COME AND FIND ME by Hallie Ephron ****

Sort of suspenseful, easy to read novel. Not really a mystery. Some dumb bunny hacker Diana falls in love with a hacker Daniel, who it really seems is gay (not verified) with his boyfriend Jake. They've been planning on destroying sort of the Big Brother network of having everyone who is born's information. DNA, GPS, Satellite crap. The two guys planned this years in advance, picked up dumb bunny somewhere then faked Daniels' death. Why? Not a good reason. How'd she get involved when she seems to know so little about hacking in general? IDK. Because of her fake boyfriends fake death she is almost agoraphobic...adds a little more dumb to her bunny. Anyways that's the entire gist of the situation.

Have no idea why she let the boyfriend run off into the world without any punishment whatsoever even tho it was planned to destroy all 'virtual' evidence in existence. Only Jake gets nailed for accidently kidnapping her sister. She's really a lightweight in the 'men' department.

Not murder, not mystery, nothing grabbing you to turn pages but you do it to see if any damn thing will happen to make it more interesting when it actually gets less and less interesting, less details of what's occurring etc. So, ok library book. Wouldn't pay for it.

INDULGENCE in DEATH by J.D. ROBB ***

This is a sort of murder mystery taking place in the future 2060 which I don't know why because there aren't that many futuristic 'things' that would require moving the date up. So far I noticed an ID thing that you can program or scan someone and ID them, like a dead body. Big deal. They talk of vids, and wrist doodads that have a lot of techie stuff but otherwise can't understand it. People still deal drugs, pay for sex, murder for sport. There are robotic type of people but nothing really stands out for it being futuristic like say Orson Wells or Doug Adams....I tend to look for brilliant creativity when reading about a futuristic society.

This book, while I continued to read it, wasn't overly exciting. In fact there was so much repetition I had to skim thru a lot of the repeat stuff, repeatedly. You got your investigator lieutenant Eve and her doting, adoring, unrealistic husband Roarke who owns half the town. You have Eve's crowd of helpful detectives working in the background. So some rich guys are playing a game of murder trying to outdo each other. Not giving anything away cuz it then takes the rest of the book to get evidence. This takes time. Slowly.

NOW YOU SEE HER by Joy Fielding ***

It's readable but not much of a story considering how many pages it is. Would be better short story far as I'm concerned. About a stupid self deluded woman who doesn't think her daughter is dead, goes to Ireland (for some bizarre reason thinks that's where she is), runs around trying to find an Audrey who she believes is her hiding daughter Devon. When she finds the Audrey and it's not her she is still running around looking for Audrey like a blind mouse in a maze.
No wonder everyone thinks she's frickin nuts. She's so stupid she's practically screwing anyone who says she's attractive. I would say she's naive but at 50 she's really quite beyond an idiot. No murder, nothing remotely exciting. Just continuous sexual references, men complimenting her, moving from hotel to hotel and wow...that's about it so far. Her room gets robbed when one of her "boyfriends" (36yo) takes her out. Not even a suspicion he's involved somehow. Too flattered by his attentions to have a brain. Anyway almost but not quite done. So far not recommending cuz it's so blitheringly boring.  Much ado about nothing.

AFRAID of the DARK by James Grippando ***

It took me a long time to really settle into the book. There were too many characters, too many seemingly disassociated events. Probably half thru the book things started to get clearer and more cohesive but it was hard work getting there. Too often people's names are switched from last to first and it was confusing constantly, and also irritating.

I didn't toss my arms up in frustration so it had a certain amount of appeal to continue. A cop Vince Paulo and a lawyer Jack Swyteck are investigating a murder connected by a friendship of the murdered girls father Chuck. The mother of the murdered girl really deserved to be murdered herself for her involvement. So there's a "Dark" guy who begins killing people who had anything to do with the demise of his sister brain washed into being a human bomb years ago; I guess. Far fetched activities (religious, porn, online video porn, sex slaves, FBI, cell phone listening capabilities) leading to far fetched scenarios (murder, collusion of parent, sex slaves, poison murder, Jamal in Gitmo) and you have to work to keep up with it all.

Really if Andie and her whole stupid FBI story was eliminated it would have made the story easier to follow and less nonsensical. That was a red herring and completely off-the-track bullshit woven throughout the novel. Everything to do with her should have been deleted. Ditto Jamal in Somalia, Gitmo, tortured, foot cut off--he played an important role in the story as boyfriend of dead girl, suspected killer and son of Dark's sister's murderer but just now putting that down in writing is so off the wall. There was just too much of everything. Over kill.

SEIZURE by Rick Oldham

Boy --small book with plethora of characters. Brit writer yet again. First off, fishing charter in Puerto Rico with Flynn and female client and he plans to fuck her. Major topic. Then they find a bunch of immigrants dodging sharks and bring them into the boat. That's over because now we're with some stupid police officers in an English hospital visiting a security guard who got shot and dies, one cop also gets to visit his MUM in there. That's over because now we're back with Flynn fucking the client, back to Henry and Rik two detectives in England then back to Flynn being yelled at by his boss for having a gun on the charter boat, then back to England eating bacon, then Flynn with his new fuckmate bringing the press to interview him saving people. Now Felix Deakin in jail chatting with his solicitor. I'm dizzy from the back and forth. It's all pretty boring and no one has had a seizure yet. (RE: TITLE). BORED BORED.

