So this is the 4th book in the Mercy Thompson series but I wanted to start here because the 3rd book has Mercy being assulted and I don't want to read that again and I hate the love "triangle" that is Mercy, Adam, and Sam. I already know she is going to pick Adam and I don't like not seeing them together. SO, I picked this book to start re-reading this series. There are a couple of books in the series I haven't read yet but there is so much that has happened that I wanted to re-read the series to remember. For those that don't know Mercy is a walker, a Native American shapeshifter, and Adam and Sam are both werewolves. Adam is the Alpha of the pack in this area and Sam is a lone wolf. Mercy also grew up around Sam.
Anyways, this book takes place right where the 3rd book ended. It's been a week since Mercy has been assulted and she is still trying to heal. She has been claimed by Adam in front of his pack as his mate, though he doesn't try to force her to accept him. He wants to help her get better and have them come together mutually. The claiming was for her safety. Now this book starts to get interesting when Mercy's vampire friend shows up almost dead, needing blood. Adam and the pack help him get better and Mercy learns that she is being hunted by the seethe of vampires in the area. At the same time, a friend from college shows up worried about a ghost in her house. She remembers that Mercy could see ghosts and asks her to help. Mercy goes away to see what she can do to help and to let Adam deal with negotiating peace with the vampires. Unfortunately that lands her in more trouble as another vampire has been waiting to steal her away so that he could make her a servant and use her abilities as a walker. Like I said, this book series has a lot of things that happens in in. There are references to the other 3 books and the events that took place in them. If I hadn't read the books before a couple of times, then I would have been lost on some parts but not all. I love the relationship between Adam and Mercy and I am so happy that Mercy starts to let him in more. I knew since the first book they were meant for each other and I hated having to wait for them to get together but I understand. Mercy is such a fun narrator and I love experiencing things through her eyes. She is funny and sarcastic and so relatable. I love that about her. It would be cool to see other people's thoughts but I understand that the charm of this book series is because it is through Mercy's eyes. All in all, I will probably keep reading the series. Like I said, I have a couple books that I haven't read in the series and I want to catch up to read them. That is all for this book. See you in my next read!
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So this book is the beginning of a new group to the Krew of Hunters' crew. Jackson Crow's group is getting spread a little thin as they are successful in what they do so Jackson has decided to create another group of six people based out of San Antonio Texas. The leader he choses is Logan Raintree, a Texas Ranger. First to join the team is Kelsey, a U.S Marshal. Both of these two have had their experiences with ghosts and seeing them.
The mystery revovles around the Galvastan Diamond and an inn that is near the Alamo in SA. As someone who was raised around SA, I don't recognize the name of the inn but I also didn't go downtown SA alot. I will say, though, I wondered why the author had the protagonists drive around the area around the Alamo a lot because parking is not that easy to find downtown and it made it seem like it was. Makes me wonder if the author had spent a long time in SA to know that. I hated parking downtown. So as I said, this book revolves around the Galvastan Diamond. This diamond has been missing for years and everyone assumes that it was either lost in a poker game in Galvastan or had followed a prostetute to San Antonio and the Alamo. Many people have wanted to find this diamond over the years. So Kelsey and Logan are summoned by Jackson to SA because there has been several bodies of women who were killed in similar circumstances, they all disappeared while traveling to SA or shortly after they arrived. Something just tells Kelsey that it is connected to inn she is staying in. Anyways, the killer was a twist that I guessed beforehand because the author gave one HUGE clue and if you don't pick up on it, it is very very subtle, then you will miss the clue. I was so happy that I was right. That would have been a huge twist if I didn't catch that one clue. The romance is...okay at best. I wasn't sure I was going to like Logan's character at first because he was being a bit of an ass to Kelsey and just being angry but then he lets go of that anger and I kind of grew to like him as a character. Kelsey was okay, though her insecurity about her relationship with Logan was a little gratting. There was no reason for her to think that he didn't care about her in the moment or that he had lingering feelings for his dead wife. Also, I did hate one thing with the writing. The two would be eating dinner and then the author would have them go from conversation to making out to having sex....like there was no transition except "next thing so and so knew, they were in so in so's arms and...". Literally just like that. I didn't like that. In The Evil Inside, the romance was a little built up and was transitioned to so much better than this book. It was like the author didn't know how to get them point A to point B and just kind of half assed it. I mean the romance isn't the main reason to read these books but come on. All in all, a good book and I liked that it was set in the city I grew up around. I never did hear about the Galvaston Diamond growing up but Texas history wasn't my favorite in school. The romance could be better but the new group seems nice thought the only character I want to know more about is Sean, Kelsey's cousin. We got a little backstory on him in this book and I wonder more about it. His book is next in the series so that is good. Anyways, that is all for this book. See you in the next read! This is the 4th book in the Krewe of Hunters series and I liked it almost as much as the first book. I didn't get both killers guessed in the end but I did guess right on one of them...when I thought there was just one killer...that is your one hint as to how to solve this mytery.
