meg reads and reads

Title: The Recovery Agent Author: Janet Evanovich This is a light-hearted. fairly mindless read. I wanted to do some light reading after a lot of heavy thematic material recently. This is exactly what I was looking for. This book follows an insurance fraud investigator, Gabriela Rose, who, through her grandmother (who heard it from a "ghost" she talks to named Annie) heard that there is possibly a treasure map buried beneath the house Gabriela inherited in St. Vincent. The problem is that Gabriela's ex-husband, Rafer, got that house in the divorce. Rafer gets pulled into this treasure hunt that ends up taking them through the Peruvian jungle and various other places in the Americas.  They encounter the main villain, El Dragon, who is also seeking the same treasure (a ring called the Seal of Solomon), and things start to get crazy. There are guns, explosives, drugs, and, yes, there are snakes. Lots of snakes. I had fun reading this book, but it is by no means fine literatu...

Title: With Grimm Resolve Author: Jeffery H. Haskell After a long hiatus, I am back. I did not quit reading. I just stopped the reviews for a while, because I was just so...tired. Since it's been nearly two years since my last book review, it is not feasible that I go back and review the 50+ books I've read since, so I just decided to start with my most recent read. With Grimm Resolve is book two in a military sci-fi series called Grimm's War . The story is interesting enough, but the book is in dire need of editing. The errors are to the point where they're just distracting. Sometimes sentences don't even make sense because of poor word choice or lack of editing (or both). The other issue I have with this is the blatant Islamophobia. The author doesn't even disguise it. The Caliphate are some of the main villains in this series, and it's like, Why? You have created a science fiction series set hundreds of years in the future. You could have literally made u...