Coral Reef Views

Coral Reef Views by Vicki Delany

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


As a heads-up, this is part of the Rapid Reads line from Orca Books, which are novellas rather than full-length novels. This is the type of book you keep around when reading time is limited.

Ashley Grant is a Canadian paramedic who has relocated to the Caribbean islands. In this book, her parents are visiting, and her bored father starts nosing around after his new friend disappears. I found Coral Reef Views to be an engaging and fun read. Though this is book 3 in a series, it works well as a stand-alone and doesn’t require you to start from the beginning of the series (I haven’t read the preceding two books and had no difficulties jumping in).

I received a copy from LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers group.



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Dare You Twice

I received a copy of Dare You Twice as an ebook from LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers.

I had read the first book in this series (I Dare You) back in November 2016, also as part of the Early Reviewers program.  The first book was rough in patches, but not horrible.  I quite liked the heroine, Kate Blackmore, and the concept of the book, and finished that 2016 review with “I’m likely to read a “Book 2″ if it comes out.”

The cliche is “be careful what you wish for”…  Well, Book 2 came out and I picked up a copy of “Dare You Twice” from Early Reviewers. Unfortunately, I was disappointed in the sequel. I like Kate Blackmore as the protagonist, but the book itself was disjointed and was all over the map; we start in Canada, dash off to the UK (while Scott heads to the Middle East) and then Kate’s off to Paris. There are at least three separate stories but I felt that justice wasn’t done to any of then.  Frankly, I was not that interested in the Scott/Joe military escapades, and would have been happy to follow clues with Kate.

In my opinion, not bad to pick up if you want some fluff reading (and I note that both books are available on Kindle Unlimited).