So this is Jenna's book. Jenna is asked by her uncle to come visit him in Salem because he needs a favor. A young teen boy was found covered in blood by attorney Sam. Turns out the boy's family had been murdered and he is arrested for the crime. Jenna's uncle, a psychiatrist, believes the boy is not guilty and gets both Jenna and Sam to help in the boy's defense. The boy and his family lived in the Lexington House, a house where two other grusome murders had taken place years before, one in during the Salem Witch Trials, and another about a hundred years after that. So this book has ties to the Salem Witch Trails, which is one of the things in history that I find interesting. I like the whole witch/supernatural aspect to the history and there is so many books and stories that are connected to Salem. So when information came up, which wasn't nearly as much as the information dumps in the previous book, I was engaged in the history. I loved that this book wasn't trying to solve a mystery as much as it was trying to prove the innocence of a boy, though I would have thought we would have seen more of him in the book to care about what happened more. The mystery was interesting and it took until about a 2/3rd of the book for me to kind of guess the killer, or at least one of them, so that was interesting. The relationship between Sam and Jenna was nice. Even though Sam wasn't a believer in the beginning and he was a skeptic throughout most of the book but he didn't think less of Jenna and was willing to try something with her. The relationship was sweet and nice little undertone to the mystery. The supernatural wasn't as much as I wanted. I was hoping for some scary scenes, like ghosts showing up in a mirror or someone waking to someone standing over them or something like that. I hope there are more in the other books. All in all, great book and I am going to be continuing the series, of course. I love the mystery with the supernatural with some romance thrown in there. I love it! That is all for this book. See you in the next read! So, technically, this is the 3rd book in the Krewe of Hunters series by Heather Graham but I skipped the second book because it had one of those cliche romance plot lines that I don't like. This one is that the girl and Jack had a romantic past and the reason they broke apart was because he saw something that spooked her and she got angry. As I don't like reading stories of people who broke up and then, years later, get back together, I just read some reviews and skipped it.
This is Whitney's book. Whitney, our New Orleans native, heads to New York first when the Krewe of Hunters are called in for a Jack the Ripper like murder. Whitney arrived a couple of days before the rest and builds a repore with the detective, Jude. Jude does not believe in the supernatural at all and thus does not believe that the Krewe of Hunters and Whitney can really help but he isn't going to turn down help from anyone. He doesn't want a Jack the Ripper loose in New York creating the same panic as what happened in 1800's London. So, this book links the murders to Jack the Ripper but it isn't Jack the Ripper that the supernatural happenings were centered around and I think that is why I didn't get into the mystery that much. There is a theory that the Ripper came to America and settle here in New York at a some point. The historical mystery is surrounding someone called the New York Jack the Ripper, Johnathan Black. I honestly didn't care at all about this and so it was harder for me to pay attention when there were information dumps. And there were plenty of information dumps. I have no idea if those dumps help important information to figure out the killer but I don't think they did. Also, I didn't buy Whitney and Jude's relationship. Jude was constantly thinking that Whitney and her group were a little crazy for their believes in the supernatural and would often back off of