I really enjoyed this book. The Accused is something a bit different than what I've read here lately. A lot teacher vs. practitioner and a toss toward the Amanda Knox trial(s). Putman even talks about that in the acknowledgments and how it fueled this story to life. That aside, I think I'm in a ...
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BOOK REVIEW: Death on the Lanai by Rachel Ekstrom Courage
If you remember that I struggled a bit with the first book in this new series Murder by Cheesecake. Growing up with The Golden Girls, both book hit all the nostalgia feels for me. One thing that bothered me more with Lanai than it did with Cheesecake was the characterization of the ladies. ...
BOOK REVIEW: Art of Deception by Cara C. Putman
Christian Fiction Reading Challenge book for August is the third in the Secrets to Keep series, so you know how that goes, and here we are with the prequel to the series. It's like if reading was Pokemon; gotta read them all! And here's the deal: I love Cara Putman. The suspense, the intrigue draw ...
BOOK REVIEW: Every Note Played by Lisa Genova
On the surface, Every Note Played is a book about ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or Lou Gehrig’s disease). But there are so many more layers throughout this book that stretch beyond ALS, but that’s the thread that tells the story. It’s the story of a man who was extremely gifted, ...
BOOK REVIEW: The Crooked Path by Irma Joubert
The drawbacks I had with Child of the River were much less prevalent in The Crooked Path. I think partly as Child was audio book and this was eBook, but also I think this one was less political, and I was somewhat already introduced to some of the non-American names and places prior, so it clicked ...