Showing posts with label Lynn S. Highlander. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lynn S. Highlander. Show all posts

Monday, August 29, 2011

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #12, August 29th

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Journey where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week…. and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well… you never know where that next “must read” book will come from!

What happened in the past week:

Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #11
Teaser Tuesday #20
WWW Wednesday #20
WOW #16
Will the Time Come #13
Third Sentence Thursday #3
First Line Friday #7
A-Z Reading Challenge Update #9
Follow that Blurb Reading Challenge Update #8
In My Mailbox #12
I Have an Update #10

Week 34 Reviews:
Flashpoint
Dial M for Mischief
Mischief Becomes Her
Mischief 24/7

Tours:
My Heart Stopped Beating; Review
Promise and Whatnots & Doodads; Guest Post

Random:
Computer Trouble
Learning to Drive

OK, got 17 posts in 7 days. A bit better, but not by much. But the random posts should cover why. I've been busy! Must read more!

For this week to read, I want to read A Whisper to the Living, A Clash of Kings, Rooms, Promise, and The Blessing Way. And nano books, and all my PDF's! Must read, I haven't really been reading all that much. Must change this!

Currently Listening To: Two Worlds Collide by Demi Lavato
Currently Reading: A Clash of Kings, Rooms
Currently Watching: CSI NY

A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. Two great leaders—Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon—who hold sway over an age of enforced peace are dead, victims of royal treachery. Now, from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel...and the coldest hearts. For when kings clash, the whole land trembles.
Alexis Ames decides to learn who she really is, with or without the help of her mother, who guards their secrets closely. After meeting Tristan Knight and discovering that he s not normal either, the secrets begin to unravel. Their union brings promise to the future of mankind. But it also incites a dangerous pursuit by the enemy. Because they are a match made in Heaven and in Hell.
Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high lonely place, a corpse with a mouth full of sand, abandoned at a crime scene seemingly devoid of tracks or useful clues. Though it goes against his better judgment, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn cannot help but suspect the hand of a supernatural killer. There is palpable evil in the air, and Leaphorn's pursuit of a Wolf-Witch is leading him where even the bravest men fear, on a chilling trail that winds perilously between mysticism and murder.

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Week 34 Review: Flashpoint

               
Police Specialist Sonora Blair of the Cincinnati Homicide Division is awakened in the middle of the night with an urgent summons to take a deathbed statement. When she arrives at the hospital, the victim is unable to talk, but her questions elicit one key detail: the psycho who perpetrated this gruesome crime is a woman. Driven and determined, Sonora is committed to finding this killer before she strikes again - no matter the cost to her private life or the politics of her career. When the murderer begins to call Sonora - taunting, mocking her, trying to lure her into a twisted woman-to-woman complicity - the stakes go up, and the case becomes all too personal.

My Review:
I enjoyed this book. The beginning and a bit of the middle, were a bit slow, and the language was a bit hard to understand, and the logic was sometimes hard to follow, but it was good. One thing that caught my attention, they were interviewing some owners of a bar where the killer had met the victim, and I noticed that they didn't ask for the recordings of the night-that the bar didn't have a chance of having a video camera security system, that they wouldn't ask at all, which I think is common practice nowadays, or at least, with what I read and watch. Turns out the book was written over a decade ago! So very weird for me!

I really liked the police work, and how all the bits were connected, and all the little story parts, and all the threats, and such. A  few things were a bit hard to understand-this was the second book, and I haven't read the first one so there were some references that I didn't get- but it was a great book.

I really liked that the killer was a woman, it's just not something that usually happens, and to have a woman serial killer...just great! I really loved that!

This was a pretty good book, and you guys should check it out if you like murder mysteries!

Author: Lynn S. Highlander
Series: Sonora Blair #1
Read: August 12th-22nd, 2011
Source: Library
Reason Why: It's a FtBRC Book!
Publisher: HarperTorch
Published: November 1st 1996
3/5 Hearts
3/5 Books
3/5 Stars