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Cyn Armistead (14 KP) rated Mirror, Mirror (includes In Death, #37.5) in Books

Mar 1, 2018

The J.D. Robb story, "Taken In Death," was enjoyable - a nice thing, since it's the reason I bought the anthology. In it, Dallas takes on a kidnapper in a rebelling of Hansel and Gretel. I skipped the stupid coin story by Mary Blayney. I read one of her coin stories once and it was just too clichéd and predictable for me to ever put myself through that again. I do wonder, though, if she ever writes anything else? I went ahead and read "Beauty, Sleeping" by Elaine Fox, to see if the rest if the book would be worth reading.. While Fox's piece was okay, it was more romance than anything else. It had a supernatural twist, and it was a reworking of Sleeping Beauty, but in the end it was a romance. And to be honest, I just didn't trust the editors any more at that point. They chose Blayney and then the Fox piece, and one Robb story didn't outweigh them. I suppose if I'm ever truly hard up for something to read, I might try the other two stories in the book - but I would probably read one of the many free novels available before then.

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C is for Comfort (The Alphabet of Desire #3)

Colette Davison

8.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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Corey Stress is my middle name. I'm a single dad and a newly qualified teacher, so it’s hard to...

Contemporary MM Romance

Love&Diaries: Aaron (Romance)

Games and Book

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Immerse yourself in Love & Diaries: Aaron, an interactive romantic adventure. In your new job you'll...

After the Scrum

Dahlia Donovan

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When a former rugby player reinventing himself meets a man who’s afraid to move on, can love offer...

Contemporary MM Romance

Erika Kehlet (21 KP) rated Reading Up a Storm (Lighthouse Library Mystery #3) in Books

Feb 21, 2018

Reading Up a Storm focuses more on characters outside of the library staff than the first two novels in the series, and Lucy has a new friend in this one who is accused of murder. Of course she doesn't trust that the police will see past her friend Stephanie's apparent motive for the crime, and is soon getting herself into trouble asking questions and trying to solve the case by herself. She probably figured it out long before I did, but it was gratifying to find that the killer was the person I suspected, for once.

And for those of you who enjoy a little romance with your cozy mystery - I love where the author has taken the romantic triangle that was developing in the first two books. I can't say anything more without spoilers, but I was very pleased with the outcome.

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David McK (3425 KP) rated Divergent in Books

Jan 28, 2019

Divergent

Veronica Roth | 2012 | Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult (YA)

8.1

(140 Ratings)

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"Dear Katniss Everdeen,

I desperately want to be like you ..."

So might read the opening words of my (imaginary) letter written by the protaganist of this series to the protaganist of the (more famous) Hunger Games series, as there are (more than) a few similarities in common: both novels are set in a dystopian future, both feature a female protaganist, both have some PG-rated romance thrown in, and both deal with themes of family.

Actually, on second thoughts: maybe I'm being a bit unfair on Tris Prior - if this novel had come along first (instead of [b:The Hunger Games|2767052|The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)|Suzanne Collins|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1358275334s/2767052.jpg|2792775]), my imaginary letter may well have started with:

"Dear Tris Prior

I desperately want to be like you ..."

;-)