Chelsie's Updates en-US Mon, 26 May 2025 07:43:58 -0700 60 Chelsie's Updates 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Review7600871992 Mon, 26 May 2025 07:43:58 -0700 <![CDATA[Chelsie added 'Heir of Fire']]> /review/show/7600871992 Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas Chelsie gave 5 stars to Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass, #3) by Sarah J. Maas
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Review7600869406 Mon, 26 May 2025 07:42:52 -0700 <![CDATA[Chelsie added 'Love Bites Hard']]> /review/show/7600869406 Love Bites Hard by Lola Glass Chelsie gave 5 stars to Love Bites Hard (Mated to the King, #2) by Lola Glass
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Review7600867740 Mon, 26 May 2025 07:42:10 -0700 <![CDATA[Chelsie added 'Red Queen']]> /review/show/7600867740 Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard Chelsie gave 5 stars to Red Queen (Red Queen, #1) by Victoria Aveyard
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Review7600863374 Mon, 26 May 2025 07:40:23 -0700 <![CDATA[Chelsie added 'A Memory of Light']]> /review/show/7600863374 A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan Chelsie gave 5 stars to A Memory of Light (The Wheel of Time, #14) by Robert Jordan
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Review7600861115 Mon, 26 May 2025 07:39:27 -0700 <![CDATA[Chelsie added 'The Dragonbone Chair']]> /review/show/7600861115 The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams Chelsie gave 4 stars to The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #1) by Tad Williams
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Review7600858031 Mon, 26 May 2025 07:38:06 -0700 <![CDATA[Chelsie added 'Marked']]> /review/show/7600858031 Marked by P.C. Cast Chelsie gave 3 stars to Marked (House of Night, #1) by P.C. Cast
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Review7600855761 Mon, 26 May 2025 07:37:11 -0700 <![CDATA[Chelsie added 'Get Rich or Get Lucky']]> /review/show/7600855761 Get Rich or Get Lucky by Max Nowaz Chelsie gave 4 stars to Get Rich or Get Lucky (Paperback) by Max Nowaz
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Memory Man by David Baldacci
"My first ever David Baldacci book and what a good one it was! I sat and read it all in one day because it was basically unputdownable. The main character who is an ex cop is made extra interesting in that he is a savant and has the ability to remember everything. This of course is a great asset in a murder enquiry and by the end of the book our ex cop is looking forward to much greater things. This is marked as book one in a new series and I look forward to reading the next one. I also intend to make time to read a lot more of this author's books."
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Indulgence in Death by J.D. Robb
"Eve & Roarke are my all time favorite couple... Another great book from J.D.Robb. � Ahhh I just love this series so fucking much. 😎😎😎


“I hear the cock woke you up.�
Eve choked on her coffee. “What?�
“Not that kind of cock.� Sinead sent a sparkling look over her shoulder. “Though if that’s true as well, good for you. I meant the rooster.�
“Oh, right. Yeah." hahahah I love her! :D



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Saints of the Shadow Bible by Ian Rankin
"Let us count the ways that Ian Rankin’s antisocial Scottish police detective, John Rebus, is worth following, book after book (Saints of the Shadow Bible is the 19th in the Rebus series):

He is delightfully contrarian, always finding openings to new perspectives in the cracks between revealed facts, and thus he frequently surprises.
His dialogue with his longtime partner (now his superior), Siobhan (“Shiv�) Clarke, is so palpably believable that you can picture yourself in the room hearing their conversation.
He lives in the real world in real time, aging as the years go by (and none too gracefully!) and confronting the many changes in Scotland as it grows ever-richer from North Sea oil.
Two novels ago, Rebus was on his way to retirement, but he proves too resilient, and too ornery, for that. In Saints of the Shadow Bible, Rebus, now demoted to Detective Sergeant under his mentee Clarke, a Detective Inspector, is perched precariously in a crime-fighting unit whose boss would rather he worked somewhere else. In his own way, Rebus obliges him, by intervening in two seemingly unrelated investigations that keep him out of the office most of the time. One involves a car crash on a country road in circumstances Rebus finds mysterious (though the brass would like the case closed). The other is a 30-year-old murder case in which Rebus himself was peripherally involved very early in his career.

Saints of the Shadow Bible is, in a sense, a transitional work to Rankin’s new series that features Inspector Malcolm Fox of the “Complaints� (Internal Affairs). Fox has been high on Rebus� enemies list, but circumstances throw them together in an investigation into his old squad’s role in bungling that 30-year-old murder case. As the two police officers work closely � along with Inspector Clarke � they come to, first grudging, then genuine mutual respect, setting up Fox for stardom in his own, more recent series.

The action in Saints of the Shadow Bible revolves around the three officers� pursuit of the wealthy and powerful developer who ran Rebus� squad three decades earlier (the “Saints� of the title) and a shady and equally powerful London businessman whose daughter was injured in the mysterious crash. Predictably, the two plot-lines intersect � but not in predictable ways. Saints of the Shadow Bible is suspenseful to the end � a thoroughly enjoyable read."
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