Tracey West - The Wicked Wizard

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

9. The Wicked Wizard by Tracey West (2001)
The Pixie Tricks Series Book 8
Length: 96 pages
Genre: Fantasy
Started/Finished: 19 May 2010
Where did it come from? From Swaptree
How long has it been on my TBR pile? Since 17 May 2010
Why do I have it? I like fantasy and Tracey West is a new author to me.

Violet Briggs has an out-of-this-world new friend named Sprite - the Royal Pixie Tricker. Fourteen pixies have escaped from the Otherworld and it's up to Sprite and Violet to capture them and send them home. In this story the Wizard Finn wants to take over the town and it's up to Violet, Sprite and Violet's cousin Leon to stop him. I give this story a C+!

C+! - (76-79%)

May you read well and often

Jackie Fullerton - Revenge Served Cold

8. Revenge Served Cold by Jackie Fullerton (2010)
Anne Marshall Mysteries Book 2
Length: 287 pages
Genre: Contemporary Mystery
Started: 9 May 2010
Finished: 19 May 2010
Where did it come from? Many thanks to Rebecca at The Cadence Group for sending me a copy of this book to read
How long has it been on my TBR pile? Since 9 April 2010
Why do I have it? I like contemporary mysteries and Jackie Fullerton is a new author for me

Kathy Spence has awoken to a nightmare: her husband, a professor at the local law school has been struck and killed in a hit-and-run accident and she has been accused. She turns to amateur sleuth Anne Marshall, a student of Professor Spence's, to clear her name. Anne and her father - who has been dead for three months - team up with Anne's study group to exonerate Kathy Spence, but someone is willing to kill to see Kathy in jail. I enjoyed this book and give it a B+!

B+! - (89-94%)

May you read well and often

J. P. O'Donnell - Deadly Codes

Saturday, May 15, 2010

7. Deadly Codes by J. P. O'Donnell (2009)
The Gallagher Series Book 2
Length: 216 pages
Genre: Contemporary Mystery
Started: 5 May 2010
Finished: 15 May 2010
Where did it come from? Many thanks to Tracee at Pump up Your Book for sending me a copy of this book to read.
How long has it been on my TBR pile? Since 5 April 2010
Why do I have it? I like contemporary mysteries and J. P. O'Donnell is a new author for me.

Daniel Cormac Gallagher, Jr. is a private eye intent on retiring for good and settling down with his new wife. Until a missing person's case drags him back into his former life. Jennifer Clark is a lovely young married woman with two beautiful children and a loving husband, and then she is killed by a bomb planted in her car in her own driveway. Her twin sister, Jeanne Campbell, hires Gallagher to find her sister's secret lesbian lover who disappears immediately after Jennifer is killed. What starts out as a simple missing person's case, rapidly turns into one involving treason and murder, spies and hitmen. Now Gallagher must keep himself and his wife safe amidst multiple threats to his life from persons known and unknown. I enjoyed this book very much and give it an A! It left me with many questions about a possible next book by Dr. O'Donnell.

A! - (90-95%)

May you read well and often