Using Daylight Hologram Imaging five middle school students are virtual Disney host. When things get strange is when their dreams start seeming real, then they discover they are real, they are able to be in the park after they fall asleep.
As everyone knows Disney is full of magic and all magic has two sides. The DHIs have been created to help solve a mystery and to fight off evil.
A really fun story, fast paced without being pushed, and quick chapters to encourage a reluctant reader.
It will also make you want to go to Disney. I went when I was very young and was not impressed but this may make me give it another chance.
Saturday, December 28, 2013
Thursday, December 5, 2013
The Serpent on the Crown by Elizabeth Peters
The Emerson family is back in Egypt once again and as always there is a mystery, a murder, and a lot of hot, dusty, digging.
As always the Egyptology aspect is well represented as always although there is not a major find in that department. Ramses and Nefret are finally getting to do their own thing, at least for a bit, and Peabody take full credit for that arrangement.
Sethos appears about mid-way through, always an entertaining character and David arrives from England before the end.
A very fun read which will actually have you laughing out loud so beware if you read in public.
As always the Egyptology aspect is well represented as always although there is not a major find in that department. Ramses and Nefret are finally getting to do their own thing, at least for a bit, and Peabody take full credit for that arrangement.
Sethos appears about mid-way through, always an entertaining character and David arrives from England before the end.
A very fun read which will actually have you laughing out loud so beware if you read in public.
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Sackett by Louis L'Amour
Tell Sackett tends to get in the middle of things without meaning to do so but always comes out if not sound at least alive. The challenges of settling a new country, weather, people, conditions, al seem to all come together at once.
As always L'Amour tells a good story but the writing is often disjointed and choppy. Read it as a whole and do not reflect on the writing to much and you will enjoy it.
As always L'Amour tells a good story but the writing is often disjointed and choppy. Read it as a whole and do not reflect on the writing to much and you will enjoy it.
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Air Apparent by Piers Anthony
Wira and Hugo are ready to summon the stork but Hugo never comes back from the wine cellar where he went to get a bottle to celebrate. In his place is what appears to be a dead body. A mystery!
This would be easy to solve except Magician Humphrey's Book of Answers is scrambled. A quest is in order!
Filled with the usual puns the story drags at times then picks up and drags again. I am not a fan of all the worlds of Ida and they play a major part.
The Adult Conspiracy plays a major role but in this I find it has a bit of a molester feel which was very off putting. Innocent is not always innocent and this is something that creeps into Anthony's writing in other books also. If not for this it would be a typical enjoyable Xanth novel.
This would be easy to solve except Magician Humphrey's Book of Answers is scrambled. A quest is in order!
Filled with the usual puns the story drags at times then picks up and drags again. I am not a fan of all the worlds of Ida and they play a major part.
The Adult Conspiracy plays a major role but in this I find it has a bit of a molester feel which was very off putting. Innocent is not always innocent and this is something that creeps into Anthony's writing in other books also. If not for this it would be a typical enjoyable Xanth novel.
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Coming Home by Lauren Brooke
The first installment in the Heartland Series the appeal is to horse loving young girls. Other than the obvious family tragedy that seems to be standard fare for this genre there are a few other problems.
There is no way that an Olympic caliber horse will be turned over to a fifteen year old girl to train. Waiting thirty minutes for a storm to pass makes more sense than trying to load a horse in the middle of a storm. A pony would not live more than a week without drinking and although depression in horses is a reality one person singing one time does not cure it.
Just a bit to much of the "joining up" and herb remedies for me. Girls read this type of junk and think this is really how you deal with horses. It is not all false but there needs to be some reality thrown in also.
There is no way that an Olympic caliber horse will be turned over to a fifteen year old girl to train. Waiting thirty minutes for a storm to pass makes more sense than trying to load a horse in the middle of a storm. A pony would not live more than a week without drinking and although depression in horses is a reality one person singing one time does not cure it.
Just a bit to much of the "joining up" and herb remedies for me. Girls read this type of junk and think this is really how you deal with horses. It is not all false but there needs to be some reality thrown in also.
Sunday, November 3, 2013
The House of Hades by Rick Riordan
Book Four of the Heroes of Olympus
Greek and Roman demigods work together trying to defeat Gaea, the Earth Mother, before she wakes. A quest, prophecies, random minor gods, you know the drill.
What I really liked is how the character of Nico de Angelo really develops along with Frank Zang, without either one doing anything on purpose. Expect to see more from these two.
If more is told to much is given away, you just have to read it for yourself.
Greek and Roman demigods work together trying to defeat Gaea, the Earth Mother, before she wakes. A quest, prophecies, random minor gods, you know the drill.
What I really liked is how the character of Nico de Angelo really develops along with Frank Zang, without either one doing anything on purpose. Expect to see more from these two.
If more is told to much is given away, you just have to read it for yourself.
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Murder Me Now by Annette Myers
This is the first introduction I have had to Olivia Brown and at times I like her, most of the time she strikes me as drunken slut that will sleep with anyone.
Set in the Bohemian community of Greenwich Village during Prohibition little work is completed by anyone but a lot of gin is consumed. Miss Brown is a poet, of some reckoning, that has a taste for drink. The story opens and ends with drinking and in between is a murder, some mystery, cops, robbers, thugs, and gangs.
The writing is good, I just have no love of the characters.
I finished it six months after I bought it if that says anything about my feelings.
Set in the Bohemian community of Greenwich Village during Prohibition little work is completed by anyone but a lot of gin is consumed. Miss Brown is a poet, of some reckoning, that has a taste for drink. The story opens and ends with drinking and in between is a murder, some mystery, cops, robbers, thugs, and gangs.
The writing is good, I just have no love of the characters.
I finished it six months after I bought it if that says anything about my feelings.
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