Review: The Host by Stephenie Meyer

Title: The Host
Author: Stephenie Meyer

Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: April 26, 2010
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ASIN: B003IGDD7A


Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of human hosts while leaving their bodies intact. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, didn't expect to find its former tenant refusing to relinquish possession of her mind.

As Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of Jared, a human who still lives in hiding, Wanderer begins to yearn for a man she's never met. Reluctant allies, Wanderer and Melanie set off to search for the man they both love.

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Review: Alone in the Dark by Karen Rose

Title: Alone in the Dark
Series: Karen Rose's Interconnecting Books, Cincinnati, OH
Author: Karen Rose
Read copy: Mass Market Paperback
Published: February 2, 2016
Publisher: Signet
ISBN: 0451466748
ISBN-13: 9780451466747

Homicide Detective Scarlett Bishop has seen enough bad guys slip through the cracks and too many innocent victims go unavenged to know good doesn't always prevail. So far she’s been able to lock away her rage and her vigilante fantasies. That lock is about to break.

Former Army Ranger Marcus O'Bannion is a fierce champion of victims’ rights. His secret past gives him good reason. He believes he’s seen the depths of human depravity, but then his investigation into the murder of a young girl who once asked for his help lures him and Scarlett down a dark, dark road—and straight into the crosshairs of a dangerous, powerful underground ring that deals in human trade. To stop them, Scarlett and Marcus have to be just as cunning and just as ruthless. But first they have to make it out alive.

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Review: Hči lune by Desa Muck

Title: Hči lune
Author: Desa Muck

Read copy: Mass Market Paperback
Published: 2005
Publisher: Mladinska knjiga (Žepnice)
ISBN: 8611172078
ISBN-13: 9788611172071

Kako kruto je življenje pri štirinajstih!

Lučka je v prekrasnega Krištofa, Krištof je v kokoško Diano, Bine se Lučki zdi popoln bedak, saj ji kvari vsake počitnice, Erika pa...

Bo luna izpolnila obljubo in nesojeni princeski Luciani Asteriji poslala viteza na belem konju, da jo reši iz objema mračnih sil?

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Review: Siren's Call by Jayne Castle

Title: Siren's Call
Series: Harmony, Rainshadow
Author: Jayne Castle
Read copy: Mass Market Paperback
Published: July 28, 2015
Publisher: Jove
ISBN: 0515155748
ISBN-13: 9780515155747

In the mysterious world of Harmony, there are places filled with unexplored marvels. But Rainshadow Island isn’t about to give up its secrets...

In the alien catacombs of Rainshadow, there are creatures whose compelling songs lure the unwary to their death. That’s why Rafe Coppersmith, hired to clear out the catacombs for exploration, needs a music talent. He knows the perfect one, but she probably doesn’t want anything do with him...

Ella Morgan had once fallen hard and fast for Rafe, but then he disappeared for months…and he’s not about to tell her why. Ella, too, has secrets that only her dust bunny knows. She’s not just a music talent, she’s a Siren: a paranormal singer capable of singing men to sleep—or to their deaths.

But once on Rainshadow, Rafe and Ella will learn that surrendering to passion doesn’t come without risks—and fighting fire with fire only adds to the flame...

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Review: Dominus by Tom Fox

Title: Dominus
Author: Tom Fox

Read copy: Mass Market Paperback
Published: October 8, 2015
Publisher: Headline
ISBN: 147222616X
ISBN-13: 9781472226167

The Vatican Cathedral is packed to the rafters as Pope Gregory XVII leads the congregation in mass. A cloaked stranger steps suddenly and fearlessly towards the altar and commands the wheelchair-bound Pope to stand.

He does.

The miracle stops the world in its tracks. Who is this stranger?

More miraculous events follow and as the Vatican retreats and closes its doors to the world, journalist Alexander Trecchio and police officer Gabriella Fierro set out to find an explanation that might calm an increasingly hysterical nation.

Because the question on everyone's lips is what the stranger's arrival might mean...and whether it finally heralds the End of Days.

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Review: Secret Sisters by Jayne Ann Krentz

Title: Secret Sisters
Author: Jayne Ann Krentz

Read copy: eBook
Published: December 8, 2015
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN: 0698193660
ISBN-13: 9780698193666

Madeline and Daphne were once as close as sisters—until a secret tore them apart. Now it might take them to their graves.

They knew his name, the man who tried to brutally attack twelve-year-old Madeline in her grandmother's hotel. They thought they knew his fate. He wouldn't be bothering them anymore...ever. Still their lives would never be the same.

Madeline has returned to Washington after her grandmother's mysterious death. And at the old, abandoned hotel—a place she never wanted to see again—a dying man’s last words convey a warning: the secrets she and Daphne believed buried forever have been discovered.

Now, after almost two decades, Madeline and Daphne will be reunited in friendship and in fear. Unable to trust the local police, Madeline summons Jack Rayner, the hotel chain’s new security expert. Despite the secrets and mysteries that surround him, Jack is the only one she trusts...and wants.

Jack is no good at relationships but he does possess a specific skill set that includes a profoundly intimate understanding of warped and dangerous minds. With the assistance of Jack's brother, Abe, a high-tech magician, the four of them will form an uneasy alliance against a killer who will stop at nothing to hide the truth....

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Review: La Mentira by Caridad Bravo Adams

Title: La Mentira
Author: Caridad Bravo Adams

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Published: 1972
Publisher: Editorial Diana, Mexico
ASIN: B001CMF2R6


En una síntesis llena de vigor, "La mentira" conduce a desentrañar las vivencias de las más significadas pasiones, las que subliman y las que envilecen. La honradez encasillada por los prejuicios: la nobleza, débil y por eso incapaz de luchar; la fortaleza de espíritu que arrostra todos los peligros, físicos y morales, para destruir el engaño y la falsía...

"La mentira" conmovedoramente humana, no interrumpe en ningún momento el clímax de la emoción.

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