Showing posts with label Mystery. Show all posts
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Friday, July 22, 2016

Cover Reveal - Deadly Hunt

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COVER REVEAL

DEADLY HUNT

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K.L. HUMPHREYS

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Sophia Dallas has recently been discharged from the Army after suffering at the hands of the enemy. On her journey to healing, she has finally started to live her life, but the past never really stays in the past.
Nathan Slade, a former FBI agent, now owns his own P.I business, has taken on a case that could make or break him. In all the chaos, he meets the love of his life.
What happens when the man Nathan's hunting also happens to be a man on the hunt himself - only his target happens to be the love of Nathan's life?
Lives will be lost, leaving pain and suffering in the wake of destruction while Nathan and Sophia learn the hard way that the future is never promised – especially theirs.










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ABOUT THE AUTHOR



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KL Humphreys was born in London, England but now lives in Ireland with the love of her life. In a way, the world has him to thank for her Debut Novel. After years of thinking about writing the story that had been dying to get out of her head, she finally confided in her other half. He gave her an enthusiastic "Go for It!" and she started writing it the very next day.
Miss Humphreys loves music, especially pop, R'n'B and rap and if she's writing you will find it playing somewhere nearby. She also loves all romance novels but of course, Romantic Suspense is her go to genre. When she isn't writing it...it's a good bet she is curled up somewhere reading one. If she doesn't have a book in her hand, you might want to check to make sure she isn't sick. When not reading or writing, she loves to spend time with her loved ones especially while watching a football game (that's soccer for you Americans)... COME ON YOU GUNNERS!!!!

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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Book Review - The Underground

Happy Wednesday, good people of the blogosphere! It's Wednesday and time for another book review. I can tell you're excited by the way you're reading this post. This book came to me under different circumstances than my usual review titles. If you didn't know, I have one of my novels (The Bird) on Amazon with a small press: California Times Publishing. That link will take you to their homepage. Well, back at the end of last year, Jeff, the head guy of CAP, asked a bunch of us if we'd read some CAP books and write reviews. Those of us that agreed were assigned random books from a list (no author swapped reviews with another), and we bought them to add to our TBR lists. This is the first of those titles to be reviewed by me. Yes, it'll go in the 2015 Review Team's pool!

Enough of my yammering! Let's get to information about the book up for review today:

Title: The Underground
Author: P. M. Briede
Genre: Contemporary Thriller/Mystery/Suspense
Length (print): 273 pages
Buy Links: Amazon $5.99

Synopsis:
In 1889, most of the city of Seattle burnt to the ground. The residents rebounded by using the ruin remnants to create the foundation for the new and improved city.

In 1965, Bill Spediel struck a deal with the new metropolis to turn a profit on the tragedy from almost a century earlier. Thus, The Underground was born, immediately spawning talk of ghosts.

In recent years, the myths morphed into stories of actual people living among the trash and filth that had built up beneath the city. These mythical people had become mockingly referred to as groundlings by the locals.

As the city is now held in the grips of a serial killer, Oz Seidon can't seem to focus on anything other than the groundlings. Having never put much stock into them before, a recent rash of sightings has piqued his curiosity. Oz intends to disprove the legend, using the research as an excuse to focus on something other than death, that is, until he stumbles upon one and learns how close to this story he really is.

**Due to sexual situations, this book is for readers age 18+**

***Will not appear in review elsewhere. I really like the tone of the cover on this book, but I think the tiny text in the middle is unnecessary and gets lost at small sizes. Meh, just an opinion (and you know what folks say about those).***

Let's move on to the review!

I snagged this book on Amazon back in December, when I got a request from the publisher to review it. I read the sample and was intrigued enough to go on and buy the book. It was added to the review pile, and I picked it back up last week to read on. I devoured the story of The Underground for a number of reasons. Let's get to why, shall we?

From a Reader's Perspective:
This is the first cult book I've read. It was scary, intriguing, and nauseating at the same time. My toes curled at some of the descriptions about Izzy's life underground. I loved the characters. They weren't flat, and I certainly won't be forgetting them anytime soon. Pacing was slow at first, but when it kicked in and the action started, it didn't stop until the end. I'd say it was about halfway through when it really took off. One thing I love about books like this are the surprises you don't see coming. There are zero hints in the text at what happens until you get to the end and look back. That's when the ah-ha! hits you. Pieces of the puzzle so delightfully crafted click into place with a perfect interlock. Just when I thought I knew what was gonna happen, I was thrown for a loop. Loved it.

There are a few sexually explicit scenes in the novel, but they're not there just because. Those scenes are teaching you something about the characters and their growth as the story moves along. I'm not gonna lie; it was so hard to read the descriptions. I went green a time or two. But, the cold truth is often a bitter pill to swallow.

So much is going on in this book, and the author did such a great job of staying on track, working in the surprises, and showing an excellent visual of Seattle, I was drawn right in and held fast.

From an Editor's Perspective:
Errors like this: "Izzy very rarely wore anything other than her anger opening." (not sure, but I think that's supposed to be "openly") and "...responsible for all the floaters, we're going to look like genius'!" (I believe that should be "geniuses"), along with dropped/misplaced commas, and other errant apostrophes leave me without the ability to give a star for editing.

Rating:
1 Star for world-building
1 Star for surprising me more than once
1 Star for not shying away in descriptions
1 Star for pacing and an amazing plot
-1 Star for editing
Overall: 4 out of 5 Stars. Highly recommended if you love an excellent story with great twists to keep you guessing.

Have you ever read a cult-type book? What did you take away from it?

Well, that's all for today, folks! Until next time, WRITE ON!

Jo