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The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group by Catherine Jinks Review
April 5, 2011 | 
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Tobias Richard Vandeveld wakes up in a hospital with no memory of being found naked in the dingo pit at the zoo. The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group by Catherine Jinks is about Toby who thinks that he must have some kind of disorder to cause his memory loss and he refuses to believe the mysterious Reuben that he is a werewolf.
Toby is torn by the information he is given, on the one hand he realizes that not everything is okay with himself but on the other he just wants to be a normal teenager and allows his friends to convince him that Reuben is just messing with him. Toby agrees to attend a meeting with Reuben where others like him will be but it isn’t until Toby is kidnapped that he really starts to believe that not everything is as it appears.
The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group is a new take on the werewolf mythology. The novel is geared more towards a young YA as Toby is just entering his teens and there is no female love interest in the story. That being said, it was an interesting read that takes place in Australia. Because of the situation that Toby finds himself in, he is forced to grow up quickly and really start to think about the person he wants to become. Reading about Toby’s change from a thoughtless teen into a serious youth who goes out of his way to save a stranger was entertaining and unique. The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group has a bunch of characters from The Reformed Vampire Support Group so fans of the first book should enjoy the appearance of the characters.
You can read an excerpt here.
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Title: The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group
Author: Catherine Jinks
Format: Hardbound
Page Nos.: 416
ISBN: 978-0152066154
Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Books
Release Date: April 2011
Available for purchase: Amazon
Reviewer: Jessica
**I received a copy of this book from NetGalley but was not required to provide a review and it did not impact my review in any way.
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Tags: Adventure, Contemporary, Fantasy, Mystery, One, Young Adult | 
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Altar of Bones by Philip Carter Review
As Dom listens to his father’s deathbed confession, he soon finds out that he knows nothing about his father. In Altar of Bones by Philip Carter, Michael O’Malley tells his son that he needs to find Katya Orlova and get a film from her, or he and his brother will be killed. Dom tries to contact his brother Ry, but gets the answering machine. Dom is scared for his life and for his brother’s life. He’s not sure what the film is, or even where he could find it and he knows that his brother has the knowledge to help him out.
At the time of the confession, a homeless woman, Rosie, is murdered in the park. She knew they were coming for her and she’d been waiting. She hopes that her granddaughter, Zoe Dimtroff, can get the message she really needs.
The Altar of Bones is a riveting story taking the reader back decades as you try to find out what the Altar is, and what it does. So many people are trying to find it, and many are willing to kill for it. Even Zoe’s own mother is trying to get her hands on it. As Zoe runs through Paris, she finds herself caught up with Ry O’Malley. The two work together to find the Altar of Bones to see if they can stop all those trying to get it for the wrong reasons. Can they find it in time and save it from those who want to kill them?
I find that Philip Carter does an amazing job of drawing you into the story in just the first chapter and continues to keep you glued to the book. I really enjoyed the story and how far back in time he takes you, the reader, in time. There is a lot of swearing and the use of the F* word and some graphic sex scenes. I would recommend this to readers, as long as they aren’t bothered by the swearing and sex. It really is a good story behind all of that.
You can read an excerpt here.
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Title: Altar of Bones
Author: Philip Carter
Format: Hardbound
Page Nos.: 464
ISBN: 978-1-4391-9908-4
Publisher: Gallery
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Available for purchase: Amazon
Reviewer: Jocee
**I received a copy of this book from the publisher but was not required to provide a review and it did not impact my review in any way
The Thieves of Darkness by Richard Doetsch Review
Michael St. Pierre thought he had left his thieving days behind him, his security business is going well and he has finally found a woman, KC, who can keep up with him. In The Thieves of Darkness by Richard Doetsch, Michael is called upon to commit a crime that even he has not undertaken before, breaking into a prison to rescue his friend Simon. He is shocked when he discovers his new girlfriend, KC, in the cell next to Simon and scheduled to be killed the following morning. Thinking they had escaped the prison free and clear the group travels to Istanbul to refuel their jet before returning to the United States. But the escape from the prison is just the beginning of this globe-trotting adventure that will take the group from hidden sites in Istanbul to the mountains of the Himalayas.
KC has done what she has needed to in order to provide a stable home for her younger sister after her parents are killed when KC was just a teenager. KC finally starts think she is able to leave her thieving days behind her when her sister is captured and KC finds herself in a race against time to save her sister by solving a centuries old mystery by figuring out where an ancient treasure has been hidden. But as the clues start to be revealed KC and Michael must decide if they are ready to unleash this possibly evil treasure out into the world and whether their relationship can stand this intense test (not to mention the lies they told each other about their pasts).
