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This was my first audio book for the year. It was a Christmas gift from my mum (who accidently hit audio book when buying it) and I wanted it after my love for the TV show Castle grew and grew into a semi obsessive manner. I soon found it to be the perfect book to accompany me as I drove around to work and what not.
I love the idea of audio books. The radio gets to repetitive at times and so I love that while I have to drive around to the hundreds places because of work, I can also enjoy a great story and enter a new world.
Heat Wave was written just as I expected it to be! Filled with Richard Castle-esque language, jokes and familiarity. Heat was a great comparison to the show's Beckett and Rook made a perfect fictional version of the fictional Castle. The two characters were full of sexual tension, quip jokes and fast paced action!
The mysterious death of business tycoon soon leads to serious of events that seem to intertwine, all during an intense heatwave that it sweeping New York. Nikki Heat is soon on the case, doing what she does best, whilst dealing with famous, award winning journalist Jameson Rook.
The reason it only got a 4 out of 5 was that I found it took a chapter or two before I was sucked into the story well and truly. After that I found myself not wanting to leave my car just so I can hear more.
I absolutely loved this book! and the narration by Johnny Heller was brilliant. His pace, expressions and voices made the book simply come to life. I really hope he narrates the rest of Castle's books as this is the format I plan to enjoy them in the future!!!
I love the idea of audio books. The radio gets to repetitive at times and so I love that while I have to drive around to the hundreds places because of work, I can also enjoy a great story and enter a new world.
Heat Wave was written just as I expected it to be! Filled with Richard Castle-esque language, jokes and familiarity. Heat was a great comparison to the show's Beckett and Rook made a perfect fictional version of the fictional Castle. The two characters were full of sexual tension, quip jokes and fast paced action!
The mysterious death of business tycoon soon leads to serious of events that seem to intertwine, all during an intense heatwave that it sweeping New York. Nikki Heat is soon on the case, doing what she does best, whilst dealing with famous, award winning journalist Jameson Rook.
The reason it only got a 4 out of 5 was that I found it took a chapter or two before I was sucked into the story well and truly. After that I found myself not wanting to leave my car just so I can hear more.
I absolutely loved this book! and the narration by Johnny Heller was brilliant. His pace, expressions and voices made the book simply come to life. I really hope he narrates the rest of Castle's books as this is the format I plan to enjoy them in the future!!!
Book two is usually a downer and then it gets better with book three but this wasn't the case in the Corinna Chapman series. It was quick paced, quirky and kept you on your toes, while you swooned for Daniel and loved Jason.
This book is set not long after the first one, and once again based around Corinna, her bakery and her apartment. with the local fine chocolate shop being sabotaged, a crazy God-Man and some weird thugs who keep causing ciaos in the building, Corinna and Daniel have their hands full.
I love the way it is written, with a lot of pattern to the day activities in her life (she does seem to nap a lot though hehe). Not everything is solved all at once and a big gasping finish and there is a lot of development with characters.
I give this book a 4 out of 5 because I loved it to bits (especially the recipes in the back of the book) but at times the day to day routine got a bit too repetitive (not too much that I hated the book though just enough to make me notice). A great crime novel, and a GREAT read. Especially if you want to travel to Melbourne without paying for the plane ticket hehe
Kerry Greenwood has a knack for writing quirky characters, and whilst there are many in this series I never once found myself lost or confused as to who was who. With the loving return of many of my favourites from book one, and a great addition to the group in this book, i know book three is going to be awesome and I cannot wait to get stuck into it.
This book is set not long after the first one, and once again based around Corinna, her bakery and her apartment. with the local fine chocolate shop being sabotaged, a crazy God-Man and some weird thugs who keep causing ciaos in the building, Corinna and Daniel have their hands full.
I love the way it is written, with a lot of pattern to the day activities in her life (she does seem to nap a lot though hehe). Not everything is solved all at once and a big gasping finish and there is a lot of development with characters.
