PK the Bookeemonster: Mid-week, roughing it out

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Mid-week, roughing it out

Wednesday. Receptionist is back.

New release for me today. Romance. GRACE NOTE by J. Bengtssen. 7th of 7 in Cake series.

The Cake series youngest McKallister sibling has her own story full of emotional ups and downs. We learn Grace’s experience in life as we witness pivotal events of Grace from preschooler to early twenties. It focuses on Grace’s life in the large McKallister family that has been impacted by the horrors of Jake’s childhood kidnapping and Grace’s and the family’s struggles to find their own lives. Grace faces her fears, a childhood secret, her need to be a savior, first love, heartbreak, redemption and hope for a second chance. Rory Higgins aka Beats aka Grace’s Drummer Boy has a heartbreaking story and was a child without parents growing up in the foster care system. Manipulation and horrors define his life, but an incredible natural talent and need to play the drums or buckets gives him hope and dreams of rising out of a life on the streets.

Published 2023; 431 pages. My complaint (so far) is the cover. It's Grace's story ... so why the guy other than freaking marketing? I'll probably get the physical book of this to go with the collection.

Speaking of physical book copies, I'd fallen behind in getting them with some of the series I follow. I've been only getting the Kindle versions. I'm catching up now with C.S. Harris, Charles Todd (Rutledge series), and Anna Lee Huber (Lady Darby series).

I've got to do JD Robb (yikes), Robert Galbraith, and others eventually. I always knew only getting the Kindle that the purchases were actually only temporary -- i.e., Amazon could freeze my account or an EMP attack would wipe out the grid, or whatever. I need to clean out my bookcases of a lot of old old used book sale purchases.

Another realization participating in the YouTube reading group that I follow, my years of reading have given me a huge depth of knowledge of mysteries that no one of the younger crowd have heard of at all.

Also going to start the audiobook of THE WATCHMAKER'S DAUGHTER by C.J. Archer. 1st of 13 featuring Glass And Steele, historical fantasy mystery series set in Victorian England

India Steele is desperate. Her father is dead, her fiancé took her inheritance, and no one will employ her, despite years working for her watchmaker father. Indeed, the other London watchmakers seem frightened of her. Alone, poor, and at the end of her tether, India takes employment with the only person who’ll accept her – an enigmatic and mysterious man from America. A man who possesses a strange watch that rejuvenates him when he’s ill. Matthew Glass must find a particular watchmaker, but he won’t tell India why any old one won’t do. Nor will he tell her what he does back home, and how he can afford to stay in a house in one of London’s best streets. So when she reads about an American outlaw known as the Dark Rider arriving in England, she suspects Mr. Glass is the fugitive. When danger comes to their door, she’s certain of it. But if she notifies the authorities, she’ll find herself unemployed and homeless again – and she will have betrayed the man who saved her life.

Published 2016; 302 pages.

Steve's got the gun range this evening. I'll be reading.