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Great variety in this crime story antholody from mostly new writers.

I laughed a few times while reading the first of the series (May Day), so I took a chance and read August Moon. I was disappointed at the lack of character development, this is the fourth book and the surrounding characters are still one-demnsional – particularly Kennie who is annoying and unbelivable as the town’s mayor, but also the police chief and other characters who seem to pop in to give the main character someone to talk to and poke fun of their small town Minnesotan-ness. The mystery was also unexpected in a fourth novel, I couldn’t believe it. I think the author should think about expanding her novels 100 pages or so so she has room for the “plot” as well as her cast of oddball characters.

This is the first Veronica Lake movie I’ve ever seen, and I’ll definitely have to check out the others she’s been in. She was beautiful, and surprisingly funny. I though the number and length of the montages bogged down the film though.

The Arcane Society novels are the worst of the Amanda Quck bunch, but I forsee The Second Circle and The First Circle unfortunately.

The only main female character (Liz) was such an absolute MORON - predictable and annoying, but the spy story was fascinating.

Quite frankly, I have been waiting 14 years for another Indiana Jones movie. :) Does this one live up to the wait? Not quite, but it was entertaining. I think it’s problem was that it was trying too hard. The old Indy action wasn’t quite right, and there were some very silly parts (Shia LaBoef swinging through a jungle on vines like Tarzan?), but it was fun to see Indiana again.

The James Deans

The title and cover are misleading because the story had nothing to do with James Dean and that’s what I was looking for when I picked the book up, but a good noir-ish mystery.

Am not sure about this. I was disappointed by the ending, it left me thinking “this is it?”

Little shocked at the amount of white space on the pages and font size (space filler much?) and the plots were iffy. I guess I keep reading because I thought the first Undead books were funny, quirky and interesting, but maybe I should just give up because the last few MJD books I’ve read have felt slapped together.

I’ve decided that Trouble is my business is my new catch phrase. Am just waiting for the opportunity to use it.