Lesa's Book Critiques
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Kevin’s Corner Annex – Vanishing Edge by Claire Kells
I’m attending a family wedding this weekend, so Kevin R. Tipple has the blog reviews. In fact, Kevin may have all of them until Thursday. We’ll see. It depends what I find time to read as I face a couple deadlines. Thank you, Kevin! Just over three...
Winter’s Gifts by Ben Aaronovitch
While Winter’s Gifts is a spin-off of Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London series, it really reminds me more of Simon R. Green’s Ishmael Jones mysteries. Neither is a bad thing in my opinion, a spin-off or a similarity to Green’s series. FBI...
What Are You Reading?
No complaints today. The weather has been gorgeous, 70s and low 80s during the day. I’m an Ohio resident again, with my driver’s license, car title, registration, license tags, voter registration. And, I have my library card to the Columbus Metropolitan...
Kevin’s Corner Annex – The Shamus Sampler
I have five books to read for Library Journal‘s Day of Dialog for a panel I’m moderating, and my questions need to be in my October 17. I also have five more books to read for reviews by October 20. Although I have some reviews coming up, they...
Judgment Prey by John Sandford
I enjoy John Sandford’s Prey novels so much more when Virgil Flowers is an essential character. Judgment Prey is called “A Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers Novel”. I hope Flowers’ fans are as happy as I am with this book. Lucas and Virgil...
One Puzzling Afternoon by Emily Critchley
Emily Critchley’s One Puzzling Afternoon is a heartbreaking book. While it’s a mystery, it also tells of Edie Green Havercraft’s dementia, and the reader watches it grow worse in the course of the book. It’s difficult to read at times. In...
