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Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should be Good, Clean, and Fair

Alice L. Waters and Carlo Petrini

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By now most of us are aware of the threats looming in the food world. The best-selling Fast Food...

Thinking and Reasoning

Jonathan St. B. T. Evans

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Our extraordinary capacity to reason and solve problems sets us aside from other animals, but our...

TravelersWife4Life (31 KP) rated Practically Married in Books

Feb 23, 2021

I thought that the premise of this book was great! A modern day marriage of convenience/ almost Mail order bride type of story. I dont believe I have ever read a modern marriage of convenience story. It created for me lots of what ifs in my mind, which I like as the story tends to stick with me even after its done.

The characters were believable. I liked how they played off each other, and built off of each interaction. Personally I have no idea what I would do if I showed up somewhere and was told that my fiancee had died. Ashley handled it very well though, and Russ is my kinda guy. A planner who likes everything to fit in a box. So like I said at the beginning I like how the characters play together and I think Karin Beery did a great job developing them through out the story. Her book reminds me of Linda Fords books in that they have such interesting story lines and great characters with HEA’s in each story.

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars for the very interesting story premise, the likeable characters, and for making it stick in my mind even after I am done with the book. I look forward to reading more from Karin Beery in the future.

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Tribune of Rome

Robert Fabbri

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26 AD: Sixteen-year-old Vespasian leaves his family farm for Rome, his sights set on finding a...

Acanthea Grimscythe (300 KP) rated In a Corner, Darkly: Volume 2 in Books

May 15, 2018

I seem to be on an anthology binge here lately, perhaps because the stories, being in bitesized morsels, are easier for me to swallow while I edge out of a reading slump. In A Corner, Darkly: Volume 2 is a request I received a few months ago, coinciding with a more recent edition of the collection from Sue Rovens. While it still has some editing issues (I ended up purchasing it because I lost my review copy), the book certainly plays host to several entertaining stories with interesting twists.

“When the Earth Bled” is undoubtedly one of my favorites. For the most part, these stories are rather tame but Rovens does hint at the capability of making one’s stomach curl. I’ll definitely be interested in seeing more of what she’s got, especially if her full length books reflect the perfect length of her shorter tales.

A little more of the horrifying and another pass on editing would make this a four or five skull read. However, due to the errors and the fact that some of the tales weren’t all that terrifying, I’m going to have to go with a midway rating. Rovens has a lot of potential which I’d like to see come through in future works.

I’d like to thank the author for providing me with a free copy of this book (which I lost) in exchange for an honest review. This title is available for $1.99 on Amazon.