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Within The Shadows (Shadow World, #1)
by Julieanne Lynch (Goodreads Author)

read in July, 2012

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Julieanne Lynch is an author to keep an eye on! I was gifted a book from her in return to write a review and I must say I was amazed at her story. It's so refreshing to see a different take on vampire novels.

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The Preacher (Patrik Hedström, #2)
by Camilla Läckberg

read in June, 2012

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The Preacher by Camilla Lackberg- Book Review By Erin Miller

A review of a Swedish crime mystery author. Lackberg is a decent author. I am still annoyed that The Preacher by Camilla Lackberg is actually the second book in her series with the police of...more The Preacher by Camilla Lackberg- Book Review By Erin Miller

A review of a Swedish crime mystery author. Lackberg is a decent author. I am still annoyed that The Preacher by Camilla Lackberg is actually the second book in her series with the police officer Patrik Hedstrom and writer Erica Falck. I didn’t find out it was the second book in the series until I was in the middle of the book.

I have to say the reason I picked this up in the first place is because I am having a writer’s block right now with my series with the characters Jackie Miller and Honey Elizabeth. Jackie is a police officer and Honey is a teacher/writer. So, I picked up The Preacher by Camilla Lackberg for purely selfish reasons after I read the back cover.

The Preacher by Camilla Lackberg takes place in Fjallbacka, Sweden. Erica Falck is pregnant with Patrik’s child. These two are on vacation when Patrik gets a call from his superintendent Mellberg. In an area known as the King’s cleft a six year old boy has discovered a woman’s bloody corpse. Patrik now has to search for the murderer and two skeletons were found under the woman’s corpse.

Eventually a teenage girl goes missing as well. Patrik and his team are looking everywhere and all the clues point to a family of religious fanatics. Back in the 70s this family had a dirty history and when Patrik’s investigation continually points back to this family, more secrets are revealed. In the book there is an interesting twist to the plot and it definitely makes a good read.

I rate The Preacher by Camilla Lackberg a 10 out of 10. I am just sad about one thing. I read this book to get inspiration since the storyline itself is very similar to my own. Unfortunately, I still have a writer’s block.

I definitely want to check out Lackberg’s first novel The Ice Princess. I saw some of the reviews for her book The Preacher say it wasn’t as good as her first book. Some of the reviews also mentioned that Erica should have had a bigger part to play. So now I have to check it out for myself.

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The Lady of the Sea (Tristan and Isolde, #3)
by Rosalind Miles

read in May, 2012

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Rosalind Miles is a historical fiction author and has written an interesting trilogy on the original star crossed lovers Tristan and Isolde. The book The Lady of the Sea is the third book in the Isolde and Tristan trilogy by Rosalind Miles. It was in...more Rosalind Miles is a historical fiction author and has written an interesting trilogy on the original star crossed lovers Tristan and Isolde. The book The Lady of the Sea is the third book in the Isolde and Tristan trilogy by Rosalind Miles. It was interesting but could have been done better but it was definitely better than the second book in the trilogy.

Isolde in The Lady of the Sea by Rosalind Miles is Queen of Ireland. The King Darath of the Picts is threatening to invade Ireland so she sets to return to the Western Isle to take care of this threat of invasion. Now the way she had dealt with this threat was to use peaceful tactics and while I agree nothing gets solved by bloodshed I felt this part of the story was a bit unrealistic. Darath and the Picts were a race of men known to exterminate women and show no mercy to anyone so for a King of this type of people to follow Isolde’s lead just didn’t make sense to me although I do appreciate the idea.

Meanwhile, King Mark is growing jealous of the bond of Tristan and Isolde. Once again I have to remember the time period this story takes place because King Mark was having an affair on the side himself with the Lady ELva who he ended up casting aside. Still, King Mark becomes a blood thirsty tyrant because of his cowardice and the religious extremism of the Christians in the story such as Father Dominian and Arraganzo. It really was just sad. That’s all I can say about that.

The love between Tristan and Isolde was just annoying. I mean it’s great that they were each other’s true loves or what not but really it seemed to two were way too codependent on another, at least in the beginning of the story. I admit I did appreciate the love between the couple towards the end of the story when Tristan rescues Isolde from a leper house and Mark goes hunting for them.

Still, this book has twists and turns within that can be enjoyed. I personally think it could have been done better but it wasn’t that bad. All in all, it was a pretty good story. I rate The Lady of the Sea by Rosalind Miles a 5 out of 10.(less)

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The Maid of the White Hands by Rosalind Miles

The Maid of the White Hands (Tristan and Isolde, #2)
by Rosalind Miles

read in May, 2012

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The Maid of The White Hands by Rosalind Miles- Book Review by Erin Miller
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Rosalind Miles is a good historical fiction author.

