Xepherus Reads

Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons!   My reading has continued to be excellent for the year. In total for 2018 I have read 4 1 books. Thankfully I have chosen wisely and the books I have read have averaged a 3 1/2 to 5 star rating. Of course I continued with the crime thriller books, but manag ed to also read several graphic novels and comics.  May sees another ambitious TBR ahead, but I have confidence that it will be an awesome reading month. And, of course, I will continue my comics and graphic novels.   Here is my final list of books read in April (any reviews are highlighted): Batman: A Lonely Place of Living by James Tynion IV and Eddy Barrows Dark Day: the Casting by Scott Snyder and John Romita Dark Days: The Forge by Scott Snyder and John Romita Dark Nights Metal, Vol I by Scott Snyder and Various  Dark Nights Metal, Vol II: the Resistance by Scott Snyder and Various  Dark Nights Metal, Vol III: The Nightmare Bat...

Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons!   Tami Hoag is one of the best suspense writers in the business. She has brought a brand of macabre, terrifying thrillers to the book shelf that is unique to each novel. Just recently I read and reviewed the first two volumes in the Oak Knoll Trilogy, Deeper Than the Dead and Secrets to the Grave . Set in California in a small town near Santa Barbara, I was introduced to a new cast of amazing characters that I rooted for over nine hundred pages. Once I finished book two I immediately began book three. And this one was the ending to the trilogy that did not disappoint.   Down the Darkest Road is published by Penguin Random House under their Signet imprint. In it we are out of the 1980s and into the 1990s. Law enforcement technology is squeaking along just past its infancy. And favorite characters have returned for another dip in the lake of terror that is their town. But a new face has arrived in Oak Knoll, Lauren Lawton...

Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons!    Being a child of the 80s, I always enjoy a story set in that decade. When I read Deeper Than the Dead I appreciated the research that Tami Hoag had put into the novel. She also introduced a new cast of characters that had me invested in her story. The romance between FBI agent Vince Leone and school teacher, Anne Navarre. The hard-edged Frank Farman and his wife, Sharon, and their troubled son, Dennis. Anne's school children who unfortunately were Dennis' targets and discoverers of a dead body in the park. And Detective Tony Mendez, a bright man with an eye on the future of law enforcement. All of these characters lived in the sleepy Californian town of Oak Knoll. A place with secrets so horrific that Hoag decided to write a trilogy. And with book one closed, I head back to the 1980s and Oak Knoll in Secrets to the Grave.     Secrets to the Grave is written by Tami Hoag, and it is published by Pen...