Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating / Christina Lauren/ 309 pages

Hazel Bradford can be a lot to handle with all her pets and spunky personality.  Josh Im knew Hazel through college but they lost touch after. Now ten years later they cross paths and become great friends. They are determined to set each other up on dates until they find the right one for the other. However, they soon start to realize the reason they continue to set each other up is because they enjoy spending time with each other.
This book is so adorable and a must read for any fans of the show New Girl! Christina Lauren never fails to get me laughing out loud while I’m reading and always writes such cute stories. If you are looking for a sweet romance give this one a try!

Long Road to Mercy by David Baldacci

The first chapter of the story grabbed me instantly. However, the rest of the book did not explore that storyline except to use it as a basis for the main character's motivation. 
   This is the first in the Atlee Pine character series.  Atlee is an FBI agent serving in the Grand Canyon area. She is an accomplished agent and is highly motivated to avenge her twin sister's murder when they were only six years old.  
    Atlee is brought in to investigate a mule's death in the Canyon.  The mule has strange markings that are the beginning clues to a very involved plot.  With many twists and turns, Baldacci takes us into a sinister plot to overtake our government.  Atlee is determined to get to the bottom of this threat, but has to do it without support from her regional supervisor who has told her she needs to take an extended vacation.  He has decided his agent, Atlee, is over the top in her suspicions.
     Atlee's sister's murder will be solved in a sequel.  It was only a minor introduction in this book.

Book of Life / Deborah Harkness / 561

"Impossible n'est pas français"...

In the Book of Life, Deborah Harkness continues to weave a spellbinding story about historian/witch Diana Bishop, her professor/vampire husband Matthew de Clermont and their supernatural extended family.

In this third and final book of the All Souls Trilogy, Diana and Matthew continue their search for the missing pages of Ashmole 782 (a bewitched alchemical manuscript more commonly referred to as the Book of Life) to answer their questions about how witches, vampires and daemons came to be.

When Diana finally lets go of the fear of her own magical powers she discovers that nothing is impossible.

Readers who enjoy fantasy, suspense or mystery with some added romance and historical details will thoroughly enjoy this book (and series).  This was a great read, however, it is not a standalone book and the series should be read in order (Book 1: A Discovery of Witches and Book 2: Shadow of Night).


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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest/Stieg Larsson/563 p

This is the third and final book of the powerful "Millenium Trilogy" which was released after the author's death and includes "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and "The Girl Who Played with Fire".  The books and the movies were first released in Sweden, reaching great popularity and then made their way to the US.  The books are contemporary crime fiction and are pretty descriptive, not for the light-hearted. The author writes with great detail and sometimes I would get bored with the background on Swedish politics and government. But the story he tells and the characters he creates will keep you on the edge of your seat. Everything comes together in this final book for  the savvy investigative journalist and the kick-some-butt misfit who finally get their revenge, not only against the men who tried to kill her but also the government institutions that kept her hostage and nearly ruined her life.

Spartan Gold/Clive Cussler/375 pages

The first Fargo adventure, Spartan Gold follows two new characters, Sam and Remi Fargo, a husband and wife team, through harrowing ordeals on the search for Napoleon's lost cellar.  It all starts when they find a wine bottle on a sunken WWII German U-Boat in the middle of a swamp in Maryland. The bottle's label identifies it as one from Napoleon's lost cellar, and also has a coded message.  After finding the code key and a couple more bottles with new messages along the way they discover that the bottles are leading them to an even bigger treasure than Napoleon's cellar.  Unfortunately, someone else has realized that, too, and is after both the treasure and Sam and Remi with an intent to kill them both to hide the secret.  The last bottle the Fargo's find leads them at last to the site of the treasure, an underground cavern with many passageways, where they must hide from the enemy who cares only about finding the treasure, two golden Greek columns, called Karyatids, that Napoloen stumbled across on one of his many conquests.

Overall, I think this book is a very good read for anyone who wants something with adventure and accurate history.