Showing posts with label mining. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mining. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Closer to the Heart by Mercedes Lackey

Closer to the Heart by Mercedes Lackey - 336 pages
Valdemar: The Herald Spy series #2

Mags and Amily don't want to wait any longer to get married, but the king wants to use their wedding as a state event so foreign ambassadors will visit.  Then the Hardorn ambassador unexpectedly visits with the news that Hardorn rebels are fighting against the child king and seem to be supplied with weapons from Valdemar.  The regency council is about to declare war on Valdemar.  So it is up to Mags and Amily to figure out what is going on -- Amily working with Mags child spy network in the city and Mags going back to mining country to see if he can discover the person responsible.

This was a great second book in the series.  I really enjoyed the story.  The reader discovered the villain as the characters in the book did.  The only complaint I have is that I probably have to wait another year for the next book.

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

The Main Corpse by Diane Mott Davidson

The Main Corpse by Diane Mott Davidson, 337 pages

In book 6 of the series, Goldy is once again in the middle of a murder mystery. For a caterer, she certainly knows a lot of murder victims!

This is the first of the series that I felt droned on a bit too long - getting far too wrapped up in explaining financing and mine operations. I found myself skipping pages to get through the book, which is a shame because I enjoyed the other books so much.