Inver Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 I'm on the bookring for this one. Look forward to reading it with a full box of tissues:roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexiepiper Posted May 2, 2009 Author Share Posted May 2, 2009 Hehe, you'll need them, everyone on here has said how sad it is! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weave Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 Hehe, you'll need them, everyone on here has said how sad it is! I got emotional watching the advert for it, I think I have opened a valve somewhere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charm Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 Another great review Kelly. I have this on my TBR pile, still not sure if its my thing though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexiepiper Posted May 2, 2009 Author Share Posted May 2, 2009 That's what I thought too Charm, I've gone off 'chick-lit' type books in the past year and so kept putting it off thinking that I didn't really fancy it, but it was easy to read and enjoyable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 Hey Kelly. I finished Bad Things today. Loved it. Have you read any of his other stuff? Bloody great, it all is... Hmmm, why sound like Yoda, do I? Tired... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexiepiper Posted May 4, 2009 Author Share Posted May 4, 2009 Blood Brother by J.A. Kerley No. of pages: 436 Rating: 4.5/5 Series: Carson Ryder (Book 5) Synopsis: The spine-chilling serial killer thriller featuring Carson Ryder - the homicide detective with a hidden secret that could destroy his career - these brothers have murder in their veins. Detective Carson Ryder's sworn duty is to track killers down. He's never revealed the fact that his brother, Jeremy, is one of America's most notorious killers -- now imprisoned. Secretly, Ryder has used Jeremy's homicidal insight to solve cases. He's made a career out of it. Now his brother's escaped and is at large in New York. With Jeremy the chief suspect in a series of horrifying mutilation-murders, a mysterious video demands Ryder be brought into help. It looks like a straightforward manhunt. It couldn't be more different -- or more terrifying. A dangerous cat-and-mouse game develops between Jeremy, and the NYPD with Ryder in the middle, trying to keep his brother alive and the cops in the dark. But it's a game of life, death and deceit, a game with an unknown number of players and no clear way of winning... Review: Carson Ryder is a bit confused when he's rushed off to New York city without anybody telling him why, until he gets there and sees the video his murdered friend has left him. Somehow his serial killer brother, Jeremy, has escaped and is on the loose in New York, suspected of brutally killing more women. Trying to hide the fact that Jeremy is his brother, trying to find him, and trying to stop the NYPD from killing him becomes Carson's burden, but how much time does he have before things start falling apart? Great plot, fast paced with plenty of gore and horror. These are my favourite kinds of books, I love the mix of murder and suspicion with the police investigation. They always manage to keep you on the edge of your seat, and this was no exception. The characters were well written, you feel a lot of sympathy for Carson, he obviously knows his brother must be caught, but he doesn't want him to be hurt. Jeremy is of the genius murder variety, so he always manages to keep one step ahead of the investigation. The ending was a complete surprise, not at all as I expected, but it was a great ending. The plot was very good throughout, it was well written and kept me gripped. Really enjoyed the story and I'll be sure to go back and get the initial books in the series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipread Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 Blood Brother sounds very good I`ll be looking J A Kerley up. thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charm Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 Great review Kelly, I always read them and I rather like the sound of this one. It looks like my kinda thing. Is this one not the first in the series then? I've added it to my wishlist but I think I'll see which is the first though and start there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anisia Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 Definitely need to check this out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexiepiper Posted May 4, 2009 Author Share Posted May 4, 2009 Great review Kelly, I always read them and I rather like the sound of this one. It looks like my kinda thing. Is this one not the first in the series then? I've added it to my wishlist but I think I'll see which is the first though and start there. No it isn't the first, I got this one for my birthday and didn't realise there was a series, but it was still fine as a stand alone book. The others in the series look great though, so you can't lose either way! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Great review, Kelly. I loved this book. Go back to the beginning with The Hundredth Man. It's ever so good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charm Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Go back to the beginning with The Hundredth Man. Ah so this is the first. Its added to my wishlist. Thanks Mac! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Ah so this is the first. Its added to my wishlist. Thanks Mac! You're very welcome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexiepiper Posted May 8, 2009 Author Share Posted May 8, 2009 Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris No. of pages: 326 Rating: 5/5 Series: Sookie Stackhouse (Book 1) Synopsis: Welcome to Bon Temps. It's just your average sleepy backwater town. You know the kind of place... a dime store, a trailer park, a diner, and a gang of newly 'out of the coffin' undead. Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She's quiet, keeps to herself and doesn't get out much. Not because she's not pretty. She is. It's just that, well, Sookie has this sort of 'disability' - she can read minds. And that doesn't make her too dateable. But then along comes Bill. He's tall, dark, handsome - and Sookie can't hear a word he's thinking. He's exactly the type of guy she's been waiting for all her life. But Bill has a problem of his own: he's a vampire. With a bad reputation. He hangs with a seriously creepy crowd, all suspected of - big surprise - murder. And when one of Sookie's co-workers is killed, she fears she's next... Review: Great start to what will be a fantastic series. Sookie Stackhouse is a southern girl with a special talent - she's telepathic. She's pretty much a loner though because the awful thoughts she hears in other people's minds just make her dislike them. So when Vampire Bill comes into the bar where she works, she's immediately attracted to the silence - she cannot read his mind, and she loves it. But when women start dying in Bon Temps, Sookie gets very worried that she may be next... Great start to the series, introducing you to the main characters, but with a bit of action thrown in too. I already knew the plot of this book from watching the television series, True Blood, which is based on this book. So I already knew who the killer would be and who would die, but it didn't ruin it at all, the book is so well written it just sucks you in completely. I adore Charlaine Harris' style of writing, it's so easy to read, and she sure knows how to write a great story! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexiepiper Posted May 8, 2009 Author Share Posted May 8, 2009 Living Dead In Dallas by Charlaine Harris No. of pages: 279 Rating: 5/5 Series: Sookie Stackhouse (Book 2) Synopsis: Waiting tables, sweeping floors, reading minds and solving mysteries for the undead. It's all in a day's work for Sookie... Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is on a streak of real bad luck. First, her co-worker gets murdered and no one seems to care. Then Sookie is attacked - and poisoned - late one night by some weird and apparently mythical beast. She only survives because the local vampires roll up and graciously suck the poison from her veins (like they didn't enjoy it). But in return the blood-suckers need a favour. Which is why Sookie ends up in Dallas, using her telepathic skills to search for a missing vampire, on the condition that her undead friends don't do anything, well, vampiric while she's there. Easier said than done. All it takes is one delicious blonde and one small mistake for things to turn deadly... Review: When Sookie finds her co-worker dead in the parking lot of the bar she works at, she's horrified. Then she's attacked as a message to the vampires she surrounds herself with. She's starting to think she has a lot of bad luck until she gets summoned to Dallas, and then she really realises what it's like to have bad luck, and a whole lot of trouble coming right at you... There was a lot more action in this book as the characters had already been established in Dead Until Dark, so Charlaine could focus on the plot rather than the characters this time around. The story is great, gripping right from the first chapter and full of action right until the very end. I loved that we saw more of Eric in this book, he's so funny and had me laughing aloud quite a few times throughout. You get to see a bit more about Sookie and Bill's dysfunctional relationship and also more about the people of Bon Temps, who aren't quite what they seem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charm Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 Great reviews Kelly! I can't wait now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexiepiper Posted May 8, 2009 Author Share Posted May 8, 2009 They are soooo good Charm, I've struggled to put them down! I've just finished the 3rd already Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexiepiper Posted May 14, 2009 Author Share Posted May 14, 2009 Club Dead by Charlaine Harris No. of pages: 274 Rating: 5/5 Series: Sookie Stackhouse (Book 3) Synopsis: They know how to make a great cocktail in Club Dead - a twist of lemon, a dash of pepper and a shot of Blood Group O. There's only one vampire Sookie Stackhouse is involved with (at least voluntarily) and that's Bill. But recently he's been kind of distant - like in another state distant. Bill's sinister and sexy boss Eric has an idea where to find him, which is why Sookie ends up in Jackson, Mississippi, mingling with the under-underworld at Club Dead. It's a dangerous little haunt where the elitist vamps can go chill and chow on some prime flesh. But when Sookie finally finds Bill - caught in an act of serious betrayal - she's not sure whether to save him, or sharpen some stakes. Review: When Bill disappears, it's down to Sookie to find out what's happened to him. So with the help of Eric and Alcide, she travels to Jackson, Mississippi to hunt him down, but nothing is as she expected... This series gets better and better with every book. I loved the new characters in this book, Alcide especially, he was such a sweetheart! Eric just gets funnier and funnier and I love him more as the series goes on. I could actually see him and Sookie as couple, but I doubt that will happen sadly. This is definately becoming one of my favourite series of books, and Charlaine a favourite author. