SEASON OF MUSIC

SEASON OF MAGIC

CHRISTINE POPE

 

Review by Author Roy Murry

 

Rose is a witch, prima in waiting, who runs away from her responsibility of kissing men ages twenty-one to twenty-four, to find her consort. She finds her soulmate in Shaine, a twenty-eight-year-old warlock, who belongs to another clan.

Their relationship is a romance made in heaven, but it's too long in the making because there is no MAGIC, a feeling Rose needs to fulfill her responsibility. MAGIC must happen.

This witchy romance will overwhelm the reader. I wanted to stop reading about adults who let a religion called MAGIC control their lives. I kept on reading, and the story ended the way romances always do.

The writing keeps a romance lover on the edge – will she or won't she lose her virginity, a key MAGIC (Rose's consciousness) controls? Sleeping together does not count.

SEASON is a good novel, but only for romance lovers. Everyone else, stay away. LOL

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Art & Craft of Murder

Cozy Mysteries: The Art & Craft of Murder

(Whistler's Cove Cozy Mystery Series Book 1)

Cozy Cat Parker

Review by Author Roy Murry

 

The title is longer than the story. LOL 

Misty, a teahouse owner, has a regular elderly female customer in town who is the only one who drinks a particular homemade tomato juice.

This customer, who controls an art gallery, which is the center of an art controversy, dies after drinking the juice. So begins the short mystery and ends with an unusual and unpredictable event.

The setup for a series features good characters, a fast-paced story, and easy-to-read prose. It's fifty pages, and the price is zero on Kindle.

Quick read and good lead-in like a prologue to fun reads.

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EMMA

EMMA

Jane Austin

Review by Author Roy Murry

 

I saw the movie before I purchased and read this book. The written novel is much funnier than the movie.

Jane's English prose is exquisite. The characters and their quirks, opinions on mundane items, as someone going out in the light rain to the post office, are hysterical.

 I could go on and on about the many episodes that explain and describe characters' traits, but I will not. EMMA faults in all her evaluations of who is in love with whom.

EMMA concludes, at the end of 500 pages of indulgences, that she could not see what was in front of her for many years, her love for another.

This is a romance comedy you will love.

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A STUDY IN SCARLET

 

A STUDY IN SCARLET

 Arthur Conan Doyle

 

Review by Author Roy Murry

 

SCARLET is the first in the Sherlock Holmes series, where he meets Dr. Watson to become roommates in 1878. "No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so," Holmes answers Dr. Watson's question on deduction.

Their relationship develops between the two when a London detective arrives at the new residence, facing a quagmire of being unable to solve a crime. Watson and the detectives have cluttered minds as they watch Sherlock go about developing a resolve.

A man is found dead with no apparent wounds. When a second man, who had been in the company of the first man, is dead in another part of London, Sherlock has solved the crime and has put a trap in place because of a carriage imprint.

Every one of Sherlock's cohorts, including the reader, is oblivious to his deductions until the crime is solved and he enlightens the men with cluttered minds. How did Holmes do that? --- will be on everyone's mind.

Arthur Conan Doyle's SCARLET is a fast-paced adventure that will bring in a new reader of the adventures. Years ago, it did for me, and I've been a mystery-genre lover since.

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The BODY in the BOOKSTORE

The BODY in the

BOOKSTORE

ELLIE ALEXANDER

Review by Author Roy Murry

 

All my followers know I am a mystery nut. This cozy mystery by Ms. Alexander is one of the better ones I have read for some time.

Annie, the main character, has a college degree in snooping but works selling books because of a past event. Out of her past, at a Mystery Festival in the small town of Redwood Grove, her classmates and professor show up.

All, other than the professor, who is a Town Detective, are suspects in the murder of a classmate hidden in the bookstore vault. Annie teams up with the professor and a friend to solve the crime.

Who done it? Well, that doesn't lead to who did. However, the reader will have a choice, which is the fun part of the novel, a la the book CLUE.

Supporting characters make this a series to read.

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Since the Day We Danced

SINCE THE DAY WE DANCED

KERK MURRAY

Review by Author Roy Murry

 

Emma and Luke met because of unusual circumstances and immediately liked each other. Their family problems interfere with the relationship, and they keep it a secret.

When the secret is found out, separation begins. Everyone involved believes that Emma and Luke, including his son, will not get back together.

But does love help them find a way for reunion? The twists and turns bring this novel to an end that the romance lover will enjoy.

Each chapter is one of the main characters commenting on the situation at hand. This made the novel's prose move smoothly forward with their feelings known.

'DANCED' is a good novel.

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MANUFACTURING DELUSION

MANUFACTURING

DELUSION

BUCK SEXTON

 

Review by Author Roy Murry

 

As you know, I'm an ex-Green Beret Operations and Intelligence Specialist (Vietnam Veteran) and a graduate of the JFK Warfare Center. I believe Mr. Sexton has described the world as it is today. Using historical data on how people react to psychological manipulation, he outlines the stepping stones to how people are swayed into a delusional mindset.

He describes how past civilizations, including current ones, often show instances where humans have bowed to a small group's ideology, resulting in nations or small groups being controlled, believing nonsense. Brainwashing and indoctrination are spread through propaganda on many levels, which the left uses constantly.

Buck Sexton's nonfiction is well written, so anyone with a cognitive mind will understand and enjoy his narrative. Those on the left of the Democratic Party in the USA, Muslim countries, and places like Iran and Cuba will condemn this book as fantasy.

Read MANUFACTURING DELUSIONS and decide for yourself.

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