Eyed Blue Dog by Christopher Taylor

 

Language: English

Format: PDF

Pages: 194

Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Suspense

Rating: 4⭐

"It has been a year since Lastings Simmons reluctantly returned to his childhood home of Via Verde, California. Soon after his arrival, he gets broadsided with a letter of foreclosure on the house he recently inherited. To make matters worse for the young Jazz prodigy, he finds himself accosted by a barrage of questions that he is unable to answer in a rather violent interrogation by two surly detectives. It appears that he and the brother of his provocative tenant, January, are prime suspects in a kidnapping. Lastings is hell bent on clearing their names and, simultaneously, becoming January's salvation. Only to discover, January has demons of her own. Traipsing around them leads him down a path he is ill prepared to take.

Now, Lastings is about to find out that the path is embarking upon is one that he is completely unprepared for as a murder mystery becomes as intense as the California sun.

Blue Eyed Dog is a captivating sophomore novel by Los Angeles native, Christopher Taylor. A nod to fiction noir novelists, such as Raymond Chandler, James Elroy and Walter Mosley, Christopher weaves Southern California history into a murder mystery with Jazz as it’s sultry background."

First I want to thank to BookTasters and Christopher for this book!

I read this book in one set: pick up at 2pm and ended it at 5pm. 

The pages turn easy as you follow Lastings and it took my complete investigator mood as soon as Brooke told that he will be more than happy to see Lasting losing his house.

Lastings is a special MC and you can't be mad about is lake of empathy/sympathy over the others. He will help who he think deserve it and if he is in a good mood and that make him very, very real. 

At that point I was making a lot of questions and I didn't got disappointed to see answers (and that I was correct over 1 situation). 

Stitched by Elena Sobol

Language: English

Format: ebook

Pages: 200 aprox

Genre: Fantasy

Rating: 5⭐

"Time to put down the beer and pick up the daggers.

My name is Dmitry, and I’m your local harvest demigod—but don’t tell my boss at the bar.

Ever since Baba Yaga hid me and my magic daggers in Salt Lake City, it’s been nothing but fun and games with my metalhead roommates. Who cares if my cousins are out to kill me?

Now portals to my home world are opening across the city, trashing my hard-won new identity. Not to mention all the human-snacking monsters they’re letting through.

My shifter friend, Alysa, wants me to help hunt down the shidiot tearing open reality and, even worse, the universal police are threatening deportation.

This about to get messy. And if my cousins follow the commotion? I am one dead demiguy."

***Please note that you have a big reference of mythology in this book***

It was fun to read and my heart race in some scenes!

It started like you will need to wait like 5 chapters to see any action or to understand what is going on but no! You have the right to have a blue ferret running for her life, bad goblins (a special kind) and to understand why Dmitry is like that!

Love the fact that Dmitry carry all the legacy of his mother and that he is aware of the weight if you decide to accept this future. Not only that! He knows exactly what kind of problems will come to him and he have notion that he is not ready for it.

Alysa (remember the blue ferret? yap she is a shifter!) got a very important role in this book and I know that in the second one she will have more but if the author will make a book only from her past until now I will drop any book in read to read it instead! 

Sick Like Me by Mayghaen D'Urso

 

Language: English

Format: Ebook

Pages: 252

Genre: Romance Suspense

Rating: 4⭐

"Amara Black was his.

His to look at.

His to touch.

His to destroy.

From the moment she became his patient, he knew she would be his seventh. Even if she didn’t fit his usual victim profile. There was something about her that drew him in; a lowly moth to her godly flame.

But when he makes his move, nothing goes according to plan.

There’s lust in her eyes where there should be fear. Calm where there should be panic. And before he knows it, she’s alive; untouched by all but the same madness that claimed him long ago.

Now, it’s only a matter of time before it consumes them both."

I keep liking this kind of books and plots and I'm not getting the "oh no" or "this is disturbing" 

 

I was not expected Amara be so cool and ok with Ezra and in a certain point I was more concerned that she will have a breakdown and go to the police...

I mean if it was with me I was like going to the police due his behavior! 😰

Well it seems that I was not wrong about the call, I was only wrong of when since I truly believed it will be before she got too involved!

Did I expected the end? Not like that! I was expecting rage, blood, screams,..... but not that end! 

Thanks for the author providing me this ARC!