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morrighan

morrighan

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I absolutely love books!

Always buying books. Can't go into a bookstore without purchasing at least one. Used books, etc.

My favorite books, are based on the paranormal, thrillers, medical thrillers, psychological thrillers, holy grail type books, and the armageddon type. I also enjoy book thrillers based on science, (dna,... more »
  • IL, USA
  • member since March 24, 2008

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  • The Night Season
    • Rated 3 stars

    “The book was ok, but it's not about Gretchen.”

    morrighan wrote this review Wednesday, June 29, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • In the Courts of the Sun
    • Rated 3 stars

    “I would give this book 2 1/2 stars.

    The prologue starts reallly interesting. The character, Jed Delanda, is inhabiting the mind/body of a mayan who is about to sacrifice his life... The story then begins with the present; who Jed is and how he ends up with the rest of characters. This part, about the first 1/4 of the book should've been condensed; it is long and boring- a filler. Also, the way they explain how they are able to send people back into the past is just plain- silly.

    Jed is back in time trying to learn the "end game," or "sacrifice game," and how the Mayan's calendar predicted things they could not have known. This part of the book, and the lives of the Mayan people was extraordinary. It was colorful, vivid, gripping... But then Jed comes back to the future with the information on the calendar. What happened to Jed or the maya indian he inhabited; the people he was with, how the Mayans went back to their original villlage, what happened to the powerful villain warlord who believed they were the Gods and the warlord who's reason why Jed was sent to the great city, we will never know.

    Jed comes back and the world is- saved! Really? I was totally disappointed. Also the end leads us to believe that now Jed wants to see the world end- hence the second and then third book in the trilogy. For whatever reasons the author is picking it up there, and that's ok. But then again, maybe this book should've just been about the Mayans...

    ”

    morrighan wrote this review Wednesday, June 29, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • Forever and Five Days

    Forever and Five Days

    by Lowell Cauffiel
    • Rated 3 stars

    “I would really give this book 2 1/2 stars.

    Lesbian lovers Gwen 140 lbs and Cathy 350+lbs strangle and/or suffocate elderly patients in the nursing home they worked in. Cathy, a combative, manipulative, loud mouth person who liked to drink and stir up trouble. Gwen, a somewhat tough on the outiside but timid on the outside woman who had a lot of psychological issues stemming from a horrid childhood- mostly a follower who Cathy pretty much bent at will.

    I liked the book in that it didn't put me to sleep, but the story in itself is sordid and almost unbelievable except for the fact that it actually happened. I couldn't understand how so many people seemed to cower under Cathy or that she had that much influence over so many. It makes me wonder about the people she associated and/or came in contact with every day, including the people involved in the prosecution of both. Looking at it from afar, it just doesn't make sense.

    It does however show a prosecution etc that didn't don't know or didn't care to know the truth. They had a psychological profile done on Cathy but no on Gwen, Gwen's psychological profile wasn't done until after she had been in prison. The profiles together clearly showed that Cathy was manipulative and a liar. Gwen's profile showed that she was not the monster Cathy portrayed her to be. But still this really doesn't matter, because everyone involved in the case knew Cathy was a congenital liar, she lied for the sake of lying.

    That they were a lesbian couple doesn't make a difference in the story. The book wasn't written all that well, but then again how many of these true crime books are- not many.”

    morrighan wrote this review Wednesday, June 29, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • Out of the Broom Closet
    • Rated 1 stars

    “Badly written and uninspiring stories. If there are 2 stories worth reading, it's not worth the book.”

    morrighan wrote this review Wednesday, June 22, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Crimson Code
    • Rated 2 stars

    “A Knight Templars Book. This book reads like a 3hr movie where you come in an hr into the movie and leave an hr before it ends. Non of the characters are evolved and the story begins in the middle and doesn't really end. Furthermore the stories of the other characters do not connect. As the main character agent Renate Bachle staes at the end, it never ends... What a jip!”

    morrighan wrote this review Wednesday, June 22, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Bon Appetit Cookbook
    • Rated 4 stars

    “great recipes!”

    morrighan wrote this review Wednesday, June 22, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • Dracula: The Un-Dead
    • Rated 1 stars

    “What Garbage!

    Being a fan of the original Dracula, I thought "more" yes! Ian Kyle wrote a review on Amazon, and I have to post part of his review here because I couldn't have said it better myself:

    ...the entire story of Dracula's death is retold in a completely different way than the way the original tells of it. The entire story pays no homage to the original classic, and flat out contradicts the account that the original tells. It makes me wonder if the two authors actually read the original at all. As far as I am concerned, this book has no place beside of Stoker's classic. I have never seen an author go back and re-write the details of the original story in order to provide a basis for the poor story of the sequel.

    Further I find that his addition of Countess Elizabeth Bathory as a vampire has been done before, and in a much better way in "The Diaries of the Family Dracul." Dacre's story that the evil was perpetrated by the Countess and Dracula nothing but a misunderstood wimp, is absolutely ridiculous.

    Dracre should write for the now defunct series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

    This story isn't worth the ink it was used to print... What a jip!”

    morrighan wrote this review Wednesday, June 22, 2011. ( reply | view 1 replies | permalink )
  • The Bible of Clay
    • Rated 2 stars

    “The story sounds pretty interesting: The granddaughter of a famous archaeologist and an archelogist herself is searching for the first copy of the Book of Genesis supposedly written on clay tablets about 4,000 years ago and dictated by Abraham himself.

    The tablets are buried sand in Iraq and they are trying to get to them right before the Iraq war in 2003. Throw in a mix of monster Nazis hiding all over the world, concentration camp survivors, government agents and you have a great cast of characters.

    Although the story's premise is good, the ending is anti-climax. I expected more than the thud I giot at the end. Further, too many characters are pretty much left hanging and so the story ends up with too many loose endings.

    I feel the author should spent more time with the book, developing the characters and actually ending their parts in the story.

    All in all it reads like an unfinished book. Too bad...”

    morrighan wrote this review Monday, June 20, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • Playing Dead
    • Rated 2 stars

    “It was pretty boring. Too much blah blah.”

    morrighan wrote this review Saturday, May 28, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • Say Goodbye
    • Rated 5 stars

    “My first Lisa Gardner book. I couldn't put the book down. I've read how she's as good as Patrcia Cornwell. I have to disagree. I've read some of Cornwell's books and Lisa Gardner is so much better.

    Very disturbing, yet interesting story. It takes you into the mind of a "lunatic" and serial killer (Dinchara) and makes you re-think your feelings about people who are evil and how they became this way. Yes the things they do are horrifying, but to have their psyche so broken that they become monsters is painfully sad.

    It's made me think of how much more aware we should be of the dangers facing our children and how much more precautions we should take.

    I really enjoyed Kimberly's (FBI agent) character. She's smart, dedicated, a workaholic, wtih faults and fears and pregnant. All the chraracters worked rather well in the story. Great story from begining to end.

    A fan now.

    ”

    morrighan wrote this review Thursday, September 16, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
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