Reviews

The mystery begins when we follow Thai police officer Sonchai Jitpleecheep as he and his partner tail an American marine. After losing their quarry, Sonchai and Pichai catch up with the marine, just in time to find him dead, in his car, which is now filled with overly aggressive poisonous snakes.

Can’t decide between team Edward and Team Jacob? Try Team Human by Justine Larbalestier and Sarah Rees Brennan. The town of New Whitby was founded by vampires. While there’s not a lot of mingling between vampires and humans, they have mostly co-existed peacefully.

What would you do if you were given the option to know when you would meet your soul mate? Would you want to find out? Oona (Emma Caulfield) desperately wants to know the answer to when and who. In her world you can find out by having a timer embedded in your wrist. There’s a catch, your soul mate also has to have a timer for the countdown to begin. Oona’s timer is blank.

Not being a regular romance reader, I can’t say how Silk is for Seduction compares to its romance brethren. I will say, while I found the story to be absolutely ridiculous, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Marcelline Noirot, along with her two sisters and daughter, has clawed her way out of poverty and a cholera epidemic to become a contender in the English milliner business. In the hopes of winning a key customer from her sole competitor, Marcelline travels to France to woo the Duke of Clevedon.

In Dare Me, Megan Abbot delivers a dark insider’s peek into high school cheerleading. But more than cheers and stunts, the real story is in the relationships developed, manipulated, and reconciled as the characters vie for control.

Mistress of Nothing is based on the true travel adventures of Lady Duff Gordon and her faithful maid, Sally.  In the dry clime of the Egyptian desert, a leading London socialite, Lady Duff Gordon was seeking relief from her tuberculosis.

This book is RoseMarie’s story of John F. Kennedy, Jr. and the five years that she worked for him while he was developing George magazine.

When a serious injury sends Evie Stryker to Fool’s Gold where her estranged brothers and mother have made their home, Evie finds herself at a crossroads.  Evie left Fool’s Gold, and the family where she never seemed to fit in, at the age of 17 to study dance at Julliard and she never looked back.  Then Evie was injured and her mother and brothers moved he

At first I was reluctant to watch The Cabin in the Woods due to the fact that it had been categorized as “horror”. But I was convinced to watch it, as I was told it was much more than your typical “slasher film.” And they were right.

Flash and Bones is number 14 in the Temperance Brennan mysteries, and every bit as fun to read as the first.