Bout of Books Day Three Challenge!

MASH

I live in a House in Deep Haven, Minnesota with my husband Mitch Morgan, and our eight kids. I work as a riding instructor, drive a Volvo XC-90 and have my horse OGEN as my pet! :) LOL! 

To make this book oriented all of my "Husband" choices were some of my favorite book heroes (For example, Mitch Morgan is the star of Deadly Pursuit by Irene Hannon) and the cities I used were all cities where some of my favorite series take place, two of which were real, the others (Including Deep Haven, Minnesota from the Christiansen family series by Susan May Warren) were fictional. This was a really fun challenge! :)

Review: The Bones Will Speak by Carrie Stuart Parks

5 Stars!

This was my first read by this author and it most definitely will not be my last! This was an excellent mystery/suspense novel! I had never read a book about a forensic artist before and I found Gwen's profession to be quite fascinating, especially knowing that the author is a forensic artist herself so she wrote a lot from personal experience. I really liked all the characters, but I think perhaps Gwen's friend Beth--with her love if all things purple and penchant for using uncommon words--was quite possibly my favorite of this cast, but they truly were all so well written. I'm not going to lie, this is a very chilling story, if you have a weak stomach you may want to skip this one. But it was amazing how complex the mystery was--and yet I was still able to follow everything without a problem, while I had many guesses as the villain's identity, they kept changing all the way through until it was finally revealed who the villain was, let's just say I was sufficiently stumped which is not an easy thing for an author to do! Brava, Carrie Stuart Parks! I found myself hooked by this story from page one, I was overwhelmed by a desire to see what would happen--so much so that I read this book from cover to cover in about 24 hours--which kept the pages flying! While there are obviously few similarities; while reading this book I found myself thinking that Gwen kind of reminded me of a female version of Patrick Bowers (The Bowers Files by Steven James are one of my favorite series!) 

So I would recommend this book to anyone who likes chilling suspense/thrillers, particularly the Bowers Files! 

Overall I really enjoyed this book and look forward to reading more of this author's work in the future!

I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher through the BookLook bloggers review program in exchange for my honest review, which I have done. All thoughts and opinions are one hundred percent my own.

Bout of Books 14 Day Two Challenge!

Book Scavenger Hunt:

1. A Book that begins with “B”  (for Bout of Books!) Blur by Steven James

2. A book your planning to read/currently reading for Bout of Books: Currently reading The Bones Will Speak by Carrie Stuart Parks

Plan to read: Guard Duty by Sharon Dunn

3. Blue Book(s): Submerged by Dani Pettrey

4. Book from your favorite genre! Gone Without a Trace by Patricia Bradley

5. A book on your TBR shelf, or your full TBR shelves: Through Waters Deep by Sarah Sundin

A Match of Wits by Jen Turano

Top Ten Authors on my Auto Buy List!

Top Ten Of My Auto-buy Authors 

These are in no particular order!

1. Dani Pettrey

2. Becky Wade

3. Melissa Tagg

4. Katie Ganshert

5. Steven James

6. Lisa T. Bergren

7. Susan May Warren

8. Karen Witemeyer

9. Lynette Eason

10. Irene Hannon

Bout of Books 14 Day One Challenge!

Fictional World Travel 

Today's challenge is to list 3 to 6 books of fiction that take place in countries other than the one you currently reside in. Some countries are easy to find books set in them, but possibly the more challenging of picks will be the ones that intrigue the most. All you need to do is list the books of choice on your blog, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, YouTube, etc., and display them how you wish. BE CREATIVE! 

Torrent by Lisa T. Bergren (Third in the River of Time Series)-Medieval Italy

There You'll Find Me by Jenny B. Jones-Contemporary Ireland

Fairchild's Lady by Roseanna M. White-Historical France

The Tutor's Daughter by Julie Klassen-Historical England

Bout of Books 14 Sign up!

The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, August 17th and runs through Sunday, August 23rd in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 14 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

I can't wait to participate in this read a thon yet again!!! :)

Top Ten Tuesday on Monday Night!

I'm posting this tonight since I won't have time to do it on Tuesday!

Top Ten Authors I've Read The Most Books From 

(According to Goodreads!)

1. Lynette Eason (15 books)

2. Steven James (11 books)

3. Irene Hannon (10 books)

4. Lisa Tawn Bergren (10 books)

5. Jody Hedlund (9 books)

6. Susan May Warren (8 books)

7. Karen Witemeyer (8 books)

8. Dee Henderson (7 books)

9. Rachel Hauck (6 books)

10. Jennifer Hartz (6 books)