0 Comments on Plugged by Eoin Colfer as of 1/1/1900

Georgina always seems to get into trouble and this time is no different.  She is kidnapped by an unknown foe and must live in a world of dreams while her friends try to figure out what happened.  There is more drama with Seth, but he is the only one who can save her.  I think the next book is going to be the last in the series.  It seems like she can wrap things up relatively easily in the next book, but we’ll see.

0 Comments on Succubus Heat by Richelle Mead as of 5/5/2012 10:49:00 PM

This book, like her others, is hysterical.  Poppy Wyatt is about to be married.  She and her friends are out at a fashion lunch and, after letting her friends try on her engagement ring, she loses it.  She, not surprisingly, freaks out.  While she is trying to find it, her purse is stolen and with it, her phone.  Luckily, she finds a phone in the garbage.  That is when the fun starts as the phone belongs to the assistant to a hot shot executive.  She quit and tossed the phone in the garbage where Poppy finds it.  Poppy refuses to give up the phone and what ensues is a witty exchange of texts, emails, phone calls, and an in person meeting between Poppy and the exec.  She won’t give the phone up because of the ring, but promises to pass on all information.  I laughed so much when I read this book.  Kinsella has a way of making the most unlikely of scenarios delightful and engaging.  If you enjoy chick lit, you’ve got to check this one out.

0 Comments on The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson as of 5/4/2012 11:34:00 AM

A new book in the paranormal romance genre that takes place in Victorian England.  Miranda Ellis has a secret; she can call fire with her mind.  Lord Benjamin Archer also has a secret, but his is due to a failed experiment from many years ago.  Benjamin decides to take Miranda to wed, but she doesn’t know about his secret nor he hers.  Yet, somehow the two end up working together (most of the time) to figure out how to stop a nefarious villain.  I like the world Callihan has created.  She crafts characters that are rich and multi-dimensional and a story line that twists and turns before leading the reader to a satisfying conclusion.  I look forward to reading more in this series.

This one was a great addition to the Lt. Eve Dallas series.  In this novel, Eve is being portrayed by a movie star in an upcoming film about one of her big cases.  Of course, there are other actors all portraying the important people in her life from Roarke to Peabody, Dr. Mira, and others.  While she isn’t thrilled (surprise, surprise) about having to schmooze with the actors, she understands it is unavoidable.  However, the end of an evening party results in the death of the actress who was playing Peabody, Eve’s partner.  Eve is on the case, but it is much harder when she is somewhat involved in the murder and was even at the scene when it occurred.  But Eve is nothing if not tenacious and so she keeps putting the pieces together until she has her murdered.  A well done tale and no blood, guts, shooting, or really any graphic violence.  Not that I am opposed to that, but this was a nice departure.

Eugenie is a shaman, half human, half fey, Faerie Queen who is pregnant with a boy who might mean the destruction of the world.  She has been on the run for a while in order to protect the children she will soon bear.  They are more important than anything else to her, but soon she will be called back to the Faerie world in order to figure out how to defeat an evil monarch.  The latest installment in the Dark Swan novels has a little bit of everything, danger, intrigue, happiness, sorrow, love and pain.  A very satisfying read.

The third book in the Calliope Reaper-Jones series, Serpent’s Storm gives Callie her most difficult assignment yet.  Her evil sister, Thalia, is on the loose and it is up to Callie to save not only her Dad, who has been kidnapped, but also all of Death.  Oh yeah, here Dad just so happens to be death.  She finds out more about her roots and also about the possible role she will have to play in the future.  Callie just wants to leave a normal life, but when you are Death’s daughter, that isn’t likely.  This book sets up an interesting twist for future books and I am curious to see what Benson does with it.