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Ewa Kubasik ewakubasik874b — very different from anything i've ever read, very eye opening and heart breaking. I loved it.

Mike Moeller michaskunst — This series is AMAZING. My daughter had been trying to get me to read them and I thought that teenage vampires would not do it for me... BOY was I wrong...

Najid Bin prayshan — ** spoiler alert ** I have a feeling that most people reading this unless they’re paying close attention to the dust jacket will have no idea that this is based on a real man, Giordano Bruno. I was wary picking this up. I mean we have Edger Allen Poe, Oscar Wilde, Queen Bess and other all solving crimes now and I’m not really a fan of that. And this starts a tad slowly with how Bruno got declared a heretic in the first place. This is set in the 1500’s and it made me mad in all the right ways. It ended up being very very good and the anger comes from the utter stupidity that went on then, the all out war between Catholics and Protestants (that some people still want to carry forth today). The bulk of the story takes place when Bruno goes to England in pursuit of a heretical book supposedly written by Hermes Trismegistus (which is how I first learned about Bruno myself, studying Hermeticism and alchemy). Bruno believes in Copernicus’s heliocentric universe and in the idea that we ourselves are the divine (I suspect I would have liked this man) Bruno’s friend Sir Philip Sidney has set him up to work for Sir Francis Walsingham, principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth to help him root out Papist spies when he goes to Oxford to join a debate (quick history lesson, Elizabeth’s father was a staunch Protestant and purged much of the British Isles of Catholicism, Queen Marry (i.e. Bloody Mary) brought it back and now Elizabeth is back to killing Catholics). Bruno reluctantly agrees, far more interested in finding that book and debating his point of view at Oxford. He is the guest of John Underhill, the rector of Oxford. Bruno is quickly smitten by Sophia, Underhill’s educated and feisty daughter. For that matter, I was pretty taken with her character as well. Unfortunately things go almost immediate awry as one of the professors is murdered by a starved hunting dog. Bruno thinks it was murder. Underhill and the others (most of whom do not like or trust the visiting Italian) do not and try to cover it up. Someone passes notes to Bruno in Papist code. The novel is long and engrossing almost right up to the end as more and more people die mimicking the Protestant book of martyrs. There are a ton of characters and where the book lost me only slightly was in the fact that all the twist and turns lead back to the one of the most obvious suspects for obvious reasons (or maybe I read too many mysteries). That and Sophia loses a step and becomes almost too typical (and at the same time, it’s believable, especially for this time period.) I loved this and looking at the time frame, Parris could get several more books out before Bruno’s ultimate end.

Olga Poppius olgapoppiu2c05 — Superfun read about a rich debutante in 1815 who would rather practice Greek than find a husband. Unfortunately her mom prefers the husband option so she is being courted by her neighbor. He seems fine, and she enjoys going to his unwrapping party where they open up an Egyptian mummy. She takes a token out of the mummy--and this kicks off a great adventure story that includes mysterious midnight coach rides, disguises, the Rosetta Stone, quotes from Jane Austen novels, and more. The characters are great--I love her father, her brother is a rake, her best friend is sweet, and of course another man comes into her life well. It's a clean read, too. Recommended for readers who like adventure along with their romance.

Lobão Junior josemaurobr — pretty good...

Iván Gomez _van_omez1 — Basically, this is a fun and silly book. The kids enjoy laughing at the confusion of the barn animals. And the kids enjoy helping them know the REAL answers. You can really read and laugh with this one. If you want to, you could also spend time specifically talking about how, just like the farm animals, people are the same and different all at once.