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tvordljThe latest three ebooks read were all freebies from Librarything.com. 2 good ones and 1 with some flaws. These would be numbers 50, 51 and 52 in this year's list.
The Hidden Witch by Deborah Geary was another in a series she's doing on modern witches. It's fiction, it's fun, some of the same characters from last book, A Modern Witch but there's a focus on a group of witches living in a community in Nova Scotia Yay! The Hidden Witch is a woman from a witching family but who isn't a witch, though she's been tested many times and really always wanted to be one. She's a talented artist though but still has always felt like she was lacking. Turns out she is a witch but has new kind of powers that are juiced up by technology! I did have a conversation by email with the author though as she'd mentioned that the Halifax airport was old fashioned in that passengers boarded or de-planed by walking across the tarmac. I told her that they haven't done that here for over 40 years that i remember. She said she must have got it mixed up with another airport she'd been at here, she genuinely thought it was ours and apologized. It's not big deal but i didn't want people traveling here and expecting old fashioned when it's as modern as most.
Next up was An Unsafe Pair of Hands by Chris Dolley. This is a murder mystery. An inspector is assigned to a sleepy village to get some hands on time in the field since he was mainly a paper pusher in a London office before. On his first day on the new job he encounters a murdered body lying over a grave where the occupant is still alive. And it's inside a stone circle. He's often full of self doubt, whether he's making the right conclusions, handling the case, his first ever, properly. He's got the press to contend with and in particular a local tabloid "journalist". There's the villagers, some of whom aren't making it easy. He's got suspects but are they guilty? I sort of had it all figured out. I was wrong but not by much. Good book, though. Quick read.
Lastly, we have Freedom's Sword by J.R. Tomlin. It's about Andrew de Moray, a Scottish lord that helped Scotland gain it's independence against Edward I. It's a fictionalized version of his life using real life events as far as possible. The story was good, lots of battles and such. But the biggest problem i had with this book was that it really could have used better proofreading. Or even, just a proofreader in general. The grammar and punctuation left a lot to be desired. Not constantly, but enough that it was a bit of a distraction. He'd have the wrong words in a sentence, i can't remember exactly now but it would be like using two pronouns together and neither was the correct one. Or two prepositions, i forget the instance that i'm trying to remember. There was one spot where i'm convinced a whole chapter was left out. It's too bad because the story itself was interesting and as i said, the problems weren't constant, but they were there and the book loses points for that.
The Hidden Witch by Deborah Geary was another in a series she's doing on modern witches. It's fiction, it's fun, some of the same characters from last book, A Modern Witch but there's a focus on a group of witches living in a community in Nova Scotia Yay! The Hidden Witch is a woman from a witching family but who isn't a witch, though she's been tested many times and really always wanted to be one. She's a talented artist though but still has always felt like she was lacking. Turns out she is a witch but has new kind of powers that are juiced up by technology! I did have a conversation by email with the author though as she'd mentioned that the Halifax airport was old fashioned in that passengers boarded or de-planed by walking across the tarmac. I told her that they haven't done that here for over 40 years that i remember. She said she must have got it mixed up with another airport she'd been at here, she genuinely thought it was ours and apologized. It's not big deal but i didn't want people traveling here and expecting old fashioned when it's as modern as most.
Next up was An Unsafe Pair of Hands by Chris Dolley. This is a murder mystery. An inspector is assigned to a sleepy village to get some hands on time in the field since he was mainly a paper pusher in a London office before. On his first day on the new job he encounters a murdered body lying over a grave where the occupant is still alive. And it's inside a stone circle. He's often full of self doubt, whether he's making the right conclusions, handling the case, his first ever, properly. He's got the press to contend with and in particular a local tabloid "journalist". There's the villagers, some of whom aren't making it easy. He's got suspects but are they guilty? I sort of had it all figured out. I was wrong but not by much. Good book, though. Quick read.
Lastly, we have Freedom's Sword by J.R. Tomlin. It's about Andrew de Moray, a Scottish lord that helped Scotland gain it's independence against Edward I. It's a fictionalized version of his life using real life events as far as possible. The story was good, lots of battles and such. But the biggest problem i had with this book was that it really could have used better proofreading. Or even, just a proofreader in general. The grammar and punctuation left a lot to be desired. Not constantly, but enough that it was a bit of a distraction. He'd have the wrong words in a sentence, i can't remember exactly now but it would be like using two pronouns together and neither was the correct one. Or two prepositions, i forget the instance that i'm trying to remember. There was one spot where i'm convinced a whole chapter was left out. It's too bad because the story itself was interesting and as i said, the problems weren't constant, but they were there and the book loses points for that.