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Published on May 24, 2012 by Erin Miller in Shopping
The Maid of The White Hands by Rosalind Miles- Book Review by Erin Miller

Rosalind Miles is a good historical fiction author.

The Maid Of The White Hands By Rosalind Miles- Book Review By Erin Miller

Rosalind Miles is a good historical fiction author. I liked the first book that I have read of hers that was called Isolde Queen of the Western Isle. Her second books The Maid of the White Hands however, could have been much better.

In The Maid of the White Hands by Rosalind Miles, Queen Isolde’s mother has passed away making Isolde now Queen of Ireland aka The Western Isle. She goes to Ireland and her mother’s former lover Tolen was murdered by his brother Breccan who is planning to make himself king. So now, there’s a threat to her kingdom she has to face.

Meanwhile, in Cornwall, King Mark’s nephew Andred is trying to get the King under his trap. He leads Mark to have suspicions against Isolde and Tristan. Here we see Mark as a cowardly jealous man that people are able to pull strings and push buttons to get him to do their bidding. A coward so to speak. This also makes no sense to me either considering he’s having an affair with the Lady Elva and no one says anything about that. Then again I have to think of the time period the story takes place…

As for the love affair between Isolde and Tristan, it got old after a while. The continuing mantras: “Goddess Mother help me…” and “Oh my love.” or “Bring me to my love.” gets old and wearisome after a while. In all honestly these two star crossed lovers acted like nothing more than a sorry pair of high school students with a breach of communication. Come on! In the book Isolde is thirty for goodness sake and I imagine Tristan’s around the same age. Grow up! The love between them could have been written better and not with teenage angst.

In the book Tristan does get injured and Andred sends him to Blanch who is the Princess of France. Blanch actually reminds me of some terrible person I know in real life, so she stuck out as someone that really annoyed me. What I couldn’t stand was one scene where she was so full of herself she sent a man to his death and didn’t care at all as soon as found out Tristan was in her homeland. It made me think ”How can someone be so selfish!”

Another thing I didn’t understand in this book was that Isolde left the Western Isle to look for Tristan even though her lands were in disarray. How can any decent ruler do that to their lands? It made no sense how the Western Isle didn’t fall apart after that.

I rate this book a 1 out of 10. Miles could have written this story so much better than what it was. I hope in the third book it is decent but I won’t get my hopes up. I hate leaving a series unfinished so I will read the third book and maybe, just maybe, it could be a better story than the second book was.(less)

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Isolde, Queen of the Western Isle by Rosalind Miles

Isolde, Queen of the Western Isle (Tristan and Isolde, #1)
by Rosalind Miles

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Isolde Queen of the Western Isle by Rosalind Miles is a fantastic book! Miles writes the story of the original star crossed lovers Isolde and Tristan in a way I haven’t read before. The two heroes are briefly mentioned in myths but this book to me wa...more

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Artist Erin rated a book 5 of 5 stars Within The Shadows (Shadow World, #1) by Julieanne Lynch (Goodreads Author) read in July, 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Julieanne Lynch is an author to keep an eye on! I was gifted a book from her in return to write a review and I must say I was amazed at her story. It's so refreshing to see a different take on vampire novels. Within The Shadows written by Julieanne Ly...more
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Artist Erin rated a book 5 of 5 stars The Preacher (Patrik Hedström, #2) by Camilla Läckberg read in June, 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The Preacher by Camilla Lackberg- Book Review By Erin Miller A review of a Swedish crime mystery author. Lackberg is a decent author. I am still annoyed that The Preacher by Camilla Lackberg is actually the second book in her series with the police of...more
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Artist Erin rated a book 3 of 5 stars The Lady of the Sea (Tristan and Isolde, #3) by Rosalind Miles read in May, 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Rosalind Miles is a historical fiction author and has written an interesting trilogy on the original star crossed lovers Tristan and Isolde. The book The Lady of the Sea is the third book in the Isolde and Tristan trilogy by Rosalind Miles. It was in...more
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Artist Erin rated a book 1 of 5 stars The Maid of the White Hands (Tristan and Isolde, #2) by Rosalind Miles read in May, 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The Maid of The White Hands by Rosalind Miles- Book Review by Erin Miller Published on May 24, 2012 by Erin Miller in Shopping The Maid of The White Hands by Rosalind Miles- Book Review by Erin Miller Rosalind Miles is a good historical fiction author. ...more
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Artist Erin rated a book 5 of 5 stars Isolde, Queen of the Western Isle (Tristan and Isolde, #1) by Rosalind Miles read in May, 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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