I just finished up reading the audio book A Gathering of Secrets by Linda Castillo.  The book is part of the Kate Burkholder series.  I’ve read every book since the first and have very much enjoyed them all.  This on I even ordered as a pre-order.  I knew I’d be wanting to read it.

There is something about a good series that I love.  I know the characters.  I know what to expect.  With this one I know something is going to be happening on “hog path road”…I know Pickles and Skids.  I know Mona the up and coming new officer.  I know the back stories of them all.  It feels so much like sitting down and watching an episode of television show.

Happily this book didn’t disappoint.  I liked it.  The books aren’t earth shattering books that make a difference in the way I think or feel.  They are just plain good entertainment.  I highly recommend the entire series if you haven’t tried them out yet.

In this book, Kate’s love interest,  John Tomasetti, doesn’t make a big appearance but that’s okay…still it’s a great book.

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I just finished up the audio book Send Down the Rain by Charles Martin.  I am a huge Charles Martin fan so I ordered this book on a pre-order basis through Audible.  When I order a pre-order book…that’s how I determine that I am a “real” fan.  If you’ve not read his books he’s a little “Nicholas Sparks-ish”.

I always worry as an author writes more.  Their books can become the “same old”.  The author can make their books somehow what they view as “more exciting”.  Jodi Picoult did that and added an element of supernatural to her books.  Now I only read her new books if I am relatively sure there isn’t a “supernatural” element.  I hate that.  Chris Bohjalian books can be so hit and miss too.  So where would this new Charles Martin book land.

I ended up liking the book.  I guessed the ending way early but it didn’t prevent me from wanting to finish.  The only problem I had with the book is that the main character, Joseph, is always so eloquent when speaking about his feelings.  I have yet to meet any man who is like that…or woman for the matter….but it is a book so that’s a little more par for the course.  But he’s so so much so that it’s almost unbelievable.  I can overlook that easily enough though.

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