Gargoyle

Gargoyle.

I do not think that I will truly recommend this book to anyone. While it was good, interesting even. it did not inspire me to want to suggest another read it.

I started this book with slight expectations that were most definitely not met, but that changed once I read the teaser on the inside cover. Once I told my husband this, he pointed me in the error of my ways, telling me that I should not blog about books with any expectations or biased. Because that would be wrong to the reader of my blog. I agree that he is right, but I also think that any reviewer of any item will always have a biased opinion.

Andrew Davidson did do a very good job on this book. I really enjoyed the MANY love stories with in the one story. Some noble, some not. But no matter what throughout this whole book, well except for the very beginning really, you can in a sense feel the love.

Now I'm not going to lie, part of the reason I would not suggest this book is because of the foul language. But I also understand why it is there and how the main character came to use the language and his profession. Which is porn. I don't know just how much of the information is true, about the pornography anyways, (Andrew spent seven years on research for this book.) but it's a somewhat interesting glimpse into a porn stars life and the few people around him.

I also think that the main character should have maybe tried to fashion a new penis after his accident but, love is not just about the sexual aspects. It is about more, but I just figured he'd be more comfortable peeing like he used to.

Up Next: Brides of the West by Lori Copeland

Sinner

Sinner.

We all are though aren't we?

i highly suggest reading the preceding stories before reading this one. It will probably help. Or you can do what I am doing: going back and reading "Showdown", "Saint" and "Sinner".

Now this book made me angry or upset, which ever you want. I couldn't stand the intolerance in the "Tolerance Is Beautiful". But if you really think about it, you can tolerate when others don't agree with you, but you can't tolerate when they say you are wrong, and have said it over the course of two thousand years. The keg gets closer and closer to exploding.

It is a good book. Not exactly what I was hoping for, but then again the info on the back did leave me with much of an idea as to what to be expecting. The ending of course was my favorite. But I'm sorry Ted the part where Billy….got back at Black was hard for me to picture.

There was really only one cuss word in the book, which was good. But it was full of hate and anger, which I assume is explained in the preceding stories and is more understood at the end. I really wouldn't have minded if a few things were fixed by those who scrambled them, but the end days come the way they are supposed to.

Upnext: The Gargoyle by Andrew Davison

A Long Stay In A Distant Land

A Long Trip In a Distant Land by Chieh Chieng

I really enjoyed this book and laughed out loud several times. There is definitely humor in it. The part about Deliverance really made me laugh, I tried to tell my husband between spirts of laughter and he laughed too. I really like how the Lum family had such matter of fact short answers.

Even though there was cussing I'll suggest this book. There wasn't a lot of cussing but there was enough to annoy to me. Melvins Aphorisms were great, and I wish they knew what number 11 meant. Chieh did a really good job with the shifting of the chapters, at first i was a little hesitant about it but it was great. A really good job. The last two sentences kind of confused me but not a big deal.

The Lum family interactions were pretty funny though, maybe some not in the laugh or laugh out loud sort of way but in the ironic but a smile on your face, still classifies as funny kind of way. So I guess humorous would be a better word right?

Part of me thinks Louis should have stayed in Hong Kong, but he probably found more meaning and love in his life, right?

Up Next: Sinner by Ted Dekker (aka Tod hahaha)

Chocolate Secrets

Chocolate Secrets

I guess I never really realized I like romance novels. Now this isn't one of those naughty romance novels, in fact far from. Although it does have a few suggestions in it. Truly my only faults with this book are that one: it's to perfect. And two: there were SEVERAL typos. I'm not entirely happy about the typos, but I can live with them.

So when I first opened this book for a read I was a little apprehensive about reading it. Alex, one of the main characters, is a horoscope lover. I am not. I really don't like horoscopes and all that stuff, but if you do than thats your thing.

This book only took me a few hours to read it, so yes it is a bit short, but it is pretty good. There was no cussing, and I would like to think that it ended with no premarital sex. But that's just me.

Zelda did a really good job of throwing the family feud in, I enjoyed it actually. To find out that it was more that it seemed, wasn't too much of a shock. The more than it seemed part wasn't exactly what I had thought it was though. So props Zelda Benjamin, props.

I also really liked how Mike showed up just when he was needed.

Up next: A Long Stay in a Distant land by Chieh Chieng

Refiners Fire

Refiners Fire Was a great book.

It was an interesting read and made me realize how horribly spoiled I am. My heart was hurt when a mother gave one of her children up for adoption, when girls had to become prostitutes to feed their family, and a man wanted to assinate his parents. Actually the last one didn't bother me to much after finding out what they, more so the father, had done in the Romanian prisons.

This book is an eye opener for Christians and non-Christians. People are forced to give false testimony about neighbors, young girls forced to become prostitutes to keep younger siblings alive and fed, people beaten to death with clubs and if they aren't actually dead they're shot in the head. It's an eye opener.

I do suggest this book being read by everyone. It has a good ending. I didn't skip a single page. I was although hoping to find a more heart felt reunion, but i do understand the background of the two men.

Up Next: Chocolate Secrets by Zelda Benjamin

Handling the Undead

By John Ajvide Lindqvist.

The setting is in a town in Sweden. There were a few words, songs and other things that I just skipped because I just couldn't pronounce them! This book is pretty good. I was really sucked in in the first few chapters. And then I ended up skipping a few paragraphs and pages and sentences. This book has about 380+ pages. And surprisingly it took me a few days to finish this book because I lost my interest.

I also really didn't like the cussing. Where there wasn't a curse word on every page, I was highly annoyed when they did show up. I didn't quite understand the ending. Was this a Christian-ish book? Or was Christianity just shoved in for the Grandma to make a simple mistake? I really don't know.

I did really like the insight to baby rabbits thoughts. Definitely cute!

I didn't really like that it wasn't told why the dead came back. But I am pretty sure I did't skip it, if I did definitely clue me in! Also the boiling anger that a father was cooking toward his daughter(who's dead son had come back), angered me. While both had just arguments, the father wasn't really listening.

It seemed like there was a lot of family feuding in the book. Really even the ones who where together weren't.

Up Next: Refiners Fire by Sylvia Bambola.

Those Bones Are Not My Child

I highly recommend not reading this book.

The prologue was good. The first chapter was not. I read as much of the book as I could, I promise. But that was not very much. I even tried to skip a head a few chapters. Nothing.

Then a few more chapters.

Nothing.

This book had no suspense in it. At least none that I found. I new the boy was dead as soon as the first chapter started. So I am so sorry, but I really can't tell you much about this book. Maybe you could read it and tell me to try again or something. But it just didn't work for me.