"The Sweetness of Life" by Paulus Hochgatterer Needs More Action

The Sweetness of Life by Paulus Hochgatterer is about an old man who is killed in a most gruesome way and the only witness is a mute girl.  A detective and psychiatrist are trying to find out who did it and why.  I found the story interesting but very little action dooms this book in my mind.  It is short and moves along pretty good.
(Gerard's review, 3 stars)

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"All The Things You Are" by Declan Hughes - a Mystery

All the Things You Are by Declan Hughes kept me interested all the way.  Imagine coming home from a trip and finding your husband, children and most of your furniture gone!  This is what Clare, the female lead in this novel, comes home to find.  Is her family safe, and who did this and why?  Where did they go?

This is a good book that went back in time to set the scene.  It skips around some, which many people on Amazon had a problem with, but I did not.  I enjoyed this book and liked the ending too!
(Gerard's review, 5+ stars)

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Teaser Tuesdays

Gerard's:
  
If she had known that nothing would ever be the same again from this moment on, maybe she would have chosen her words with less irony.  But change so often comes without warning, like the secret policeman's dawn knock, and we rarely have our faces fixed or our stories straight to greet it.

From page 17 of All the Things You Are by Declan Hughes.

Karen's: 

Undercover work had always come natural to him, but he'd missed something today.  Something that could end up costing both of them everything.

From page 11 of Hidden Agenda by Lisa Harris.

The Game would be every child's new school.  At the age of five, each student would enter the Game free of charge for their first five plays.  A credit system was created so that students would accumulate credits as they moved through their virtual lifetimes.

From page 17 (Loc. 266-68 on Kindle) of The Game (The Game is Life Book 1) by Terry Schott.

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should  Be Reading. Anyone can play along, so I thought  I  would play for fun! Just pick two sentences from the book you are reading.

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"The Game" by Terry Schott is Mind Boggling

The Game by Terry Schott is science fiction that is a fun read and also thought provoking.   I loved the concept of being able to live life in a virtual simulation world and play again and again.   Zach is down to his last play and has a big fan base, but will he be able to finish ranked #1 or will he lose everything? 

It definitely held my interest through most of the book, but then I lost interest towards the end.  I became a little confused at certain things that really didn't make sense to me.  This is just the first book in this series, but I doubt if I will continue reading because I was very disappointed by the ending of this one and did not connect with the characters enough to really care what happens next.
(Karen's review, 3 stars)

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"Gray Mountain" by John Grisham

Gray Mountain by John Grisham is about a lawyer, Samantha, who loses her cushy job in New York City at a big firm and goes to Brady, Virginia to work as an intern at a legal aid clinic with no pay for a year.  Her job in New York mainly involved proofreading documents for business transactions but when she joins the Legal Aid Clinic, she feels like a real lawyer, actually making a difference in people’s lives.  When she meets the Gray brothers, nephews of Mattie, the owner of the legal aid clinic, she finds herself unknowing pulled into a dangerous situation as Donovan Gray, an attorney who likes big cases against coal mining companies, takes a personal interest in her.  Samantha eventually must choose what world she wants to work in.  Will she remain to follow-up on her meaningful cases and continue to become a litigator fighting for the poor people who really need her help or go back to the corporate scene where she is paid the big bucks and given a cushy office? 

I liked this book and learned a lot about strip mining and the plight of coal miners who contract black lung disease.  It paints a pretty dark picture of how hard it is for the miners to get the benefits they deserve.  I found the cases Samantha was involved in during her time at the legal aid clinic interesting because they made her feel more like a social worker than a lawyer.  This novel has very little court scenes because it focuses more on the leg work involved in preparing for trial.  

(Karen's review, 3 stars)

 

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