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Old 09-04-2014, 11:36 AM   #20663
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Next up is a complete change of scenery from the American southwest to the extreme north of Canada, Arctic Wargame by Ethan Jones the first in his Justin Hall series. I picked this up as a freebie almost 2 years ago during my "get anything that looks remotely interesting and is free" phase, my TBR list still hasn't recovered but I am working on it slowly, and it has been near the top of my TBR pile waiting for me to be in the right mood ever since.
I'm still in that phase. I have a TON of unread freebies in my Amazon account. I had so many of them on my Kindle that it was bogging down, so I finally deleted most of them from the device.

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IMHO, reading Phryne Fisher books are best done at least roughly in sequence, since characters develop over time. But you're right, probably not for everyone. They are witty, fun, are set in a time and place that I know nothing about, and have strong female characters. So a very good fit for me. But no book is a good fit for everyone.
I really liked the Phryne Fisher novels -- reading through them at a rapid pace, particularly after I discovered that the first 19 books were available through the library's Freading service. I received #20 as a gift, and then borrowed the book of short stories (A Question of Death) from the library shortly afterward. One thing that I think helped me enjoy the books so much was that I had seen the first 6 or so episodes of the TV series and so I visualized the main characters as they had been cast.
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