This mystery novel starts slowly by introducing the reader to two young women starting their careers 20 years apart. In the late 70s, Beatrice is starting as a secretary at the First Bank of Cleaveland. 20 years later, in the late 90s, Iris is having her first job at an engineering firm that is in charge of drafting plans of all floors from the First Bank of Cleaveland's old...
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The one that got away - by Simon Wood
Posted on December 14th, 2015
This exciting thriller introduces our hero and protagonist, Zöe, in her weakest and most vulnerable point. The book starts when she finds herself naked in a shack tied to the floor. All she remembers was coming back on a car trip with a friend of hers, Holli, from Las Vegas and then darkness. She can hear Holli screaming and crying in another shack...
Claimed - by Sarah Fine
Posted on November 30th, 2015
The sequence from Marked follows a very similar style and story line. Marked had focused on Eli and Cacy and their growing romance. Eli being a new firefighter/rescuer in Boston and Cacy Ferry, the daughter of the most powerful man in Boston and his co-worker.
Our focus this time is on Galena, Eli's sister, and Chief Declan Ferry, Eli's boss and Cacy's brother. Galena is leading...
Everything burns - by Vincent Zandri
Posted on March 28th, 2015
This exciting thriller is written under the point of view of Reece “Pieces" Johnston, a fairly famous author who managed to publish a best seller (The Damned) around 8 years prior to the books’ events and has been living out of its fame. The book starts telling us the story of Reece's young childhood and how he lost his mother and two older brothers to a fire and developed a pyromaniac pathology...
Miramont’s Ghost - by Elizabeth Hall
Posted on March 13th, 2015
Elizabeth Hall brings the reader to end of 19th century/early 20th century France and then United states with this sad drama story that follows the life of Adrienne Beaver. A third person narrator brings us to the early years of Adrienne’s life with jumps between important moments of Adrienne’s life on each chapter. She’s a very young girl surrounded by richness in the south of France living in her...
The Fire Seekers (The Babel Trilogy Book 1) - by Richard Farr
Posted on February 28th, 2015
The book is a fiction story written in first person narrator called Daniel Calder, "not-as-bright" son of two "geniuses".
His father, William Calder, is a proeminent linguistic expert in essentially all ancient middle eastern languages, famous professor at the University of Washington. He is what is called a Babbler. Can talk at least 10 different languages and picks new ones up very...
Marked (The Servants of Fate - Book 1) - by Sarah Fine
Posted on February 14th, 2015
A nice fiction romance drags the reader through the Romeo and Juliet story of Cacy Ferry and Eli Margolis. Written in third person but with a narrator that alternates the view points of the story between Cacy and Eli’s make the feeling almost like a first person narration with some detachment.
Their surroundings reveal a post semi apocalyptic future in which Kers, ruled by Jason Moros, and...
Martians, go home - by Frederick Brown
Posted on January 23rd, 2015
Short science fiction story that touches on interesting matters, one of which fairly modern: the loss of privacy.
Frederick brown presents this novel in 3 parts: the arrival of martians on earth, their stay, their departure. The core is obviously around their stay although both opening and closing present interesting description of human reactions and...
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time - by Mark Haddon
Posted on January 2nd, 2015
Beautiful book. The story of a piece of the narrator, Christopher, life starting the day he his neighbor’s dog, Wellington, is killed. Christopher is a 15 year old autistic boy living in Swindon, UK. He loves puzzles and decides to investigate the murder of Wellington and writes the book to tell the story of the investigation upon suggestion by one of his teachers, Siobhan, which seems to...
In the valley of the kings - by Terrence Holt
Posted on December 20th, 2014
In this book composed of multiple short stories, Terrence Holt brings us to both the past and the future around self-discovery and death. Each story is independent and can be read in any order although it gets a little repetitive if reading from start to end in a day.
Here are notes on each story:
'O Aoyos:
Description of an epidemic disease related to seeing a word. This word...