DDBook Reviews

Jimmy Chartron has his heart set on becoming an electrician and has worked hard to be accepted at the elite Naval Academy of Eagleton. When he starts his year, he discovers a secret compartment on the statue of Tessa Marlise, a hero from the Great War, now a century past. As he fiddles with a gap he finds, something happens, and when he wakes from a blackout realizes that he has another person in his body. A ghost – and the ghost of a sassy girl to boot! The last thing Tessa remembers is protecting the Keystone with her life, and now it is a century later, and she is stuck in the mind of a sixteen-year-old boy. Tessa quickly takes the lead, and soon she and Jimmy is spying on the Headmaster and Headmistress. They are caught up in a conspiracy to cover up the actual cause of the great war and a race to prevent another war. J.T Michaels wrote a great fantasy starter, and it promises to be a series that will become loved by YA readers. Jimmy Chartron by J.T. Micheals is a YA fantasy adven

When Betty Boorman, or Betty Boo as she is known to her friends, responds to a call about a haunting with her ghost hunting team, she realizes she is up against something much worse. She deduced this when said entity scorched her hair. Stumped about what to do, she is surprised when a very handsome man tells her that he can help. She reluctantly calls Maxwell for help, and from that moment on, her life seems to gather chaos. Carter Lansford, a rival ghost hunter in Savanna, asks Betty to help him with a ghost problem at a local law firm, the haunting and their part in solving the mystery is made very public. After two break-ins at her apartment, Betty realizes she is in trouble. Add to this a mysterious man stalking her and her new love interest, who is a demon, and soon Betty has a life full of actions and things that go bump in the night. Beth Dolgner is the author of the Eternal Rest Bed and Breakfast books, and the Betty Boo series consists of four books. This is the first and al

  click on the image to go to amazon A Man Walks into a Bank by Lucky Stevens is the story of one professional bank robber, a nervous young hostage and their love story, including many broken dishes and Darth Vader moments. Ellis Coldwater is very laid back and is also known as Number three. Wendy Larkin is the very nervous wife of the bank manager/owner that Ellis's gang is robbing. George is just trying to get rid of his wife. Wendy teams up with an even more nervous friend and takes Ellis on the most interesting adventure. Robbing a bank will never be the same. Lucky Stevens makes many promises in the blurb of A Man Walks into a Bank, and he surely delivers. The book could easily have been named Two robberies and a Medical degree. Ellis and Wendy make the most interesting characters, supported by the wit and snappy dialogue. You never know where the story is headed, but you get to the final destination with surprise and a tummy ache from all the laughing. In A Man Walks into

Revenants is the second book in the Tales of the Five Realms series by Rachel V Knox. We meet Hagar and Jude as they return for their second year at Vanar University in Candesa. School starts with some surprising relationships and friendships that would have seemed unthinkable a year before. However, students see each other differently after fighting shade together and nearly dying when a mirage is set free the previous year. This year starts with many of the professors, Lightbearers, leaving Vanar to help in other parts of the country as a mysterious fog slowly creeps in over Candesa and ultimately Vanar. Professor Hinks is the new healing arts lecturer and has a very calm demeanour. The students quickly come to trust him. As the fog becomes more intense, Requiem is ordered to patrol the University grounds. Hagar and her friends notice as students start to become different people, and a post-graduate student seems to have had a nervous breakdown. What is the mysterious fog that seems

  Click on the image to go to the audiobook or  here  to go to the  kindle book What can give old the Regency Gothic Romance some new life? Well, let’s see, maybe add some shifter elements? That has been done, so what’s next? Nancy Allen knew, and she created an England not only with shifters and other paranormal characters but also in a steampunk world. Clockwork engines and gadgets abound in this creative new world where automatons are everywhere and can be used for nefarious reasons. She also created a great team of characters that promise to delight in the following books. We meet Lucy and Miles in the first as they try and save Lucy’s cousin, whose health is failing fast. Lucy is a hard-headed woman and senses something horrible is hiding in plain sight.  What follows is the usual push and pull, shocking discoveries and a lonely man who, in the end, is loved by a headstrong, independent woman. This was a wonderful respite from fantasy as it was enough regency love story with t

                                                                            Click on image to go amazon James Crowley is a Black Badge working for the White Throne; many years before he died doing the one decent thing he ever did, saved a mother and young daughter from the hands of his then leader. Ace Ryker. Now he is on his way to Lonely Hill, a small town in the wild West, no longer a Scuttler or outlaw but a Badge to keep the Supernatural outlaws in check, how the decks have turned. Outlaws are running amok, robbing small-town banks and blazing a frozen trail to Revelation Springs, where the owner of said banks is preparing for the Founders Fair. Ever veering off his path Jack helps some hapless humans along the way escape from werewolves and demons, collecting stray humans as well as supernatural artefacts and infuriating his handler. Once in Revelation Springs, a crime so old and revolting comes to light and shadows from Jack’s past come back to haunt him. In the end, Jack does w

Click to image to go to amazon Run is the second book in the Hunted series by Montana Jones. It is a police procedural that follows Special Agent Jack Carter as he has to locate and save women taken by a serial killer. He is partnered with officer Sam McKellar who has just broken up with her abusive boyfriend. Jack and Samantha have a chemistry that jumps off the pages, and they have to fight their own demons before a relationship can be possible. As first, Jack and then Samantha fight for their lives in the attempt to rescue the missing women, feelings grow, and relationships are forged. I loved Jack Carter; he is tall, dark and handsome with loyalty towards his friends, willing to give his life for them. There are some sexual situations, but the only thing that I did not like was that the Lord’s name was used a lot in the first half of the book. Run is an emotionally loaded book with the abuse of women as the central theme. Though it is a romance, the message is that an abuser can