Whitney because he didn't want the others to laugh at him or think he bought into it as well. Because of this, the actual relationship, or them showing they have feelings for each other at all, happens towards the end of the book when they think they have a killer in custody and the case is closed. So, the book dragged for me. The killers weren't that exciting either and the twist didn't seem that big for me. Overall, not a bad story if you are into the history that surrounds Johnathan Black and his crimes but I just couldn't get into it. Since the series started on such a good note, I'm not going to give up. I am sure that there will be some books that I won't be into in the series since there seems to be a combination between history and modern history in each book. That is all for this book. See you in the next read! The next in the Sisters of Heart series and it is Lexi's book. Lexi is the youngest of the women and she was also the most damaged, that we know of as at this point we don't know Lissa and Blythe's stories. Lexi was kidnapped at the age of 8 to be a child bride in a cult. She had spent at least 10 years with this cult being abused in every way possible before she was able to escape and turn state's evidence against the cult. She went into witness protection and therapy and that is how she met the other women. Now, present time. Gavriil, the second oldest of the Prakenskii brothers, has shown up to the farm to warn his youngest brother and the others before he would sacrifice himself to keep them all safe. He sees Lexi and knows that she is meant to be his. Lexi leaves the farm to go to the arces all of the group has purchased to expand their farm. While away from the farm, she is attacked by the man that abused her as a kid. Her old cult has found her. But Gavriil shows up in time to save her. Now its time for Lexi to save him from utter darkness. So this book is cute but totally insta-love. I swear, Lexi took to Gavriil super fast and defended him so much. I mean Gavriil at least has a reason for his insta-love as all of the men have that instinct to mark the woman that is fated for them but Lexi, someone who has been abused for a long time, just defends Gavriil against her whole family that helped her when she was healing. The author does have Lexi and Gavriil go through issues pertaining to sex as Lexi had been abused and Lexi has to work through issues but her attitude isn't as belieable for me. My favorite part of this book is that FINALLY Ilya interacts with his brothers. I swear it has been months since Lev had showed up in Water Bound and Ilya, the youngest, hasn't seen or talked to any of the brothers and there are 4 at the farm before Gavriil shows up. I LOVED that, not only does Gavriil goes to talk to Ilya, but that Ilya also helps them out and shows that he does consider family and wants to protect them. The cult conflict doesn't really have a huge part in the book. Gavriil saves Lexi in the beginning, the cult calls to make threats, Lexi gives names and location of one of the compounds, they go to get the bad guys, its all wrapped up. The majority of this book is spent on Gavriil dealing with his new feelings for Lexi and Lexi dealing with having a guy in her life and not knowing if she can have a normal relationship with Gavriil. All in all, a cute and easy read. I'll probably finish the series, not sure yet as the book ends with Blythe's book and thats the beginning of the Torpedo Ink series and I already know what happens in that book soooo....who knows. That is all for this book. See you in the next read! The newest in the Torpedo Ink sereis by Christine Feehan and it seems she has decided to calm down the sex and kinks in this book. This book is Player's, a character that hasn't really been fleshed out that much in previous books. To be honest, I thought Savage was going to get his book next since he had a big role in Absinthe's book. Oh well.
