Wanna Get Lucky?A young woman plunges from a Las Vegas sightseeing helicopter, landing in the Pirate’s lagoon in front of the Treasure Island Hotel in the middle of the 8:30 Pirate Show. Almost everyone writes her off as another Vegas victim.
But Lucky O’Toole smells a rat. She’s head of Customer Relations at The Babylon, the newest, most opulent mega-casino and resort on the Strip, so she’s got a lot on her plate: the Adult Film industry’s annual awards banquet, a spouse-swapping convention, sex toy purveyors preying on the pocket-protector crowd attending ElectroniCon…. Still, Lucky can’t resist turning over a few stones.
When a former flame is one of the snakes she uncovers, Lucky’s certain she’s no longer dealing with an anonymous Sin City suicide. To top it all off, Lucky’s best friend Teddie—Las Vegas’ finest female impersonator—presses to take their relationship to the next level. Leave it to Lucky to attract a man who looks better in a dress than she does.
Lucky must manage the Babylon’s onslaught of outrageous festivities, solve a murder, and struggle to keep her life and libido from spinning out of control… not to mention keep her balance in six inch heels.
Lethal WarriorsWhen the 506th Infantry Regiment—known since World War II as the Band of Brothers—returned to Colorado Springs after their first tour in Iraq, a series of brutal crimes swept through the city. The Band of Brothers had been deployed to the most violent places in Iraq, and some of the soldiers were suffering from what they had seen and done in combat. Without much time to recover, they were sent back to the front lines. After their second tour of duty, the battalion was renamed the Lethal Warriors, and, true to their name, the soldiers once again brought the violence home.
Lethal Warriors brings to life the chilling true stories of these veterans—from their enlistment and multiple tours of duty to their struggles with ptsd and their failure to reintegrate in society. With piercing insight and employing his relentless investigative skills, journalist David Philipps shines a light not only to this particular unit, but also to the painful reality of ptsd as it rages throughout the country.
And she also wants everyone to know that she's still a major fan of The Help. Yes, it came out in 2009, but since it's been on the best seller list since it came out, she figures it ought to count for 2010 as well.
Patty fell head over heals for:
Three Ladies Beside The SeaShe says, "It is the most wonderful delightful book ever!!! And that goes for both the story and the illustrations."
Hank's been rooting for:
The Dead PathThis is the best horror novel I've read in the last quarter century, since T.E.D. Klein's brilliant but largely neglected and long out-of-print book The Ceremonies. (I'm not counting the Dark Tower books, which are a
reading experience in and of themselves.)
Australian debut novelist Irwin builds the suspense in a gradual way which drew me in and made me completely willing to believe in the story. I'm not particularly arachnophobic, but I will admit I thought twice when a spider crawled on a table I was sitting at this weekend. But the spiders--and spider-like things--in this story serve an old, inexplicable evil, which I found very refreshing among the current publishing trends of lovey-dovey vampires and charmless zombies! (Sorry, people who like lovey-dovey vampires and charmless zombies.) I don't want to say too much about the ending, but it neatly manages to avoid the common pitfall in horror fiction of not having a satisfying ending because readers' imaginations suddenly stop being tantalized. I thought Irwin did a very good job of keeping things only half-glimpsed, as well they probably should be.
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