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Templar Silks

Elizabeth Chadwick

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William Marshal has reached the end of his long and glorious life. On his deathbed at his manor in...

Historical Fiction Templar Knights Jerusalem Crusades

Donitz, U-Boats, Convoys: The British Version of His Memoirs from the Admiralty's Secret Anti-Submarine Reports

Jak P. Mallmann Showell

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The memoirs of Admiral Karl Donitz, Ten Years and Twenty Days, are a fascinating first-hand account...

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Accounting: A Smart Approach

Mary Carey, Cathy Knowles and Jane Towers-Clark

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Engaging and lively, clear and practical, this is the most applied accounting for non-specialists...

Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2652 KP) rated The Final Tap (Living History Museum, #2) in Books

Mar 9, 2018

Kelsey Cambridge is getting ready for the first annual Maple Sugar Festival at Barton Farm, the living history museum she runs in Ohio. As part of that festival, she has invited Dr. Conrad Beeson to teach a class on harvesting maple sugar. However, while he is inspecting the trees on the farm, someone stabs him with a hand drill. With the police looking at one of Kelsey’s employees, can she find the real killer?

I was delighted to slip back into the world of this series. The setting is fantastic, and the characters are strong. Not all the returning characters get a lot of page time, but the ones that do get a good deal of development. The suspects are also strong, and the varying suspects and motives kept me guessing until the end.

NOTE: I received an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2016/05/book-review-final-tap-by-amanda-flower.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.

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Tom Turner (388 KP) rated The Novice (Black Magician Trilogy, #2) in Books

Apr 30, 2021

I was surprised how little tired book suffered from middle book syndrome. The main plot of the bookwas a little weaker than the overall arc of the trilogy, but that didn't matter to me that much. I must admit when the bullying started I felt the bullying tactics didn't match with the age of the perpetrators, but she got it right by the end. I have read other reviewers complaining that the strong character Sonea showed in the first book disappeared in this one, but I think this is unfair. In the first book she was in a territory she understood and had confidence because of that understanding. In this book, she is in a world foreign to get upbringing where society is set against her and it's acting out is prejudices onto her, of course her confidence is going to take a hit! I felt the spark of defiance still shone within her, even if it wasn't as forthright as it one was. I'm guessing this will return on the list installment.