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Sunflowery

Sunflowery

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I am a stay-at-home, homeschooling mom of four. I love to read - currently my favorites are paranormal romance, fantasy and science fiction, but I also like mystery and christian fiction. I have read thousands of books, so my bookshelves are continuously being added to (both real and virtual).


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  • Pflugerville, TX, USA
  • member since July 24, 2007

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  • Imitation in Death
    • Rated 5 stars

    “In this police procedural, Lt. Eve Dallas is faced with a serial killer that likes to copycat the famous serial killers of the past - and leaves notes at the scene addressed to her. As her team delves into the mind of this maniac, Eve is faced with nightmares of her own as memories of her mother surface for the first time.

    The only thing that disappointed me was realizing that the cover art gave away the killer, but since I didn't pay attention to it, I didn't realize it ahead of time.

    I enjoyed the scenes with Peabody as she prepared for her detective's exam and especially her final scene. The scene between Eve and Baxter about Trueheart is great as well, and I continue to love the way all the relationships between the other characters evolve especially those with Eve. (And it was VERY fun to see something Roarke was NOT good at, for once!)”

    Sunflowery wrote this review Friday, February 5, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • White Stallion of Lipizza
    • Rated 3 stars

    “A fascinating horse story by an author whom many call the most famous horse author ever, this book is also a story about horse training, the history of the white Lipizzaner stallions of Vienna, and a young boy who has and pursues an impossible dream. I especially appreciated the fact that things were not made easy for him. His dream did not come true by magic, but by hard work and persistence, even when things were difficult and others were discouraging.”

    Sunflowery wrote this review Friday, February 5, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • Peter the Great
    • Rated 4 stars

    “A very short book about Peter the Great - the Tsar who drug Russia (kicking and screaming) into more modern times. This is a children's book, so it is not very detailed, but the artwork is beautiful and there is enough information to whet the appetite about a historical figure whose name I knew, but not much else. I did find it very interesting that he learned to do things from the ground up (like shipbuilding), and wanted to do away with people being given positions they had not earned from starting at the bottom.”

    Sunflowery wrote this review Friday, February 5, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • Portrait in Death
    • Rated 5 stars

    “In this installment of the continuing adventures of Eve and Roarke (ha!), Lt. Eve Dallas finds herself searching for a photographer killing young college students and "imaging" them directly after death. Her friend and sometime ally, Nadine, at Channel 75 is sent notes and photos of each victim (some before they are even found). As they are drawn deeper into the mind of the killer with each note, each body, Eve must unravel the threads linking the victims and their killer, before she loses one of her own.

    I really enjoy the mysteries of the In Death series, but the relationships between all the characters make the story. In this book more of Roarke's past is revealed - and not just to Eve or the reader, but to Roarke himself, as well. I love watching Eve tiptoe around the minefields she encounters as she finds herself more and more involved with people who are living - and continuously confused by that fact!”

    Sunflowery wrote this review Friday, February 5, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Tales of Beedle the Bard
    • Rated 3 stars

    “A fun addition to the world of Harry Potter, this book is purportedly a re-translated (by Hermione Granger) collection of Wizarding Fairy Tales with commentary by Dumbledore and footnotes by both Dumbledore and J.K. Rowling. This is a very short book, but the principal is clever and the stories are cute.

    (The only real detracting factor of this book for me personally is that I don't care for the politics involved - I will not buy a copy of this book because I have no desire to help The UN Rights of Child - which has been used to take homeschooled children away from their parents in countries that have ratified it. I would rather not know that my fiction needs are being met but then feeding a political agenda I diagree with. However, that just means I wouldn't purchase it; it in no way takes away from my enjoyment of the stories.)”

    Sunflowery wrote this review Thursday, February 4, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • Standing In The Shadows
    • Rated 4 stars

    “The second McCloud Brother book focuses on middle brother Connor McCloud. When Connor receives word that Kurt Novak and two of his henchmen have broken out of prison, his immediate fear is for the woman he has loved for ten years. However, everyone around him thinks he is insane to think that Erin is in any danger.

