No. 17 for 2016!

Title: The Beast (Black Dagger Brotherhood #14)
Author: J.R. Ward
Rating: 5/5
Book: 17/50
Pages:  508 pgs
Total Pages: 7,260/15,000 pages
Version: Book
Next up: Gone Again (Jack Swyteck #12) by James Grippando

 

I loved this book. The past few books for me have just been okay and I’ve been longing for the old Black Dagger Brotherhood books in the beginning and this one delivered. I laughed so hard with this one. I can’t wait for the next book!

 About the Book:

Nothing is as it used to be for the Black Dagger Brotherhood. After avoiding war with the Shadows, alliances have shifted and lines have been drawn. The slayers of the Lessening Society are stronger than ever, preying on human weakness to acquire more money, more weapons, more power. But as the Brotherhood readies for an all-out attack on them, one of their own fights a battle within himself…

For Rhage, the Brother with the biggest appetites, but also the biggest heart, life was supposed to be perfect—or at the very least, perfectly enjoyable. Mary, his beloved shellan, is by his side and his King and his brothers are thriving. But Rhage can’t understand—or control—the panic and insecurity that plague him…

And that terrifies him—as well as distances him from his mate. After suffering mortal injury in battle, Rhage must reassess his priorities—and the answer, when it comes to him, rocks his world…and Mary’s. But Mary is on a journey of her own, one that will either bring them closer together or cause a split that neither will recover from…

No. 16 for 2016!

Title: Darkness
Author: Karen Robards
Rating: 4/5
Book: 16/50
Pages:  384 pgs
Total Pages: 6,752/15,000 pages
Version: Book
Next up: The Beast (Black Dagger Brotherhood #14) by J.R. Ward

I really enjoyed this book! So much so, I read it in a day.

It was a great and well paced mystery with very likeable characters. The only thing that bothered me about the book was the insta-romance between the two main characters. Other than that, it was a great read and I highly recommend this read.

 About the Book:

BOOM. That’s the sound that changes everything for Dr. Gina Sullivan, a renowned ornithologist on a group research grant trip on the remote island of Attu, Alaska. When an everyday outing turns sinister at the onset of one of Attu’s infamous storms, Gina expects thunder and lightning—but what she doesn’t see coming is the small jet plane that drops out of the sky and into the water mere feet from her boat. Even more unprecedented: there’s a sole survivor from the crash, and he needs Gina’s help. But it turns out that rescuing the stranger and getting them both out of the oncoming storm is just the beginning. Because the more Gina learns about James “Cal” Callahan, he of brooding eyes and muscled frame, the more she fears—for herself, and for him.

Cal has made a career of trading on government secrets and emerging unscathed—until a routine pickup goes horribly wrong and lands him in ice-cold water. Literally. He knows the plane crash was no accident and that there could very well be an enemy force currently combing the Alaskan island ensuring there were no survivors. Now if only the arrestingly beautiful bird-watcher with the clear-blue gaze would stop watching him, well, like a hawk. Cal convinces Gina to return to base camp and help him covertly get off the island. But when Gina makes it safely back to camp and finds her entire team murdered, all bets are off, and as darkness envelops the island, she must decide: trust a man she barely knows, or go it alone and risk running straight into the arms of a killer?

No. 15 for 2015!

Title: Private Paris (Private #11)
Author: James Patterson and Mark T. Sullivan
Rating: 3/5
Book: 15/50
Pages:  448 pgs
Total Pages: 6,368/15,000 pages
Version: Book
Next up: Darkness by Karen Robards

This was an enjoyable book. I know the book took place in Paris so some French words was to be expected but the overuse of them in this book disrupted the flow to me (and I can read and write in French). Still, it was enjoyable and I look forward to the next installment.

 About the Book:

When Jack Morgan stops by Private’s Paris office, he envisions a quick hello during an otherwise relaxing trip. But Jack is quickly pressed into duty after getting a call from his client Sherman Wilkerson, asking Jack to track down his young granddaughter, who is on the run from a brutal drug dealer. Before Jack can locate her, several members of France’s cultural elite are found dead-murdered in stunning, symbolic fashion. The only link between the crimes is a mysterious graffiti tag. As religious and ethnic tensions simmer in the City of Lights, only Jack and his Private team can connect the dots before the smoldering powder keg explodes.

No. 14 for 2016!

Title: Drums of Autumn (Outlander #4)
Author: Diana Gabaldon
Rating: 5/5
Book: 14/50
Pages:  880 pgs
Total Pages: 5,920/15,000 pages
Version: Book
Next up: The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle #1) by Maggie Stiefvater

I don’t want to say too much about this book as it’s the fourth in a series and I don’t want to spoil but, it was another great installment. I am still in love with this series and with each book, I love it a little bit more. There is a little bit of everything in this series: fantasy, mystery, romance, etc. I definitely recommend!

 About the Book:

It began in Scotland, at an ancient stone circle. There, a doorway, open to a select few, leads into the past—or the grave. Claire Randall survived the extraordinary passage, not once buy twice. Her first trip swept her into the arms of Jamie Fraser, an eighteenth-century Scot whose love for her became legend—a tale of tragic passion that ended with her return to the present to bear his child. Her second journey, two decades later, brought them together again in frontier America. But Claire had left someone behind in the twentieth century. Their daughter Brianna…

Now, Brianna has made a disturbing discovery that sends her to the stone circle and a terrifying leap into the unknown. In search of her mother and the father she has never met, she is risking her own future to try to change history…and to save their lives. But as Brianna plunges into an uncharted wilderness, a heartbreaking encounter may strand her forever in the past…or root her in the place she should be, where her heart and soul belong…