Torment

The Girl Who Played with Fire

Review: Shadow Bound

Title: Shadow Bound
Author: Erin Kellison

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Synopsis from Barnes & Noble:
When a demon breaches the barrier between death and life, the salvation of the world depends on the passions of a beautiful banshee just coming into her power and the man willing to use her to avenge the destruction of his family.


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This novel takes a different approach to the world of the fae and the relations between life and death, Heaven and the Underworld then I've seen used before. The frame story is that of the Shadowman - the Grim Reaper, Death himself - falling in love with a mortal woman. He knows this union is against all the rules, but his love for her makes him act against those conventions. The product of that union - which through her birth, ends up killing the mortal woman, completly denies Shadowman of his true desires - is a woman of both worlds with powers all her own to weild. Though she doesn't know it at first - Talia O'Brien has the ability to bend the boundaries between life and death and by doing so - change the rules by which Life and Death interact.

I really liked this book. It was a new take on some familiar themes in fantasy literature and a great introduction to this new author. It seems that this will also be the first book in a series, so I look forward to reading more!

E-reader revolt: I'm leaving youth culture behind

E-reader revolt: I'm leaving youth culture behind

I find the author's initial response very interesting, and something I have thought about myself, though - not enough to not use an e-reader myself of course! Are we really that nosy as a society, that we can't NOT know what our neighbor on the bus/train/plane etc is reading? I hope not. Books are for personal enjoyment, and not to be read over other people's shoulders. And, frankly, you could still do that with an e-reader. :)

Review: Weddings Can Be Murder

Title: Weddings Can Be Murder
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When her wedding planner is murdered, Katie Ray is forced into close proximity with bad boy PI Carl Hades - and into reconsidering the man with whom she wants to spend the rest of her days.


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Weddings Can Be Murder by Christie Craig - Okay, gotta say - I read this because.... we're getting married and I saw the title, and couldn't resist! :) But, this book  was not only fun to read, it was well-written. A bit predictable, but overall, this is a fun, and pretty fast read that isn't over the top in the wedding theme, and has enough twists to keep the reader flipping the pages! 

Review: The Girl Who Played With Fire

Title: The Girl Who Played With Fire
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The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal best seller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ("An intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller" —The Washington Post), and this time it is Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, who is the focus and fierce heart of the story.

Mikael Blomkvist—crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium—has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government.

On the eve of publication, the two reporters responsible for the story are brutally murdered. But perhaps more shocking for Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander.

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Second in the "Millenium Series" by Stieg Larrson, The Girl Who Played With Fire continues the story of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander. I had high expectations for this novel, after The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and I was not let down. The fast-paced, action-packed storyline returned again and I could barely put this novel down! I highly recommend this series for anyone who likes an engaging read with well-developed characters and unexpected plot twists.