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Review: Alias Hook by Lisa Jensen

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James Benjamin Hookbridge is everything a well educated young lad should be in the Restoration era. He’s verses in music, woodcarving, sailing, and he’s witty and charming.

He’e betrothed to a girl who he hopes will make him happy but while he comes from a wealthy family, he dreams of high seas adventure.

He travels to the West Indies and while there is he arrested for piracy and ultimately sold into slavery. His shipmate returns home to England and marries James’s betrothed. When James learns of this he plans his revenge and is filled with anger and hate.

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Review: Written in My Own Heart’s Blood (Outlander #8) by Diana Gabaldon

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Four long years is how long I’ve been waiting for the latest Outlander installment, Written in My Own Heart’s Blood (MOHB).

The last book (AEITB), left some MAJOR cliff hangers and I was actually pretty upset about the way AEITB ended for at least a week after finishing it.

MOHB picks up right where AEITB ended, literally. I am not going to get too much into the back-story or other books as I am assuming if you are reading this review, you have already read the series up until this point.

I will admit, I should have re-read AEITB before I started this one. I was literally so lost for the first part of the novel.

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Review: Suspicion by Joseph Finder

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Danny Goodman is a single dad who wants to provide his daughter with the very best things in life….at any cost. Sadly, that cost is rapidly mounting.

He can no longer afford to pay her private school tuition and has no one to turn to for any financial support or to borrow money.

Just when he is in desperate straights, a solution presents itself.

His daughters new best friend has a very very wealthy father. In fact he’s one of the wealthiest men in Boston.

When Thomas Galvin offers Danny $50,000 as a charitable gift, he sees no harm in accepting it.

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Review: Baudelaire’s Revenge by Bob van Laerhoven

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During the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, Paris is stuck in a proverbial gridlock.

Social and political tensions are mounting and the people are looking for any kind of distraction from their daily lives.

A grizzly series of murders provides that distraction.

Not only are the murders grotesque in nature but they have an interesting signature.

Each body is inscribed with a verse from the controversial Charles Baudelaire’s  poetry written in Charles Baudelaire’s own hand.

There’s only one problem, Charles Baudelaire’s  is dead.

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Review: A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent #1) by Marie Brennan

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Lady Isabella Trent is the world’s leading dragon naturalist, but obtaining that distinction was no easy feat.

Her journey to leading dragon scientist begins at a young age which is where this novel begins in the land of Scirland.

What began as a hobby soon grew into a full blown passion.  She began collecting Sparklings at a young age and ever since she saw her father’s book, A Natural History of Dragons, in his study her desire to know more about dragons has only grown.

Though not everyone is enthusiastic about her hobby. Her parents discouraged her in hopes that she will find a suitable husband.

Isabella enters in to what she calls her ‘grey years’ where she gives up everything dragon related. One fateful day, her brother takes her to a menagerie where she sees three dragons in real life.

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