Book Logging
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Baker, E.D. Dragon's Breath - This is book two in the series started in The Frog Princess. In this volume, the princess and her friend, the prince who was formerly a frog, try to help lift the curse on the princess's aunt's beloved. It gets complicated, of course, and the ending sets up for the additional books in the series.
Finder Series 1-2, 5-6: Target in the Finder; Cage in the Finder; Truth in the Viewfinder; Passion within the Viewfinder - I most likely won't be reading volumes 3 and 4 of this yaoi series. They start at about $70 each, used, on Amazon. At any rate, I can't label this as a spectacular series. It held my attention, but that doesn't say much. The series needs a rape warning. It's about a journalistic photographer who attracts the attention of a powerful underworld boss. The photographer gets kidnapped a lot (judging by the blurbs, that's most of what the volumes I haven't read are about) and abused a lot.
Foley, Lizzie K. Remarkable - What would it be like to be ordinary in a town where everybody else was remarkable? The heroine of this book (I think her name is Jane, but I can't remember for sure) knows only too well. Her father is a famous writer. Her mother is a famous architect. Her siblings go to a special school for the incredibly talented (all the other kids in town go there. Jane is the only student in the public school). Then a pirate comes to town, and two troublemakers get expelled from the school for remarkable kids. Jane's life doesn't entirely change, but things happen. This book held my attention. It had whimsy and imagination and wasn't too challenging.
Greenwood, Kerry. Forbidden Fruit - Having finished off the Phryne Fisher books, I decided to give Greenwood's other books a try. This one is part of a series about a baker in Melbourne. I was pleased that she said she didn't want kids and that her boyfriend was completely fine with that. There wasn't any pressure on her, at least not from him, to love babies. The cover of the book implied a murder mystery, but it was actually a missing person/child abuse case. The boyfriend is a detective, and he's hired to locate a missing, pregnant girl and the boy she's run off with. I liked the varied cast of characters a lot.
Greenwood, Kerry. Murder in Montparnasse; The Castlemaine Murders; Unnatural Habits - These are the last of the Phryne Fisher mysteries that my library has (I think, based on Amazon, that my library has all of the series). Murder in Montparnasse was interesting but kind of slow. It had a lot of flashbacks to Phryne's life in Paris, after the war. The Castlemaine Murders introduces Phryne's sister who appears in other books. I thought the plot was rather far fetched, but it was fun to read. Why should I care about far fetched? Unnatural Habits had its grim points-- Phryne encounters misery that she can't do anything about when she has a case that involves a Magdelene laundry.
Krentz, Jayne Ann. Dream Eyes - Somebody I read, I forget who, commented that this book felt like Krentz phoning it in. It's hard for me to say about that because I give these books only so much brain space. A week after I read them, I've forgotten all the details. This one fits, beat for beat, the pattern Krentz follows. There's a bad guy who's defeated. Then, when all looks clear, a second bad guy appears to threaten the heroine. She manages to use her powers to defeat him. This one featured the brother of the hero in a previous book. I'm afraid I remember nothing about the previous book save that I read it.
Zita the Spacegirl: Far from Home - I've been meaning to read this since I saw it at the school library a year or two ago. I finally got around to it. Zita's adventures go non-stop as she tries to find and rescue her friend after he's pulled through a portal into another world. The new world is due to be destroyed in three days, so she's got a hard deadline to find him and escape. There's a sequel that the public library has, so I'll try that, too.
Books I started but didn't finish:
DiTerlizzi, Tony. The Search for WondLa - I read more than half of this because it was easy and fast, but when I put it down, I didn't care enough to pick it up again. I suspect that this would work better for the target audience. It's about a girl who's been raised in an underground installation by a robot. One night, the place is attacked, and she has to flee to the surface. What she finds there is nothing at all like what she's been taught to expect. The place is full of strange animals and plants, and she can't find any other humans.
