I think the thing I enjoy most about Ted Bell's Alex Hawke novels is the sense of balance. It's there in the characters, the emotions, the plot threads, and the pacing. If you're like me, you come for the action and the adventure, but it's all the other elements that keep you reading each page close...
Today's book is given to you by the letter "C." Cheesy, campy, cartoony and cliche-ridden. We meet Lord Alexander Hawke, the "hero" of this novel in the prologue when he's seven-years-old. Pirates board his family yacht in search of a treasure map. Apparently a descendent of the original owner of th...
most of the stories were fairly blah.
I won Phantom through the Goodreads First Read Giveaway on 03/13/2012 and received it on 05/30/2012.** SPOILER ALERT ** YOU'VE BEEN WARNED! **Ted Bell put out another awesome book in the Alexander Hawke series. Bell's books are so well written that I really don't have any complaints. Usually. I do h...
Most of the stories were okay. Some were very good, others I didn't like. I did like being able to try out new authors to get a feel for their writing style. Several have been added to my "To-Read" list, which seems to grow much faster than my "Read" list!
I was pleasantly surprised at this book. The mystery kept me till the end, it was a times a little slow. There were at times, things for confusing because they were happening at the same time. Like of some the other books, this one has words that are either in French or Spanish and yet they aren't t...
Releases March 20, 2012
This is the sixth book of the series and follows the events of Tsar. British spy Alex Hawke has had his whole world ripped away from him. His love and son, he believes, were both killed in a fire. He has turned into a sour puss and a drunkard and even his friends have pretty much given up on him.His...
I won this book through the Goodreads First-Read Giveaway on September 7th, 2010!Synopsis of Warlord - Alex Hawke is an M16 operative who has seemingly lost his will to live and everyone around him notices. His life in Bermuda centers around drinking, smoking and mourning the loss of his love a year...
There is dumb, and then there is industrial strength dumb. I no longer know precisely how I came about getting my hands on Ted Bell’s massively disappointing and offensive novel Pirate. The library sent me an email and told me it had come in, so I drove there to pick it up. With its skull & cross bo...
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