Category Archives: Review

Sign Up Now for Book Blogger Appreciation Week (BBAW)

Thanks to Amy from My Friend Amy’s Blog, I’m excited to announce the dates of the 2009 Book Blogger Appreciation Week. For those of you that don’t know, Amy has devoted a ton of her personal time to recognize the … Continue reading

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Book Review, Blog Tour & Giveway: The Castaways by Elin Hilderbrand

In Nantucket, six couples are very close friends. They name their close little clique The Castaways. The vacation together, their children have been raised together. They share everything…and sometimes a little too much. The story opens with the friends discovering … Continue reading

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Guest Reviewer: My Son, Reviewing Horrid Henry

Background on my guest reviewer: John is my 9 year old son. After several years of reading problems due to his ADD, John was a very reluctant reader. Reading was always difficult for him and whenever he was asked to … Continue reading

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Review: The Unseen by Alexandra Sokoloff

After a traumatic end to a relationship, Laurel MacDonald accepts a job as a psychology professor at Duke University and makes the move from sunny California. Upon her arrival, she learns that in order to maintain her tenure at the … Continue reading

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Review: Chemical Cowboys by Lisa Sweetingham

Book Description:For nearly a decade, Ecstasy kingpin Oded Tuito was the mastermind behind a drug ring that used strippers and ultra-Orthodox teenagers to mule millions of pills from Holland to the party triangle—Los Angeles, New York, and Miami. CHEMICAL COWBOYS: … Continue reading

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Review: The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan

It’s been several generations since the Return, a plague of undead that destroyed the world as we knew it. Mary lives in a village that is surrounded by a fence, the only thing separating their world from that of the … Continue reading

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Review, Blog Tour & Giveway: The Sitting Swing by Irene Watson

THE SITTING SWING begins as Irene Watson enters Avalon, a 28-day recovery center. In the following chapters, Irene relays, through flashbacks, her troubled and abusive childhood.Born to parents who had already buried their first child, Alexander, their over protectiveness appeared … Continue reading

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Review, Blog Tour & Giveaway: The Accidental Bestseller by Wendy Wax

At a writers conference ten years ago, four aspiring writers met and became close friends. A decade later they are still friends, and very much a part of one another’s lives. Kendell Aim’s writing career is in danger. Her editor … Continue reading

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Review: Angels of Destruction by Keith Donohue

Ten years ago, Margaret Quinn lost her only daughter, Erica. Erica ran away with her high school boyfriend, set on joining the Angels of Destruction, a radical student group. She hasn’t heard from or spoken to Erica in all this … Continue reading

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Review: Fault Line, by Barry Eisler

Alex Treven is a lawyer at a prestigious law firm. He represents the inventor of a encryption program. When both the inventor and the patent officer wind up dead, Alex begins to wonder if he is in danger. He attempts … Continue reading

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