DDBook Reviews

"Some rules are meant to be broken" click on the image to go to amazon D.M. Barr writes a quirky and engaging “coming of age” story with a kinky twist.   Dani Barrett has just come out of an unfulfilling marriage carrying with her the stigma of adult ADHD, which had in the past led her to impulsive actions.   As she restarts her job as a travel trade journalist at 35, she arrives in Argentina with nine other journalists for a country tour, her long-time friend Liam, some female writers and James Aldridge, a wealthy owner of Aldridge Publications. She has laid down some rules for herself, and therefore she is not on the lookout for a relationship.   However, intriguing Brit, James, catches her eye, and they begin a tentative friendship leaden with a promise of things hinted at and not said.   James is on the writing tour as a cover for his investigative writing,   taking days away from the tour group as he needs to follow up on his sources.   Dani is writing...

  click on image to go to amazon A Flight of Broken wings is an enchanting and riveting fantasy of humans and Aerials in constant conflict. Ruban is the top Hunter on Earth, and Ashwin, an Aeriel prince in disguise, are on a secret mission. Together they face battle and lies, betrayal and heroics and shared love for their planet. This is a fresh new world with lots of action and adventure if you love fantasy—a good read. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

  Remember where we left the friends of Maple Bend at the end of Blood Creek Beast? We wanted to find out if the friends will prevail and save two worlds if Jenny and Annabelle are in time to save their friends, and what happened to Sean? In Blood Creek Phantom, the third book in the series, we find out what Sean has been up to.  He is still looking for Debbie, the ghost that brought him to Maple Bend.  When Chrissy King asks for help to keep safe from Avery, the ghostly serial killer, he makes a mistake that sets him up for much trouble.  He ends up meeting Hattie’s great-great, maybe one more great-grandma kills another giant and resolves some issues he has had with his family, and unintentionally literally wakes the dead.   click on the image to go to amazon Jenny has learnt a lot from Annie but still has much more to master when she ends up in the war between Lila and the Wardens.  She finds Jack and Jessabelle and joins them in fighting to hold...

  Luke Lancaster is a good bounty hunter.  His Christian upbringing has made him unique in that he never killed a criminal.  He has a troubled relationship with his father, a Comanche warrior, who left his English wife and young children. When Luke realizes that the criminal Billie Batson, whom he was supposed to bring in for justice, is a woman, he knows he is in trouble.  Billie, a schoolteacher, is on the run from Clovis Caldwell and the law after her co-worker was shot and she was framed.  When she is shot, Luke has no other option than to take care of her.  In his endeavour to help her, she meets his family and is kidnapped by Comanche Indians.  Luke has to make a decision that will affect his and Billie’s future.  And how does this decision fit in with life in Arkansas? In The Bounty Hunter’s Bride, taking a chance on people and trust in God is apparent in the actions and words of the characters.          ...

click on the image to go to amazon   Blood Creek Beast starts where Blood Creek Witch ended.   Jack and Jenny stayed behind in “Round the Bend” with Annabelle Rose to seal the gateway and keep guard over it. Jessabelle and Sean went back to Maple Bend to keep watch on the gateway on their side.   When Annabelle sends Jenny and Jack to buy provisions in the nearby town of Hobbfield, they end up chasing away bandits who were extorting the poor villagers.   Jenny goes back to Annabelle for help, and Jack sets off to find the sheriff in the next town..  Jack always wanted an adventure; as he travels further away from Jenny, he is thrown into the deep end of a fantastical fairytale reminiscent of Jack and the Beanstalk.  He encounters friendly Giants and evil Fae creatures.  An as in any good fairytale, there is a Princess, conspiracies, loyal guards and torturers. While Jack is living his adventure, Jessabelle is discovered in her Panther form and take...

click on the image tot go to amazon Angelina has noticed a dark presence wherever she goes.  When she finally corners the man she has seen all over the world, hovering on the fringes of her vision, in New Orleans, a new world full of intrigue opens to her.  When Jude insists she will be his wife, they start a three-week intense dating experience. She meets the family and other members of The Society of Messengers on Earth, some of whom are a great surprise.  Jude has been following Angelina for three years, making sure that she is trustworthy and honest, he has learnt all about her, and when he lets her corner him in New Orleans, he is sure that he wants her to be his wife, The New Queen of the Vampires. In The History of Vampires, Amanda Lewis tells a story filled with strong yet humble characters.  Personalities from history grace the pages with their appearance in a story that sets the scene for a great series to follow.  Devoid of explicit sexual or graphic ...

