With a week off for my birthday I had time to bead and read. I managed to do plenty of both. I got an Easter egg beaded (I'll get pictures on here as soon as I can) and several books read.
First up "Cream Puff Murder" by Joanne Fluke, one of my favorite light cozy authors. She always makes me hungry and makes me laugh. I just wish that she'd finally choose between Norman and Mike, her two beaus. I'm for Norman because he "gets" her sense of humor, is very caring and considerate. Mike is stupid enough to let pretty girls take advantage of him and not realize that he's hurting Hannah. This time she catches him in a lie. The latest pretty girl is the newest murder victim. Found with the tray of cream puffs Mike had gotten from Hannah - what a jerk. Lots of good recipes, plenty of laughs and a mystery solved.
Next up was a book recommended by Teresa Shane, "Defending Angels" by Mary Stanton a new mystery paperback series with more than a touch of the paranormal. Brianna Winston-Beaufort has inherited her uncle's law practice but needs to find temporary quarters until his office has been remodeled. The temporary space she finds is in an all-murderers' cemetery, her first case involves a local businessman who manages to call her several hours after his death. It takes awhile to discover that she and her sister are the only ones who see the special people who help her - her landlady, her secretary, clerk and handsome PI - since they are all part of the Celestial Court.
I was on a paranormal kick it seems because both of the other books I read had that element to them. "Hounding the Pavement" by Judi McCoy is about a dog walker who can literally talk to her dogs. When she discovers the body of one of her customers and no dog, she becomes very worried about the dog. There's a cute police detective and her own dog is a real sassy mouth. Fun read, light.
"Ghouls Just Haunt to Have Fun" by Victoria Laurie wasn't one of her best but it passed the lunch hours for me. M.J.Holliday has been suckered into using her abilities for a new TV show about people's possessions that are supposedly haunted. Most of the aren't but someone sneaks a very nasty dagger into the show and all hell literally breaks loose. She meets a new medium, Heath (not Seth as the book jacket states)and together they have quite the adventures and make money doing so.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Lamentation by Ken Scholes
Reading through my past several posts I've discovered that I've been starting with the same line - "I really love/like these..." Time to get the brain out of storage and start anew.
I was leary of this book because of all the advance praise from well known science fiction authors. Sometimes these books just don't live up to the hype. This one did. And - it's the first of five! Let's hope they're all this good.
Set in a land with several nations held in peace by the Androfrancine Brotherhood, the world is badly tilted out of whack by the destruction of the Androfrancine city of Windwir by an ancient weapon of terrible destruction. Gone are the people, the city and the vast library the Order has accumulated. The story is told through several people - a device I was worried would be tiresome but flowed quite nicely.
Rudolfo is Lord of the Ninefold Forest Houses and leader of the Gypsy Scouts and the Wandering Army. Petronus has hidden himself away as a simple fisherman and will return as Pope to bury his dead. Nebios is a young man about to take his first archeologicl journey with his father only to watch as everyone he knows dies in an instant. Sethber, the Overseer of the Entrolusian City States, is the fat cat gloating over the destruction and the start of his plan to rule all of the lands. Lady Jin Li Tam has been her father's pawn in the game of statecrat he plays but she will soon find her own way and worth.
The twisting plans within plans within plans got very confusing and in the end I just went with the flow and didn't try to anticipate an outcome. I was very taken with the metal man, Isaac, who was programed to destroy Windwir and then found his way with the beginning of a new library.
I was leary of this book because of all the advance praise from well known science fiction authors. Sometimes these books just don't live up to the hype. This one did. And - it's the first of five! Let's hope they're all this good.
Set in a land with several nations held in peace by the Androfrancine Brotherhood, the world is badly tilted out of whack by the destruction of the Androfrancine city of Windwir by an ancient weapon of terrible destruction. Gone are the people, the city and the vast library the Order has accumulated. The story is told through several people - a device I was worried would be tiresome but flowed quite nicely.
Rudolfo is Lord of the Ninefold Forest Houses and leader of the Gypsy Scouts and the Wandering Army. Petronus has hidden himself away as a simple fisherman and will return as Pope to bury his dead. Nebios is a young man about to take his first archeologicl journey with his father only to watch as everyone he knows dies in an instant. Sethber, the Overseer of the Entrolusian City States, is the fat cat gloating over the destruction and the start of his plan to rule all of the lands. Lady Jin Li Tam has been her father's pawn in the game of statecrat he plays but she will soon find her own way and worth.
The twisting plans within plans within plans got very confusing and in the end I just went with the flow and didn't try to anticipate an outcome. I was very taken with the metal man, Isaac, who was programed to destroy Windwir and then found his way with the beginning of a new library.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Of witches, vampires, pixies and weres
White Witch, Black Curse by Kim Harrison
I really love these books but there is so much to keep track of and so many characters that I sometimes have to concentrate to remember who did what in the past to whom that makes it necessary for the current actions!
Rachel is still mourning the death of her love, Kisten, a vampire and still angry that she can't remember the incident because Jenks, her pixie friend and partner, spelled her thinking it would help her pain. Now there's a new threat in Cincinatti, a banshee has had a child and the child needs emotions to feed off - violent ones will do nicely. She needs to find the banshee before she kills. Of course, this is the first time in eight years that her brother has come back to visit her and her mother and he doesn't like the life she's living! Then the witch community decides to shun her - could life get any better?
I really love these books but there is so much to keep track of and so many characters that I sometimes have to concentrate to remember who did what in the past to whom that makes it necessary for the current actions!
Rachel is still mourning the death of her love, Kisten, a vampire and still angry that she can't remember the incident because Jenks, her pixie friend and partner, spelled her thinking it would help her pain. Now there's a new threat in Cincinatti, a banshee has had a child and the child needs emotions to feed off - violent ones will do nicely. She needs to find the banshee before she kills. Of course, this is the first time in eight years that her brother has come back to visit her and her mother and he doesn't like the life she's living! Then the witch community decides to shun her - could life get any better?
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