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Book Number: 2

Number Of Pages: 295

Book Title: Felix Vortan et la Forteresse Rouge (book #2 of 5)

Author: L.-P. Sicard

Summary: Felix and his friends goes on a mission to save people that got kidnapped by Barbemousse and his pirates

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Book Number: 7
Number Of Pages:327
Book Title: The Farm
Author: Joanne Ramos
 
Book Number: 8
Number Of Pages: 357
Book Title: The Escape Room
Author: Megan Goldin

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Book Number: 3

Number Of Pages: 310 (including the recipes)

Book Title: The DIVA Says Cheesecake

Author: Krista Davis

Summary: In a delicious new Domestic Diva Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Krista Davis, entertaining guru Sophie Winston is faced with a midsummer nightmare when a celebration in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, is the appetizer for murder.

Review: This is apparently the fifth book in the Domestic Diva Mystery series. Fortunately the author supplies a Cast of Characters at the beginning which helped me sort out people who popped in seemingly from nowhere with no explanation. I enjoyed the book and don't feel that I ultimately lost anything by not having read the previous books. The chapters are quite short, which makes it easy to pick up and read a bit between other things. If you love cheesecake the book is guaranteed to leave your mouth watering!

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Book Number: 5

Number of Pages:  436

Book Title:  Show No Fear

Author:  Perri O'Shaughnessy

Summary:  This, the 12th book in the Nina Rice series, is actually a prequel that develops her personal life from the time she was in law school.  It introduces her family and several of the major characters from the series.  

Review:  I did enjoy this book, especially since it explained certain little references that were made in earlier books.  However, one of the major plotlines involved the possible paternity of her son and I found this disturbing because it seemed to crowd out the sad romance that had always been an important part of the character's history.

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Book Number: 9
Number Of Pages: 352
Book Title: Final Girls
Author: Riley Sager
 
Book Number: 10
Number Of Pages: 496
Book Title: Dreams Lie Beneath
Author:  Rebecca Ross

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Book Number: 3

Number Of Pages: 169

Book Title: Les Contes Interdits : Raiponce (would translate as: The Forbidden Tales : Rapunzel)

Author: L.P. Sicard

Summary: Jacinthe is a young teenage girl and one day, she and her friends decided to go visite an psychiatric hospital that burned down a few years before. A nightmare is about to beggin for her. 

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Book Number: 11
Number Of Pages: 328
Book Title: The Lovely and the Lost
Author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes
 
Book Number: 12
Number Of Pages: 336
Book Title: Remember Me
Author: Chelsea Bobulski

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Book Number:  6

Number of Pages:  456

Book Title:  Dreams of the Dead

Author:  Perri O'Shaughnessy

Summary:  This is the 13th and final book in the Nina Rice series of legal thrillers.  It reopens and continues the story of the Strong family from the earlier book, Acts of Malice, and justifies a murder by one of her main associates.

Review:  This book nicely wraps up loose ends in the series.  All the regular characters showed up and were set on their paths toward a happy future.  It was, in all ways, a satisfying conclusion.

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Book Number: 13
Number Of Pages: 391
Book Title: An Affair of Poisons
Author: Addie Thorley
 
Book Number: 14
Number Of Pages: 393
Book Title: The Wrong Game
Author: Kandi Steiner
 
Book Number: 15
Number Of Pages: 319
Book Title: Bay of SIghs
Author: Nora Roberts
 
Book Number: 16
Number Of Pages: 315
Book Title: Island of Glass
Author: Nora Roberts

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Book Number: 17
Number Of Pages: 308
Book Title: Vial Things
Author: Leah Clifford
 
Book Number: 18
Number Of Pages: 334
Book Title: Something Grave
Author: Leah Clifford
 
Book Number: 19
Number Of Pages: 355
Book Title: Another Vein
Author: Leah Clifford
 
Book Number: 20
Number Of Pages: 267
Book Title: The Girl from the Well
Author: Rin Chupeco

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Book Number: 7

Number of Pages: 358

Book Title: The New Centurions

Author:  Joseph Wambaugh

 

Book Number: 8

Number of Pages: 316

Book Title: The Blue Knight

Author:  Joseph Wambaugh

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Book Number: 4

Number Of Pages: 286

Book Title: Game On (Tempting 28)

Author:  Janet Evanovich

Summary: Bond enforcement agent Stephanie Plum is on the trail of fugitive Oswald Wednesday, an international computer hacker as brilliant as he is ruthless. A group of small-time hackers known as the Baked Potatoes have compromised Wednesday's supposedly impenetrable network, and now they are being eliminated one by one. Stephanie and her unlikely group of allies must try to keep the last two Potatoes alive until they can apprehend Wednesday.

Review: This is the 28th book in the Stephanie Plum series and I have read most of the others. As usual Stephanie goes from one scrape to another, managing to get several cars blown up or otherwise destroyed in the process. But to me this book just fell flat. I usually find the characters hilarious, but they were almost lifeless in this book -- no tension between them, no laugh-out-loud moments. It seems the author has gotten tired of them all. The only character who remained his usual self was Rex the hamster -- even Morelli's dog Bob lost his zest. And Stephanie's mom takes up knitting instead of drinking to calm her nerves? I have always looked forward to the next book, but I seriously hope that this is the last in the series unless the author can breathe new life into these people. (Just found out there is a 29th book. I hope she put more effort into it than this one.)

