by Tom Hoefner The Unlikely Adventures of Race & Cookie McCloud: Awkward Introductions is a hilarious fast paced story following the witty young Cookie and her awkward uncle Race. It’s written very well and there’s a lot of action, a lot of funny moment and also a whole bunch of strange part that make you raise your eyebrows, but that’s a good thing. And in between that we have these perfect little inserts where the writer almost pause the story to explaining things to us in such a unique and fun way. There are so many unique characters in this book and each and every one of them is developed in a great way that makes them pop of the page. Their dialog is filled with sarcasm and wit and I found myself smiling on several occasions. What one should be aware of though, is that this is not really a completed story in a way. Awkward Introductions lead straight in to the second book and therefore leaves the reader with a lot of unanswered questions. Had this been a longer book, it would probably have annoyed me a little bit that there wasn’t any closure to the story. But…
by Cassidy Salem Think Murder is a light mystery with a good plot that had some very interesting political turns to it. The case itself felt real and I could easily imagine a thing like this happening in real life, so the true story feeling is definitely a huge plus for me. It was easy to read and the story progressed at an even pace. I did get the feeling this was more like a romance novel than a mystery to me though. Which definitely doesn’t have to be a bad thing at all, and for those who like to read romance with a hint of mystery, this is a very good novel. But personally, I would have wanted some more mystery though, but that is just me. The main character, Adina, is well developed and as a reader I got a good sense of who she was. I think the other characters could have benefited from some more detail, and it was at times hard to picture the other people around Adina. There were also many characters that could have been brought in to the murder investigation as red herrings, but unfortunately they was just there as friends and…
