Just about 7 months ago I didn’t even know what a “meme” was.  But once I found out, I was always on the hunt to find a new and fun one.  And today in my Google Reader, there it was !!!  Another Wednesday fun meme.  And here it is !!

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A prize is also included.  Here is the criteria:
Since there is a prize at stake this week I am going to make it slightly more work: Go to page 50, count down 50 words and then type out the next two full sentences. If it is a spoiler at all be sure to put **Spoiler Alert** at the top of your comment (like if the selection announces the death of an integral character or something).
I will be right back to posting since I need to count down to 50!!!………I am back and here are my 2 sentences.
  In Caroline’s growing up, there had only been herself and her mother.  When Caroling would ask about her father, her mother’s response was always the same:  “You don’t have one.”

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 *What are you currently reading?
     The Language of Secrets by Dianne Dixon
 *What did you recently finish reading?
      Moonlight Falls by Vincent Zandri  (5 star)
     So Cold The River by Michael Koryta (4 star)
 *What do you think you’ll read next?
     Damaged by Alex Kava

Moonlight Falls by Vincent Zandri
Published by R.J. Buckley Publishing
ISBN: 978-0-9819654-0-6
At the request of Pump Up Your Book, a PB copy was sent, at no cost to me, for my honest opinion.
  Synopsis: (from back of book) In Moonlight Falls, novelist and photo journalist Vincent Zandri asks the question “If you knew your life could end at any moment, how far would you go to prove you murdered your lover?”
  Albany, New York is the setting of Zandri’s paranoid thriller (in the Hitchcock tradition) about Richard “Dick” Moonlight, former APD detective turned private investigator/massage therapist, who believes he killed Scarlet Montana, his illicit lover and wife of his ex-boss Chief of Detectives Jake Montana. The dilemma…Moonlight doesn’t remember what happened!
  My Thoughts and Opinion: Mr Zandri introduces the reader to Richard Moonlight in a masterful writing style of first person perspective, which is the most difficult to write in. In the first chapter, it describes how Moonlight attempted suicide by a self inflicted gun shot to his head but lives, however, a bullet fragment is lodged in his brain and affects his ability to know right from wrong.  This book, from page one, was a nonstop, heart pounding, roller coaster ride until the very last page.  The list of characters enthralling.  The plot mesmerizing.  The story line has so many twists and turns that had this reader trying to unravel, and with an ending that was never seen coming.  Wild!!  This book is Hitchcock meets James Patterson!!  Alex Cross meet Richard Moonlight!!!  Fantastic!!  This is the type of book that I call a, “just one more chapter” read, whereas the chapters are a couple of pages long but you realize that its four (4) hours since saying “just one more chapter”.  Warning: from starting page one, be prepared of not being able to put this book down until finished.  A definite page turning read!!  This book…Incredible !!!!  On a scale of 1 to 5, Moonlight Falls, is a ten (10)!!  Mr. Zandri….Bravo!!!!!
  Rating: 5+ 

 

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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
*Grab your current read
*Open to a random page
*Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
*BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
*Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
  
The stakes had changed.  Crime scene all gone.  More like, investigation, all gone.  It meant that now the fingers of Albany justice were about to point at me as a suspect.  I turned and started back across the lawn towards the still burning home.

Moonlight Falls by Vincent Zandri
Published by R.J. Buckley Publishing
ISBN: 978-0-9819654-0-6
At the request of Pump Up Your Book, a PB copy was sent, at no cost to me, for my honest opinion.
  Synopsis: (from back of book) In Moonlight Falls, novelist and photo journalist Vincent Zandri asks the question “If you knew your life could end at any moment, how far would you go to prove you murdered your lover?”
  Albany, New York is the setting of Zandri’s paranoid thriller (in the Hitchcock tradition) about Richard “Dick” Moonlight, former APD detective turned private investigator/massage therapist, who believes he killed Scarlet Montana, his illicit lover and wife of his ex-boss Chief of Detectives Jake Montana. The dilemma…Moonlight doesn’t remember what happened!
  My Thoughts and Opinion: Mr Zandri introduces the reader to Richard Moonlight in a masterful writing style of first person perspective, which is the most difficult to write in. In the first chapter, it describes how Moonlight attempted suicide by a self inflicted gun shot to his head but lives, however, a bullet fragment is lodged in his brain and affects his ability to know right from wrong.  This book, from page one, was a nonstop, heart pounding, roller coaster ride until the very last page.  The list of characters enthralling.  The plot mesmerizing.  The story line has so many twists and turns that had this reader trying to unravel, and with an ending that was never seen coming.  Wild!!  This book is Hitchcock meets James Patterson!!  Alex Cross meet Richard Moonlight!!!  Fantastic!!  This is the type of book that I call a, “just one more chapter” read, whereas the chapters are a couple of pages long but you realize that its four (4) hours since saying “just one more chapter”.  Warning: from starting page one, be prepared of not being able to put this book down until finished.  A definite page turning read!!  This book…Incredible !!!!  On a scale of 1 to 5, Moonlight Falls, is a ten (10)!!  Mr. Zandri….Bravo!!!!!
  Rating: 5+ 

 

Hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com/
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
*Grab your current read
*Open to a random page
*Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
*BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
*Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
  
The stakes had changed.  Crime scene all gone.  More like, investigation, all gone.  It meant that now the fingers of Albany justice were about to point at me as a suspect.  I turned and started back across the lawn towards the still burning home.

So Cold The River by Michael Koryta
Published by Little Brown and Company
ISBN 978-0-316-05363-1
At the request of The Hachette Book Group, a PB copy was sent, at no cost to me, for my honest opinion
  Synopsis: (from back of book) It starts with a beautiful woman and a challenge. Alyssa Bradford approaches filmmaker Eric Shaw to make a documentary about her father-in-law, Campbell Bradford, a ninety-five-year-old billionaire whose past is cloaked in mystery, the only clues being the name of his hometown and an antique water bottle he’s kept his entire life.
  Only a few hours after his arrival in Campbell Bradford’s rural hometown, Eric experiences a frighteningly vivid vision. As the days pass, the frequency and intensity of his hallucinations increase. He’s drawn deeper into the town’s dark past which is centered on a glorious hotel where presidents and mobsters once mingled, drawn to the area by the curative powers of its mineral springs. Eric discovers that something besides the hotel has been restored-a long-forgotten evil that will stop at nothing to regain a lost glory. Brilliantly imagined and terrifying real, So Cold the River is a tale of irresistible suspense.
  My Thoughts and Opinion: Some of the words that I would describe this book would be gripping, suspenseful, unreal and mostly strange. It is hard to review this read without giving a lot away but will try. The mystery and suspense held my attention to the very end. Parts of the plot were questionable and unbelievable but still held my interest. The characters real, but their situations doubtful. The words written of this rural town are beautiful and it’s history interesting. The ending explosive with questions being both answered and not answered leaving the reader dangling. My rating is based on the nature of suspense that held me captive the entire book even knowing that some of the story line could never be true. Words to describe. Gripping yet Strange.
  My Rating: 4 star