Review: The House Next Door

The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

If you have to keep asking your self if you're in fact insane, are you?
When a string of gruesome tragedies befalls a new house in an affluent suburban neighborhood. the neighbors begin to think that the house is haunted or cursed in some way. The story is told from the point of the neighbor Colquitt who with her husband Walter live most closet to the house and witness most of the horrifying goings-on next door. There was a good build-up throughout the book for an ending that was interesting.

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Review: Pendulum Heroes

Pendulum Heroes by James Beamon
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Several male friends find themselves inside the fantasy software game they have been playing and are now on a quest in search of the Death Null. FYI: the boys have become them, their alter ego's in the game, so Melvin is now a Warrior Hot Fighting Girl and another a Wizard...

With that said, there was plenty of joking around, many interesting fight scenarios, some wicked cool monsters plus a whole slew of humanoid creatures that will become friends or foe to our band of brothers. I felt this was a wonderful book that has some great potential for this to become a series.

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Review: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I have seen this book advertised and thought it would be a good series in the same genre as the Harry Potter books. In this first book, we meet the main characters of the storyline, who will flee the monsters that like to devour particularly peculiar people. I got drawn into the story but it just felt drab but that might have been the writer's goal. The time is present day, but in the loop, it is still during the second world war. Interesting concepts that I hope manifest further in the next three books that are in this series.

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Review: Woman of God

Woman of God by James Patterson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

In this suspense novel, we meet a young woman doctor who gets some mixed messages from God. She has been living in Africa during a massive civil war and seen many disturbing things while treating the wounded. So how can there be a real God with so much suffering? When she is made a Priest in a growing movement of Churchs across the US and a rumor starts circulating the next Pope may be a woman, her name pops up with mixed emotions from the rest of the world.





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Review: Becoming Belle

Becoming Belle by Nuala O'Connor
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Becoming Belle was an unexpectedly enlightening historical fiction concerning a young woman who is a singer and dancer in the late 1800's in London who becomes entangled with a crook, a male friend and her beloved Viscount Dunlo of Ireland. Living a free Bohemian lifestyle has made herself Belle a target when a lawsuit is brought against her and her friend for adultery. When will people learn to mind their own business and allow others to live their own lives without outside interference? Unfortunately being in the public spotlight makes many demands on those who work under the stage lights. I thought the book was well planned out with many ups and downs that we all experience in our own lives, so it was easy to relate to how Belle, her friends, and family felt about the situations at hand.

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Review: Shark: Infested Waters

Shark: Infested Waters by P.K. Hawkins
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The movie Anaconda came to mind when I was reading the part concerning the rough shape of the boat that the unsuspecting vacationers have booked for a week cruise through the Amazon on. Things start going from bad to worse when the drunken Captain strands the vacationers on a small piece of land that is shrinking quite quickly from the monsoon rains only to learn that the bull sharks are very hungry. Just when you think nothing else could go wrong, one of the vacationers is actually a murder on the run.

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Review: The City of Brass

The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Bravo! absolutely amazing. I loved it, all the details in all aspects. Peoples aren't always who they pretend to be. I have not read a book so intriguing since I first started reading the Game of Thrones series. But with an Arabian nights theme with mythological beings who live for centuries and have magical powers but they are oppressive to another tribe whom they consider lowly scum within their magical hidden island in the middle of a cursed lake. When a young human Nahri accidentally summons a genie our djinn as they book calls him, who end up having a feeling for each other only to separated with his death, then she is set to wed a prince... did that wet your appetite? Good, this was a wonderful book. Oh yeah, they travel can travel on a magic carpet!

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Review: Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen

Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Cathy Williams a slave with roots to an Amazon Queen from Africa who uses her heritage as a guiding hand in all she does. With the strength of her forefathers, she is first assigned to help the cook during the end of the Civil War who is General Sheridan's personal cook. From there she heads out west to join the Buffalo Soldiers from 1866 to 1868.

I really enjoyed this book, women have been going to war and doing everything men have done for centuries. It is wonderful that writers give women the credit we deserve for the contributions we made to history.

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