Today I have some book reviews for you. These are three of the books I read while I was gone in June.
Charleston by John Jakes. What a great book! Made even more enjoyable by the fact that I visited Charleston a couple of months ago. We were only there overnight and most of a day, but we saw most of the parts of the city mentioned in the book. It had been a long time since I’d read a book by Jakes. I had sort of stayed away from those because I thought they were a bit dry. But this book really had a lot of good history and I felt it gave me a good flavor of the wars that took place.
Wild Orchids by Jude Deveraux. Without a doubt one of the most enjoyable books I’ve read this year. It was a fast read and had all great elements: took place in North Carolina, had mystery, romance, comedy, ghosts…everything! This writer has a long block after his wife dies and he ends up hiring a very creative person to be his assistant. He follows a story she has heard all her life about a person who got buried under rocks by townspeople because she loved the devil.
Body of Lies by Iris Johansen. Must be a forgettable book. I’m having to leaf through it to see what it was about. Oh yea, a skull reconstructionist is hired to find out who is the victim of a murder. But bad guys…a consortium…cabal…of evil famous people doesn’t want the victim identified. This book has a lot of elements I hate in a book. An overbearing man being overprotective of his little woman, the author blatantly exploiting the public’s fascination with the Kay Scarpetta series of books, a “cabal”…that one has really surprised me. I read this one and then picked up John Sandford’s latest “prey” book…Naked Prey…and before I hit 50 pages, I hear about a “cabal”….is that going to be the next over-worked book subject?
And...here is a book I DID NOT READ....Lake House by James Patterson. I'm done with this author. His irritating method of having 2 1/2 page chapters is just too much for me. By around the 30 page I was already on the 16th chapter and I just flung the book across the room. Well, not really FLUNG...it was a library book. But I quit. His writing is on about a 4th grade level and then doing all that chapter-changing is just too much.
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