If you have read my reviews then you know that I give credit for creativity. Dungeon Born by Dakota Krout gets lots of points for originality and creativity. The story takes place in a Dungeons and Dragons type of world and the main character is ... a dungeon named Cal. We learn how Cal came...
In Long Range, by C. J. Box, game warden Joe Pickett is called in to help with the sniper shooting of a Judge's wife. Judge Hewitt's wife was killed by accident as the shot was intended for the Judge. Judge Hewitt is beside himself and calls on all of the local law enforcement officers in...
Deep State by Chris Hauty is a current day political thriller. The central character of the story is Hailey Chill, a young woman who grew up in rural West Virginia and managed to overcome obstacles and pull herself out of the downward spiral of her home community. She did this by joining the army and...
The Deserter by Nelson DeMille and Alex DeMille is a story about two officers from the Army's Criminal Investigation Division, Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor. They are sent to Venezuela to arrest Captain Kyle Mercer. Mercer was in the Army’s Delta Force but deserted his post in Afghanistan and was then captured by the Taliban....
Follow Me to Ground by Sue Rainsford is a very unique and unusual book. The main characters, Ada and her father, are not human, though apparently they kind of look like people. The father and daughter live on the edge of town and are healers that treat the town folk, or "cures" as they refer...
Upright Women is about a young adult, Esther, who fled from home and hid in the wagon of a group of librarians. Esther's father is a high-ranking government official and he has arranged a marriage for Ester which she does not want. To make matters worse, the man her father chose was previously the betrothed...
As I was listening to the first chapter of Burn the Dark by S.A. Hunt I thought "The flow is not so great and this doesn't seem that well written." Then chapter two started and I was hooked. It wasn't that chapter one was bad. Chapter one was the version as it was narrated and...
The Golden Wolf is the third and final book in the series about the lives of Ragnvald, his sister Svanhild, and of their family, friends, and enemies. The first book, The Half Drowned King, focused on the young Ragnvald and Svanhild as they came to adulthood and fought to claim their places. In the second...
The Providence of Fire by Brian Staveley is the second book in the Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne series. I enjoyed the first book, The Emperor’s Blades, and was looking forward to this one. It continues the stories of the three royal siblings, two princes and a princess, whose lives were thrown into chaos when...
Jodi Picoult's Vanishing Acts is the story about Delia, her daughter, her father and mother, and her friends. Delia was raised by her father and since her mother died he did everything he could to give her a good childhood. She is engaged to Eric, one of her childhood friends, and the two of them...
The Fell Sword is the second book in Miles Cameron's five book "The Traitor Son Cycle" series. It picks up where the first book left off. The book is about a company of mercenaries and their captain, the Red Knight. In this installment, the company comes to the rescue of the Emperor's daughter, who is...
The book New Iberia Blues is the 22nd Dave Robicheaux book by Jame Lee Burke. Dave is a sheriff's deputy, he has a new partner who is pretty and he likes her, but there is a large age difference, which makes things awkward. They find the body of a young woman. It seems the killer...
Kindred by Octavia Butler is a very creative way of looking at the horrible and troubling history of slavery in the United States. In Kindred, the protagonist, Dana, time travels from the 1970s to the American South in the years before the Civil War and the end of slavery. In the story, Dana is descended...
This review contains spoilers. The Reckoning, by John Grisham, returns the reader to Ford County Mississippi during the 1940s to 1050s where an unusual murder takes place. Pete Banning, cotton planter, husband, father, and decorated war hero, one day walks into the Methodist church and shoots the pastor. There is no doubt that Pete murdered the...
Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough is one of the best written and best told stories that I've read in a long time. It is the story of Artemisia Gentileschi, a young painter in Rome in the early 1600s. It is a man's world and women have little say in their own lives. Artemisia's mother died when...