No. 27 for 2015

Title: 14th Deadly Sin (Women’s Murder Club #14)
Author: James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
Rating: 3/5
Book: 27/50
Pages:  349 pgs
Total Pages: 10,064/15,000 pages
Version: Book
Next up: City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments #3) by Cassandra Clare

Typical Patterson formula. 8 or so story lines that are all neatly wrapped up in the last 50 pages with one remaining cliffhanger. This book was nothing new.

But that being said, it was enjoyable enough.

About the Book:

Detective Lindsay Boxer and her three best friends are back and recovering from the events that pushed them all to the edge.

After her near-death experience, Yuki is seeing her life from a new perspective and is considering a change in her law career. San Francisco Chronicle reporter Cindy has healed from her gunshot wound and has published a book on the infamous serial killers she helped to bring down. Lindsay is just happy that the gang are all still in one piece.

But a new terror is sweeping the streets of San Francisco. A gang dressed as cops are ransacking the city, and leaving a string of dead bodies in their wake. Lindsay is on the case to track them down and needs to discover whether these killers could actually be police officers. Maybe even cops she already knows…

No. 26 for 2015

Title: The Liar
Author: Nora Roberts
Rating: 4/5
Book: 26/50
Pages:  501 pgs
Total Pages: 9,715/15,000 pages
Version: Book
Next up: 14th Deadly Sin (Women’s Murder Club #14) by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

Even though I had the ending pegged when I wasn’t even halfway through the book, I really enjoyed this one. There’s nothing to substantial or “new” about this book and it follows Roberts’ typical formula for her romance mysteries but it’s an enjoyable read just the same.

About the Book:

Shelby Foxworth lost her husband. Then she lost her illusions …

The man who took her from Tennessee to an exclusive Philadelphia suburb left her in crippling debt. He was an adulterer and a liar, and when Shelby tracks down his safe-deposit box, she finds multiple IDs. The man she loved wasn’t just dead. He never really existed.

Shelby takes her three-year-old daughter and heads south to seek comfort in her hometown, where she meets someone new: Griff Lott, a successful contractor. But her husband had secrets she has yet to discover. Even in this small town, surrounded by loved ones, danger is closer than she knows—and threatens Griff, as well. And an attempted murder is only the beginning …

Fandom Meme

This is going to be a little something different for my blog. I was revisiting my old Livejournal account when I stumbled upon this fandom meme. I last did this meme in December 2012, I thought it’d be fun to update it as I have gotten into a lot of new fandoms in the last three years.

1. Your main fandom this year?
Hawaii Five-0, Daredevil (Netflix series), Outlander

2. Your favourite film you watched this year?
Hands down, The Avengers: Age of Ultron because…dude…Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth and Jeremy Renner. What more of an explanation do you need?

3. Your favourite book read this year?

“The Red Queen” by Victoria Aveyard

4. Your favourite album or song to listen to this year?

“Bulletproof Picasso” by Train and any of the Zumba songs that I have on my iPod. Those songs are just so catchy.

5. Your favourite tv show of the year?

Hawaii Five-0, Outlander, Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, Daredevil (Netflix series) and From Dusk Til Dawn (TV series)

6. Your best new fandom discovery of the year?

Hawaii Five-0 and Outlander

7. Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?

Supernatural and Grey’s Anatomy

8. Your fandom boyfriend of the year?

Steve McGarrett

9. Your fandom girlfriend of the year?

Kono Kalakaua

10. Your biggest squee moment of the year?

Outlaner

11. The most missed of your old fandoms?

Still Harry Potter. I still can’t believe that it’s all over 😦

12. The fandom you haven’t tried yet, but want to?

Arrow, Flash, Teen Wolf, Vampire Diaries, The Originals

13. Your biggest fan anticipations for the coming year?

Mockingjay Part 2, Spectre, Jurassic World, Hawaii Five-0 Season 6 and Outlander Season 2.

No. 25 for 2015

Title: Every Fifteen Minutes
Author: Lisa Scottoline
Rating: 4/5
Book: 25/50
Pages:  448 pgs
Total Pages: 9,214/15,000 pages
Version: Book
Next up: Memory Man by David Baldacci

I really enjoyed this book. Scottoline never fails to impress with her books. This book kept me turning the pages to eagerly figure out what happens next.

The only thing that annoyed me a tiny bit is how much trouble the main character got himself into and some of the resolutions were just a little to convenient but overall, I really enjoyed this book!

About the Book:

Dr. Eric Parrish is the Chief of the Psychiatric Unit at Havemeyer General Hospital outside of Philadelphia. Recently separated from his wife, Caitlin, he is doing his best as a single dad to his seven-year-old daughter Hannah. His work seems to be going better than his home life, however. His unit at the hospital has just been named number two in the country and Eric has a devoted staff of doctors and nurses who are as caring as Eric is. But when he takes on a new patient, Eric’s entire world begins to crumble. Seventeen-year-old Max has a terminally ill grandmother and is having trouble handling it. That, plus his OCD and violent thoughts about a girl he likes makes Max a high risk patient. Max can’t turn off the rituals he needs to perform every fifteen minutes that keep him calm. With the pressure mounting, Max just might reach the breaking point. When the girl is found murdered, Max is nowhere to be found. Worried about Max, Eric goes looking for him and puts himself in danger of being seen as a “person of interest”. Next, one of his own staff turns on him in a trumped up charge of sexual harassment. Is this chaos all random? Or is someone systematically trying to destroy Eric’s life?

No. 24 for 2015

Title: A Darker Shade of Magic (A Darker Shade of Magic #1)
Author: V.E. Schwab
Rating: 2/5
Book: 24/50
Pages:  398 pgs
Total Pages: 8,766/15,000 pages
Version: Book
Next up: Every Fifteen Minutes by Lisa Scottoline

I want to start this review off by saying that I absolutely LOVED Schwab’s Vicious and when I heard about this novel, I was so excited to get my hands on it because I knew that I’d love it.

The problem is….I didn’t and I can’t quite place my finger on the reasons why. The story was well written, the world building was done well but the book was still missing something for me and this book was 398 pages of just “meh” for me. I feel bad for this because from the reviews, everyone seemed to enjoy this book so I felt like I was missing something.

Schwab is an amazing writer and she has such a beautiful way of telling a story but this book just missed the mark for me. It definitely will not hinder me from checking out her other already published work and well as future work. She’s definitely an author to keep your eye on!

About the Book:

Kell is one of the last Travelers—rare magicians who choose a parallel universe to visit.

Grey London is dirty, boring, lacks magic, ruled by mad King George. Red London is where life and magic are revered, and the Maresh Dynasty presides over a flourishing empire. White London is ruled by whoever has murdered their way to the throne. People fight to control magic, and the magic fights back, draining the city to its very bones. Once there was Black London—but no one speaks of that now.

Officially, Kell is the Red Traveler, personal ambassador and adopted Prince of Red London, carrying the monthly correspondences between royals of each London. Unofficially, Kell smuggles for those willing to pay for even a glimpse of a world they’ll never see. This dangerous hobby sets him up for accidental treason. Fleeing into Grey London, Kell runs afoul of Delilah Bard, a cut-purse with lofty aspirations. She robs him, saves him from a dangerous enemy, then forces him to another world for her ‘proper adventure’.

But perilous magic is afoot, and treachery lurks at every turn. To save all of the worlds, Kell and Lila will first need to stay alive—trickier than they hoped.