So Player and Zyah have a night a passion but Player thinks its an illusion because of his "gift". Because of this misunderstanding, Player does what he can to find Zyah and apologize. In the process, Player stops a kidnapping but is shot in the head. Now he has to recover with Zyah's help as well as to find out who would want to harm her. Honestly, I skimmed the first part of this book, there was repetition in the story so I didn't feel like I missed much. I like Zyah and Player as a couple and as characters. They seem solid together. This is the first time one of the Torpedo Ink people I have read that was ready to give up their "woman" because they didn't think they were worthy of the love they could have. I thought that was cute but super frustrating but totally understand. Now, the disappointing part of the book. The conflict does not connect at all with what has been going on in the other books. Also, there seems to be something going on while Player is down and healing but we don't know what that it. I wonder if that is going to come up in the next book. I also wonder who is the next book going to be about because there are so many that we get to see a little more about in this book. The ending is so anticlimatic that I felt that the book just kind of stopped for me. It just ended and didn't feel like there was much of a resolution, I guess. There is this whole mystery of a painting/picture that Zyah's grandfather had made that Player sees a bomb in. Also, both Zyah and Player see a pair of eyes coming from the painting. It's interesting and makes you wonder if it is somehow connected to the other mysteries in the other books but...nope. Its nothing sinister and totally comes from left field on who it is and why they can see through the painting. Like, really left field. All in all, it was nice to have a calmer book when it came to the more raunchy side of Torpedo Ink. Absinthe's book was a little much for me so I had to put down this series for a little while. I really do wonder where the series is going to go. This is another off shoot of the Drake sisters and Sisters of Heart series and both of those series had an over arching conflict so I do hope that is what is going to happen here but I don't know. There have been several elements that have been introduced so who knows where this will go. That is all for this book, see you in the next read! So this is the newest book by Disney's Twisted Tale series and it's about Hercules. Now, Hercules isn't my favorite from the Disney catalog, mostly because I know the real myths and I find them more amusing, but this book was interesting. It poses the question that what if Meg had to become a Greek God? I mean, if you know the real story, you would know that character in which Meg is supposed to be doesn't have a happy ending so I liked this spin of the tale.
So, this book picks up right at the end of the movie, where Hercules says he wants to stay with Meg on Earth but this time Zeus says no, he wants Hercules to stay in the heavens with the other gods. So Hera, being a kind and caring mother, decided to offer Meg a quest that would help make her a god. Now, what I love about this book is that the author actually makes the gods seem a little more like themselves in real mythology, except Aphrodite. She is not a sweet loving person who helps people find love all that much in mythology, at least not the myths I remember about her. Her love comes with compications and consequences, like the whole battle of Troy. But it was interesting to read the descriptions of the gods from the movie and then them act a little more....like themselves. Especially Zeus! I also liked that this book was meant to be a learning adventure for Meg as well. She had a hard life and that messed her up but she had to learn to deal with her past as well as open herself up so that she could love Hercules. What I didn't like about the book was that it was too short. I feel like the lessons that were learned were learned way to fast and there should have been more to it. I mean Mulan's book was twice as big as this one and it was also a learning adventure but it made a bigger impact because it had more in the story. That is my only gripe about this book. It's too short. It needs to be longer to be more impactful. That being said, I get this book is for kids/young adults and they may not have as long of an attention span as me but I think they would have read a longer version and the lessons would probably stick more in their head. All in all, I liked this book and I am happy I am continuing to read this series. I read a lot of the books last year and now I have this one, which is now finished, and the Alice in Wonderland book to read until the Repunzel book comes out in September. Keep them coming, Disney! I love these books! That's all for this read. See you in the next book! This is the first book by in the Krewe of Hunters series (which currently has 34 books and still counting) and the premise of these books are really cool. So Adam Harrison (who I think shows up in a different book that predates this series but I am not sure) puts together a group of people who have special skills, mostly they all have some connection to the supernatural. They all have had some experience or are open to these kinds of phenomenons. The person leading this group is Jackson Crow. He is coming back from a case where he had lost several of his previous team to a killer. He was only able to catch the killer and save other members in his team because he had an experience where a dead member came to him in a dream. With Jackson, there is Angela, Whitney, Jack, Will, and Jenna. Now Angela and Jackson are the oldest out of everyone and the only ones that have law enforcement training, Jackson is FBI and Angela worked for the police. The rest are in their younger twenties so Jackson and Angela kind of treats them as "kids" (its kind of funny).
