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Murder With Puffins (Meg Langslow, #2)
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10.0 (1 Ratings)
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A romantic weekend on an island in Maine is anything but for Meg and Michael when they find her family already at the family cabin. That's before a hurricane arrives and strands them with an island packed with birders and a killer. While this book still has the humor of the first in the series, it also features a stronger mystery.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/03/book-review-murder-with-puffins-by.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
Mrs. Pollifax heads to China to find out the location of a forced labor camp so the CIA can free a political prisoner. As much as I love the series, this is a disappointment. It reads more like a travelogue for too much of the book, which doesn't give the plot enough time when it is finally tries to go somewhere.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/05/book-review-mrs-pollifax-on-china.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
Red Velvet Cupcake Murder (Hannah Swensen, #16)
Red Velvet Cupcake Murder (Hannah Swensen, #16)
Joanne Fluke | 2013 | Mystery
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7.8 (5 Ratings)
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Hannah's back and this time baking cupcakes to celebrate the grand reopening of a local hotel turned condos. But when a woman falls from the penthouse during the party, Hannah begins to investigate. Those who love the series will enjoy the latest entry. It's the usual mix of baking and murder and even wraps up some loose ends from the last book.

<a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/03/book-review-red-velvet-cupcake-murder.html">My full review at Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
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The Mystery on Cobbett's Island
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10.0 (1 Ratings)
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Trixie isn't looking for a mystery when she and her friends head to Cobbett's Island. However, their first night there, they find a letter that suggests there is a treasure nearby. With their new friend Peter, can they find it? This is my second favorite book in the series. The characters are wonderful and the plot is very well done.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/04/book-review-mystery-on-cobbetts-island.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
Rinnah Two Feathers is spending the summer with her two best friends at a cabin one of their dad's owns. But a strange note from a mysterious woman plunges all of them into more danger. Again, the characters are great and the plot moves along at a brisk pace. I sure wish this weren't the final book in the series.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/03/book-review-curse-of-royal-ruby-by.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
True Light (Restoration, #3)
True Light (Restoration, #3)
Terri Blackstock | 2007 | Mystery
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10.0 (1 Ratings)
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This is the third book in a series set in a modern world were modern technology has failed. It's winter, which has made daily survival very hard. Yet things get worse when Mark Green is accused of murder. Can the Branning family clear him? Once again, I was pulled into this world. And the mystery was actually well developed here as well.

Read my full review by <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/04/book-review-true-light-by-terri.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
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Mar 10, 2018 (Updated Mar 10, 2018)  
Throne of Glass
Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas | 2012 | Children, Fiction & Poetry
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8.7 (91 Ratings)
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I’m usually a bit hesitant to stray from my favorite authors and this time was no different. However, I’m soo glad I did! You want action, mystery, romance, betrayal? It’s all here. The best part is that it’s all here without the usual angsty cliches normally found in books that are listed as YA. I’m not going to recap the book, you can read the cover yourself. Read the book, read the series, you won’t regret it!!
  
Down Among The Sticks And Bones
Down Among The Sticks And Bones
Seanan McGuire | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
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8.3 (4 Ratings)
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Overall not a bad book - I really enjoyed listening to it over reading - I like the back stories now of those that are at the home, etc. - The twins were actually some of my favourite children in book 1 so getting to know them and their past and their door was actually pretty amazing - I kept getting confused between Jack/Jill I won't lie - and unexpected romance of sorts happened too and I am living - can't wait to continue the series
  
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
J.K. Rowling | 1998 | Children
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9.0 (208 Ratings)
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SSSPIDERS, SSSNAKES AND SSSECRETS
Harry Potter, my one true love!

It feels good reading the series again. It reminds me of being in secondary school, holing up in the library at lunchtime and devouring as many books as I could.

Honestly, though, the chamber of secrets was always my least favourite book but also my least favourite movie as well.

But, on rereading this book I absolutely loved it!

Continue reading my review at: https://www.readsandrecipes.co.uk/2017/06/ssspiders-sssnakes-and-sssecrets.html
  
Well, I just read this 2nd book in this poetry series in 32 minutes. I thought it was better, until the last bit (I have zero interest in politics, and I'm choosing to withhold my true opinion about that section). The format was a little better. More power to the author for making money off of this stuff. Needless to say, I will never pick up another modern poetry book that doesn't have capitalization of the author's name on the front.