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Brian's Book Blog
Brian's Book Blog rated it 7 years ago
3.5 Stars - this is a decent start to a trilogy.This book is mostly setting the scene and world building, introducing the main characters.There was quite a lot going on, mainly focussing on the four main wizards apprentice characters and their strengths and weaknesses.Don't let "wizards apprentice" ...
Dang Rover: Cover to Cover
Dang Rover: Cover to Cover rated it 8 years ago
I was in the mood for some good historical fiction, and The Cres.... Zzzzzz. Zzzzzz. Zzzzzz... Oh, sorry. Fell asleep. Like I was saying--I wanted to read some engaging historical fiction. The Cres...cent Ss...p.......yyy... Zzzzz. Zzzzzz. Snort. Zzzzz.... [Jolts awake, disoriented. Wipes ...
Memories From Books on Booklikes
Memories From Books on Booklikes rated it 9 years ago
Victoria Crossing by Michael Wallace has a classic plot of a young woman seeking to make her way independently and despite hardships. She finds friends and enemies along the way. She achieves success. She suffers setbacks. She starts again. The concept holds a promise that is not completely reached;...
It's a Mad Mad World
It's a Mad Mad World rated it 9 years ago
Michael Wallace, author of The Crescent Spy, on tour November 2015 About The Crescent Spy Paperback Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (November 10, 2015) Writing under a man’s name, Josephine Breaux is the finest reporter at Washington’s Morning Clarion. Using her wit and charm, she never fails ...
100 Pages A Day...Stephanie's Book Reviews
Josephine Breaux makes her living as a newspaper reporter; however during the Civil War she must write under a male pseudonym. As a female, she is able to get information from both the Union and the Confederacy. When her cover is blown, Josephine is arrested at a traitor and spy. To her surprise...
FictionZeal
FictionZeal rated it 9 years ago
If you’re reporting news, you don’t generally want to become the news. However, other than unearthing that ‘Joseph’ is actually Josephine Breaux, the article in their competitor’s paper is wrong. She is not a spy even though she speaks with generals on both sides of the war. She all but loses her...
Sharon E. Cathcart
Sharon E. Cathcart rated it 10 years ago
At the end of Gates of Babylon, The, I was pretty well convinced that author Michael Wallace had come to hate his characters. After all, he had put Jacob Christianson and the rest of the Blister Creek residents into a world where a supervolcano eruption on the other side of the planet had quite lite...
Sharon E. Cathcart
Sharon E. Cathcart rated it 11 years ago
but lately it seems as though author Michael Wallace is getting tired of his characters. Why do I say that? Because Wallace has decided that, as though the chauvinistic, polygamous community of Blister Creek is not bad enough already, that the community must now be part of a post-apocalyptic world...
Sharon E. Cathcart
Sharon E. Cathcart rated it 12 years ago
This is the fifth of Michael Wallace's Blister Creek "Righteous" series, and the third I have read. In this entry, reluctant Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saint Jacob Christianson has been named prophet in the wake of his father's death. He no longer believes in the teachings with which he was raised,...
Sharon E. Cathcart
Sharon E. Cathcart rated it 12 years ago
"The Blessed and the Damned" is the latest in Michael Wallace's Blister Creek series. It's the story of two warring fundamentalist LDS cults, replete with competing "prophets," sister wives ... the whole shebang.It also has overtones of the Branch Davidian compound, as each of the warring sects has...
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