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First Line Friday – By Reason of Insanity (Randy Singer)

Happy Friday, and welcome to First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books. This week, I’m sharing the first line from my current read, BY REASON OF INSANITY by Randy Singer. Far from being a new release, this book is over ten years old, but it’s a cracking read. I absolutely love legal suspense, and this one has me hook, line, and sinker. And I’m going back to it right now so I can finish it! Anyone else read it?

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Best of 2017 – The Emoji Files, Part III: The WOW Awards

Welcome to day three of The Emoji Files, showcasing my favourite reads of 2017 by the emoji they best correspond to. So far this week I’ve had The Swoony Awards and The LOL Awards, and today we’re looking at The WOW Awards: those books that had me riveted to the page and often on the edge my seat.

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Top Ten Tuesday – My Fall (*ahem* Spring) TBR

I’m back to Top Ten Tuesday after a two-week hiatus! And this week’s topic from the girls at The Broke and the Bookish is one of those topics that I don’t even pretend to limit myself to a mere ten books! However, I have managed to be somewhat restrained. Limiting this list to books that are actually releasing between September and November went a long way towards that restraint! And obviously, this is actually my Spring TBR, because here in the antipodes, spring is in the air! September    Read my reviews for Crown of Souls, A New Shade of Summer,

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Rule of Law (Randy Singer) – Review

This post is part of Litfuse’s blog tour for Rule of Law. ~ About the Book ~ What did the president know? And when did she know it? For the members of SEAL Team Six, it was a rare mission ordered by the president, monitored in real time from the Situation Room. The Houthi rebels in Yemen had captured an American journalist and a member of the Saudi royal family. Their executions were scheduled for Easter Sunday. The SEAL team would break them out. But when the mission results in spectacular failure, the finger-pointing goes all the way to the top.

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