Book: Famous Last Words

 Book: Famous Last Words

Author: Gilian McAllister

Pages: 336

This is my 228th read for this year

What Amazon Says:

It is June 21st, the longest day of the year, and new mother Camilla's life is about to change forever.  After months of maternity leave, she will drop her infant daughter off at daycare for the first time and return to her job as a literary agent.  Finally.  But, when she waktes, her husband Luke isn't there, and in his place is a cryptic note.  Then it starts.  Breaking news:  There's a hostage situation developing in London.  The police arrive, and tell her Luke is involved.  But he isn't a hostage.  Her husband - doting father, eternal optimist - is the gunman. What she does next is crucial.  Becasue only she knows what clue lies in the note he left behind.

Stars: 4

Book: Cycle of The Werewolf

 Book: Cycle of the Werewolf

Author: Stephen King

Pages: 150

This is my 227th read for the year

What Amazon Says:

Terror began in January - by the light of the full moon.  The first scream came from the snowbound railwayman who felt the werewolf's fangs ripping at his throat.  The next month there was a scream of ecstatic agony from the woman attacked in her cozy bedroom.  Now scenes of unbelievable horrow unfolded each time the full moon shines on the isolated Main town of Tarker's Mills.  No one knows who will be attacked next.  But one this is sure.  When the full moon rises, a paralyzing fear sweeps through Tarker's Mills.  For snarls that sound like human words can be heard whining through the wind.  And all around are the footprints of a monster whose hunger cannot be sated.

Stars: 4 

Book: Deadpool Death of Wade Wilson

 Book: Deadpool Death of Wade Wilson

Author: Cody Ziglar

Pages: 112

This is my 226th read for the year

What Amazon Says:

Wade Wilson triumphed against Death Grip!  Killing Deadpool now would be an INSANE thing to do, right?  Well, that's exacctly why we're doing it!

Stars: 4

Book: Deadpool Blood Bond

 Book: Deadpool Blood Bond

Author: Cody Ziglar

Pages: 128

This is my 225th read for the year

What Amazon Says:

There's a wild ride in store for Deadpool when a terrifying new villain enters the scene - one who won't stop until he catches Wade Wilson in his Death Grip!  But all work and no play makes Deadpool a very dead boy!

Stars: 4

Book: A Grim Reaper's Guide to Cheating Death

 Book: A Grim Reaper's Guide to Cheating Death

Author: Maxie Dara

Pages: 288

This is my 224th read for the year

What Amazon Says:

Nora Bird works for SCYTHE, which might seem odd for someone as terrified of death as she is.  But even since her parents died in an accident when she was six, she's been obsessed with avoiding risk, and what better place to learn how to cheat death than the company that employs the nation's grim reapers?  The work enables Nora to learn all about the myraid ways you can kick the bucket, which is comforting - until one day, a file crosses her desk with a name sh recognizes.  Her twin brother's.  The twins haven't spoken in six months, but Charlie is all Nora has left.  Completely against her cautious nature, Nora steals the file and flees, racing to her brother's house.  She begs him to trust her that his death is imminent, and they hit the road (with his parrot, JEssica, who has plenty to say) in an attempt to evade both death and SCYTHE, whose sole mission of collecting souls has been disrupted by Charlie's continued existence.  Alas, every time Nora saves him, a new cause of death appears in his file.  Someone is determined to take Charlie out, and Nora will have to use everything she's ever learned about death to discover the culprit.

Stars: 3.5

Book: Bad Monkey

 Book: Bad Monkey

Author: Carl Hiaasen

Pages: 336

This is my 223rd read for the week

What Amazon Says:

Andrew Yancy - late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the Monroe County sheriff's office - has a human arm in his freezer.  There's a logical explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its shadowy owner.  Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, the sheriff  might rescue him from his grisly Health Inspector gig.  But first - Yancy must negotiate an obstacle course of wildly unpredictable events with a crew of even more wildly unpredictable characters, including his just-ex lover, a hot-bloded fugitive from Kansas; the twitchy widow of the frozen arm; two avariciously optimistic real-estate speculators; the Bahamian voodoo witch known as the Dragon Queen whose suitors are blinded until death by her peculiar charms;  Yancy's new true love, a kinky coroner; and the eponymous bad monkey, with hilarious aplomb.

Stars: 4

Book: Curtain

 Book: Curtain

Author: Agatha Christie

Pages: 240

This is my 222nd read for the year

What Amazon Says:

The crime-fighting careers of Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings have come full circle - they are back once again in the rambling country house in which they solved their first muder togehter.  Both Hercule Poirot and Great Styles have seen better days - but, despite being crippled with arthritis, there is nothing wrong with the great detective and his "little gray cells"  However, when Poirot brands one of the seemingly harmless guest a 5 time murderer, some people have their doubts.  But Porot alone knows he must prevent a 6th murder before the curtain falls.

Stars: 4