five stars
just like the rest of the series I loved it, read it in one day , just couldn't put it down, love how you finally find out Yassen became the way he is and was in the book. If you love the Alex Rider series then your love this one as well.

rating:3.5
Challenges:
2016 Around The Year in 52 Books:
9. A book that was mentioned in another book

2016 Choose Your Own Challenge:
15:A book made into a Disney film

April's Read Your E-Books Thon
Read a book of a specific length - over 300 pages. 328 pages 2. Read a book you got for free , and 4. Read the first book in a sequel

what did I think of it:
Its So much different then the 1960 Disney Movie then I thought it would be, I give it a 3.5 because I didn't like Pollyanna or her Aunt, and it was hard for me to get in to the story. Don't know if I want to pick up book 2 or not. There was some stuff they did use in the movie but I hate to say this but the movie was a hole lot better than the book.

My rating: 4.5 starts
Goodreads Group challenge as well as one of my 2016 goals :
A book by an author you feel you should have read by now
what I though of it:
Ok so I'm going to admit that this is the first time I've ever picked up a book by H.P. Lovecraft, for some reason I never did read any of his work will I was in school and when I went back to school for my high school diploma I still didn't pick up any of his work , I did like it in fact and I listened to it on audio book , but I do have a copy of it both on my kindle app and on my bookshout app, with that said I will be picking up more of his work

They call them ‘husks’, the demons that cross the Farfall Mountains, leaving a trail of blood in their wake.
No incursion goes unmet; otherwise the cancer would spread until the whole of Aethir was consumed by nightmares.

That’s why the Maresmen were formed—trackers and warriors charged with holding back the tide. Each of them is different, uniquely suited to the task in hand, but one thing they hold in common: they are half-breeds, part human, part husk; and they are bound by an inviolable rule:

Hunt the husks, or be hunted themselves.

Jebediah Skayne has been hunting husks his entire adult life, but there’s something different about the trail leading to the fishing town of Portis on the shores of the Chalice Sea: no spoor, no footprints; nothing save the unmistakable feeling of wrongness.

Finding a husk in Portis would be near impossible for someone who didn’t have the sixth sense, but the instant Jeb arrives, all trace of the incursion vanishes. Forced to rely on more mundane methods of investigation, he starts to uncover a town rife with corruption, where a man will kill you for looking at a woman the wrong way; a town that’s seen its share of incursions from the land of nightmares before.

As events start to slip from his control, he realizes the husk he's come to kill is one step ahead of the game, and it holds a secret that will shake his world to the core

my rating : 5 stars
Goodreads challenges:
2016 Choose Your Own Challenge: 28:a book based entirely on its cover

what did I think: I loved it , different then anything I've read before, like a western dystopian.

A steamboat goes up in flames . . . and down to the bottom of the sea. A locomotive plunges into a creek . . . and vanishes into mystery. A German U-boat sends an American troop transport, and eight hundred on board, to a watery grave . . . on Christmas Eve.

Clive Cussler and his crack team of NUMA (National Underwater Marine Agency, a nonprofit organization that searches for historic shipwrecks) volunteers have found the remains of these and numerous other tragic wrecks. Here are the dramatic, true accounts of twelve of the most remarkable underwater discoveries made by Cussler and his team. As suspenseful and satisfying as Cussler’s renowned Dirk Pitt novels, The Sea Hunters is a unique story of true commitment and courage

my rating: five out of five
Goodreads Group challenge : 2016 Around The Year In 52 Books:
36: was An identity book - a book about a different culture, religion or sexual orientation but I used my .( Wild Card):A book you started but never finished

What did I think of it :
I know going in that I would love it because its Clive Cussler and his one of my 2 all time favorite authors to read, fist I want to say that it normally doesn't take me this long to read his books but when I started this on the 10th of this month I had just picked up a new book and couldn't wait to read that one, but this one is and was an DNF because I started a few years ago and it was DNF because I ended up getting sick, anyway I'm so glad that I picked it up and restarted it and finished it, because liked I said before I loved it, there was so much history in it where it was about ships, lost locomtive, and U-Boats that for some reason they just vanished from the face of the Earth, loved how Mr.Cussler's written always pulls me into his books, and its the same with one, love how there was black and white photos and drawings as well as maps though out the book, its a must read for anyone who loves history as much as I do