    When he shows up on her doorstep, Erin tells him that she neither can afford nor desires a bodyguard, and tries to send him packing. She is barely holding on to her life after discovering her father's dangerous double life in the first book - her mother has spiraled into severe depression, her little sister is acting wild and blowing off college, and Erin was fired when her father's scandal came out. Now facing the man she always dreamed of, Erin cannot handle any more pressure.

    But when Connor refuses to take no for an answer and follows Erin out-of-town on a consulting job, the passion between them explodes. As the plot develops, masks must be removed and forces from the outside dealt with.

    This romantic suspense book is quite HOT - the storyline is very intense, but some scenes (especially the ones involving Novak) are not for the faint-of-heart.”

    Sunflowery wrote this review Thursday, February 4, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Dragon Heir
    • Rated 4 stars

    “A wonderful ending to the trilogy began in The Warrior Heir, this young adult fantasy novel includes to showcase teenagers with power forced to take responsibility for themselves and others around them. Jack and Ellen find themselves preparing to defend the sanctuary, Madison is torn between being with Seph and taking care of her own family, Seph needs to save the world and wants to keep Madison near him, and Jason wants to be useful. As Jason's headstrong ways lead him into crazy situations, Leesha reappears and the final confrontation between the guilds draws near.

    Without spoiling any of the story, I want to say that I was thoroughly satisfied with the way this trilogy finished. There was a twist I didn't expect, and the wrap up was not overly neat, but well done.”

    Sunflowery wrote this review Wednesday, February 3, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • Night Tales
    • Rated 4 stars

    “This book is a collection of four related books by Roberts. In Night Shift, deejay Cilla O'Roarke begins receiving death threats on her midnight to two a.m. radio request line. Boyd Fletcher is the detective looking into the case, and quickly moving to protecting and caring for Cilla. In Night Shadow, Cilla's younger sister Deborah, now an ADA is attacked in an alley and rescued by her city's mysterious vigilante. Soon afterward, she also meets an ex-cop and millionaire who quickly becomes important to her as well. As she works a difficult case, her life is threatened and her heart is torn between these two men. In Nightshade, Captain Boyd Fletcher's former partner, Althea Grayson, finds herself working with Boyd's prep school friend, Colt Nightshade, in order to find a missing runaway and put a stop to the pornography ring the girl has fallen into. However, the tension between the two leads to than just investigating. In Night Smoke, Boyd's sister Natalie finds her fledgling company the target of an arsonist - and herself the target of the arson investigator.

    I really enjoyed these stories and the way that the characters from each had a cameo in the others. I enjoy romantic suspense, as well as the mystery aspect in each case, as well as the romance part.”

    Sunflowery wrote this review Wednesday, February 3, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • Chicks 'n Chained Males
    • Rated 3 stars

    “This creative, funny collection of short stories spoofs the famous plotline of damsels in distress by having women warriors of various types rescuing the males in danger that cross their paths. The settings range from ancient Greece to Africa to the core of the earth and all types of situations are created by the authors included in this third "Chicks" anthology. This humorous collection is certainly worth a read.”

    Sunflowery wrote this review Sunday, January 31, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • Secrets, Volume 13
    • Rated 3 stars

    “A mysterious shapeshifter seeks his missing child bride... a woman laboring under a generations-old curse fights her emotions towards her bodyguard as the day of her death approaches... an event planner goes to a job interview expecting to receive a job assignment, but gets an entirely different proposition from the wealthy man in front of her (my personal favorite in thsi book)... and a young woman agrees to lessons in pleasure from the neighborhood rake in order to save a friend's husband from a duel. Four authors present erotic stories about love and lust.”

    Sunflowery wrote this review Friday, January 29, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
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