  Late Checkout by Beth Dolgner is the second book in the Eternal Rest Cozy Mysteries series.  Emily Buchannan has her hands full as she receives some businessmen who are planning to renovate and reopen an old hotel just outside Oakhill.  The townspeople are not excited about the soon rumours are all over town.  Emily has to bute her tongue as one of the guests is a very entitled and rude man Jaxon Knight-MacGinn who treats her as his personal assistant to run his errands.  Luckily, Tripp, a young man from town, has started working at Eternal Rest, giving Emily time to complete the to-do lists Jaxon leaves for her.  Even the ghosts at Eternal Rest are restless, and Kelly voices her opinion about Jaxon in a note in his room.  When one of Emily’s guests turns up dead, murdered, Emily realizes that she has a new ghost at the bed and breakfast.  As Emily’s psychic abilities develop, several ghosts lead her to solve the recent murder.  It seems th...

  “He calls for patient endurance and faithfulness.  He gives mercy and grace, all freely.”                                                                           click on image to go to amazon Pip had arrived at the gates a while ago and has not felt that she was ready to enter the city of the king, so she spent her time with Megalos, the Gatekeeper.   He has taken her in as family and takes care of her. Her perfectly round white stone is in her pocket to hand in when she enters the city gates. Matthew Mackenzie is a very unhappy 13-year-old.  His father, who was an astronomer, had died some years back, and his mom remarried.  She was now divorced and what makes it worse for Matthew is that he now has a baby sister of 4, and to top it all, ...

click on the image to go to amazon He needs a gardener and she needs an occupation. She is not what he expected and he is her destiny. Throw in some paranormal happenings and you have the recipe for a riveting and interesting read.

  click on the image to go to amazon or go to  Smashwords It all starts with the witch hunts in Salem, America. Three sisters and a lover are ripped from their time and forced to search through time for where they belong. But deceit and betrayal have kept them from each other, the betrayal lies close to home, and the dangers they face are real.

  "Rule number one about Vampires: Never look in their eyes." Nathan -Wicked Magic. click on the  image to go to amazon Nathan is not having a good year; his Initiation as Vampire Hunter is slowly creeping closer.  He has trouble talking to girls -Cynthia took off running for the hills on their first date, his parents are not around much, and he is training so hard that he is failing school.  What else could go wrong? What about a secret coven of witches practising black magic, his Vampire uncle, whom he should not see and on top of it all, his girlfriend is kidnapped.  Did I mention the bit about him visiting both the Vampires and Witches at their headquarters and nearly being killed by a Sahir's black magic knife? "Maybe hunters had it all wrong. Maybe monsters weren't just the supernatural." Nathan - Wicked Magic. Nathan Delacroix is a descendent of an old line of hunters, whose reputation became stained when Adrian was turned and never killed by his fami...

click on the image to go to amazon Hidden deep in the Appalachian mountains is the small town of Blood Creek.  For four young people, this town becomes a home and a dangerous magical arena.  Faced with grief, alienation, and other social problems, they discover their magical abilities, and through trial and error, they save each other from evil witches, Ogres, Giants and even Unicorns. Jenny has always moved around, not knowing her parent's motivation behind the moves.  When her parents are killed in a motor vehicle accident, her aunt fetches her to live in Blood Creek.  Here she discovers that she is not the normal girl she believed and realises her mother had already taught her magic! Sean Williams does not realise that the girl he is looking for is a ghost until the search leads him to blood creek. Here he meets Evelyn, who is very kind and helpful.  Jack Parsons has the nickname Lyin' Jack because he had reported seeing a Giant a few years earlier.  Now...

"THERE were four of us - George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency. We were sitting in my room, smoking, and talking about how bad we were - bad from a medical point of view I mean, of course." And so we begin the adventure of three men a dog and a boat.  The book was supposed to be a travel book but the witty humour and hilarious antics of the characters overshadowed the travelling bit.  From the hilarious opening scene to the packing and unpacking and repacking of the clothes and the struggle to pull the canvass to cover the boat and also the incident of the dog and cat we see a side of life from the late 19th century. Every page is filled with events that tickle your giggle and you will be better of for having read or, as I have listened to a reading of the novel.  In between all the humour, there are literary treasures that imbue the scenery in a haze of magic, it must truly have been beautiful. The river - with the sunlight flashing from its danc...

  A private eye that is tough as nails and deals with life-threatening cases. Whether you tackle the box set or start one by one, the Evan Buckley thrillers will give you moments of holding your breath to pity the poor man for everything that is thrown his way. Evan is my favourite vanilla sleuth; his stories are riveting and unputdownable with determination and physical resilience. However, through all his adventures, Evan comes through as a survivor and fighter. After Harry Dresden, my favourite books to read. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.