Book Blogger Hop: July 10th - 16th — Book Club

Hosted by Coffee Addicted Writer

"Book Blogger Hop" is a weekly meme where our fellow blogger submit new topics and everyone joins in with their answers.

This Week's Topic/Question:

If you are in a book club, where do you meet? A restaurant, someone's home, the library? If you aren't in a book club, why not? (submitted by Elizabeth @ Silver's Reviews)

My Answer:

I belong two two book clubs, Mocha Girls Read and Nerds & Novels.

For Mocha Girls Read, we've met in book stores, libraries and community centers. We only meet at restaurants for book swaps.

Nerds & Novels mostly has been restaurants and pretty much any place who will allow our voracious group to congregate.

Book Review: A Wanted Woman by Eric Jerome Dickey (ADULT)

Title: A Wanted Woman

Author: Eric Jerome Dickey

Genres: Thriller, African American, Action, Crime

Format: Audiobook

Narrators: Zoë Bell & Dominic Hoffman

Length: 14 hours & 26 minutes

Release Date: April 15, 2014

Book Club Selection: May Book of the Month -- Mocha Girls Read

She is a woman of a thousand faces, an assassin who could be anyone, anywhere.

The Trinidad contract was supposed to be simple: to make a living man become a dead man. When the job goes bad under the watchful eye of a bank security camera, there is nowhere for agent MX-401, known as Reaper, to hide from the fearsome local warlords, the Laventille Killers.

Her employers, the Barbarians, send her to Barbados, the next island over, barely two hundred miles away, with the LK’s in hot pursuit of the woman who took many of their own. With the scant protection of a dank safe house, no passport, and no access to funds, an island paradise becomes her prison.

While she trawls for low-profile assignments to keep her skills sharp and a few dollars in her pocket, Reaper discovers that family ties run deep, on both sides of the fight. Will the woman everyone wants, who has lived countless lives in the service of others, finally discover who she really is?

In A Wanted Woman, New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey delivers an adrenaline-pumping rush of a read.

FIRST IMPRESSION:: Had this book not been required reading for my book club, I never would have picked this up. I approached with extreme prejudice, thinking this was going to be a romance novel with a dash of mystery and a pinch of action and suspense. I was wrong dead wrong -- on an epic proportion. This was probably the bloodiest, goriest and the most crude books I have ever encountered. Definitely the most racist and misogynistic. So much so, that it was hard to enjoy.