Title: Creep
Author: Jennifer Hillier

Ethan Wolfe has a girlfriend of his own and didn’t mind so much that his professor and lover, Dr. Sheila Tao, was getting married. What set him off was the fact that she perceived her engagement as the end of their relationship. Unwilling to stop their affair, he becomes the creep that every woman fears.

Creep is a dark thriller that delves into the world of psychotic killers, sexual addictions, and perverse psychological warfare with an incredible plot twist. The characters are well developed and believably defined. The plot is fast paced without being rushed. The editing was practically flawless.

I found this book hard to put down and my attention was riveted from the beginning. Things are not always as they appear; the innocent are not so innocent, the meek are not so defenseless, and the guilty … well I don’t want to give too much away. Buy it, read it, enjoy it, and ALWAYS second guess just who you might be dating. I’d recommend this book to anyone who loves thrillers.

Reviewed by Laurie Love from A Goddess of Frugality. I received a free copy of this book in exchange for this review. All opinions are my own.

Route 66: A Crash Course In Navigating Life With The Bible
Krish Kandiah

Synopsis: Route 66 is book that helps you to discover how the 66 books of the Bible help us to know God and how to live for him. This book is a crash course in enjoying the breadth and depth of the Bible, packed full of practical help.

For many of us, there is a disconnect between the Bible we know we should treasure and the book we struggle to read. On the one hand, we know the Bible is a lamp to our feet, honey on our lips, the sword of the Spirit, and given to equip us for every good work. But sometimes the Bible feels more like a bizarre collection of ancient texts filled with obscure laws, irrelevant genealogies and incomprehensible prophecies with a few nuggets of wisdom, timeless stories and comforting promises mixed in. Using the analogy of a journey, Route 66 unfolds how different passages of the Bible can help us travel through different passages of our life.

There are three ways you can use this book:

1. On your own
If your Bible reading needs some inspiration, then this book provides a user-friendly way to get inspired and skilled up to handle the Bible better. Take your time, aiming to read it over eight weeks. There are forty “travel journal” Bible studies for you to put into practice the lessons you are learning along the way, and also an 8-week Bible-reading challenge for the more adventurous.

2. With your small group
An African proverb says, “If you want to travel fast, travel alone, but if you want to travel far, travel together.” Reading Route 66 will be a lot more beneficial if you read it with others. With stand-alone small-group questions at the end of each section, this book makes an ideal 8-week small-group series. Group members can be encouraged to keep the travel journal or take up the 8-week Bible-reading challenge between meetings.

3. With your church
The Bible is God’s word for all his people, and to have the whole church literally on the same page of the Bible can make for exciting and effective discussions and discipleship. Route 66 contains a variety of ways this can work:

My Review: I really enjoyed reading through Route 66. The book is divided up so that you can get through it in 8 weeks. Every day you read a couple pages from the book that challenge you to think about a certain point from the Bible. After reading in the book, you read a passage from the Bible listed in the Travel Journal section.. Each Travel Journal comes with a few questions to ponder after you do your Bible reading.

For me, this was a great way to really dig into the Bible and breathe new life into passages that I’d read many times before. Because I only had to read a couple pages each day, I found that I didn’t get bored and was able to keep with it.

You can also go through this book in a small group or Sunday School class at your church. It would be great to use as a resource in a group setting and the book even includes a Small Group Study section for each week.

I recommend Route 66 for any Christian who is looking to gain a better understanding of the Bible.

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I received a copy of this book for review purposes. All opinions are my own.

Title: The Black Stiletto
Author: Raymond Benson
Release Date: September 5, 2011

Synopsis: Could Martin Talbot’s elderly, Alzheimer-stricken mother, Judy, really have been the Black Stiletto?

When Martin discovers several volumes of her diaries hidden by his mother, he is stunned beyond all imagination.

His mother, the underground heroine of yesteryear?

The famed, still unidentified woman who battled Communist spies, took on the Mafia, and preyed on common crooks?

The woman who exacted punishment on evildoers without mercy?

But it is all described, in great detail, in the diaries. What caused her to begin her quest for justice. Her decision to act outside the law. Her feats as the famed and feared vigilante. How her reputation exploded. In short, how it all played out.

Could it be true? Talbot is filled with doubt and disbelief. But the reappearance of one of the Stiletto’s old enemies with a thirst for merciless revenge makes the story more than real and could imperil the life of not only
the Stiletto, but her son and granddaughter as well.

My Review: I LOVED this book, I never wanted to put it down, and I can’t wait until the story continues.

Even though the book was presented from a first person perspective there were three main characters; Judy, her son Martin, and her adversary Roberto. Many other authors have tried to write in a similar fashion and have fallen flat, but these characters all had such unique voices it felt like a seamless transition from one character to another.

The book feels like a starting point for a series and so could easily have fallen into a trap of seemingly taking forever to get to any of the good stuff in this first book. However the story and character development were so rich it neatly bypassed that trap and completely hooked me from almost page one. It was like reading a gloriously fleshed out story of a comic book and I half expected to see POW! WHAM! on every page I turned.

I’ll be keeping an eye out for Mr. Bensons next works, especially the continuing adventures of The Black Stiletto.

Reviewed by Jessie from 3 Broke Chicks.

I received a copy of The Black Stiletto for review. All opinions are my own.