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Adrenaline I have to thank Goodreads for this book. This was one of their side advertisement books and a giveaway. I read the little blurb about the book and entered the giveaway. I didn't win it, but I liked the book summary so much I knew I wanted to read this book at some point. Sure it took a few years before I finally got around to reading it, but I'm glad I did. I was looking around at the library and saw this in the audio section so I picked it up with a few other books I have had on my to-read list for awhile.  I want to mention this before I get in any further into my review. This is a book that I was glad I read the reviews first. On Good reads it seemed like there were a lot of mixed reviews. The book overall has just under 4 stars and a lot of the reviews seemed to be 2 star reviews. When I look at the reviews I sadly admit that I focus on the negative ones. I want to know why people hated the book so much so I know od have a feel for what I might encount

Second City I am fully caught up on Nightwing now and still in the dark for what I wanted to know. So quick explanation, I have heard of a big event in the Nightwing story well before I read it. I have a cousin who is a huge comic book nerd like myself but he keeps up on all the stories. He spoiled it for me and I'm ok with it, we always have something to talk about a family gatherings and I don't feel so out of the loop. Anyway, I have been waiting to read how all of this stuff happens and since I have already read Vol 5 I figured it had to be in this book. I was wrong, the one thing I hate about DC's stories is that they happen in a ton of different series and books and you don't always know which ones. I did a search and found that this big event happens in Forever Evil Vol 1 in case anyone is wanting to find out what I am cryptically talking about here. Guess I will be checking my library for that book and the review should be up here shortly.  Now for th

TMNT/Ghostbusters I love the Netgalley emails that have all the new Graphic Novels available. Most of the time they are Read Now titles. I don't always like the titles in those emails, but when I saw the Ninja Turtles and Ghostbusters in one book I couldn't download this fast enough.  So there is a lot going on in this book for such a short story. We begin way way back in time with a few immortals fighting it out. There is some magic and Chi-you is sucked into a dimensional limbo. Flash forward to the present deep in the sewers. The Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles are working on e teleportation device like in Star Trek. A fly distracts the scientist helping them and boom, they are transported across dimensions to the New York of the Ghostbusters. This event frees Chi-you and allows him to gain his powers.  What follows is some cool action, awesome Ghostbusting and some cheesy one liners. I really enjoyed it. Both sets of characters have this goofy overall personalit

Death of the Family Death of the Family is one of my favorite Batman stories I have ever read. I couldn't wait to get to this book in my attempt to catch up on Nightwing. I loved seeing this side of the story and it was amazing. In some of the other books like the Teen Titans Death of the Family there really isn't much with the Joker. The big tie in is the scene in the cave that is in all of these books. In Nightwing he goes up against the clown prince of crime himself with some deeply personal costs. Just as Dick Greyson gets the carnival up and Haley's Circus settled in Gotham the Joker returns. Killing one of Dick's friends who dresses as a clown is only the beginning. I don't want to give away any part of this story because it was amazingly written. The art work was also really good. The Joker is so detailed in this book. His face is stretched so tight you can see the muscles where the skin doesn't meet. In case you didn't know, earlier in the J

Mr Mercedes I am embarrassed to say this but I started to read this back when it was released in June of last year. King is one of the few authors I have to buy in Hardback for my collection and these days I just don't have time to read hardbacks or Kindle books. If it's not audio it is going to take me awhile to get through it. Well I finally finished this book and I loved it!!! King is known for his horror novels but he has written some amazing general fiction like Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, or Rose Madder. I hadn't read a mystery novel by him yet and I was curious if he could pull it off. I was impressed and when I heard this is part 1 of a trilogy I became really excited.  So here is a little overview for those that might not have heard about this book. Mr Mercedes is a man who one day decided he is going to drive a stolen car through a crowd of people waiting in line for a job fair. He gets away with the atrocity and remains quite for som

Mister B. Gone I am always looking for a good Horror novel so i check out my library's online section from time to time to see if there is anything new. I came across this book and though it would be worth a read. As cheesy and gory as they are I love all of the Hellraiser Movies and I enjoyed Barker's Hellbound Heart which is the book those movies are based off. I grabbed the audio book and was really excited to see it is read by Doug Bradley. Pinhead himself from the Hellraiser movies. I really liked his voice reading this and I am going to look to see if he reads any other audio books.  Well, here is where the excitement ended. I began reading the book knowing very little about the story so I didn't really have any preconceived ideas going into this. The first few chapters are nothing but the Demon who lives in the pages of the book begging, coaxing, and ordering the reader to stop reading right now and burn this book. It got old really fast. When the

The Black Book of Secrets I saw this book on Goodreads and it sounded pretty good. It sat in my to-read list for awhile until I saw it available in audio at my library. I gave it a try and liked it. I didn't know what to think at first because it started off pretty bleak. Our Main character Ludlow Fitch is with his parents and they are selling his teeth. Yes, you read it correctly, Ludlow's Parents took him to a man who is going to rip out his teeth and buy them from his parents. As a parent I couldn't believe anyone would do something like this to their children. Well, Ludlow escapes and runs away only to meet Joe Zabbidou. Zabbidou is a Secret Pawn Broker.   What's a Secret Pawn Broker? Well his shop is pretty well known by everyone in the town and the kids love to visit his shop to see his pet frog so what makes him Secret? Zabbidou buys the secrets of all the towns people to protect till the end of time and allow these people to feel relief from the burde

Beyond Reach Long ago I entered a giveaway for Karin Slaughter's book Fallen. It was really late in the Will Trent series. There were some things spoiled but it made me very interested in filling in the gaps. I have slowly made my way through the Grant County series and this is the last book in it. What a book this was. There is something about Karin Slaughter's writing that says a lot about her skill and technique. She is the only writer who can write something that tugs at my heart, makes me sick, or pisses me off and I still enjoy the book. I'm not going to get into details or get all political but there are a few things in this book that I don't agree with. The way this scene played out really pissed me off, but I could't stop reading this book. I know, this is cryptic and makes very little sens but I felt I needed to try to explain how great a writer she really is. This book has everything, corrupt police, family issues, and meth dealing redneck Nazi

Blue Lily, Lily Blue This is not usually the kind of series I would read but YA has kind of grown on me. My wife is a big fan of Maggie Stiefvater's and we saw her at a book signing a year or two ago. For me, meeting an author can really make or break a book. If the author is flat and lifeless I might not continue to read their books or not even try their work. Maggie was a lot of fun to meet in person and I became interested in reading her work. I have enjoyed the Raven Cycle series but this book wasn't my favorite. I have very mixed feelings on this book which has caused me to struggle a bit about a review. I guess I will start with what I didn't really care for in this book. I felt like I was missing something through most of this book. I wasn't at all but I guess it seemed like there was a lot going on when there wasn't. Also, these little events would happen without any build, reason, or explanation which was  frustrating. I ended up with more questi

The Sequel R. L. Stine was one of the only authors I would read as a kid. I wasn't big into reading and hated being told I had to read something for school. However, I really enjoyed the series Goosebumps, and the Box Car Children. R. L. Stine's Goosebumps series was a lot of fun to read and just scary enough to be entertaining but not to scary to keep me up at night with nightmares. I loved those books. I was asked by the publisher to give this a read and review it through Net Gallley. I have to admit I was really excited to not only be asked to read and review this but that it was a throwback to my childhood. This book is written for adults I guess it reads very well and being a Bibliomystery it's short.  I'm going to be honest and when I started reading this I was kind of disappointed. This book is about an author who hit it big with his first novel and is now being pressured into writing a sequel he doesn't want to write. While contemplating his n