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexiepiper Posted May 14, 2009 Author Share Posted May 14, 2009 Home Before Dark by Charles Maclean No. of pages: 474 Rating: 4.5/5 Synopsis: It's the news every parent dreads: Ed Lister's world changes forever the day he hears his art-student daughter has been brutally murdered in Florence. A year later, frustrated with the police inquiry, Ed vows to find Sophie's killer. His quest leads to a mysterious website – and its owner, Ward, a charming, brilliant psychopath. But as the search for Ward follows a trail of bodies across Europe to America, some of Ed's own secrets begin to emerge. And the question arises: is Ed the hunter, or the hunted? Review: When Ed Lister's daughter Sophie is violently killed while studying in Florence he's devestated, but when after a year there is still no progress towards finding her killer, Ed decides to take it into his own hands. He has the money and the determination to track the killer down, but upon finding the killer's website he realises this is no normal person. This deadly game of cat and mouse highlights the dangers of the internet and how easy it is for someone to get far to close with deadly consequences... Great story, although slightly creepy when you think of how easily this could happen in real life. It's fast paced and the language used is very easy to get into. The storyline is really clever, I liked how it progressed and then had an explosive ending. I'm not sure whether I liked Ed Lister as a character, but I think that's how you're meant to feel. I really enjoyed this book, and have heard good things about his other books also, so I'll definitely be looking out for those as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexiepiper Posted May 14, 2009 Author Share Posted May 14, 2009 Dead To The World by Charlaine Harris No. of pages: 321 Rating: 5/5 Series: Sookie Stackhouse (Book 4) Synopsis: Dead to the World continues the story of psychic waitress Sookie Stackhouse, who has fallen out with her undead lover, Bill. Bill has no sooner departed for Peru, than Sookie finds the head vampire, Eric, running naked and terrified through the rural night. She helps Eric, and discovers his memory has been destroyed by a coven of unscrupulous, astonishingly powerful witches, newly arrived in her small Louisiana town, and offering a huge reward for Eric. Sookie tries to hide Eric, but her brother sees him - and immediately disappears. And Sookie finds herself caught in a war among witches, vampires, and werewolves. Review: Sookie on her way home from a night shift at Merlotte's, finds a topless Eric running down a dark road, with his memory somehow missing. Taking him home to protect him, once again Sookie finds herself drawn into a bad situation. But when Jason disappears, Sookie knows she'll do whatever it takes to find him again... I really enjoyed the fact Eric was the main focus in this book, he's one of my favourite characters but is usually in the background. I loved how different he was without his memory, and how he and Sookie took care of each other. Again, I loved the appearance of Bubba, such a fantastic character! I thought what happened to Jason was a little weird, but I'm sure we'll see how that progresses in the future books. I love this series so much, they're amazingly written, Charlaine Harris has such fantastic talent for writing and she's fast become one of my favourite authors! I would recommend this series to everyone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexiepiper Posted May 14, 2009 Author Share Posted May 14, 2009 (edited) Dead As A Doornail by Charlaine Harris No. of pages: 295 Rating: 4/5 Series: Sookie Stackhouse (Book 5) Synopsis: Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in a little bar in a small town deep in Louisiana. She's funny and pretty and well-mannered, but she doesn't have that many close friends - mind you, that's not so surprising when you consider how few people can appreciate her abilities as a mind-reader. It's not a quality that has the guys beating down her door - well, unless they're vampires or werewolves or the like . . . but they're not just supernatural freaks, some of them are friends, even family . . . And much as Sookie might want a quiet life, when she's around, things just seem to happen . . . like someone trying to wipe out the shape-changing population, and that means Sookie's got just a month, before the next full moon, to find out who wants the shapeshifters dead, and stop the fiend. Review: When someone starts shooting the shapeshifting population of Bon Temps, Sookie feels obliged to find out what is happening before the next full moon and shapeshifter change. What she doesn't realise is just how much trouble she's getting herself into yet again... I have to admit, I didn't enjoy this one quite as much as the previous books, the story just didn't grip me this time for some reason. It's also starting to annoy me slightly how every single supernatural male she comes across falls madly in lust with her, it's a tad unrealistic. The story this time was really predictable, I guessed almost immediately who the shooter was, and was correct in the end. Other than the bits I disliked it was still very easy to read, like coming back to an old trusted friend. I'm hoping the story picks up a bit in the next book, as this one was a bit repetative. Edited May 15, 2009 by lexiepiper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bethany725 Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 Great reviews, Kelly! I haven't read any of the Sookie books.. only 1 of the Grave ones, but I want to get the others in the Grave series. I may try the Sookie ones also based on your reviews. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexiepiper Posted May 15, 2009 Author Share Posted May 15, 2009 They're really good Bethany, I'm pretty sure you'd really enjoy them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 Kelly, how do you get through so many books so quickly? I feel like a total splowpoke! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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