So the case was a senator's wife fell from their New Orleans house balcony. The police want to say it was suicide but the senator swears there is something else involed, ghosts. So Jackson and others have to figure out what happened. So this book is a who done it kind of mystery with some supernatural stuff and romance thrown in. You learn pretty early on that there are only certain people who could have pulled off this murder and so the majority of the book is trying to figure out who out of the suspects are the actual killer. I will say I was surprised who it turned out to be, I was thinking it was one of the other suspects so that was interesting. The ghost element wasn't nearly as important as I thought it would be but it did add some interesting parts to the story. Unfortunately it felt like the crew was trying to solve two different mysteries that weren't really connected. They are connected, kind of, and you see that in the end but for most of the book, it didn't seem like the ghost mystery wasn't important to the present mystery. The other book I read of Grahams, the ghost mystery and the present one was connected because of how the two different killers got rid of the bodies of their victims and the ghosts were trying to help the people solve this, so I was expecting something of the same with this book. I did love the whole subplot of Jackson and Angela being the two older investigators, as they were in their early 30s, and kind of the mom and dad of the group. It was cute! Especially since they do end up having a connection and end up together at the end of the book. Angela is more in tune with the supernatural than Jackson and Jackson likes to play devils advocate when it come to the supernatural stuff. He likes proof, which I don't blame him on at all. It really does add to the story, making the reader think about the clues. The ending was....okay for me. I mean for the mystery. I like Jackson and Angela's ending. The motivation behind the killer and why everything happened just didn't....I don't know....make sense. I would have thought something else had happened. It just didn't seem like the motive was really there. But other than that, I liked the story. I am going to continue reading this author. I liked the ghost elements and the mystery and the romance is not a dramatic, which is nice. I thinked how, once Angela and Jackson gave in to their attraction together, there wasn't all this weird issues of the relationship and such. They just went with it and supported each other and it just felt..right. I know romance isn't that easy but..come on...sometimes people just want it that way! That is it for this book. I am going to try to change it up a little and read some other books that are not as romancy, unlike more of my reading from this year. This is a great transition book series as it the romance isn't the main or prevalate part of the book and it is still interesting. I do want to get back into reading the fantasy and thrillers and others that I used to read all the time. I shall update soon. See you in the next book! This book has romance, suspense, and ghosts SOOOO I am all here for this. This book is about the Flynn brothers. They have inherited a rundown plantation near New Orleans, Louisiana from an aunt they had never met. When they arrived, they meet Kendall, who had taken care of their aunt Amelia. Aiden, Jeremy, and Zach, the Flynn brothers and owners of a PI business (They all had worked in law enforcement before), want to rebuild the plantation and turn it into a place to host events and such to help the community. This book was set not too long after Katrina had hit Louisiana so there is still a lot of things going on to rebuild the community. Well, while exploring the grounds, Aiden finds two different human bones and think something is going on, so he wants to investigate. On top of that, this plantation has a tragic story that ends with death and ghosts.
So, Kendall and Aiden become close because Kendall was there in the end for the aunt and knows the plantation really well. Not only that but Aiden finds Kendall attractive but he doesn't know if he wants to start anything because he has been feel numb the last couple of years because of the death of his wife. Graham does an interesting job on the romance, it does feel organic thought we don't get much of the talk on the two getting to know each other outside of suspense part. Come to find out, there are girls missing and there is a connection to Kendall and the plantation. The romance isn't sex heavy as in a lot of other suspense books I have read in the past but it did have those intimate scenes. I found the romance to be a little more sweeter because of that because it didn't feel like it was more an attraction of minds and person instead of mostly a physical attraction like most romance books. The ghost element is cool because it does add to the weirdness of what is going on even though it isn't too creepy. I was actually hoping for more creepiness but I am okay with what was in there. The two have dreams were dead people speak to them. Kendall thinks she is going crazy at one point because of the hauntings, especially when it has to deal with the tarot cards she has. Those kinds of thing. SO the paranormal elements was too weird but just enought paranormal that I really loved it. Now, the reason I didn't give this book 5 stars. The ending! I didn't like it because it felt like a rushed epilouge that skipped over the important part, for me, in romance books. The part when the main couple actually tell each other how they feel and establish that this is a long term thing. If that had happened, and then we got the epilouge with them married and it being a year later, I would have given this book a 5 stars but it didn't so the ending felt rushed and not as fullfilling. It literally went from Aiden saving her from the killer and all the ghosts they have seen getting peace to one year later, they are married, and she has news for him that she wants to tell him in the presence of those ghosts. No declaration of love. Yeah, I didn't like that. I wanted that declaration. Just one extra scene were Aiden or Kendall actually talk about what happened with the killer and how scared they were and how they weren't going to let things go because they know what is important because of this brush with death. I know its cliche but I live for that shit! So that is my problem with the ending. Oh, the twist for the killer. OMG I forgot about that. I think because I assumed it would be one of several people and when it came to Kendall being attacked finally, the author showed where all my other suspects were so I knew when the name was said who it was becuase of process of elimination. Good twist otherwise. All in all, I liked this book and will continue with Heather Graham's novels. They all seem to have the paranormal element like ghosts and psychics so I can deal with that. Depending on how it is used, it does add to suspense novels. That is all for this book, see you all in the next read! Yeah, this book was frustrating for me. I just really didn't like how the relationship was being built AND the suspense wasn't the best either so I don't think I am going to continue with this author. This book I got from Kindle Unlimited and now I know why its on there. Doesn't give me hope for other authors on there. Kind of thinking of getting rid of the subscription now.
