More of wot I have read…

The Taker by Alma Katsu

Subtitled - An Immortal Love Story – this is a strange book that I am not sure knows what it wants to be, a love story or a horror story, perhaps it is trying to capitalise on the current trend for supernatural romance brought on by twilight, true blood and vampire diaries.

It was an alright read but it didn’t grab me, and I didn’t feel strongly enough about the characters to really care about them. I thought the ending was ambiguous and could have done with being slightly tidier.


‘Have you ever loved someone so much that you’d do anything for them?


When Dr Luke Findley turns up to his hospital shift in the small town of St Andrews, Maine, he’s expecting just another evening of minor injuries and domestic disputes. But instead, Lanore McIlvrae walks into his life – and changes it for ever. For Lanny is a woman with a past…


Lanny McIlvrae is unlike anyone Luke has ever met. Hers is a story of love and betrayal that defies time and transcends mortality – but this tale cannot end until Lanny’s demons are finally put to rest. Her two hundred years on this earth have seen her seduced by both decadence and brutality – yet through it all she has only ever had one true love in her life. Until now.’


Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child

This is the first Jack Reacher book I have ever read. There were several of them in a pile of books a friend had finished with and it wasn’t until a heard the author interviewed on the radio that I decided to give them a go.

It is a very entertaining and exciting example of its genre. It rolled along at a good pace and had enough hooks in it to keep you reading. The author allowed you to discover information out before the characters thus giving you a feeling of power, and dread for them.

I think I will be trying the others in the series now.



‘You do not mess with Jack Reacher.


September 11th changed Reacher’s drifter lifestyle in one practical way. As well as his folding toothbrush, he now carries photo ID. Yet he is still as close to untraceable as a human being in America can get. So when a member of his old Army unit finds a way to get a message to him, he knows it must be deadly serious: I want you to put the old unit back together.


You do not mess with the Special Investigators. They always watched each other’s backs. Now one of them has shown up dead in the California desert. And six others can’t be found at all.


You do not mess with Jack Reacher. His old buddies are in big trouble, and he won’t let that go. Not now, not ever.’