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Well, have I been lazy or what? Truth to be told I’ve been reading a lot and not doing anything else! Here it goes:
A great new series about a little team of detectives in Rome, Italy by David Hewson. In “A season for the dead”, we meet Nic Costa a young rookie detective and his partner Luca, their boss Leo Falcone and the police pathologist Theresa. They form a bound and start looking for a serial killer with ties to Vatican. The killer murders Luca and Nic gets wounded pretty badly at the end. In “The villa of mysteries”, Nic is persuaded back to work by Leo and is assigned a new partner, Gianini; a huge man with a scared face and calm manners. The corpse of a young girl is found and investigation points to an ancient cult. Theresa is playing detective and looking for clues too. A ghost from Leo’s past is making an appearance and complicating the investigation. “The sacred cut” starts when a corpse in found in Rome’s Pantheon and FBI wants to lead the investigation. Leo, Nic and Gianini are asked to wok with the FBI and Emily, a young beautiful agent; is the go between. She has more than professional interests in the matter: the last victim before the one in the Rome, was her father. Is she willing to face the skeletons in her father’s old closet in order to catch this murderer? “The lizard's bite” happens in Venice, where our police team is working (a punishment handed out to them because of the way the last investigation turned out!) and a simple and easy murder-suicide case in given to them to wrap and stop the locals from gossiping. When Theresa and Emily come for vacation and join the guys, new insight into the mystery are revealed and everything takes a turn for worse. Leo gets shot, Nic is kidnapped, Emily is seducing a suspect and Theresa is … well, read it for yourself! Anyway, the series was one of the best I’d read recently and well worth the time. Loved these modern three musketeers, loved them!
Then two more books of Masters of elemental series by Mercedes Lackey. “The gates of sleep” is a turn-of-the-century Seeping Beauty with a twist and “The serpent's shadow” is a new Snow White. Well although the ideas for the stories were kind of old, the twists and quirks and characters were new and interesting.
“Bloodfever” by Karen Marie Moning was boring and a waste of time. Mac’s character is way unpolished and unfinished. The story is not making sense and characters are all over the place. Unorganized and with lose ends this is not a series I want to fallow.
“Forget about it” by Caprice Crane is about new beginnings, karma, lies, and unbearable families and bad choices. All in all nothing new!
“Caspian rain” by Gina Barkhordar Nahai is about a Jewish family in pre-revolution Iran and how faith and free will (or lack of it!) affects the lives of these family members. A sad but very well written story, it made me cry my eyes out!
I also finished “Darkling” (The Sisters of the Moon, Book 3) by Yasmine Galenorn. This one was about the third sister who is a vampire. She faces her sadistic ‘sire’ and woes to be good.
I’m also still in the middle of “Holy smokes” and am very bored with it! And yes, I have started “Elijah” (The Nightwalkers, Book 3) by Jacquelyn Frank but am not liking it. The first book was great, the second one OK, this one is starting too look bad!
Yeah, I’m done! Pretty much!