 

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Book Number: 21
Number Of Pages: 313
Book Title: The Suffering
Author: Rin Chupeco
 
Book Number: 22
Number Of Pages: 624
Book Title: Gods & Monsters
Author: Shelby Mahurin
 
Book Number: 23
Number Of Pages: 414
Book Title: Timekeeper
Author: Tara Sim

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Book Number: 10

Number Of Pages: 353

Book Title: Suite Scarlett

Author: Maureen Johnson

Summary: On her fifteenth birthday, Scarlett takes over the care of the Empire Suite in her family's hotel. A new guest and a cute actor make for an unusual summer.

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Book Number: 4

Number Of Pages:278

Book Title: Un roman dont vous êtes la victime : Voisinage infernal

 Author: Sylvain Johnson

Summary: After his ex wife hired a killer to murder him (which failed), Christian decided to move in a small town in the country to live a safe and peaceful life. He wasn't planning on ending in an hellish neighbourhood. 

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Book Number: 24
Number Of Pages: 473
Book Title: Chainbreaker
Author: Tara Sim
 
Book Number: 25
Number Of Pages:488
Book Title: Firestarter
Author: Tara Sim
 
Book Number: 26
Number Of Pages: 304
Book Title: All These Bodies
Author: Kendare Blake
 
Book Number: 27
Number Of Pages: 322
Book Title: The Last Legacy
Author: Adrienne Young
 
Book Number: 28
Number Of Pages: 336
Book Title: Within These Wicked Walls
Author: Lauren Blackwood

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Book Number: 5

Number Of Pages: 338

Book Title: Les 5 derniers dragons: La cité de Glace (book #6 of 12)

Author: Danielle Dumais

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Book Number: 6

Number Of Pages: 640

Book Title: Princeps' Fury

Author: Jim Butcher

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Book Number:  9

Number of Pages:  379

Book Title: The Choirboys

Author: Joseph Wambaugh

 

Book Number:  10

Number of Pages:  416

Book Title:  The Black Marble

Author:  Joseph Wambaugh

 

Book Number:  11

Number of Pages: 305

Book Title:  The Glitter Dome

Author:  Joseph Wambaugh

 

Welcome,  DraconicDetective  :D

 

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Book Number: 29

Number Of Pages: 338

Book Title: Anatomy A Love Story

Author:  Dana Schwartz

 

Book Number: 30

Number Of Pages: 423

Book Title: The Snow Child

Author: Eowyn Ivey

 

thank you all for this challenge- i have read more so far this year than I have ever read in my entire life. my previous record was 150 in a year

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Ah ha! I found it! Lol. I kept forgetting to bookmark this page until now. xD 

 

Book Number:  1

Number Of Pages: 463

Book Title: Escaping from Houdini 

Author:  Kerri Maniscalco

Summary: Audrey Rose and Thomas are on the open sea, heading to America with Audrey's Uncle Johnathan, a famed forensic doctor, to solve a murder. But the ship they're on holds more than just a secretive Carnival and a handsome ringmaster as murders began to crop up the very first night. 

Rating: 4/5 I love this book. I love the characters, and found myself on the edge of my seat to see who the murderer was! (This is also book 3 of 4 for this series).

 

Book Number:  2

Number Of Pages: 452

Book Title: Capturing the Devil 

Author:  Kerri Maniscalco

Summary: Audrey Rose and Thomas are in the United States, far from their beloved Europe to solve a series of disturbing murders that have ties to the murder that made them realize their love for one another a few months before. With an interrupted wedding and a bum leg, Audrey Rose must work out her feelings in this last novel from this series. 

Rating: 4/5 If I had to rate these, it would be #1 as the best, followed by this one #4, #3 and finally the second. I love this series, and I'm going to miss Audrey Rose and Thomas dearly. 

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Book Number: 12

Number of Pages:  291

Book Title: The Delta Star

Author:  Joseph Wambaugh

 

Book Number: 13

Number of Pages: 302

Book Title:  The Secrets of Harry Bright

Author:  Joseph Wambaugh

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Book Number: 11

Number Of Pages: 291

Book Title: The Land of Decoration

Author: Grace McCleen

Summary: Judith dreads returning to school on Monday and thinks she has worked a miracle when it snows and school is cancelled.

 

 

Book Number: 12

Number Of Pages: 406

Book Title: On Mystic Lake

Author: Kristin Hannah

Summary: Annie's husband confesses he's in love with a younger woman, on the day their daughter departs for school in London. Devastated, Annie returns to her hometown and is reunited with her first love.

 

 

Book Number: 13

Number Of Pages: 240

Book Title: Laura Ingalls Wilder - A Biography

Author: William Anderson

Summary: An in-depth look at the life of the beloved author of the Little House books.

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