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This novel is not the instant charmer that I anticipated and is flopping all over the place. Everyone loves it. If it is Sarah Addison Allen's début, she must have been forging her direction. It is off-putting, careening between fluffy and violent. It promises many special elements. I am suddenly making it to page 72 without trouble.

Crawling back into bed with Louise Penny's sympathetic, memorable characters and her intelligent, compelling mystery adventures is like a warm blanket of familiar bliss.

An unpleasant subject of serial killing. I did not expect to find it in what I thought was a paranormal mystery. Actually, these people are very skilled in plausible but highly advanced abilities. Readers feel for everyone's personal stories and like all of the characters. There is humour and typical, expected romance. The positives are topped off with Jennifer Lynn Barnes' originality and empathy. I am hooked.

Here is a different 2013 series by the delightful and captivating Jennifer Lynn Barnes.

Here I am on my second adventure into the deep and I mean inky black imagination of the wildly original Cliff McNish.

Jennifer Grey believed that reconstructing a nose, primarily to fix a deviated septum, was all people thought of about her. I in Canada knew nothing about it. Many people ignore tabloids. I only wondered where she was and why she did not seem to capitalize on the success of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", "Red Dawn", and "Dirty Dancing". Patrick Swayze wrote in his autobiography: she carried the film "Dirty Dancing".

I am glad Thomas and Barbara are in charge of solving a bad crime. I have no respect for the Mother who did nothing to help her Daughter, even if she insisting on thinking the biological Dad had the child safely, in order to goad her. What love does a Mother lack, if she isn't terrified that her child might not be in a safe place!? I also loathe it if authors don't give victims a happy ending, especially children.

I dislike multiple viewpoints. I like to follow two book protagonists at the most. Some authors make a few story protagonists work well. I never want inside views of victims, killers, or other external characters. However, I love Elizabeth George and it is not new for her to add everyone's external story scenes, so I am reading through them. At page 162, Barbara Havers has not entered yet, who will bring relief.

Any scenes with women of any personality, skill, and profession are juvenilely and irritatingly sexist, which has no damn excuse in 1975. You either know better not to minimize a gender or you don't. Our generation most certainly did not invent wisdom and respect. In these early stories, the overdone action keeps you afloat - to add an acquatic pun. I cannot wait to read the novels in which Clive Cussler grew up!

I am finding that reading propels forward and that I gain good ground in my reading sessions. However, constant hurdles and danger are too fake and oppressive, like we would criticize of the "Hardy Boys". I want an oceanic novel, not a shoot-em-up movie. Anyhow, it is an early step in Clive Cussler's enduring series named for his Son.

I look forward to the years when Clive Cussler wasn't sexist and chauvanistic. I have heard that this gets a lot better. In the meantime, let's see if I can get swept up in this underwater mystery puzzle.

This is written well by Cassandra Eason but I think my interest in past lives is lower than that of other people. I took ages to believe in it, even though it immediately made sense that we choose to be here and what our life goal is. In pondering why reading this became a slog, I figured out that besides having low interest, Cassandra's chapters have a formula that sounds identical no matter what the contents are.