The Thieves of Darkness is the first adventure thriller I have read in years and now, based on the author’s descriptions, I want visit Istanbul to see the compound that KC and Michael broke into. The novel started off quickly and never lost momentum, think Indiana Jones meets The Italian Job. Doetsch’s descriptions of the areas they visit are vivid but not boring or overpowering to the main plot line. The action is consistent and the arguing between KC and Michael is fast-paced and entertaining with a great cast of secondary characters (for me it is all about the secondary characters, they can make or break a story). I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and will be picking up the other books in the series to read.
You can hear an excerpt here.
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Title: The Thieves of Darkness
Author: Richard Doetsch
Format: Paperback, eBook
Page Nos.: 480
ISBN: 1416598952
Publisher: Atria
Release Date: August 2010
Available for purchase: Amazon.com
Reviewer: Jessica
**I received a copy of this book from the publisher but was not required to provide a review and it did not impact my review in any way.
Treasure of Khan By Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler Read by Scott Brick Review
Once again Dirk Pitt and his faithful sidekick Al Giordino are back in this action adventure thriller, Treasure of Khan, by Clive and Dirk Cussler. As always with a Cussler book it starts of with somewhat of a history lesson. Whether fact or fiction I’m not sure but it sounds good as I am not a history buff. The book starts out back in the time of Genghis Khan and his brother Kublai Khan. The Mongolian army is trying to invade Japan and once again is thwarted by mother nature. One of the intrepid warriors is on a ship that is blown way off course and is ravaged by a typhoon. They are blown so far off course that they end up in Hawaii. There they stay for many years until a native shows them that they still have the ship they arrived on. They arrive home in time to see Kublai Khan before he dies. The emperor is then buried and his treasure with him and on to the modern day the book goes. Dirk is nearly drowned by a monster wave on Russia’s Lake Baikal as he and his Numa crew are doing a survey on the lake. The wave is caused by an underwater earthquake which a crew of another vessel sets off as they are trying to disrupt the worlds flow of oil. Dirk and Al then set off on a quest to find out how and who caused this wave and why. Their travels take them through parts of Russia, and then on to Mongolia where they find the man in charge of the people that set off the quake. They are then chased off the property by the man’s Mongolian guards only to be stranded in the Gobi desert without food and water. Once again they escape death only to gather more clues on their journey back to the estate of the oil tycoon. All this time they are trying to rescue some oil consultants that have been kidnapped by the same oil tycoon. Do they get out this time or is this the end of the duo? You’ll have to read or listen to the book to find out.
Scott Brick is the reader of this audio book. He has many credits to his name. He once again has done a wonderful job of reading this book. He is subtle with his accents and inflections to where you almost don’t even realize he is doing it. He just has an entertaining voice and way of reading the book that just gets you lost in the adventure, and you nearly forget that you are being read a book. I have listened to other books that Mr. Brick has read, and they have all been the same way. I enjoy listening to his performances, and am excited when I listen to a new audio book read by Mr. Brick.
I enjoyed Treasure of Khan along with many others Dirk Pitt adventure series, as Treasure of Khan is the 19th book in the series. They are among my favorite books to read or listen to in this case. The author has a fantastic way of getting and keeping you absorbed in the book. The little history lesson at the first isn’t my favorite, but then I have never been a fan a history. However whether the first of the book is fact or fiction it gives you a little background on the setting of the book with also letting you know what Dirk and his crew are going to be looking for, or sometimes happen to stumble onto. There is also always a villain that has to be battled at some point which provides the adventure, and the wondering if Dirk and Al are going to make it out yet again provides the suspense. The book switches story lines right at the right time and makes you want to just keep putting in the next cd and listen some more. The only thing that I didn’t like doesn’t have anything to do with the author or reader of the book, but the condition of the cd’s. At the first exciting part in the book the cd started to skip and made it very hard to tell what was going on, but that is an audio book from the library for you. Overall it was a clean book both with language and romance. The language just refers to how the characters curse without actually using the swear word, and the romance is just merely hinted at and non descriptive at all. I would highly recommend this book to just about anyone that is capable of reading a book on this level. I give it five stars and a big thumbs up all around. Now I just hope that Dirk Pitt adventures continue for myself and all other fans to enjoy.
Dirk Pitt Adventures Novel:
Normally I post a list of the books in order but there are 21 Dirk Pitt novels so far so I am not going to, if you are interested in the reading order check out the authors website.
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Title: Treasure of Khan
Author: Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler
Read By: Scott Brick
Format: Audio (unabridged)
Length.: 18 hours
ISBN: 978-0143058953
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Release Date: November 2006
Available for purchase: Amazon, Audible.com
Reviewer: Zorn
Posted in Audio Book, Mystery, Review | Tags: Adventure, Audio Book, Contemporary, Mystery | No Comments »
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