Vesper-Jeff Sampson

Vesper (Deviants, #1)
byJeff Sampson (Goodreads Author)

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Sep 27, 11 · edit

bookshelves: young-adult, paranormal-romance

The book began a little slow in the beginning and then picked up the pace, however it was a little hard to understand at times.

A girl who has the same first name of another girl she once went to school with is shot killed after she mysteriously wonders the streets late at night dressed only in her pajamas and before this began acting "strangely" around her family members. Trying to keep herself hidden from having more than one friend and being recgonized by fellow class-mates, she hides herself in clothes too big for her body, making her curves invisable to the eye. After another classmate comments on a social website that the other "Emily" that was murdered was a sad loss of perfect beauty and that the world would have been a better place had it been the "ugly Emily" that was killed instead, she feels a change that takes place deep inside her and decides to take revenge on the boy who posted this comment. She finds a hidden power that surfaces and becomes a "vasper", a member of an elite force that is magical and fearful of discovery.

Butterfly-Jodi Bullock

Butterfly
byJodi Bullock (Goodreads Author)

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Sep 22, 11 · edit

bookshelves: young-adult, fiction, paranormal-romance, thriller-suspense

Read on September 22, 2011

A Ballet dancer who believed her dreams were ruined forever finds out that in her dreams she finds herself dancing better than she ever did in real life. An assumed crazy lady living next door to her becomes her best friend and most important confidante, whom she learns a magical ability that she has had since she took her first breath after being born lays dormant in her mind and is brought to life. The child hood crush on a boy that she grew up with and lost for a brief time, that comes back into her life like a whirl wind and becomes her dream came true, are thrown together to fight the darkness that surronds those that they have become close to. Together they battle the Nightmares, Wierds, and ever present Evil to combat them and bring back those that have taught them their special dream magic.

Better than a Nightmare, this young adult book brings back the meaning to good dreams and the difference of a bad dream. Perhaps, this is how all dreams work as together a group of special seers help to maintain influence over peoples decisions as they sleep thru their dreams.

Chasing The Night-Iris Johansen

Chasing the Night (Eve Duncan Forensic Thrillers, #11)
byIris Johansen

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Sep 22, 11 · edit

bookshelves: fiction, romantic-suspense

Read from August 22 to September 22, 2011

Eve Duncan, her soul-mate Joe, and a new found friend come together in this thriller that never ends. Her son was kidnapped when he was just 2 years old by a life long enemy. Hell bent on making her life miserable for an eternity, her ruthless enemy sees to it that once a year, she receives a phone call from her son just long enough to allow her the pleasure of knowing that her son still lives. Connie, seeks out Eve for help in the search and rescue of her son, using the knowledge that Eve, having lost her daughter and having made it her lifes work to search for her presumed dead "Bonnie" and bring her home by finding her remains, she uses this as an incentive to convinece Eve to help her find her son and bring him home...Alive! Eve, unable to refuse takes the trip, along with her lover Joe, to Russia and the war zone that still exists there. Together, with the assistance of the CIA and Homeland Security and a few other acquaintances along the way, Connie, Eve, and Joe struggle thru death, destruction, and mayhem to the ends of Russia to find the missing boy and bring him home.

This was a great read, with all the "Duncan" twists and turns along the way. Thrilling, exciting, heart touching, and intresting, this book is an add to the "A" list of all the "Duncan" novels.