Greenwood, Kerry. Out of the Black Land - I barely started this one. I realized that I wasn't in the mood for ancient Egypt, especially not a book covering so many years. I like the author, so I'll probably try the book again when I'm in a different mood. This time, it was due back at the library.
Finder Series 1-2, 5-6: Target in the Finder; Cage in the Finder; Truth in the Viewfinder; Passion within the Viewfinder - I most likely won't be reading volumes 3 and 4 of this yaoi series. They start at about $70 each, used, on Amazon. At any rate, I can't label this as a spectacular series. It held my attention, but that doesn't say much. The series needs a rape warning. It's about a journalistic photographer who attracts the attention of a powerful underworld boss. The photographer gets kidnapped a lot (judging by the blurbs, that's most of what the volumes I haven't read are about) and abused a lot.
Foley, Lizzie K. Remarkable - What would it be like to be ordinary in a town where everybody else was remarkable? The heroine of this book (I think her name is Jane, but I can't remember for sure) knows only too well. Her father is a famous writer. Her mother is a famous architect. Her siblings go to a special school for the incredibly talented (all the other kids in town go there. Jane is the only student in the public school). Then a pirate comes to town, and two troublemakers get expelled from the school for remarkable kids. Jane's life doesn't entirely change, but things happen. This book held my attention. It had whimsy and imagination and wasn't too challenging.
Greenwood, Kerry. Forbidden Fruit - Having finished off the Phryne Fisher books, I decided to give Greenwood's other books a try. This one is part of a series about a baker in Melbourne. I was pleased that she said she didn't want kids and that her boyfriend was completely fine with that. There wasn't any pressure on her, at least not from him, to love babies. The cover of the book implied a murder mystery, but it was actually a missing person/child abuse case. The boyfriend is a detective, and he's hired to locate a missing, pregnant girl and the boy she's run off with. I liked the varied cast of characters a lot.
Greenwood, Kerry. Murder in Montparnasse; The Castlemaine Murders; Unnatural Habits - These are the last of the Phryne Fisher mysteries that my library has (I think, based on Amazon, that my library has all of the series). Murder in Montparnasse was interesting but kind of slow. It had a lot of flashbacks to Phryne's life in Paris, after the war. The Castlemaine Murders introduces Phryne's sister who appears in other books. I thought the plot was rather far fetched, but it was fun to read. Why should I care about far fetched? Unnatural Habits had its grim points-- Phryne encounters misery that she can't do anything about when she has a case that involves a Magdelene laundry.
Krentz, Jayne Ann. Dream Eyes - Somebody I read, I forget who, commented that this book felt like Krentz phoning it in. It's hard for me to say about that because I give these books only so much brain space. A week after I read them, I've forgotten all the details. This one fits, beat for beat, the pattern Krentz follows. There's a bad guy who's defeated. Then, when all looks clear, a second bad guy appears to threaten the heroine. She manages to use her powers to defeat him. This one featured the brother of the hero in a previous book. I'm afraid I remember nothing about the previous book save that I read it.
Zita the Spacegirl: Far from Home - I've been meaning to read this since I saw it at the school library a year or two ago. I finally got around to it. Zita's adventures go non-stop as she tries to find and rescue her friend after he's pulled through a portal into another world. The new world is due to be destroyed in three days, so she's got a hard deadline to find him and escape. There's a sequel that the public library has, so I'll try that, too.
Books I started but didn't finish:
DiTerlizzi, Tony. The Search for WondLa - I read more than half of this because it was easy and fast, but when I put it down, I didn't care enough to pick it up again. I suspect that this would work better for the target audience. It's about a girl who's been raised in an underground installation by a robot. One night, the place is attacked, and she has to flee to the surface. What she finds there is nothing at all like what she's been taught to expect. The place is full of strange animals and plants, and she can't find any other humans.
Greenwood, Kerry. Out of the Black Land - I barely started this one. I realized that I wasn't in the mood for ancient Egypt, especially not a book covering so many years. I like the author, so I'll probably try the book again when I'm in a different mood. This time, it was due back at the library.