about 5 months ago - No comments
Echo Burning (Jack Reacher) by Lee Child Echo Burning is a classic Reacher book: full of action and intrigue. There are so many twists and turns you don’t know who to believe. Child has created an outstanding character in Reacher: strong, independent, but not afraid to get dirty when necessary. Reacher looks rough on the
about 6 months ago - No comments
61 Hours: A Reacher Novel (Jack Reacher) by Lee Child Military police officer Jack Reacher hitches a ride with a senior citizen church group tour bus in South Dakota. However, a car ahead fishtails on the icy snow laden road; the experienced but tired bus driver overreacts on the frozen bridge; he does everything else
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
1. Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 17) by Laurell K. Hamilton (Berkley) (F-H) 2. The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown and Company) 3. Medusa by Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos (Putnam) 4. Shanghai Girls: A Novel by Lisa See (Random House) 5. Matters of the Heart by Danielle Steel (Delacorte Press) 6. Gone
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by Tom Rob Smith Last year thriller fans got introduced to Tom Rob Smith with his fantastic debut novel, – introducing us to Leo. With The Secret Speech, we follow on from Child 44 and what happened next. The Secret Speech is set after Stalin’s death and the changes being made in Russia. The story
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
The Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith The novel benefits from Smith’s weaving of historic events into the fabric of his characters’ lives. The backdrop of the Soviet Union, with its necessary secrecy and inner conflict, makes it easy to connect with the characters. As a thriller, though, it resorts to somewhat formulaic, deus-ex-machina plot
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
1. Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, No. 13) by Lee Child (Delacorte Press) 2. The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 5) by Rick Riordan (Disney Hyperion Books for Children) 3. Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4) by Stephenie Meyer (Little Brown for Young Readers) 4. Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, Book 3) by
about 1 year ago - No comments
First and foremost. I’m not a reviewer – well, not a very good one. I love books but I find it hard to put my thoughts down at any one time and I don’t have the patience or the time to sit down writing a review on and off for a week – I read
about 1 year ago - No comments
Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, No. 13) by Lee Child Child has turned out his 13th novel about the former military police officer whose skills border on the superhero level, again finding Reacher caught up in a dangerous situation that only he can resolve. It is one that will get much, much worse before it gets
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
The Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith Based on a real event that Gorbachev acknowledged in 2007 was the first courageous step away from Stalin’s brutal totalitarian reign, THE SECRET SPEECH is a great Soviet historical police procedural. The cast is strong especially the remorseful hero whose beloved daughter has become a pawn in a
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, No. 13) by Lee Child The opening sequence as poorly described above is brilliant as Reacher is pulled into an international mess one step at a time. The story line gets even better as the tension mounts as Reacher finds himself caught in the middle. Fans of the series will believe
about 1 year ago
Very excited for Tom Rob Smith‘s latest, was VERY impressed with Child 44.
Lee Child always entertains, but I hope this one is better than his last.