Xepherus Reads

    Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,              Inferno is written by Dan Brown and is the fourth book in his best-selling Robert Langdon series. It is published by Doubleday Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House.  In it, we are reunited with Professor Robert Langdon as he awakens in a hospital in Florence, Italy. Langdon has no idea how he got there. From what he is being told, he was grazed in the head by a bullet and is now suffering amnesia. His only link to the events prior is what Dr. Sienna Brooks and her colleague are telling him. Nothing feels right, and he is suffering terrible visions of death. After being calmed down, he settles into his medication. Through the haze of painkillers, Robert watches an assassin enter the hospital, gun down a doctor, and head for his room. Someone is trying to kill Robert, and he needs to leave the hospital immediately.  ...

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,                 The Lost Symbol is the third book in the best-selling adventure series by Dan Brown. The edition I read was published by Double Day Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. In this thriller, we find Professor Robert Langdon has been summoned to Washington, D.C. by his old friend and mentor, Peter Solomon. Solomon is holding an event at the U.S. Capitol Building and wishes Robert to address the crowd. But when Robert arrives, he discovers in the center of one of the rooms in the Capitol Building a grisly token taken by Peter's apparent kidnapper. A dangerous man has Solomon, and he will kill him unless Robert helps him find a relic of the Masonic Order.    Across town at the Smithsonian Museum Support Center, Katherine Solomon worries about her brother, since he has yet to ...

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,                The Da Vinci Code is written by Dan Brown, with this illustrated edition was published by Doubleday Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. The  Da Vinci  Code catches up with Harvard Professor Robert Langdon one year after the Earth-shattering events of  Angels and Demons. Langdon remains in the spotlight following his involvement in the prior year's Vatican City crisis. In France, for a well-publicized lecture event, Robert is visited by the police. Bezu Fache, a French police captain, wishes for Langdon's presence at the Louvre museum. Robert has a meeting planned with a famous curator at the museum, Jaques Sauniere. But when Langdon and Fache arrive at the Louvre, they discover  Sauniere  has been murdered. On the floor around his body are sentences that unravel a mysterious message. That message ends with PS: find Robert Lang...

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,   Secret of Secrets had its official release last Tuesday. To celebrate, let's visit books one through five.      Angels and Demons is the first novel chronologically in the Robert Langdon series of adventure novels written by Dan Brown. The edition that I read was published by Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. In it, we are introduced to Professor Robert Langdon. A  famous symbologist, his work researching the Illuminati in the past drew him into the academic spotlight. Comfortable in his position as a Harvard professor, Langdon has led a quiet life; t his changes when Langdon travels to Geneva, Switzerland. There, he meets with  Maximillian  Kohler at his CERN research facility.  A fellow scientist named Leonardo Vetra has been murdered. On the dead man's chest is branded the name Illuminati.    Upon in...

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,       The final girl. She can be anyone strong enough to break through the chaos that surrounds her and defeat her adversary. Sidney Prescott, Laurie Strode, and Kirsty Cotton come to mind when I think of a strong final girl from the movies. But who are my top 5 heroines in books that overcame the odds?   Here is my list of the Top 5 Final Girls in books. My book reviews are linked below. 5) Quincy Carpenter from  Final Girls by Riley Sager . After her friends are butchered at a cabin, Quincy is found wandering the woods by authorities. Years later, her recovery has led to a popular blog and television notoriety as a survivor. But a serial killer has resurfaced, murdering those the news labels as Final Girls. Can she survive a second time, or will this killer finish what he started?  4) Flora Dane from  Lisa Gardner's Find Her  was kidnapped by notorious serial killer, Jacob Ness. For over four hun...

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,      It's my turn! Let's see what books I picked to complete my Spooky Season Book Tag. My review links are added to each choice. Pumpkin Spice  (a book that you loved curling up with)-  Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson . I used an entire Sunday in bed with this book. Set during the Gold Rush of the 1800s, it is the story of a young woman with supernatural abilities she uses to find gold. It is a fantastic journey through history.  Ghoulish  (a book villain that was so scary, you doubted they were human)- Mr. Dinchara from  Lisa Gardner's Say Goodbye . A demented serial killer, Dinchara hangs his victims cocooned from trees. And he has a few hundred spiders as pets.  Bump in the Night  (a book that had you scared of noises in the night)-  The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty . This one had me jumpy the first time I read it, and it continues to creep me out. The spider walk scen...