The Red Pyramid

Author: Rick Riordan

Genre: Fantasy, adventure

Series: The Kane Chronicles

Number in series: 1^st

My rating on a 1-10 scale: 8

Type: Fiction

Number of pages: 516

Time period: Present

My overall opinion: This is the first Rick Riordan that I haven’t enjoyed as much! I like the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series better. This one involved Egyptian gods and simply didn’t interest me as much. Also, I was bothered by semi-frequent use of God’s name as a swear word…in PJO, it’s always “gods” which doesn’t bother me as much. Here, it was a frequent annoyance. I’ll probably read the next book, but I’m not enjoying this series as much.

Artemis Fowl: the Lost Colony

Author: Eoin Colfer

Genre: Fantasy, adventure

Series: Artemis Fowl

Number in series: 5^th

My rating on a 1-10 scale: 8.5

Type: Fiction

Number of pages: 385

Time period: Fantasy, present

My overall opinion: Interesting and fairly enjoyable. Not amazing, but good.

A Killer Among Us

Author: Lynette Eason

Genre: Life

Series: Women of Justice

Number in series: 3^rd

My rating on a 1-10 scale: 9

Type: Fiction

Number of pages: 345

Time period: Present

My overall opinion: This was my favorite book from this series! It was exciting, sweet, full of action…all around awesome. And not quite as much gory detail (to be blunt) as some of the books had. My favorite of the three…I highly recommend it!

One of my To-Read Lists

Amazon is recommending books to me again...well, it always is. And naturally, I'm listening -- who wouldn't want to hear book recommendations? I make a point to always listen. So, here you are...the covers (because typing all the words takes too long) of a very few of the books I want to read someday.

Note -- if this list was in any order, which it's not, that book on the right would be at the top. And so would the book on the right, though not quite as high. :) And...so would that book below. All high on my to-read list.

 

Which of these have you read, and which are on your to-read list? I want to know! Feel free to leave recommendations for me too. :)

A Time to Embrace

Author: Karen Kingsbury

Genre: Life, family

Series: Women of Faith

Number in series: 2^nd

My rating on a 1-10 scale: 8.5

Type: Fiction

Number of pages: 315

Time period: Present

My overall opinion: I didn’t love it, but it was very good (like everything I’ve read by KK has been). A moving story about the impact of bad decisions. Good book.

Don’t Look Back

 

Author: Lynette Eason

Genre: Suspense

Series: Women of Justice

Number in series: 2^nd

 

My rating on a 1-10 scale: 8.5

Type: Fiction

Number of pages: 327

Time period: Present

My overall opinion: I enjoyed this book quite a bit, just like everything else I’ve read by Lynette Eason! She’s a wonderful author, always adding the perfect amount of romance to her suspense. This book was no exception. Grippingly exciting and full of action…what more could I want? An excellent read. Do note…the description was quite vivid, and may be more than you prefer. I personally would have liked a little less, but I still enjoyed the book.

Movie: One Night with the King

 My rating on a 1-10 scale: 9

Genre: Life

Primary actors: Tiffany Dupont, Omar Shariff, Luke Gross

Length: Two hours

Based on: It’s not based on anything except the Biblical account of Esther…but I believe that the director, Tommy Tenney, later wrote a book based on the movie titled Hadassah: One Night with the King. 

Time period: Bible times

Year it came out: 2006 (and the book came out in ’05…meaning either could have been based on the other?)

My overall opinion: I really enjoyed this interesting movie! While I don’t think it was entirely accurate the Biblical story (which it should have been), it was a good re-telling/dramatization and I enjoyed it. I especially became excited when I discovered two doubles…one being John Rhys-Davies (aka Gimli in Lord of the Rings) as Mordechai, and the other John Noble (aka Denethor in LOTR) as a wicked Prince. The Denethor guy freaked me out for a while…he was SO familiar, and I was quite sure it was LOTR, but I couldn’t place it…IMDB is an awesome help. :)

So. Overall? Good movie. Good story. Worth watching. Oh, and it’s clean. I would whole-heartedly recommend it! 

Texas Angel

Author: Judith Pella

Genre: Life

My rating on a 1-10 scale: 8

Type: Fiction

Number of pages: 350

Time period: 1800’s

My overall opinion: It was interesting, but I didn’t love it. I was never riveted to it. One thing that I noticed that was a little strange…mine was a hard cover copy, and had a book blurb on the dust flaps inside the cover – strangely, on these flaps, the heroine’s name was entered as Angela, when it wasn’t Angela: it was Elise. That was a little weird. 

Artemis Fowl: the Opal Deception

 

Author: Eoin Colfer

Genre: Fantasy, adventure

Series: Artemis Fowl

Number in series: 4^th

 

My rating on a 1-10 scale: 8

Type: Fiction

Number of pages: 342 

Time period: Present

My overall opinion: Good enough. Didn’t enjoy it as much as some of the others.