Book Review: The Girl in the Spider's Web - David Lagercrantz

The Girl in the Spider's Web - David Lagercrantz

She is the girl with the dragon tattoo--a genius hacker and uncompromising misfit.  He is a crusading journalist whose championing of the truth often brings him to the brink of prosecution.

Late one night, Blomkvist receives a phone call from a source claiming to have information vital to the United States.   The source has been in contact with a young female superhacker--a hacker resembling someone Blomkvist knows all too well.  The implications are staggering.  Blomkvist, in desperate need of a scoop for Millennium, turns to Salander for help.  She, as usual, has her own agenda.  The secret they are both chasing is at the center of a tangled web of spies, cybercriminials, and government around the world, someone is prepared to protect it...

4/5 stars (really like it)

David Lagercrantz did a great job picking up the series where Stieg Larsson left off.  I felt that this book had the same feel as the other three.  Salandar is still her bad-ass anti social genius.  Blomkvist is still the compelling journalist who seems to be fumbling through things but really know how he's doing.  Although Salandar and Blomkvist don't actually talk face to face throughout this book their interactions were great!  I also really enjoyed learning more about Salandar's past as well as having someone from her past come back.  I will definitely read more books from this series.

Book Review: Into The Still Blue - Veronica Rossi

Into The Still Blue - Veronica Rossi

The race to the Still Blue has reached a stalemate.  Aria and Perry are determined to find this last safe haven from the Aether storms before Sable and Hess do--and they are just as determined to stay together.

Within the confines of a cave they're using as a makeshift refuge, they struggle to reconcile their people.  Dwellers and Outsiders, who are united only in their hatred of their desperate situation.  Meanwhile, time is running out to rescue Cinder, who was abducted by Hess and Sable for his unique abilities.  Then Roar arrives in a grief-stricken fury, endangering all with his need for revenge.

Out of options, Perry and Aria assemble an unlikely team for an impossible rescue mission.  Cinder isn't just the key to unlocking the Still Blue and their only hope for survival--he's also their friend.  And in a dying world, the bonds between people are what matter most.

In this final book in her earth-shattering Under the Never Sky trilogy, Veronica Rossi raises the stakes to their absolute limit and brings her epic love story to an unforgettable close.

3/5 stars (liked it)

I thought this was a great conclusion to the trilogy.  Things are never easy for the characters in this book and I'm glad for it.  Sable is brutal.  We get to see the Dwellers interact with the Outsiders.  We see characters grow, like Soren, Roar, Perry and Aria.  We also find out who Aria's father is and why he left her when she was a baby.  Great ending, if finished things but still left some things open, which could signify more books.

Book Review: Night Shift - Charaline Harris

Night Shift - Charlaine Harris

At Midnight's local pawnshop, weapons are flying off the shelves--only to be used in sudden and dramatic suicides right at the main crossroads in town.

Who better to figure out why blood is being spilled than the vampire Lemuel, who. while translating mysterious texts, discovers, what makes Midnight the town it is.  There's a reason why witches and werewolves, killers and psychics, have been drawn to this place.

And now must come together to stop the bloodshed in the heart of Midnight.  For if all hell breaks loose--which just might happen--it will put the secretive town on the map, where no one wants it to be...

3/5 stars (liked it)

I thought it was a great conclusion to the trilogy.  In this book we learn about how Lemuel became a vampire, who Olivia used to be and even where Mr. Snuggly was born.  We also meet Fiji's sister Kiki and get to know why she doesn't like her family very much.  Also there's a little love story with Manfred.  We see Lemuel interact with other vampires, although it would have been fun if he had met ones from Sookie Stackhouse books.  Overall I like how the story was wrapped up.

Book Review: Nothing Stays Buried - P.J. Tracy

Nothing Stays Buried - P.J. Tracy

When Minneapolis homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth are called to a crime scene in a heavily wooded city park, everything about the setting is all too familiar.  And when they discover a playing card on the victim's body, their worst fears are confirmed there is a serial killer operating in the city for the first time in years.

Across town, Grace MacBride and her unconventional partners at Monkeewrench Softaware find themselves at both personal and career crossroads.  Weary of the darker side of their computer work for law enforcement, they agree to take on a private missing-persons case in a small farming community in southwestern Minnesota.

As the violence accelerates in Minneapolis, Magozzi and Gino soon realize their killer is planning to complete the deck, and they enlist Monkeewrench to help stop the rampage.  As a baffling tangle of evidence accumulates, the cops and Monkeewrench make the unlikely connections among a farmer's missing daughter, a serial killer, and a decades-old stabbing that brings them face-to-face with pure evil.

3/5 stars (liked it)

Wow, I can't believe this is the eighth book in the series.  These books always have me flipping to the next page to find out what happens.  I love the story betwen Leo and Grace and how much their relationship has changed in all of these books.  Not only that but how much Grace and the rest of the Monkeewrench gang have changed.  Gino is always a fun character.  Overall a great and fast read.

Book Review: Generation One - Pittacus Lore

Generation One - Pittacus Lore

It has been over a year since the invasion of Earth was thwarted in Pittacus Lore's United as One.  But in order to win, our allies known as the Garde unleashed their Loric energy that spread throughout the globe.  Now human teenagers have begun to develop incredible powers of their own, known as Legacies.

To help these incredible and potentially dangerous individuals--and put the world at ease--the Garde have created an academy where they can train this new generation to control their powers and hopefully one day help mankind.  But not everyone thinks that's the best use of their talents.  And the teens may need to use their Legacies sooner than they ever imagined.

3/5 stars (liked it)

I don't like this quite as much as the original series with the Garde.  I wish more of the Garde were in this book.  Although we meet some of the Humans that developed Legacies that were introduced in the last book.  I really like Nigel and Ran.  Each of the humans have a story and we find out more about them.  There's of course a new bad guy.