Elizabeth Stewart (1)

I enjoyed this book. Maybe not the best mystery I have ever read, but it was fun and entertaining. I liked the main character, Kit. I liked her budding relationship with Patrick, the detective. I like reading about psychics and tarot cards, so I was happy to see them in the story. Even though the murderer was leaving tarot cards at the murders, I still wish the tarot had been featured more in the story.

Kit's landlord, Walter, owns a bookstore, that Kit lives above. I love reading and love going into bookstores, so I also wish it had been featured more in the story. However, I felt the writing style was good, and held my interest throughout the entire book. I would recommend this to fans of cozy mysteries. I was able to download this one to my kindle for free and I am happy that I did.… (more)

I just finished reading Blue Gold, and it's the first time since becoming a book reviewer that a book has left me speechless and made a deep and lasting impression on me.

The book is very well written, and explores the different lives of 3 girls: Fiona in Canada, living some high school drama and cyber bullying, Laiping in China, working (being exploited) in an electronics manufacturing factory, and Sylvie, living in the middle of the war torn DRC, directly affected by rape, murder and corruption.

The writing is so vivid that you can picture what each of these girls faces on a daily basis. It's shocking, eye-opening and deeply disturbing. Even though this book is fictional, everything could, and does, happen every day.

I found the afterword very important, and am glad the author added it.

The first thing I did after reading the last page was to download the buycott.com app, and then write this review.
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I just finished reading Blue Gold, and it's the first time since becoming a book reviewer that a book has left me speechless and made a deep and lasting impression on me.

The book is very well written, and explores the different lives of 3 girls: Fiona in Canada, living some high school drama and cyber bullying, Laiping in China, working (being exploited) in an electronics manufacturing factory, and Sylvie, living in the middle of the war torn DRC, directly affected by rape, murder and corruption.

The writing is so vivid that you can picture what each of these girls faces on a daily basis. It's shocking, eye-opening and deeply disturbing. Even though this book is fictional, everything could, and does, happen every day.

I found the afterword very important, and am glad the author added it.

The first thing I did after reading the last page was to download the buycott.com app, and then write this review.
… (more)