Book reviews written by cathysdesigns

Death's Excellent Vacation

by Charlaine Harris, Toni L. P. Kelner, Sarah Smith, Jeaniene Frost, Daniel Stashower, A. Lee Martinez, L. A. Banks, Katie MacAlister, Christopher Golden, Lilith Saintcrow, Chris Grabenstein, Jeff Abbott, Sharan Newman

Rated 2 stars

“There were a lot of new authors here for me, mostly good writing. I like HEA endings, but read enough UF and Si Fi to do with out it, but death as an ending was not to my taste. I will look for more books by some of these authors, but I'm not adding horror as a new genre. ”

cathysdesigns wrote this review Sunday, November 13, 2011. ( reply | permalink )

A Veiled Deception

by Annette Blair

Rated 5 stars

“This was so great! I'm a seamstress and I can't wait to use Maddie's "sewing vernacular". Annette knows how to sew or has done excellent research. I found only 1 fitting goof. I'll be coping her directions for the purse in the back to try out soon. And I'm starting book 2 tomorrow!”

cathysdesigns wrote this review Thursday, August 4, 2011. ( reply | permalink )

The Land of the Painted Caves

by Jean M. Auel

Rated 3 stars

“I have loved this series, but this book had so much repetition I was greatly irritated by it. Repeating the "Mother song" a couple times in a book this long is okay, maybe even repeating a few of the verses once or twice more, but almost full repetition every 60-90 mins of a 30+ hours audio was over kill. Also there was no need to reexplain so many things so many times in the same book. I felt the book could have been cut down by a third if the useless repetitions were left out.”

cathysdesigns wrote this review Friday, June 17, 2011. ( reply | permalink )

Thrall

by Steven L. Shrewsbury

Rated 4 stars

“
alternate reality of Earth. Took me a while to place all characters. Plot is about heaven verses hell and how each views it. Main characters kept me reading book, borders on horror in Si Fi genre. Only real disappointment was book was not a stand alone and left reader a few pages from the end only to turn into cliff hanger.”

cathysdesigns wrote this review Wednesday, March 2, 2011. ( reply | permalink )

Me, Myself, and Why?

by MaryJanice Davidson

Rated 2 stars

“One the worst story plots ever. Not even funny.”

cathysdesigns wrote this review Tuesday, January 18, 2011. ( reply | permalink )

Darkfever

by Karen Marie Moning

Rated 0 stars

“I am reading Darkfever by Karen Moning. I'm on page 132 and can not seem to like the story, the writing style or much about the charecters. Please tell me there is a light at the end of this bad tunnel. This is the first of her books I haven't finished in 24 hours. I've got 200 pages to go and I've been trying to read it since Friday! The lead male has burised the ribs of the Herione, on purpose, shoved her against the wall a few times, choked her, called her a "Barbie", verbabley abused her and basicaly called her worthless. If I had a gun I'd shoot the SOB myself. If she falls in love with this jerk, I'm writing Karen Moning books off my wish lists. I liked her other books.

Well I finished the book today as I had to sit and wait and sit and wait and when it finally got some good action I was back in the shop. So put a 3.5 hour embriodery job on the machine and finished the book. Still didn't like the way the story skiped back and forth in her mind as it is writen in the "I" format. But the second half was better than the first. Bummer is story doen't end you need Bloodfever (which is out Oct 16) next to continue storyline. Not sure I to start a "Buffy the Slyer" type series with Fairies. I'll think about it. ”

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