Yumi and the Nightmare Painter (Hoid's Travails, #2)

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Yumi appears to be a young girl trapped in a life of service and ritual. Then one day she is connected to Painter. His life went horribly wrong when his dream of getting into the Dreamwatch was crushed and he lied to his friends about it. Now he has a chance to redeem himself by helping Yumi.

And Hoid (Wit) spends most of the book as a statue in Design's restaurant. How he wound up bonded to Design seems to be a story for another book.

But it turns out Yumi's world is a lie. Her people were murdered by a machine they created and they are the nightmares that Painter and his friends battle. When Yummi destroys the machine the shroud that has kept Painter's world cut off from the sun unravels and the nightmares including Yumi disappear. But Painter is unwilling to let the woman he loves disappear and he paints her back to life.

View all my reviews

The Final Target by Nora Roberts (Goodreads Author)

The Final Target by Nora Roberts
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Enjoyed the book immensely especially when Arden was decorating her home and interacting with the locals.

View all my reviews

Death Times Seven: A Daniel Pitt Novel

Death Times Seven: A Daniel Pitt Novel by Anne Perry
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Amazing I am so sorry this is the last book about the wonderful Pitts. I have been there from the beginning when Charlotte and Thomas first meet and read with pleasure about their family through the years. In Anne Perry's last book Daniel is thrown into a murder trial when Toby's Mother is killed and his Father is severely injured. The police assume it's a murder suicide and barely investigate until Daniel with Toby's permission and help start poking around. One of the biggest discoveries they find with Miriam's help is that two separate guns were used. Daniel returns to London to represent Toby's client who has been accused of the murder of a young woman. With Miriam and Eve's help he discovers that a patch of pubic skin was removed and that it was omitted from both the police report and the pathologist findings. Miriam and Eve also discover that other young women have been murdered in the same manner and with the same souvenir taken. Revealing that a serial killer is on the lose Daniel looks set to win his case until the souvenirs turn up in his client's room. A room that was previously searched with nothing found and his client has been incarcerated in the time between. Someone is trying to frame the unfortunate young man. But who? Bizarrely Daniel and his helpers discover that the murder of Toby's Mother and attempted murder of his Father is connected to the trial. And that the police were threatened with injury to their loved ones to cove up the souvenirs and any evidence that would reveal the true killer.

I feel that Daniel was just hitting his stride as a lawyer and that there were many more exciting stories waiting to be written if Anne Perry hadn't passed away.

View all my reviews

Revenge Prey (Lucas Davenport #36)

Revenge Prey by John Sandford
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I found it tedious. I did like Sherwood and hope he appears in future books.

View all my reviews

The Widow by John Grisham (Goodreads Author)

The Widow by John Grisham
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

It sort of drug in the beginning but the ending was fast paced and exciting.

The widow pretended to have a fortune, two greedy lawyers tried to take advantage, two stepsons tried to gain control of the fortune and one lawyer wound up convicted of murder, but who really poisoned the widow? And what did they have to gain?

View all my reviews

House of Ice & Shadows (Myths & Outlaws #2)

House of Ice & Shadows by Sherrilyn Kenyon
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

After being held hostage by Queen Meara as a child X (Xaydin) hates Meara and anyone connected to her. He isn't too fond of Shifters either as a Shifter impersonated his Father and caused his Father's death because of a broken contract. He spends his time hunting apaswere (a race that tattoos contracts on their skin and kills anyone who breaks a contract), and is determined to kill the apaswere that killed his Father. When the book opens X is on a mission to kill the apaswere that holds the contract with Dash and Queen Meara.

Meara sends her daughter Gisela to protect the apaswere, but secretly sends Diflyn to kill the apaswere and Gisela. X and his family befriend Gisela before they realize who she is and X falls in love with her. In the end they overthrow Meara and Gisela becomes the new Queen with X by her side as her husband.

View all my reviews

The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon, #6)

The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Somebody wants to destroy every copy of Katherine's book and they are willing to kill to do it, but why? And can Robert Langdon save Katherine and the manuscript?

#Science-fiction, #Prague, #books

View all my reviews

Pendergast: The Beginning (Agent Pendergast #0.5)

Pendergast: The Beginning by Douglas Preston
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Really enjoyed this book. Learning how Proctor came to work for him and their past together. Would love to learn more about their missions in the Ghost Company. Dare I hope there is a new series in the making about Colonel Pendergast?

View all my reviews

Stolen in Death (In Death, #62)

Stolen in Death by J.D. Robb
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Magdelana's back and this time she is scheming to bring Rourke down when she hires a thief to steal the Royal Suite that Rourke stole as a teenager from the Tate Museum. Not only does Eve have to take Magdelana for being an accomplice to murder she has to protect Rourke from his past.

View all my reviews

The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)

The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I enjoyed it immensely and love the addition of Victor to the group. The Viking even turned out to be an OK guy once he stopped trying to have people killed.

View all my reviews

Twelve Months (The Dresden Files, #18)

Twelve Months by Jim Butcher
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Brilliantly written. Harry is trying to get through his grief over Karrin Murphy's death. Navigate his engagement to Lara and find a way to cure Thomas and save him from the Svartalves Justice. Lara and Harry find common ground in their desire to save Thomas, but it's Harry's (accidental) entrapment of Lara that leads to Thomas' salvation. Because she used Harry to entrap Lara Mab grants Harry a boon and as she predicted Thomas' life was what he asked for. Mab steps in and helps Harry control Thomas' Hunger and gives Thomas the will to live when she threatens Justine and their unborn baby. Alas it's not a completely happy ending. In order to satisfy the Svartalves sense of justice over Thomas murdering Austri he has to turn over his infant son to be reared by them, and Justine can never know that she was pg or gave birth to a son in order to survive the ordeal of her possession. Justine is still in Mab's care when the book ends as Mab is trying to cure her.

More hints that Harry being Starborn is of the utmost importance, it's what allowed him to entrap Lara and we learn that Drakul is also Starborn.

View all my reviews

The Seven Rings (The Lost Bride Trilogy, #3)

The Seven Rings by Nora Roberts
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I love the characters in this book especially some of the ghost. Clover is a hoot. Would really like to learn some of the backstories on the ghost is future books. I feel that Clover especially would have a lot to say.

Sonya gets the rings breaks the curse and marries the guy. Yes it's somewhat formulaic but it's a nice good triumphs over evil romance.

View all my reviews

Coyote Hills (Clay Edison, #6)

Coyote Hills by Jonathan Kellerman
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Surprising plot twist. A rich couple are convinced their son was murdered although the police are calling the drowning accidental. They hire Clay to get the case reopened and he finds three other drowning victims with the same odd combination of drugs in their system.

The more Clay looks into Adam Valois' life the more unsavory activities he discovers. Was Adam really a victim or was he the killer?

One victim is still alive and Clay has to get him to talk to unravel the case and get justice for the victims.

View all my reviews