Review:Seventeen chapters of this book are named after ingredients of Turkish food called 'ashure' and the eighteenth - the last chapter- is named after a poisonous chemical: potassium cyanide. Black humor. Bravo ms. Shafak Read more

Review:Once more, Robin McKinley has turned the world of fairytale on its head, and turned out an outstanding novel. McKinley's latest book, Spindle's End, is a re-telling of the Sleeping Beauty tale, but as with her previous fairytale re-inventions she dispenses with the gilt and florets of the Baroque tale and builds her characters out of earth.
The story is less about the "Beauty" -- named Briar Rose -- than it is about how her family and the other people around her react to her situation in the... Read more

Review:Renee Ahdieh builds a rich world, but seems lackluster when compared to The Wrath and the Dawn.
Plot: Guys. Flame in the Mist doesn't take any prisoners! It opened with Mariko being transported to her betrothed, the first son of the emperor who does not have a claim to the throne. On the way, her envoy was attacked by a vicious clan slaughtering everyone but her. In order to survive, Mariko disguised herself as a young man and crossed paths with the deadly Black Clan once again. Mariko entere... Read more

Review:Fourteen-year-old Joan Scraggs lives the life of a drudge on her father's farm cleaning up after her dad and four brothers, all of whom seem to hate her. She longs for education and to become a teacher, but her father seems set to work her to death the way he did her mother. She might even settle for some love. The last straw comes when her father burns her only three "friends," her beloved books. Finding out from a newspaper that she can get paid work in the city for the same labor she performs... Read more

Review:Originally posted on The Canon! {[...]

Eleanor Fitt's 1876 Philadelphia is unlike anything I have seen in history books. The most unusual part of it all? The Dead alarm that warns of their coming. When I read the blurb, I couldn't wait to read this The Walking Dead meets Pride and Prejudice circa 1876.

Eleanor was a bit of a mixed box for me. On one side, I completely understood her fears for her brother and her family which grew into her motivations for meeting the Spirit Hunters.... Read more

Review:Couldn't put it down. Love that these characters continue to live.

It almost doesn't matter what the story is as long as these two keep their clipped conversations going.

Cole and Hitch still live and so does Robert Parker, thanks to Robert Knott. Read more

Review:This book continues the story of Barnabas Sackett as he cuts all ties to England and begins a new life in America. The story flows well and is easy to read. I enjoyed it and look forward to starting book 3 of the series. Read more

Review:I always enjoy reading Louis L'Amour's books; this is about the third time around for me, reading them all. While "Kilkenny" may be a bit slower than his others, it's still head and shoulders--sombrero and six-gun ?--just about any other writer of light fiction. Read more

Review:First off, I really enjoy westerns. That said, The filthy language and cheap sexual perversion in modern novels just disgust me. I'm not a prude.....far from it. If that is what it takes to sell books, I'll pass.

The stories in Big Medicine are enjoyable and easy reading.

Let you wonder how you would react if being tossed into the same situation.....BTW, the good guy wins. Read more

Review:Excellent stories I have read many times. Only reason I wouldn't 5 star it, is that it contains quite a few editing mistakes, some misspellings and wrong words in a couple of places. We'll worth the money though! Read more