I give this book a 4 out of 5 because I loved it to bits (especially the recipes in the back of the book) but at times the day to day routine got a bit too repetitive (not too much that I hated the book though just enough to make me notice). A great crime novel, and a GREAT read. Especially if you want to travel to Melbourne without paying for the plane ticket hehe
Kerry Greenwood has a knack for writing quirky characters, and whilst there are many in this series I never once found myself lost or confused as to who was who. With the loving return of many of my favourites from book one, and a great addition to the group in this book, i know book three is going to be awesome and I cannot wait to get stuck into it.
So I firstly must start by saying that I was so worried reading this! Lynsay Sands is one of my favourite authors and I had read a review of this book that wasn't all that flattering. But I decided to try for myself and found myself more than in love with this story.
Christiana, a name that I just LOVED, is someone who has been through a lot. Her first year of marriage was one filled with emotional abuse. The relief she feels when she finds her husband dead is almost euphoric, only to find him alive a well a her hours later and action so odd and strange.
Richard has had to deal with his miserable twin brother all his life, and their relationship has never been the same since George tried to have Richard killed. Richard is kind and caring and wants to fix all that his brother has done, feeling it is his responsibility to help others.
Together the two main characters grow and learn so much. They learn about their own inner strength, abilities and passions whilst trying to solve who was it that killed George.
The inclusion of Christiana's sisters and Richards two friends was a great welcome to the story! With their own little side stories it opened a lot of questions for the up coming sequels whilst helping the story for Richard and Christiana progress nicely.
My favourite thing about the entire book was the inclusion was romance novels. There is one scene where Christiana's sister predicts she will have a happy ending because it happens in all the Romance novels she reads. Christiana was quick to dismiss her, telling her it was only a work of fiction. I found I related to that in a sense. I read a lot of romance, and I think a small (okay okay a large) part of me dreams of my price, on a beautiful white horse, rides up to me, sweeps me off my feet and we fall madly deeply in love. (it can happen right? Well except for my fear of horse riding).
I found this story to flow quite well and I loved how each character had their own defined traits yet they worked well as a group. I was also so happy to find out that the case of 'mistaken' or stolen identity didn't drag on into some long winded affair where I am left going HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW!
5 out of 5 for Lynsay Sands as she once again wrote an amazing stories. This is the first in a series that I am now CRAVING the second book for.
Christiana, a name that I just LOVED, is someone who has been through a lot. Her first year of marriage was one filled with emotional abuse. The relief she feels when she finds her husband dead is almost euphoric, only to find him alive a well a her hours later and action so odd and strange.
Richard has had to deal with his miserable twin brother all his life, and their relationship has never been the same since George tried to have Richard killed. Richard is kind and caring and wants to fix all that his brother has done, feeling it is his responsibility to help others.
Together the two main characters grow and learn so much. They learn about their own inner strength, abilities and passions whilst trying to solve who was it that killed George.
The inclusion of Christiana's sisters and Richards two friends was a great welcome to the story! With their own little side stories it opened a lot of questions for the up coming sequels whilst helping the story for Richard and Christiana progress nicely.
My favourite thing about the entire book was the inclusion was romance novels. There is one scene where Christiana's sister predicts she will have a happy ending because it happens in all the Romance novels she reads. Christiana was quick to dismiss her, telling her it was only a work of fiction. I found I related to that in a sense. I read a lot of romance, and I think a small (okay okay a large) part of me dreams of my price, on a beautiful white horse, rides up to me, sweeps me off my feet and we fall madly deeply in love. (it can happen right? Well except for my fear of horse riding).
I found this story to flow quite well and I loved how each character had their own defined traits yet they worked well as a group. I was also so happy to find out that the case of 'mistaken' or stolen identity didn't drag on into some long winded affair where I am left going HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW!
5 out of 5 for Lynsay Sands as she once again wrote an amazing stories. This is the first in a series that I am now CRAVING the second book for.
