So if you’ve read any of the Aubrey/Maturin books like Master and Commander or The Far Side of the World or any of the Temeraire dragon books, you kind of have this one down already. Richard Sharpe is a lieutenant in the British infantry in 1809 fighting against the French army in Spain. He’s on a mission to become a captain and to capture a French eagle, a ceremonial figure head that leads the French army into battle. The quest for these two goals, a more fully realized […]
Daughters of the Lake
This book follows several generations of women that have a connection to Lake Superior and goes between current time and the 1900’s in alternating chapters. Kate Granger goes to her family’s house along the lake after splitting with her husband and a body washes up on shore. Kate realizes she has been dreaming about this woman since before she washed up on shore and that is why she knows the woman is holding an infant. When she dreams it is through this woman’s eyes and […]
Good, but wants more meat…
Binti is a mathematical prodigy – a Harmonizer – from a tribe, the Himba, that reveres its homeland so much that they don’t really leave their land, let alone the planet. But Binti wants to attend Oomza Uni, and as said Uni as actually a planet in itself, to do so she’s going to have to bid goodbye to not just her family, but her homeland too. Which she does, sneaking out in the middle of the night. Binti soon finds herself on the ship […]
Outlander meets Criminal Minds
When brilliant FBI agent Kendra Donovan stumbles back in time and finds herself in a 19th century English castle under threat from a vicious serial killer, she scrambles to solve the case before it takes her life—200 years before she was even born. This was certainly not a book to take seriously – think of a wallpaper historical novel with a modern day heroine who just doesn’t fit in, nor does she seem to care to. Kendra Donovan is supposedly a child prodigy; she went […]