![]() ![]() Back in the present, Detective Jake Brogan, Jane’s friend and not-quite-lover, tangles with reporters convinced that the second young woman’s corpse found near a bridge means the city is harboring a serial killer. Skeletons from the candidate’s past prepare to leap from their closets. Someone sabotages one of his campaign rallies in far-off Springfield. Two different beauties, volunteer Kenna Wilkes and groupie Holly Neff, are plotting at cross-purposes to get close to him for their own nefarious ends. In fact, he’s in much deeper trouble than his wife realizes. When she finally talks, though, what she says is explosive: She thinks the candidate is carrying on an affair. At first Moira hides behind the likes of campaign mogul Trevor Kiernan and consultant Rory Maitland then she puts Jane off. So Alex sends her into the jaws of ex-governor Owen Lassiter’s senatorial campaign to get an interview with Lassiter’s reclusive wife, Moira. Now that Jane’s old rival, Boston Register city editor Alex Wyatt, has snapped her up, the first thing he wants her to do is identify the source she wouldn’t identify in court. But when Vick won a $1 million judgment from Channel 11 and Sellica vanished, her boss threw her under the train. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jane Ryland knew perfectly well that grocery magnate Arthur Vick was the client who’d reneged on all the high-flown promises he’d made call-girl Sellica Darden. Fired by the TV station that got sued for libel when she refused to reveal a source, a Boston reporter gets thrown into the even more dangerous shark tank of a U.S. ![]()
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![]() The world where this takes place deserves a lot more books than just this one and, as far as the main characters go, even if there should have been more about Laeric Scoth and Jesco Currane (if I am nitpicking), I wouldn't mind to see more of them. In the end everything is explained and all the red herrings (which were pretty good) weren't simply forgotten. Their priorities are right where they should be. ![]() ![]() If not for these two, his death would be forgotten because he wasn't someone famous or rich. All the focus is on a murder of a courier. Yes, there is a romantic element and the two main characters have this thing between them, but it is always somewhere in the background of the story. ![]() The lack of info-dumps left me knowing enough to love the story, but at the same time wishing there was more of it (othelins like Jesco and their different abilities, the badlands and its dangers, the travelling carnivals and their people, their autohorses and other various mechanical goodies, the arguments between the religious and the rest of the world about the othelin children and so on). Add zero info-dumps and you get a well rounded story with likeable (and some less so) characters. To think of all those who usually avoid romance like a plague and who are going to miss out on a really good mystery set in an interesting world. ![]() This story is an example of why people shouldn't avoid something labelled romance. ![]() ![]() More Elizabeth and more Caro (you may know her from the Gruen Transfer on ABC TV). I was completely caught up in the feelings and dilemmas of the young Elizabeth. Elizabeth makes mistakes and learns from them and she is quick to observe and learn the lessons from the mistakes of others as well.We see how she develops the strength of character to become a Queen that is capable of ruling her people through a period of nearly 50 years into a Golden Age.Ĭaro’s story is simply written, but never trite or dull. She is surrounded by people who change allegiance at the drop of a hat, who are quick to judge, condemn and believe the worse. A young life beset with tragedy, pathos, danger, imprisonment, illness, glamour and death. She spends the night reflecting on the path that has led her to this night. ![]() ![]() In ‘Just A Girl’ we have young Elizabeth on the eve of her coronation, passing a restless night in anticipation of her coronation. ![]() I do read books outside the historical fiction genre, but looking at my reviews so far…not very many! But they’re just so darn satisfying and interesting! ![]() ![]() Mary is troubled, but she hears no more about Anne Boleyn until she discovers that her father has exiled her mother and is trying to marry Anne! The King, searching for some Biblical reference that supports his claim that his marriage to Catherine of Aragon was illegitimate, says that since Catherine had been his brother’s wife before she had married him, his marriage to her was unlawful. Mary is not particularly interested in Anne until she catches her father, the king, staring at her during the masque. Anne wears mostly black and white clothing, and a ribbon about her neck. During a masque while her betrothed is visiting England, Mary notices a certain lady-in-waiting named Anne Boleyn. Mary does not look forward to marrying, even meeting, her future husband. The book starts when Mary Tudor is about eleven years old, and her father, King Henry VIII, has decided she should marry the king of France, King Francis. I hate to start off a book review with such a vague word describing the book, but what else would I use? Amazing, fascinating, interesting? The book is all these and more. ![]() ![]() So, here is the way you should be reading Shatter Me, in chronological and publication order: We know you want to know exactly how to read these books. Straight to the point, we won’t dilly dally around. So, let’s learn the reading order, and what the story is actually about, so when you go to read Shatter Me, you know what you are getting into with this gorgeous tale! Series Order For Shatter Me So, there is no guesswork, and just a simple reading order.įirst of all, as we look into this series and its reading order we will go through the series and look into the actual story being told in these books. ![]() There are 6 novels and 5 novellas in this series, while that may sound pretty complicated, the novellas actually fit perfectly into the story’s timeline from when they were published. ![]() There is only one way to read the Shatter Me series, and that is by order of publication. Thankfully, the Shatter Me series is not one of the complicated ones and the reading order of these is pretty straight forward. ![]() |