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Fractured Why do I keep reading Karin Slaughter? So many of her books revolve around violence towards women or children and in the case of this book the first chapter was like living one of my worst nightmares yet I kept reading. I will tell you why I keep reading Karin Slaughter, even though the situations in a lot of her books make me sick to my stomach, she knows how to write a really interesting story that pulls the reader in. The reader is grabbed and the story never lets go no matter how horrible the situations.  This book opens with a mother coming home to an open front door. She walks into her home which is supposed to be a safe haven to find her teenage daughter raped and murdered with a man standing over her covered in blood holding a knife. Reading this I could actually feel my stomach tighten and the tears sting my eyes as the fear of anything happening to my daughter over came me. I thought about not reading this book just because of that. Then the mother runs a

Happy Wednesday It has been a slow reading week for me and it has caused a stall in my blog. I will be honest and say that I haven't really been in the reading mood. I downed a bunch of graphic novels all at once and I have some amazing ones lined up to read and review Thanks to DC Comics and Edelweiss so look for those in the future. Shhhh, it's a secret as to which ones I have lined up. Have I sufficiently built suspense yet?  I am one of those people who has several books going at a time so I figured sine I have taken a bit of a hiatus this week that I would at least share what is on my bedside table so to speak. Work has been crazy busy and stressful this week so I haven't been listening to my audio book that often. I have been rocking out with some metal and hard rock to get me all pumped up to take on my daily tasks at work and power through all of the extra stuff thrown at me. Needless to say it is taking longer to get through this book that it usual

Missing You I have to say I have found another author I am really enjoying. This is the third book I have read by Harlan Coben and I loved it. This and Six Years were really impressive and I am so glad I tried to win these on Goodreads. Had I not seen them listed as a giveaway and read the description I don;t think I would have ever read these. I have a lot to catch up when it comes to Coben's books. I thing I will give his Myron Bolitar series.  This book is about a woman who has lost the love of her life and now 18 years later she finds him on a dating site. Trying to find a way to rekindle this friendship at least some strange things begin to happen. Several woman have gone missing and their linked to the profile of Kat's ex boyfriend's profile. I wasn't sure I was going to like this book at first. The beginning of this book was very much a romance story or the plot to a Chick Flick. Not that there is anything wrong with Chick Flicks there are a few I enj

Forever Evil I will be honest, I didn't know anything about this book. I entered a giveaway to win it because I love comics but other than that I really didn't plan on reading this had I not won it. Had I known it was written by Geoff Johns I would have given this a look sooner. The only reason I wanted to read this was (**Spoiler Alert for Nightwing comics**) to see how Nightwing is unmasked and exposed his secret identity to the world. (Spoiler over) Looking at the cover of this you would think this is all the villains against all the super heroes. This would be the wrong impression. The Crime Syndicate has come to our Earth to take over the planet because theirs has been destroyed. The Justice league is said to be dead and the only resistance to the Crime Syndicate and the villains they have recruited are Lex Luthor and the few villains he has talked into following him. This was a really great concept, we get to see a different side to Lex that I'm not sure he e

Dark City I have probably said this before but Scott Snyder is a genius. Like Geoff Johns Snyder has this way of writing an amazing story that is complex and thrilling over and over again. I have loved every volume in the Batman series since Scott Snyder took the reigns and I don't ever want to see him stop. I will admit that I had a hard time getting into the first part of Zero year because I just didn't care for some of the changes to Batman's origin story. The writing was great and there were a lot of things I did like but I was worried that this book would be a struggle to get through. I couldn't put this book down and it is a long graphic novel. This story took off from the very beginning and I loved every page. Not only was the story amazing but I have to give credit to Greg Capullio, his artwork is just perfect for the story. The detail on every page was very clear and helped pull me into this destroyed Gotham city. Batman is also trapped in the city wit

Triptich So I did things a little backwards. The first book I read by Karin Slaughter was Fractured which is the 5th book in the Will Trent series. I am finally getting around to catching up to where I am now so I was really excited to read this book. Lets just say I wasn't real impressed.  The book starts out following another detective named Michael so right away I was a little thrown. As with a lot of Karin Slaughter's book it involves violent crime against young women. Will inserts himself into the case before the chief can ask for outside help. Here is where I get a little lost. I might have missed something, but I am pretty sure the reason that Will shows up to make himself part of the case is never explained. I kept waiting but I don't remember getting it.  The next little hiccup that bugged me about this book is the switch between story points of view. I normally like seeing the villian's side of the story to see what exactly they are thinking, bu

Party Party My son is a big fan of the show Teen Titans Go! and when I saw this was available on Edelweiss I had to request it. I figured this would be a great father son read before bed. He loved it and this book is exactly what I expected. Just like the show it was goofy, gross, funny, and stupid. This is a collection of individual stories so there isn't one underlying story to the whole book. It made it very easy to read one issue a night with my son and not get lost or have to explain where we were or what was going on. He is 5 and really smart but he is at the age where he asks questions just to ask questions. The stories are funny and exactly what a 5 year old would enjoy. If had I read this for myself the rating would have been lower, my son really liked it and I am rating it as such. I liked a few of the stories in this book. There is one where Robin sets up and obstacle course to showcase his skills because he is the only one on the team that doesn't ha

The Bone Magician Before I read this book I judged a book by its cover. I decided to give The Black Book of Secrets a try. I liked that one a lot and was excited to see it was part of a series. I was a little less excited when I found out the next book doesn't have the same characters but involves the city which book one took place. I liked the description of this book so figured I would keep going. I was a little let down. This book is about Pin who is a young man out on his own. His mother is dead and his father is missing because he is suspected of murder.Pin takes a job as body watcher with the local undertaker. Body watcher is a job that is exactly like it sounds. Pin has to watch the bodies for three days to make sure they are good and dead before they are buried because they have to often thought someone was dead and buried them only to find they were in  fact alive. Now this is set in times before modern medicine had advanced. Their idea of seeing if someone was

Six Years This is another book I tried to win in a giveaway and didn't. I liked the summary and decided it was time to give it a try. Thank you Goodreads for your book banners and giveaways. I was really interested in the idea behind this book. Jake Fisher has found the love of his life and thinks that nothing could make life any better when she tells him out of the blue that it's over and she is marrying someone else. Six years later Jake gets an alumni email from the university he teaches at saying that the love of his life's husband has died. He could never let her go and decides to try and rekindle the relationship. When he arrives at the funeral he sees that the guy has a different wife and life. When he starts asking questions all the people he knew in that relationship have no idea who he is. The further I got into this book the more interested I got. Every time Jake hit a dead end I wanted to know what was going to come next. I may have listened to this boo