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This is your own book I take it...
Audible has a sale going on where the first couple of books of a series are 3 books for 1 credit. An Irish Village Mystery bundle by Carlene O'Connor. This series is a slow build romance about a young woman who has a large family of siblings left to manage a restaurant previously owned by their parents who were killed together in an accident. The lead character. Siobahn O'Sullivan solves mysteries and soon feels like she has a knack for crime solving and joins the local Garda. I love this series for the accents and local flavor.
If anyone else is interested in listening to the Anty Boisjoly mystery series they are free on KU. If you download the Kindle version, then you can purchase the Audible version for $7.49 instead of a credit or the crazy cost of the audio version outright.
Paula... I finished "The Case of the Canterfell Codicil. It has snappy dialog and dry responses. I think that I really enjoyed it on audio because the reader has the perfect accent and cadence to his voice to keep the non-stop rhythm of the story going. The Anty Boisjoly Mystery series is one I'll be looking forward to reading in the future. By the way his last name Boisjoly is pronounced like the wine Beaujolais, except instead of bow he say boo jolais. It was a neat cozy mystery with a couple of twists. Fun read!
Kristi... Sending hugs and prayers your way. What a curve is right. Wow! Don't forget to take care of you too! Lisa... I liked "Forever" but be forewarned it ends on a kind of cliffhanger. The good thing is that we find out about some of the side characters. Xhex and her brother Blade play prominent roles. The thing that I didn't like was once again Ward has the **** with one of the established couples. I get it, in real life things happen, but it was a couple of hard chapters to read. I can't wait for the third "Wolven" book, but I know that it will be a while.
For those who don't know, in the "Wolven" series, Lydia is a lone wolven and her boyfriend is a human who has been hunting down and destroying the hidden human labs that have been taking vampire's and wolven and experimenting on them. One such lab is where Xhex spent her adolescence until her brother Blade found her.
On kindle, I have been reading an ARC "Perfect Shot" which has lots of military jargon and the female lead character is former military, FBI, and loaned to Interpol. It is fast moving and interesting. It's not my usual read but I thought that I would give it a go. This is by Steve Urszenyi.
On audio I am listening to a highly comedic locked door mystery that plays like a vaudeville act. The main character has been asked by his former boarding school and college chum to help investigate his friend's mysterious fall from his locked study in the family castle. Set in the 1920's, it is quite amusing and the one liners are non stop. Even the chapter headlines are hysterical.
So far it's a really laugh out loud listen. " The Case of the Canterfell Codicil", by P J Fitzsimmons.
Just came across this about Sherrilyn Kenyon. That's a very different bio than I've seen before. https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/...
HappyBookWorm.. I tried for the Jacka book & was turned down almost immediately. Bummer! I have a few books to review, I just wanted to try for that one.
Happy... I can't seem to find the Jodi Taylor book. Is there a separate netgalley for the uk?
Happy... How are things going? I hope that you know that we are all pulling for you. Keep the rec's coming. I don't always have a chance to peruse the Netgalley offerings.
Thanks Happy. I loved Jacka's writing in the Alex Verus series. I requested it, fingers crossed!
Ilona Andrews posted that Magic Claims
is $4.99 until June 1st, (It is published on June 13th). After that it goes up to $5.99. they said that it is officially a novel (word wise). I can't wait I am really enjoying these Kate books in a new location. On the reading front, I am still slogging my way through an ARC Thief Liar Lady.
This is a Cinderella retelling or more like the not so HEA followup. I just can't connect with the main character, Aislinn/Ash. She has a mission, but she has no heart in the game. There is lots of political intrigue, "the prince's" brother is the king and he is just as much a tyrant as his enslaving bully of a father. It's a swirl of longing for the other "prince" in the palace, the use of drugs to get the prince to fall in love with her, and she is supposed to be an agent for oppressed nation. It's a big muddle and I'm having a hard time getting through it.
On the audio side, I have been listening to an historical series about a woman whose father left when she was a teen and took her older sister with him and abandoned her and her mother to fend for themselves. She has created a way to stay among the "ton" by becoming an "useful woman". She helps the society ladies by organizing their lives, but most importantly she is a sort of thieftaker, investigating lost items, discovering murderers, obtaining items used for blackmail. She has a couple of friends who were originally a part of the elite society too, and because of circumstances find themselves writing for the local newspaper, who help her investigate each case. Calling on a network of other friends, and with the help of a Bow Street runner, who is a romantic interest, (an extremely slow burn), she solves cases that cannot be investigated by outsiders. Each case has her inhabiting the women's homes under the pretense of assisting them in planning a fete or assisting them by writing, etc. All in all, it's a pretty good series and the auxiliary characters have growth too. My really big beef is that the books are read by many different narrators. I'm on the 6th book, The Secret of the Lost Pearls.
and it strangely has a new title of the series, "Useful Woman series, book 1". This latest novel has a terrible narrator, Kitty Kelly. She makes all of the characters sound like they are from the streets of London, instead of the elite class. I hope that they return to Pearl Hewitt for future novels. The first book in the series is A Useful Woman.
The Rosalind Thorne Mystery Series.
Have a great time Kristi! Retirement seems to be agreeing with you! Diane that sounds like a fun project.
The Rip Through Time novels are excellent. There are a lot of abnormalities in the characters, all unique for their time. The doctor is a half black man raised by his father's family, and his half sister is a scientist, (chemist). In the second book, some are aware of her background so to speak, and she can more readily assist both the doctor and the local constabulary. It is a very well written series and I hope that she continues with more than 3 books. As melindeeloo stated it does have a Rockton vibe, probably because both main characters have a detective background, in the modern world.
I would give "The Poisoner's Ring" 5 stars.
I usually power through. Sometimes a book has something redeeming about it bit usually if it smells at 25% then it usually carries it all through to the end. I'm reading one now where I just don't like the main character. Maybe I'm missing something but when it comes out in July it's $14.99 on kindle. Maybe this author has a big following, but I'm not seeing anything unique enough to warrant an expensive kindle edition.
Does anyone know why my netgalley books have expiration dates all of a sudden? I have a couple of different books that aren't publishing until late May at the earliest, and they all gave a 10 day expiration posted on them. Is there a way to get around this? It's just very weird. I can't find any notification of this practice on my account. Unfortunately I am accessing it on their horribly inferior netgalley app. If HappyBookWorm hadn't posted about the "Bee" book I wouldn't have noticed the problem.
Yes that seems to be the trend, take a great series and mess with it until it no longer represents the books, except for the character names.
I really like the latest Sherry Thomas's Lady Sherlock novel, " A Tempest at Sea". This is an historical series where the real Sherlock Holmes is actually Charlotte Holmes. There is an ongoing group of characters who assist in her complicated ruses. There is a slow burn romance, but because Charlotte is apparently on the spectrum, (strictly my observation), they are taking things at her pace. These are very well done, and there is a Watson, and a nemesis, Moriarty, who seems to have an unending group of minions.
Kate Reading does the narration of this series and does a fantastic job of peeforming multiple voices.
Sorry about the repeat question. I had it in mind & repeated what you wrote. Oops!
Demetra I've been meaning to ask, have you watched any of the Joe Pickett series on Amazon? or Hulu? Whatever it is, I plan to finish the books & then watch it.
