The Plot Peeker

I listened to this book through Audible. The narrator was great, but the book itself was a little underwhelming. It jumps around a lot and the plot did not feel cohesive. I'm still not 100% sure I know exactly what was going with the character or even who the main villain/culprit was.  However, I am willing to give the second book a chance. I felt that the author was trying to find his groove with this book and that things might come together more cohesively in the next book.  This is the first book in a five book series with five short stories that are intertwined. Colter Shaw is known for being able to find anything--people included. His father taught him how to track, how to think outside the box, how to be aware of his surroundings, and how to handle himself when trouble comes. Colter finds people for a living now and when he's hired by a distressed father to find his daughter, the young tracker finds himself in over his head amidst the world of video games and gamers. Not...

How do I rate my books? These slides are to help with that. They are also subject to change as I figure out more of what I want this page to be. 

Everyone can remember reading the "classics" in high school. And let's be honest, most of us hated them because we were forced to read them. We were told we had to and then had to write those dreaded summaries based off of what we read.  Let's also be honest in the fact that most of what we read went over our heads. The literature we were reading was written mainly by adults. Then we as teenagers are required to read about the things adults had lived through and expected to understand it.  Now, don't get me wrong, that is great for trying to expand the mind. And some kids got it. Most of us didn't. I will be the first to admit that the books I read in high school mean different things now that I'm an adult.  Let's take The Picture of Dorian Gray for example. I read it in high school and loved it. I still love it. When I read it as a teenager, I thought I understood the things Dorian was going through. It wasn't until I reread it as an adult that I...

 Eden Mercer is a young, K-9 cop in the small town of Nightfall, Oregon. Not only does she have the trials of being a young, female police officer, her past haunts her in ways that takes years of therapy to work through. An abusive cult-leader father, running away from the cult as a teenager, and now trying to liberate her mother and her other siblings before it's too late for all of them. At first, I wasn't sure where the author was going with these books and I almost gave up on the first one. By the end of the first book, however, I was surprisingly emotionally invested in Eden's life. I wanted her to find her siblings, to be accepted by her coworkers for the smart, hard working officer she is.  Each book in this series is, in my opinion, better than the one before. Paige Black seems to find her rhythm the more of the story she writes.  These books are all interconnected and should be read in order. I have not currently read Corrupt Code, which is the newest installment...

  The   Holly Novel Series   is a 5 book series with a 2 book interwoven novel series called   Seeking Justice  and the novella   Holly Jolly Christmas .  Amazon's description of the first book is as follows: "Safety is just an illusion... An illusion shattered by the whisper of footsteps in the darkness behind her." Holly has drifted from one place to the next for as long as she can remember, never settling long enough to build a life. It's the only way she knows how to survive in a world that has no place for someone like her. But when mysterious footsteps follow her home, and she finds a cryptic note taped to her door, she realizes she's stayed too long. The man she's hiding from has found her.  But how? When people start dying and old, forgotten memories begin to surface, Holly finds herself wrapped up in a terrifying mystery with God, a pushy Southern detective, and a killer with one thing on his mind: her." I read this series back in October...

  Hello and welcome to my brand new blog!  I have spent the last few years trying to get into blogging and I have struggled. Big time. All the how-to things say, "Find your niche." Well, that's easier said than done. I love doing so many things. Basically, anything creative I have tried. But it dawned on me the other day that the only thing that has been consistent in my life is a love for books. I am a proud homeschool kid. Yes, I know I'm 35 and not a kid anymore, but I proudly own being homeschooled. It gave me my love for reading. My mom instilled in my brother and I, that books were a very important part of life. Where would we be without them? Books are the gateway to knowledge. And knowledge is power. Before the internet was a thing, books were the only way to learn. We couldn't whip out our smart phone and have the answer to something within seconds. Nope, we had to find an encyclopedia at the library and look it up--and hope the encyclopedia was up to dat...