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About lumenatrix

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My Third Cannonball! My goal this time around is to make the Half and get at least one bingo if we play bingo again.

lumenatrix's Reviews:

Can a Dude Be a Mary Sue?

October 19, 2017 by lumenatrix 1 Comment

The Naturalist By Andrew Wayne I picked this book because it popped up as a “because you read…” option in Kindle Unlimited. It’s a Mystery/Thriller following Dr. Theo Cray. Dr. Cray studies Bioinformatics, so finding trends in different environments and how those trends affect the species that occur in said environments. While doing research in a forest in Montana, Dr. Cray is picked up in spectacularly dramatic fashion as a person of interest int he death of a former student. Theo is eventually cleared of […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Andrew Mayne, mystery, the naturalist, thriller

Men Being Dinks, Women Dealing With the Fallout

September 11, 2017 by lumenatrix Leave a Comment

Alice is abandoned by her husband on their Honeymoon. Abandoned as in she wakes up one morning and he’s gone with just a note stating that he’s bouncing on the whole marriage, no further explanation. When she gets home she calls his mom and his office and quickly realizes no one in his life has any more idea what’s going on that she does. With no idea really what to do, Alice goes back to work at the gallery she manages and tries to act […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: After You Left, Carol Mason, Fiction

I Didn’t Want This Book to End

August 30, 2017 by lumenatrix 1 Comment

  I loved this book so very much. It was the warm, cozy blanket I needed in my life right now. I picked this up thanks to Jenny S’s review from a few weeks ago and I’m so glad I did. “Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. Of course that’s not […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Fairy Tail, fantasy, Fiction, Naomi novik, uprooted

“Hauntingly Intelligent” is a Bit Lofty Here

August 30, 2017 by lumenatrix Leave a Comment

So, according to Amazon the full title is Valentina: A Hauntingly Intelligent Psychological Thriller. I really hope everything after the colon was added by the publisher as advertising and to help with search engine confusion and not actually what the author titled the book. If the author did add it… wow, someone’s got some pretty confident opinions of themselves. It’s not a bad book, I enjoyed it and read it in about three days. The plot clips along and there isn’t a lot of fat […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Fiction, S. E. Lynes, thriller, Valentina

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