Month: September 2015
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The Grave Man – A Sam Prichard Mystery Thriller by David Archer
Sam Pritchard, a great cop, is medically retired after taking a bullet. For the first time he is on the sidelines. After being asked by a neighbor to look into the disappearance of her grand-daughter, Sam enlists the help of a hacker named Indy. He gets a lot more than he planned on with this […]
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The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution by Dominic Lieven
Dominic Lieven is a senior research fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, and a fellow of the British Academy. He previously taught Russian Studies at the London School of Economics for thirty-three years. His last book, Russia Against Napoleon, won the 2009 Wolfson Prize for History and the Prix Napoleon. The very first words caught my […]
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A Death in the Family: A Detective Kubu Mystery By Michael Stanley
Startled and shocked by that phone call none of us wants to get in the middle of the night.Assistant Superintendent David ‘Kubu’ Bengu,the best detective in the Botswana Police, is scared and concerned. Who would want to kill an old man? What was his father doing out so late at night and how did he […]
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Rushed by Brian Harmon
Spent almost the entire book in confusion. I’m not one to give up on a book, but I did start to more than once. A man has a dream, he follows it and spends the rest of the book wandering in cornfields. I didn’t understand the ending any more than the rest of the book. […]
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Gypsy Hunted: a paranormal book with a touch of romance by Andrea Drew
Gypsy is a physic, who doesn’t like being called a physic, or a medium. While I thought the story idea was a really good one, it just wasn’t as fleshed out as I would have liked. There were some time breaks that didn’t quite add up and the characters were all obviously in the middle […]
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The Romantic by Felix Alexander
I was given a copy of this book in return for an honest review. I don’t read Romance novels. Ever. I think watching my mom and her friends exchange bags of Harlequin Romance books every month turned me off. And as I got older, reading them was just to kitchy. When I saw the cover […]
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A Rant
Not a book review today. Just some things that have been bothering me and so of course I have to share. It’s what I do. At dinner last night I noticed that everyone, and I do mean everyone except the wait staff, either had their phone right by their plate or they were either texting, […]
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The Colony by F.G.Cottam
The Colony by F.G. Cottam My rating: 5 of 5 stars The Colony is the genre of book we have come to expect from Cottam. It’s dark and creepy and set on an island in the Hebrides. A publishing magnate, who is really into aliens, has bought the best equipment and people, from scientists to […]
Pirate Patty Reviews 