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Book Review From Oh My Bookness: The Revenants: The Odyssey Home by Scott Kauffman

The Revenants: The Odyssey Home  Scott Kauffman   Paperback : 306 pages Publisher : Moonshine Cove Publishing, LLC ISBN-10 : 1937327817 Release Date : December 15, 2015 Book Description: A grief-stricken candy-striper serving in a VA hospital following her brother’s death in Viet Nam struggles to return home an anonymous veteran of the Great War against the skullduggery of a congressman who not only controls the hospital as part of his small-town fiefdom but knows the name of her veteran. A name if revealed would end his political ambitions and his fifty-year marriage. In its retelling of Odysseus’s journey, Revenants casts a flickering candle upon the charon toll exacted not only from the families of those who fail to return home but of those who do. Book Review: Revenants: The Odyssey Home  Author : Scott Kauffman  Review By:  Brittany Perez   ( Oh My Bookness ) @ohmybookness Bperez...

Book Review From Oh My Bookness: She Bites by Roger Arsht & Caitlin Hawker

She Bites  by Roger Arsht & Caitlin Hawker Publication date:  September 20, 2015 Publisher:  Archway Publishing Book Length: 224 pages ISBN-10: 1480822213 ISBN-13: 978-1480822214 Book Description: Dr. Robyn Sparks is a veterinarian with a dark secret: she moonlights as a self-appointed vigilante, who deals her own brand of justice to animal abusers by murdering them. If you do bad things to dogs, Robyn does bad things to you. She Bites tells the story of a talented veterinarian who dispenses brutal judgment. Her work with sick and injured animals provides Robyn with a view of life's most tender moments as well as a view of man's most brutal behaviors. Robyn's regular habit of sending bad people to the pet crematorium is interrupted when she meets Jack Williams, a damaged detective who is fighting his own demons. Their relationship is a roller coaster ride of tangled emotions and legal close calls. Ultimately, Robyn has to...

Book Review From Oh My Bookness: Pigeon Blood-Red (Thrilogy) by Ed Duncan

Pigeon Blood-Red (Thrilogy)  by Ed Duncan  Publication date: September 2, 2016 Publisher: Ed Duncan  Length Paperback: 250 Length E-Book: 202 ASIN:  B01KYNYUAI ISBN-10:  0692769471 ISBN- 13:  978-0692769478 Book Description: For underworld enforcer Richard "Rico" Sanders, it seemed like an ordinary job. Retrieve his gangster boss's priceless pigeon-blood red ruby necklace and teach the double-dealing cheat who stole it a lesson. A job like a hundred before it. But the chase quickly goes sideways and takes Rico from the mean streets of Chicago to sunny Honolulu, where the hardened hit man finds himself in uncharted territory when a couple of innocent bystanders are accidentally embroiled in the crime. As Rico pursues his new targets, the hunter and his prey develop an unlikely respect for one another and Rico is faced with a momentous decision: follow his orders to kill the couple whose courage and character have won his admiration,...