DDBook Reviews

  Two brothers, one drawn to the chaos, the other to order. One searching for cures in his hospital and the other an Inquisitor. Silas, a brilliant healer and Dunewell the Inquisitor’s younger brother, arrives barefoot on Dunewell’s doorstep, wet with rain and blood, after finding their parents murdered in their bed. Dunewell, the Inquisitor, is charged to investigate the double murder.    In the intricate dance for balance and truth, each brother follows his path. To find their destinies and become the Lord’s of Chaos and Order. click on the image to go to amazon This is a good story once you get your bearings.  The prologue sets up the story intense and draws you in. Then, however, I was lost. The Formatting made it challenging to follow and figure out exactly what is going on.  But if you stick it out and go back more than once, you will realise that the story is told from both Silas and Dunewell’s viewpoints.  It could have been clearer, and the audiobo...

  " Mila Anslov, the poor Navia who had gone to sea, lured away by the smile of a pretty fae. A girl who soon found herself residing at the lowest portion of the ocean, her death spurring Navka to rise from her watery grave." - The Starlit Coast click on the image to go to amazon At the end of the Barren Sea, we left Mila, where she chose to go back to Haldia, as Demetri proclaimed the goddess Navka who had risen from the sea. Finn and his friends were going back to Whyn. Now three months later, days before Mila is unified with the High priest, she is not happy.  She may be the goddess Navka, but she essentially lived in prison, although a gilded one. She wishes she had made a different decision in the Barren Sea and that she could see Finn. The day before the grand affair of her unification with the high priest – Demetri- she discovered an intruder in her room.  The last person she thought she would see.  Finn had come to bring her an offering, the one thing as ...

  click on image to go to amazon After all the excitement of the previous months, Emily Buchannan, owner of Eternal Rest Bed and Breakfast, is looking forward to the Oakhill Art Festival. She has a temp coming into man at the front desk, which means she is free to do her regular volunteer work at the Festival. It is her chance to be out of the house and relax between the beautiful artworks. She has guests staying with her, all of the artists. For the first time in weeks, it seems that there will be no scandal around Eternal Rest.   That is until an artist is killed at the Festival.   At first, it looks like a heart attack, but suspicions develop around his death as evidence comes in.   Sage has instructed Emily to practice her budding talent as a medium with her ghosts at Eternal Rest.   The plot seems straightforward until a twist takes it in an unexpected direction. Emily and her friends have to try and piece evidence left by a ghost to catch a killer in their...

When Sarah Brightwater was at her prom in 2004, her mother became the victim of a serial killer who has never been caught.  She became an FBI agent to find and arrest the man responsible. In 2018 she and her partner were investigating a body found in Whitney State forest. As she chases leads, her path crosses with journalist Tyler Ford.  They become entangled in a complex entanglement of circumstances. The case of the serial killer dubbed John the Baptist has both of them crossing professional lines . As they work together to untangle the leads, they place their lives in danger to catch the killer. This is a good clean mystery, with very little violence and no sexual content and very little cursing.  The story has interesting twists and keeps you guessing who the killer might be. The book ends with a cliffhanger that promises that the story that continues will be just as enjoyable to read. I liked the audiobook; although it took me a while to get comfortable with the ...

  We had to be the weirdest supernatural-crime busting team in the whole city. Had to say, I kinda liked it. We could kick some serious ass. – Sera: Graveyard Waltz                                                                                click on image to go to amazon   Seraphina is back, manoeuvring her new relationship with Nate, the rift between her and Ellie and Dev’s threats towards Nate.  Add to this a nefarious necromancer gone ghoul hunting Sera down, as well as the Vampire party of the century reluctantly hosted by Nate and you have a story filled with action, emotion, blood and gore. Once again Jessica has written a fast-paced novel where you expect the final battle around each twist in the story.  Sera learns...

  click on image to go to amazon The Roach by Rhett C Bruno is an excellent example of Noir fiction.  Set in the 1980s in Iron City, The Roach, or Reese Roberts is a vigilante who prowled the streets and took care of the criminals in the city.  After making a rescue, he is shot and paralyzed.  This is where we meet him, on the river’s edge in his wheelchair contemplating suicide.  A cry for help diverts him, and from this point on, the story develops into an adrenaline-pumping grungy thriller.  After again sustaining immense injuries while saving a little girl, Reese wakes after a month in a coma to find that someone had stolen his identity and was killing in the city.  Reese, in his wheelchair, solicits the help of a young man he tried to help and embarks on the search for the one scumbag reporter that may have answers.  Reed makes the comic book heroes look like little girls playing dolls as he races through the city in his wheelchair to try and...

click on image to go to amazon   Intercession by Kevin J Haar is an excellent novel of Historical Fiction. The story begins with the birth of Aoife, the daughter of Niall and Izette.   As the sun does not come through on the morrow, the child is called cursed by the superstitious residents of Innis Aer, a small Irish island housing a nunnery and priory. At the priory, brother Declan hides a shameful secret that could be the end of his peaceful existence at the priory. Almost twelve years later, the fates of Father Declan and Aoife intercede.  They become embroiled in a mystery that threatens Aoife’s life with her father at their Inn, as well as bringing Father Declan to a crucial crossroads in his life.  As the political strife of the outside world closes in on this small island, Aoife stands on the brink of womanhood and will do whatever it takes to be rid of the curse everyone says she is carrying.  She searches for the witch that interceded at her birth. ...