Book Reviews and a Little More…
I had an interesting mix of books in my mailbox this week… Banker, The Beans of Egypt, Maine, and The Witches of Eastwick were PaperBackSwap Box-o-Books swaps. I also requested On Writing through PBS. I’m currently taking a creative writing class, and it’s made me seek out several writing books. I have more of these on the way. The Girl Who Stopped Swimming is a
Read moreFor Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive.
Everyone tells him it’s time to move on, to forget the past once and for all. But for David Beck, there can be no closure. A message has appeared on his computer, a phrase only he and his dead wife know. Suddenly Beck is taunted with the impossible–that somewhere, somehow, Elizabeth is alive.
Beck has been warned to tell no one. And he doesn’t. Instead, he runs from the people he trusts the most, plunging headlong into a search for the shadowy figure whose messages hold out a desperate hope.
But already Beck is being hunted down. He’s headed straight into the heart of a dark and deadly secret–and someone intends to stop him before he gets there.
Read moreWhere is the time going? I am currently further behind in my reviews than I have ever been. Four books awaiting reviewing! If I’m smart, I’ll stay right here and knock them all out this evening, but I doubt that will happen. The books I’ve finished that I’ve yet to review are: Tell No One by Harlan Coben, The BFG by Roald Dahl, Sunny Chandler’s
Read moreThere’s something about almost dying that makes a girl rethink her priorities. Take Nicki Styx—she was strictly goth and vintage, until a brush with the afterlife leaves her with the ability to see dead people.
Before you can say boo, Atlanta’s ghosts are knocking at Nicki’s door. Now her days consist of reluctantly cleaning up messes left by the dearly departed, leading ghouls to the Light . . . and one-on-one anatomy lessons with Dr. Joe Bascombe, the dreamy surgeon who saved her life. All this catering to the deceased is a real drag, especially for a girl who’d rather be playing hanky-panky with her hunky new boyfriend . . . who’s beginning to think she’s totally nuts.
But things get even more complicated when a friend foolishly sells her soul to the devil, and Nicki’s new gift lands her in some deep voodoo.
As it turns out for Nicki Styx, death was just the beginning.
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