The back and forth the inundation of characters- the Brit terminology. WTF happened to all the AMERICAN writers? Why so many Brits? Sick to death of em. Had enough. BYEBYE.

HANDLING THE UNDEAD by John Lindqvist **

Zombie story. One day people die, a few days later worms drop from the sky and awaken the dead. There are several 'families' the writer selects to follow thru their ordeal. What a boring read this was. It kept see sawing from one stupid family with a dead relative to another. The police gather the reliving and not much happens there. No one has a diagnosis. Nothing even mentioning anything scientific happening.

Then people suddenly can read each other's minds around these reliving or read the dead's mind, lost me there. Then black masses come out of the darkness with hooks and I don't know....grab back the worms? So unexplained. Unformed ideas. Leaves you confused or bored or a combination of both. I didn't like it at all. Some girl keeps seeing her own self everywhere WHATEVER THAT MEANS. Foreign writers....AVOID them is my future motto. They suck.

At the end what happens? I have NO CLUE. Worms leave the dead people and either pop or die or turn into butterflies. LOL Author doesn't really have a clue so neither will you.

VENOM by Joan Brady **

I found this barely readable. It's not cohesive, during a meeting with 2 people (him/her) talking about why he and her dad argued then suddenly the author delves into the female's dad going blind, the reasons, theories, then the next paragraph is about London fog, sense of direction, then we FINALLY return to the story of them talking to each other. This crap happens CONTINUALLY. So distracting and brings you out of the immediacy of the story over and over again. There are way too many people involved in way too many conspiracies for my taste. Hard to keep track of them all. Who is good, who is bad, who works for who, hard to figure that out as well. Writer seems to like to keep you confused.

Since the writer is a Brit there are confusing terms to deal with one ex: "All I got to do is put the wind up her a little." WTF is that? Blow her up like a sex doll?

The basic story is absurd, some guy owns bees, their venom cures radiation and lukemia or whatever. That part of the story isn't the meat of the book (I wish). It's mostly about the girl who owns the property of where the bees are (I think) and how companies want the product; espionage, try to kill other people over it, some guy tries to marry her for the patent. It's all pretty ridiculous back and forth with mysterious murders not even delved into. Backgrounds about places you could care less about. Not enough details you WANT to read about. I didn't like it at all. I was confused pretty much MOST of the time. I try to avoid Brit writers they waste my time with stupidity, paragraphs and boring paragraphs of it.

I really would have loved the idea more deeply written about the bees, the venom, the owner. How it works, why it works, why they preferred the beekeeper over other people, a scientific look at its manufacture and the people involved in this work. That would have been more interesting for me. Maybe toss in a few competing companies wanting the product but more more more of the venom. Less of the espionage crap.

ELECTRIC BARRACUDA by Tim Dorsey ****

Must be a guy thing.
A criminal/killer and his friend producing a 'fugitive tour' online or something. Not sure what "online" means as there's really no description of that. Blog? Web page? Including photos? Not specific so don't know.

Lots of chasing, some murder, man-jokes, Florida swamp tours and bars and crap like that. Some cops on the trail, one of whom speaks 1930 language no one understands. He sounds like a blithering idiot. If you want to know more about secret FL hideaways, rumored history, bootlegging, swamps, gators and some sideline murders of like- child molesters- then this is for you. I'm not all that into it. But then I'm not a guy. Some humor here is strictly man-only-funny. Altho I found what happened to the bounty hunter pretty funny...sort of reminds me of....what's his name...think tv ostentatious bounty hunter...

The OMEGA THEORY by Mark Alpert *****

Very good book, great writing, page turning and hard to put down. A physicist wife and Science historian David Swift have to save their adopted genius son Michael who has been kidnapped in order to stop the world existing as a computer run theory. The final theory explains the equations that define the forces of nature and bad people want to stop the world.

Hard to explain it all and it's an intriguing idea, fascinating really and I had a hard time putting the book down because of all the chasing, killing, good vs evil type stuff. Worth cover price.

Books such as this are why I enjoy reading. To see inside thinking and theories of other people. It makes minds fascinating for me.

EXPOSURE by Therese Fowler **

So far I've been bored into reading 50 pages. Really slow, overly detailed and bogged with misc. crap I don't care about. Teenage love from someone it seems is unfamiliar with the male point of view, maybe even teen love in general.  I mean the boy sounds like a girl. Meanwhile the rest of the story isn't compelling enough for me to continue. Girl's (almost 18) dad files charges against boyfriend for lurid pix or whatever so I'm about done and library on Weds.

Somewhere on back it says what a page turning story this is...and it's NOT by any means.