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Heather Cranmer (2721 KP) created a post

Jul 19, 2022

Where are my mystery book lovers? Come watch a creepy video #Excerpt from DEADLY KEEPSAKES by Anita Dickason on my blog. Make sure to enter the awesome giveaway for a chance to win a copy of the book, a tote bag, and bookmarks - three winners!

https://alltheupsandowns.blogspot.com/2022/07/book-blog-tour-and-giveaway-deadly.html

**BOOK SYNOPSIS**
When Tori Winters becomes the star witness in a murder trial, someone tries to kill her. Terrified, she’s not giving the killer a second chance. With all her worldly possessions packed in her car, Tori is on the run. A mysterious phone call about an inheritance leads her to Granbury. After all, who would look for her in a small, quaint Texas town?

Instead, Tori’s life is about to spin into an existence where nothing is as it seems. The historic house she inherits is steeped in secrets from the past. Secrets that may prove deadly. A stranger in a strange town, who can she trust? There is the disinherited step-grandson and the lawyer and his son. What are they hiding?

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ArecRain (8 KP) rated After the Hurt in Books

Jan 18, 2018

I received a complimentary copy in exchange for an honest review.

This story had two things going for it for me. 1) It was written dual POV which I love. I love being able to be inside the heros head as well as the heroines. 2) It was a second chance love story.

Normally I would love a second chance romance, but I tend to enjoy the ones where the couple is starting with someone new, not someone they have already been and screwed up with. If it were different circumstance, I could understand. However, I felt Pepper was a very selfish person and I was often annoyed by her behavior. Tank wasnt much better but he was far more patient with Pepper than I could have been. I understand that sometimes people need change or to get away, but I felt Pepper went about it completely the wrong way,

I was also annoyed that there didnt seem to be much interaction between the two. Inner monologues are something I like limited in my stories. They tend to tell more than they show so there is little plot progression. If there is too much of it, I tend to find myself skipping over it especially if it doesnt progress the story line (which inner monologues rarely do.)

I felt like this is a story I could have enjoyed had I liked the characters better.

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Sarah (7800 KP) rated Shift: (Wool Trilogy 2) in Books

Jul 25, 2017

Shift: (Wool Trilogy 2)

Hugh Howey | 2013 | Fiction & Poetry

7.0

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Great idea but not flawless

It was a great idea from Hugh Howey to do the second book in the Wool trilogy as a prequel rather than a standard sequel. Having already read Wool, Shift gives the reader a chance to find out how the silos came in to be which proves to be a very intriguing story for the most part.
My only criticism would be that having finished Wool, I was desperate to find out how the characters in that story were faring, and Shift completely removed that by in effect restarting the story. Shift was needed, however it may have been better as the final book in the trilogy!

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Cold is the Grave

Peter Robinson

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Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks has reached a turning point. With his wife now living with...

Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated The Traveling Man (Traveling, #1) in Books

Jan 7, 2021

4.5 stars

The beginning took me a little while to gel with but once I did I was really into this. The connection between our two characters was so intense from the start. When they hit the rough patch near the middle and were forced their separate ways I ached for them. So that glimpse a few pages later of their meeting again 8 years later I got so excited. They were getting another chance!!

The fact that we didn't get a concluded story and it's going to be concluded in a second knocked it down a half star... but I'm going to go buy it right away to see how they get their HAE.

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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Heat Wave in Books

Jan 8, 2021

3.5 stars, i think.

I guess the storyline might not be for everyone but i didn't have a problem with it--it is fiction after all. I liked the description of Hawaii, it sounds beautiful, and kinda deadly. I loved the connection between all the co-workers, they really were like one big family.

I loved the second chance romance, though I found it a little strange how suddenly Logan's attitude changed to Ronnie. One minute they're arguing and winding each other up, the next they're kissing and admitting their love for each other. I know it'd been brewing in the background for seven years but... yeah, i didn't quite understand it.