Anyways, this book is about Micheal Maddox and Kate Adams. Kate is an event planner and is asked by Micheal's sister to help plan an event. Micheal is, at first, against this until he meets Kate and hears her plan. Kate has a crust on Micheal and it is established that Micheal also is attracted to Kate. There is just one problem. Micheal doesn't do relationships and that is all Kate does. SOOOOOO this whole book feels like a back and forth from Micheal on wanting Kate and then not because he doesn't want to hurt her by not being able to give her the relationship he feels she deserves. So the suspesne part of the novel is that Kate has a stalker. The stalker shows up immediately as she gets to Charlotte. At first Kate just blows it off but it does leave her a little shaken. Micheal notices but lets her blame it on the loss of her mother who had died giving birth to her in Charlotte (this comes back up). The event that was planned happens and, that evening, the stalker escalates and has broken into Kate's hotel room to put pictures of her sleeping all over her bed. Micheal, being the gentleman and hot for Kate, had walked her to her hotel room and sees the pictures and goes into action. Oh, I forgot that I mention but Micheal used to be a Marine and so did all his buddies and his business is built on him inventing things and selling them to the military. The event was to raise money and awarness for returning vets who need help starting over. So why does Micheal not do relationships? Because of PTSD, of course. He is just too fucked up to be able to carry on a decent relationship and sleep in the same room as someone, let alone let them in to his life. What bugged me the most was the Micheal would give in to the passion, push Kate away, get mad if she was around another guy or jealous, give in to the passion, and then push her away, again! Poor Kate! I have had friend go through this with an ex and this is not a decent relationship. It's toxic. In the end, Kate decides to walk away after her stalker is found and she moves to Boston to get away from her father, the person who hired someone to "stalk" his daughter to get her to leave Charlotte because he didn't want her to know that her mom didn't die giving birth to her but was murdered while 8/9 months pregnant and the doctors were able to save the baby. Yeah, that was the twist. If he had just left it alone, she wouldn't have looked into her mother's death and found out the truth. Stupid conflict. So Kate leaves and Micheal decides to get help before going to find her and ask for her to forgive him. Two month. That is all it takes for Micheal to show up and say he can't live without her and he is working on himself. Dude! You could have done that right away! Why?! I can see that people will argue it's because of Kate and opening his eyes because he loves her but....why her? He was already falling for her before he helped with the stalker, that is why he kept trying to go after her even though she made it clear she wanted a relationship. Why not be like, "Okay, if the only way I can have this woman I am attracted to is to be in a relationship and the only thing keeping me from being in a relationship is my issues from being in the military, why don't I seek help and try to make this work?" Instead of "I shouldn't persue her because I don't want a relationship but I am going to anyways because I can't get her out my head but I am not going to commit to her in any way but keep pushing and pulling on her emotions to that I can damage her AND THEN seek out help when I realize I actually love her". See the difference! Just seems like the conflit that is put in their relationship could have been absolved easily. UGH! This is why I usually don't do regular romance and why I liked suspsense. At least in suspense, the conflict is usually someone trying to kill one of the main characters so getting into a relationship in that time isn't the wisest. Anyways, I'm not going to read more from this author. Just not for me. Hey, I am happy this author is writing the books she wants and there are people out there that will love this kind of drama but not me. Sorry. That is all for this book. See you in the next read! |
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