64 Books Read in 2012!

Title Private Games
Author: James Patterson and Mark Sullivan
Rating: 4/5
Book: 22/50 (44% completed)
Pages: 426 pgs
Total Pages: 8,337/15,000 (55.58% completed)
Version: Book
Next up: Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James

I have mixed feelings about this book. I really did like it but I did find it hard to get into at first but the book got better and the plot took off as it does in typical Patterson books. Overall it was a good book and I would recommend it.

About the Book:

On your mark

Private, the world’s most renowned investigation firm, has been commissioned to provide security for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Its agents are the smartest, fastest, and most technologically advanced in the world, and 400 of them have been transferred to London to protect more than 10,000 competitors who represent more than 200 countries.

Get set

The opening ceremony is hours away when Private investigator and single father of twins, Peter Knight, is called to the scene of a ruthless murder. A high-ranking member of the games’ organizing committee has been killed. It’s clear to Peter that this wasn’t a crime of passion, but one of precise calculation and execution.

Die

Newspaper reporter Karen Pope receives a letter from a person who calls himself Cronus claiming responsibility for the murders. He promises to restore the Olympics to their ancient glory and to destroy all those who have corrupted the games with lies, corruption, and greed. Immediately, Karen hires Private to examine the letter, and she and Peter uncover a criminal genius who won’t stop until he’s completely destroyed the modern games.

No. 21 for 2012

Posted by Bookworm84 on April 22, 2012

Title Game of Thrones
Author: George R.R. Martin
Rating: 5/5
Book: 21/50 (42% completed)
Pages: 674 pgs
Total Pages: 7,911/15,000 (52.74% completed)
Version: Book
Next up: Private Games by James Patterson and Mark Sullivan

I’m sure there is nothing that I can say about this book that hasn’t already been said. I loved it. The book is rather large but honestly, it didn’t feel like the book would never end. It was a fast-pace read as I had trouble putting the book down at times. I can’t wait to start book two in the series. Unfortunately, I have a few library books to read before I can get back into the series.

About the Book:

Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kindom’s protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens.

Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; and a determined woman undertakes the most treacherous of journeys. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavours to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.

No. 20 for 2012

Posted by Bookworm84 on April 8, 2012

Title Need You Now
Author: James Grippando
Rating: 4/5
Book: 20/50 (40% completed)
Pages: 354 pgs
Total Pages: 7,237/15,000 (48.25% completed)
Version: Book
Next up: Not sure

This one was okay. I found it to be a little dry in places and the plot dragged on a bit. Overall it was a good read though. I still prefer Grippando’s Jack Swyteck series more though.

About the Book:

Abe Cushman, the evil genius behind a $60 billion Ponzi scheme, has killed himself and taken his secrets to the grave.

For Patrick Lloyd, a young Wall Street advisor at the world’s largest Swiss bank, Cushman’s fall has unexpected and deadly repercussions. Lloyd’s girlfriend, Lilly, is directly tied to billions of dollars in losses suffered by Cushman’s most dangerous victims, a group of powerful investors whose identities and dirty finances are well hidden. What Lilly knows can get her and Patrick killed, and now the pair are in a run for their lives that leads to the heart of a clandestine operation, and to a cabal of powerful officials determined to keep their agenda hidden from the public.

With nowhere to turn and no one to trust, Patrick and Lilly must uncover the truth before they become collateral damage in a financial war in which casualties are no longer measured in dollars and cents.

No. 19 for 2012

Posted by Bookworm84 on April 3, 2012

Title Gun Games
Author: Faye Kellerman
Rating: 3/5
Book: 19/50 (38% completed)
Pages: 384 pgs
Total Pages: 6,883/15,000 (45.88% completed)
Version: Book
Next up: Need You Now by James Grippando

Meh. This one was okay but nothing special. It seems to me as though Kellerman is running out of things to do with Peter Decker being as though Peter and Rina were the topic of the book about 25% IF that. I wasn’t really interested in reading about Gabe’s romance with a pre-teen and the text speak was just down-right painful but I have to say that I like Chris Donatti. I think Kellerman should explore doing a spin-off series all about him.

About the Book:

LAPD lieutenant detective Decker and his wife, Rina, have willingly welcomed fifteen-year-old Gabriel Whitman, the son of a troubled former friend, into their home. While the enigmatic teen seems to be adapting easily, Decker knows only too well the secrets adolescents keep–witnessed by the tragic suicide of another teen, Gregory Hesse, a student at Bell and Wakefield, one of the city’s most exclusive prep schools.

Gregory’s mother, Wendy, refuses to believe her son shot himself and convinces Decker to look deeper. What he finds disturbs him. The gun used in the tragedy was stolen–evidence that propels him to launch a full investigation with his trusted team, Sergeant Marge Dunn and Detective Scott Oliver. But the case becomes darkly complicated by the suicide of another Bell and Wakefield student–a death that leads them to uncover an especially nasty group of rich and privileged students with a predilection for guns and violence. Decker thought he understood kids, yet the closer he and his team get to the truth, the clearer it becomes that he knows very little about them, including his own charge, Gabe. The son of a gangster and an absent parent, the boy has had a life filled with too much free time, too many unexplained absences, and too little adult supervision.

Before it’s over, the case and all its terrifying ramifications will take Decker and his detectives down a dark alley of twisted allegiances and unholy alliances, culminating at a heart-stopping point of no return.

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