Archive for the ‘My Reviews’ Category
Book Review: The Dog Who Knew Too Much by Spencer Quinn
The Dog Who Knew Too Much Spencer Quinn Atria Books, September 2011 ISBN 978-1-4391-5709-1 Hardcover (eARC) Chet and Bernie of the Little Detective Agency are on the case again, this time in search of a little boy who has gone missing from a wilderness camp up in the mountains. The boy’s mom, Anya, had hired [...]
December 13, 2011
Tags: animal sleuth, Atria Books, humor, mystery, private investigator, Western US Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews 
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Book Review: Sex and the Kitty by Nancy the Cat
Sex and the Kitty Nancy the Cat Plume Books, September 2011 ISBN 978-0452-29742-5 Trade Paperback (e-ARC) Nancy’s first memoir—she’ll certainly need more as she gets older and, as she says, she’s leaving the door open for possible sequels—sets the record straight on her birth and early life in a small town as she awaits her [...]
December 7, 2011
Tags: autobiography, cats, England, general fiction, humor Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews 2 Comments
Short Story Review: Saint Nick and the Fir Tree by Nancy Adams
Saint Nick and the Fir Tree Nancy Adams Green Fern Press, November 2011 ISBN 9780984815302 Trade Paperback Also available in ebook format Tree is really a yew but likes to pretend he’s a fir. After all, yews make people think of all kinds of sad scenarios while firs bring the cheer of Christmas. Who wouldn’t [...]
December 5, 2011
Tags: fantasy, Green Fern Press, humor, mystery, short story Posted in: Contests/Giveaways, Full Reviews, My Reviews No Comments
Book Review: If This Is Paradise, I Want My Money Back by Claudia Carroll
If This Is Paradise, I Want My Money Back Claudia Carroll William Morrow, October 2011 ISBN 978-0-06-204515-7 Trade Paperback Charlotte lies in a hospital bed, trapped by a coma, listening to the conversations around her. Most are directed at her in attempts to bring her back to consciousness and she appreciates the efforts, really she [...]
November 28, 2011
Tags: angels, general fiction, guardian angel, humor, relationships, William Morrow Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews One Comment
Book Review: Murder Half-Baked by Kathleen Delaney
Murder Half-Baked Kathleen Delaney Camel Press, May 2011 ISBN 978-1-60381-828-5 Trade Paperback Real estate agent Ellen McKenzie is in the midst of preparations for her wedding to Dan Dunham, the local police chief, and has to contend with the horror of a wedding dress, ruffled hoopskirt and all, her mother has sent to this forty-something [...]
November 22, 2011
Tags: California, cozy, domestic violence, mystery, real estate agent, softboiled Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Edited for Death by Michele Drier
Edited for Death Michele Drier Mainly Murder Press, October 2011 ISBN 978-0-9836823-1-8 Trade Paperback The recent death of a US Senator, also a World War II hero, leads Amy Hobbes, manager of a small-town newspaper, to send her reporter, Clarice, to the Senator’s nearby hometown on assignment.В Marshalltown, in Northern California, is a survivor of [...]
November 7, 2011
Tags: California, Germany, holocaust history, journalist, Mainly Murder Press, mystery Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Gone with a Handsomer Man by Michael Lee West
Gone with a Handsomer Man Michael Lee West Read by Marguerite Gavin Tantor Audio, May 2011 (Minotaur Books) ISBN 978-1-4526-0207-3 Unabridged Audio Book Teeny Templeton did the unthinkable—she decided her life was heading in exactly the direction she always wanted. She was about to get married to a wonderful, wealthy Charleston man and, being a [...]
November 3, 2011
Tags: audio book, Charleston SC, humor, Minotaur Books, mystery, romance, Southern, Tantor Audio Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews No Comments
Book Review: A Dog’s Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron
A Dog’s Purpose W. Bruce Cameron Read by George K. Wilson Tantor Audio, 2010 ISBN 978-1-4001-1645-4 Unabridged Audio Book Also available as a Forge trade paperback A puppy plays in the woods with his mom and his siblings but this is not an entirely idyllic scene. The puppy and his family are feral and the [...]
October 22, 2011
Tags: animals, autobiography, Forge, general fiction, humor, reincarnation, Tantor Audio Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews 3 Comments
Book Review: Ashes by Ilsa J. Bick
Ashes Ilsa J. Bick Egmont, September 2011 ISBN 978-1-60684-175-4 Hardcover (e-ARC) Three young people, strangers to each other, band together along with a dog named Mina for survival in the Waucamaw Wilderness after an electromagnetic pulse has destroyed all electronic devices. Unknown to them, billions of people have died but teenaged Alex, eight-year-old Ellie and [...]
October 8, 2011
Tags: Egmont, EMP, science fiction, trilogy, wilderness survival, young adult, zombies Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews 2 Comments
Book Review: The Shattering by Karen Healey
The Shattering Karen Healey Little, Brown and Company, September 2011 ISBN 978-0-316-12572-7 Hardcover Summerton is a lovely resort town on the west coast of New Zealand, a town that’s perhaps a bit too perfect. While other small towns struggle to remain vibrant and appealing and they watch their residents, especially the younger ones, move away [...]
September 28, 2011
Tags: dark fantasy, Little Brown and Company, magic, mystery, New Zealand, teen suicide, young adult Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews One Comment
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