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Hannibal Jones #6
A Little Wildness
When Nina Bonnaventura walked into Private Detective Hannibal Jones's office, he could see that she was trouble. She wanted him to prove her lover innocent of his wife's murder. Hannibal knew neither Nina nor her boyfriend would give him the whole truth. What he didn't know was that she was connected to the mob, that the boyfriend had enlisted a questionable lawyer, or that another murder was just around the corner . . .
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First published October 14, 2009
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Austin S. Camacho
32 books236 followersAustin S. Camacho is the author of six novels about Washington Dc-based private eye Hannibal Jones, five in the Stark and O’Brien international adventure-thriller series, and the detective novel, Beyond Blue. His short stories have been featured in several anthologies including Dying in a Winter Wonderland – an Independent Mystery Booksellers Association Top Ten Bestseller for 2008 - and he is featured in the Edgar nominated African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study by Frankie Y. Bailey.
Camacho is deeply involved with the writing community. He is a past president of the Maryland Writers Association, past Vice President of the Virginia Writers Club, and is an active member of Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers and Sisters in Crime.
Camacho is deeply involved with the writing community. He is a past president of the Maryland Writers Association, past Vice President of the Virginia Writers Club, and is an active member of Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers and Sisters in Crime.
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March 17, 2011
I thoroughly enjoyed Living With Angels and can't wait for Book Two in the God Wars. I will tell you Rob threw me for a loop about 3/4 the way through but then my world righted and before I knew it the book was ended with me sitting here going WTH??? Not another one I have to wait to find out more on!! I am not going to reveal a lot simply because I think you need to read the book. Your heart will go out to Diana and if you are like me there will be a time or two when you will want to slap Doc. All in all this is one you want to plan on picking up. Make sure you have time to sit and read though, you will get sucked in and before you know it, it's 1 am and you have to get up in 5 hrs to put kiddos on a bus.
March 25, 2012
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This book was as Sci-Fi as you can get. About the only Supernaturals missing were the Vamps and the Wolves… but this is just book one in the series.
It started out interestingly enough as we meet our lead, 17 year old Diana Jalinowski, who is at the end of a gymnastics meet that could determine whether she gets to compete in the Olympics.. She’s a talented gymnast who has been using her “power” to perform stunts at meets that defy the body’s physical limits. Diana volunteers with mentally disabled children and one afternoon a group of thugs tease the kids she’s watching and she humiliates them with her powers. This leads to one of the thugs getting revenge by running her family’s car off the road one day killing both of her parents and leaving her paralyzed.
Fast forward 8 years and we find a very angry, bitter Diana working in a law office helping abuse victims prosecute their abusers. When one woman, a black woman who has converted to Muslim, won’t admit that her boyfriend is abusing her (then why is she in the law office to begin with?) Diana gives her a history lesson on Muslims enslaving the Africans long before the whites came along. It’s a very violent, high-drama scene that ends with Diana telling off her boss, her client, and anyone else who will listen. This is just the beginning of the overly dramatic, sarcastic, bitter dialogue we get from Diana.
As the book progresses we meet her college professor who winds up being a demon, her therapist who is actually an Angel and the aliens that orchestrate the war that is to end human kind.
I did not enjoy this book at all. The characters were not developed, the story line was choppy and forced, and the plot was completely non-relatable. The author constantly used “the F word” to get his point across and that, coupled with the totally superfluous sex scene, were only distracting. I really wonder if that’s the way an Angel would behave.
I won’t be reading Book Two.
Beware of spoilers
This book was as Sci-Fi as you can get. About the only Supernaturals missing were the Vamps and the Wolves… but this is just book one in the series.
It started out interestingly enough as we meet our lead, 17 year old Diana Jalinowski, who is at the end of a gymnastics meet that could determine whether she gets to compete in the Olympics.. She’s a talented gymnast who has been using her “power” to perform stunts at meets that defy the body’s physical limits. Diana volunteers with mentally disabled children and one afternoon a group of thugs tease the kids she’s watching and she humiliates them with her powers. This leads to one of the thugs getting revenge by running her family’s car off the road one day killing both of her parents and leaving her paralyzed.
Fast forward 8 years and we find a very angry, bitter Diana working in a law office helping abuse victims prosecute their abusers. When one woman, a black woman who has converted to Muslim, won’t admit that her boyfriend is abusing her (then why is she in the law office to begin with?) Diana gives her a history lesson on Muslims enslaving the Africans long before the whites came along. It’s a very violent, high-drama scene that ends with Diana telling off her boss, her client, and anyone else who will listen. This is just the beginning of the overly dramatic, sarcastic, bitter dialogue we get from Diana.
As the book progresses we meet her college professor who winds up being a demon, her therapist who is actually an Angel and the aliens that orchestrate the war that is to end human kind.
I did not enjoy this book at all. The characters were not developed, the story line was choppy and forced, and the plot was completely non-relatable. The author constantly used “the F word” to get his point across and that, coupled with the totally superfluous sex scene, were only distracting. I really wonder if that’s the way an Angel would behave.
I won’t be reading Book Two.
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