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    • 29 May 2024 | Wednesday · 4:36 PM

    Color e-Readers: Main Benefits & For Whom?

    Kobo recently launched two colored e-readers – Libra & Clara. Although I feel, they are the way to go, here are my two cents on their usefulness (or the lack of it) – and should you buy them? Note, this is not a technical review of the readers. For that, you will find a great review by Tech Radar here.

    Benefits of color e-readers
    I think color e-readers have two big pluses – first, when your book has lots of images which becomes a totally different experience viewing in color. And two, if you are someone who is in the habit of highlighting text a lot.

    The first scenario is quite fitting for comics or for academic texts of students that include pictures. The second is more a question of habit – I for example highlight notable quotes & important points in a book a lot. Without …

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    23 January 2024 | Tuesday · 1:39 PM

    The Heiress

    Title:
    The Heiress
    Series:
    NA
    Genre:
    Thriller; Mystery
    Publisher:
    Headline
    Release Date:
    Format:
    Kindle
    Pages:
    Pages: 305
    Source:
    BookForums 2024

    Plot Summary

    Ruby McTavish, the infamous heiress of the Ashby House, Tavistock, leaves behind her inheritance to her adopted son Camden who is least interested in the money, estate or any of the McTavishes left and decides to stay away. 10 years later, a sequence of events draws Cam & has wife Jules back to Ashby House. And as they do so, there are revealed dark secrets that each of them had been guarding from the others. Ruby herself had her past – a kidnapping & 4 times widowed with an air of mystery surrounding it all. What was the truth behind her kidnapping, the truth about her husbands’ deaths, why did she adopt Camden, the reason for Cam & Jules returning are few …

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    15 January 2024 | Monday · 4:46 PM

    First Lie Wins

    First Lie Wins | Book Review
    Title:
    First Lie Wins
    Series:
    NA
    Genre:
    Thriller
    Publisher:
    Headline
    Release Date:
    Format:
    Kindle
    Pages:
    340
    Source:
    BookForums 2024

    Plot Summary

    Lucca Marino lives with her mother in a trailer sewing dresses for wealthy women. When her mother falls ill, she picks up odd jobs to support her ailing mother and survive. She starts pilfering the wealthy clients and is spotted by a mysterious Mr. Smith who picks her for his devious, criminal activities. For each job that she is assigned by Mr. Smith, she is given a new identity and a mark with instructions on what is to be carried out. As she chances upon the mysterious deaths of others working for Mr. Smith, there starts a twisty tale of uncovering the real identity of Mr. Smith and to set herself free from Mr. Smith’s unassailable grip.

    Pluses
    * Enthralling plot & uncommon …

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    3 January 2024 | Wednesday · 5:42 PM

    The Berry Pickers

    The Berry Pickers | Amanda Peters | Book Review
    Title:
    The Berry Pickers
    Series:
    NA
    Genre:
    Literary Fiction
    Publisher:
    Penguin
    Release Date:
    Format:
    Kindle
    Pages:
    295
    Source:
    BookForums 2024

    Plot Summary

    Four-year-old Ruthie goes missing from the blueberry fields where the family works. On the other side, we have a young girl Norma growing up haunted by recurring dreams and faint memories which are hushed away by her parents as her imagination. This is the story of two families and two mothers, where one keeps losing child after child to some mishappening while the other loses them before birth. As it turns out, Ruthie and Norma are the same girl and it was the pain & suffering of the mother that led her to kidnap someone else’s child. The story brings life full circle when the grown woman Ruthie is reunited with her birth family and the instant bond she strikes with them. …

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    21 December 2023 | Thursday · 4:34 PM

    Alex Cross Must Die

    Title:
    Alex Cross Must Die
    Series:
    Alex Cross
    Genre:
    Thriller
    Publisher:
    Penguin
    Release Date:
    Format:
    Kindle
    Pages:
    389
    Source:
    BookForums 2024

    Plot Summary
    A mystery man shoots down American Airlines flight 839 at Reagan Airport. Alex Cross & his associate John Sampson – who are working on another case of Dead Hour Killings – are summoned to investigate the shooting. There are other parallel stories where Cross’s wife Bree is working on the mysterious disappearance of her boss’s friend and business woman Leigh Anne Asher.

    Pluses
    * Interesting initial premise of a passenger jet being brought down
    * Ali. The star of the book! The little detective who actually helps crack the Dead Hour Killings

    Minuses
    * Too many simultaneous cases (I counted them to be 5) – makes it a hotch-potch book with too many stories stuffed in
    * Suspense in all these …

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    4 December 2023 | Monday · 5:59 PM

    The Secret (Jack Reacher)

    The Secret | Jack Reacher Book | Lee Child
    Title:
    The Secret
    Series:
    Jack Reacher
    Genre:
    Thriller; Suspense
    Publisher:
    Transworld Digital
    Release Date:
    Format:
    Kindle
    Pages:
    326
    Source:
    BookForums 2024

    Plot Summary
    A group of 7 scientists having worked on a secret project in 1969, Mason Chemical in India are getting killed one by one. Behind the killings are 2 sisters Roberta & Veronica Sanson, avenging the false implication & killing of their father who was also working at Mason Chemical. There however is an 8th name that only one person is aware of. And the sisters are desperately seeking that name, as well as setting records straight. A team is set up by secretary of Defense, Charles Stamoran. Jack Reacher amongst 3 others are on this team to stop these killings and identify the killers.

    Pluses
    * Engulfing plot (despite not being totally original)
    * Fast paced & action packed…

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