Reviews

The king's mistress is dead. Who killed her? A jealous queen? A scheming noble hoping to foment civil war? Or was it an unfortunate accident? The stakes are high, and so the King sends his foremost medical investigator to unravel the mystery: an investigator who just happens to be not only a doctor and forensic scientist but also, most unusually for 12th-century England - a woman.

Claude and Camille: A Novel of Monet by Stephanie Cowell

In Rosemary’s Baby Roman Polanski and cast deliver not just a great “scary movie”, but a great movie. The pervasive feel of the film is paranoia tinged with the eternal presence of darkness.

This is probably the fastest I've ever read a book. It only took one day (give or take) to read The Unwritten Rule by Elizabeth Scott. I adored it.

Sarah and Brianna have been BFFs since kindergarten. They've grown up together with Brianna seemingly leading the way.

The enigmatic Seraphin Monge, the central character of The Murdered  House, reappears in this sequel for only the first third as a living character, but his presence pervades the story and the actions of the two women who were most in love with him.  This is a dark, noirish tale, set in Provence and so atmospheric one would think it is the middle of the seventeenth century,

I have seldom been as disappointed in a book as this one.

About ten years ago around the holiday season, a paperback on sale in the bookstore, caught my attention.

Reading this book, you find yourself laughing at the ludicrous situations described. As the book continues, however, things get less humorous. For starters, Wolff's familiy was extremely poor and her parents a bit more than naive and frustrating.

If you like reading about politics and examining the different strategies of the candidates to win the office of the presidency, and what happens in the real world when you put those thoughts and ideas into play, you will enjoy this book! I know I did. It helps to be a political junkie, but it isn’t absolutely necessary.

I just finished reading Catherine Hapka's Something Borrowed this week. It was a book I started on May 2, 2010. Granted, I'm a bit of a slow reader, but this one took an exceptionally long time to finish. Partly because I had other things I wanted to get done and partly because reading this book felt like a chore. I wasn't enjoying it at all - the main character, Ava, was really irritating me and her older sister was such a bridezilla. As they say, "I get too attached to fictional characters".