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The amount of backstabbing & lying is unbelievable as everyone is trying to save their egos.

While I have trouble rooting for the main character(wow is she messed up) from pages 120-140 is spine tingling writing on the interview with the shrink who may or may not be the serial killer.

The first meeting of Grant & Lee in Mexico so dripping with foreshadowing.

Already a five-star read. Robert E. Lee is shot at for the first time & General Winfried Scott gives him orders.
"You know how to build a fort, let's see if you can destroy a fort." Wow what intriguing dialogue-makes history come alive.

The Reva women have terribly taste in men.

While enjoying the novel, the author's use of Spanish words is annoying.

The author, Graham Greene can certainly write lines that jump off the page at you. Page 20="Daintry's smile resembled the painful reopening of a wound." Page 126" If fear and love are indivisible, so are fear and hate."

The mail to Frankie from her mother is hilarious.

Intriguing novel about a Scotland Yard detective battling his own World War 1 ghosts from the trenches he gets a case of a family that has way too many "accidental" deaths.

Riveting adventure of six going for fortune & glory adventurers out to kill a dastardly king. Has enough excitement for any adrenaline junkie.

In the prequel to Lonesome Dove, we meet Blue Duck who gave Woodrow & Gus so much trouble in Lonesome Dove.

Lincoln was so vilified by the Southern States that 10 Southern States refused to put his name on the Presidential ballot. The US House Of Representatives was so divided that it took seven weeks to finally vote in the house majority speaker,

Would like just one character to be happy in this book for 2 pages!!

Our weary travelers find 2 scalped miners.

A posse with our heroes & Wild Bill Hickok that gets into an ambush shootout. That's as good as it gets!

Called Jim his slave's name until he picks his free name of James Golightly-is the author having fun with that name & picked the last name after Truman Capote's heroine in Breakfast At Tiffanys- Holly Golightly? If so, how funny!

This novel is depressing & Patch is morbid.

Amren, Feyre & Rhys off to steal treasure from Summer Court.

Interesting dinner & conversation with Rhys's guests.

Am trying to pace myself so I do not read too fast about this fascinating mystery.

Rhysand kidnaps Feyre for the second time!

Has taken over 560 pages for our star-crossed lovers to have sex. Soon after sex the man dies in a fire (sent to hell?) & the woman is cured of consumption. What is the author trying to symbolically say?

While I admire the author's descriptive writing, the plot is glacially slow & boring.

Becoming very annoyed with the author's use of French phrases when the story is in London. Was he trying to impress his editor with his knowledge of French?

FBI Director Hoover puts Oppenheimer the man who built the Atomic Bomb that won the World War 2 under strict surveillance because Hoover thinks he will defect to the Soviet Union!!

Oppenheimer unwittingly hires two Soviet spies (Fuchs & Hall) at Los Alamos, both have high level secrets on the A-bomb.

July 20, 1943, The US Army issues Oppenheimer a security clearance at Los Alamos when the atomic bomb is being made.

Oppenheimer begins dating a communist, Jean Tatlock.

After visiting Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer writes to his brother, "Einstein is cuckoo." At Göttingen he meets Houtermans who competes with him to build the A-bomb, Houtermans is a Nazi.