Sunday, August 12, 2012

8-12-12 Hounded by Kevin Hearne - Fiction

4 - This was a surprisingly good read!  I was doing the random walk down a library aisle, turn & grab something, and this caught my eye.  I figured it would be some of that mediocre fantasy that has been released lately but it actually was a well researched and fun book.  It's set in Tempe, AZ so I had a great time because I knew where everything was.  The story is about a Druid living in our time.  He's still living because he is smart and can blend in.  And he has great friends including his dog, Oberon, who he speaks with mentally, his lawyers, a werewolf and a vampire, and the blessings of the Morrigan, one of the Irish goddesses of death.  Hearne intertwines modern day with Irish mythology so well.  Very fun, so I will read the other two books in the set.

8-12-12 Deadlocked by Charlaine Harris - Fiction

5 - This is a great addition to the series and seems to pull a little more of Sookie's & Sam's relationship to the forefront.  Sookie is having a time trying to keep her vampire boyfriend from being married off to a queen as his maker's final wish and now the fae on this side of the door are starting to get antsy.  Then there are problems with the werewolf pack too.  And this whole time, Sookie is trying to hide that she has possession of a very powerful Fairy gift.  Really picked my interest back up in this series as Sookie is faced with a few life changing decisions.

8-12-12 Farm City by Novella Carpenter - Non-Fiction

5 - This book made me laugh.  Novella and her boyfriend start an urban farm.  Before you think of a pretty terraced backyard in the suburbs, this was in Oakland, California.  Yep.  "The Ghetto"  She converted a vacant lot and began growing there and kept bees, and chickens, and ducks in her yard.  She also did turkeys.  This book is the story of how that came about and how she helped advance a movement for people to know where there food is coming from and to have the opportunity for freshness.  She still has the farm and you can follow her blog, Ghost Town Farm.  A really great and, I hate to say it, inspiring read.

8-12-12 The Sacred Band by David Anthony Durham - Fiction

4 - Definitely interesting but this final book of the trilogy let me down a bit. Corinn just becomes such an annoying and blah character.  If you read it, you will understand what I'm saying.  Mena is still a great character and so is Dariel and their parts in this are still fabulous.  Overall, a bit disappointing as the end of a trilogy, but it does ties everything up.  You have no real questions.  Meh.

8-12-12 The Other Lands by David Anthony Durham - Fiction

5 - A fantastic follow up to the first book, Acacia.  Corinne is queen and the power is going a bit to her head.  She sends her brother, Dariel, across the ocean to the Other Lands as an envoy but is double crossed by the League and does not know the fate of her brother.  She sends Mena to hunt the twisted creatures created during the war.  But her sister is certainly not her pawn.  Still a lot of political finagling in this book and some new factions enter play.  I was enthralled.

8-12-12 Blind Sight by Terri Persons - Fiction

4 - I really like this series.  Agent Bernadette Saint Clare is a great character with her fair share of flaws and the cases are very unusual but well planned out.  There is a little bit of the paranormal in these but even if you avoid those kind of books, I think you could really enjoy these because they are more cop than paranormal.  In this one, there is a killer on the loose (of course) who is leaving bodies behind with a pentagram on their forehead. Is he a religious nut or not?  Very good book.  Really enjoyed the story.

So Sorry!

Sorry guys!  I got a little bit hooked on an online game & spent all my time on there instead of updating my blog.  So I'm going to play catchup.  I have read a few things in this time, but don't have dates so I'm just going to make all of them today's date.  Promise to keep up better in the future!