book absolutely captivated me. It is told in the first person from the perspective of Elise Dalriss, a peasant girl who after losing almost her entire family to the plague sets out…
Patron Review: The Collector – Nora Roberts
Reviewed by Kim Lila has two interesting occupations. She’s a housesitter and a writer of a YA werewolf series. She also enjoys observing the people around her and one night while perusing the occupants of the building across from her current job, think “Rear Window”, to her horror she sees a woman pushed out a…
Patron Review: The Lost Sisterhood – Anne Fortier
Reviewed by Kim The Lost Sisterhood is a tale of two women separated by thousands of years. In the present day we have Oxford professor Diana, who much to the chagrin of her friends and colleagues is a trifle obsessed with the legend of the Amazons. This is due to her grandmother who not only…
Patron Review: The Troop – Nick Cutter
Reviewed by Kim Five boys and their scoutmaster set off for a small Canadian island for some bonding, etc. Everything is going well until “Typhoid Tom” as he comes to be known comes ashore and events quickly spiral out of control. I bought The Troop because of all the positive feedback and I had already heard…
Patron Review: Concealed In Death – J.D. Robb
Reviewed by Kim I hate to say this but Concealed in Death was the first book in the series I didn’t buy, but instead borrowed from my library. After reading it I feel I made the right choice. The last few books seem to be a little off to me, whether they’re things like the…
Patron Early Review: The Quick – Lauren Owen
Reviewed by Kim This debut novel is not due out until June 17th, but I was fortunate to have won an ARC (advanced readers’ copy) in a Goodreads contest. The Quick is about the Norbury siblings, James and Charlotte and takes place mostly during 1892. When James graduates from Oxford he sets out for London…
Patron Review: Snowblind – Christopher Golden
Reviewed by Kim Christopher Golden hasn’t written a horror novel for quite awhile, but he certainly hasn’t lost the knack for it. If you haven’t read Snowbound yet, don’t go into it expecting immediate action. This is the type of horror story that slowly and suspensefully builds to a crescendo. It starts with what happened…
Patron Review: The Burn Palace – Stephen Dobyns
Reviewed by Kim Quiet little Brewster Rhode Island is suddenly beset with strange happenings. A newborn is replaced with a large red and yellow snake at the hospital, a large number of coyotes have infiltrated the town, a local plumber has taken to growling at everyone, and then bodies start showing up. Is the supernatural…
Patron Review: The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
Reviewed by Kim As many readers know by now, this novel is actually written by J.K. Rowling. It features a very unique private investigator named Cormoran Strike. He lost his leg in Afghanastan and is barely scraping by. He’s down to one client, just broke up with his longtime girlfriend, and is living out of…
Patron Review: Transforming Libraries, Building Communities: The Community-Centered Library
Tranforming Libraries, Building Communities: The Community-Centered Library by Julie Biando Edwards, Melissa S. Robinson, and Kelley Rae Unger – Foreword by Kathleen De La Pena McCook Reviewed by Kim Given that more and more libraries , not just in the U.S., but other countries as well, are either closing or having their hours drastically reduced,…
Patron Review: The Christmas Journal by Katherine Valentine
The Christmas Journal is sure to be a Holiday winner. When it comes to writing about wholesome, small town USA that makes readers want to pack their bags and move there, none does it better than Award Winning author, Katherine Valentine. Her newest book, The Christmas Journal set in fictional Crutcher Pike, Kentucky is certain…
Patron Review: The Casual Vacancy – J.K. Rowling
When Barrry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties while on his way to a lovely night out with his wife Mary, everyone in tiny town of Pagford is shocked. To the casual observer Pagford is your typical idyllic quaint English village with it’s cobbled market square and medieval abbey. But underneath this facade is…
Patron Review: Delusions In Death – J.D. Robb
Just a typical weekday after work at a happy-hour bar downtown, where people can unwind with a few drinks after a long day. Unbelievably after only twelve minutes eighty people lay dead. And what’s worse, it’s a result of them attacking each other. Surviving witnesses describe headaches right before it started and then horrific hallucinations…