22. The Great Escape

By Susan Elizabeth Phillips (421 pp ebook)

This author came highly recommended and this is the first of hers I've read. It's about the predictable, good-girl who abandons her fiance at the altar and runs off with a cranky tough-guy on a motorcycle. I did not like the first 30 pages of the book and didn't see how I would ever come around to liking these people. I was wrong. Lucy ends up on an island in the Great Lakes and cranky tough-guy isn't who seemed at first. I loved the setting and the secondary characters.

21. Hide Me Among the Graves

By Tim Powers (493 ebook)

This is another book that was on my ereader and I have no idea the origins. It's set in Victorian London and is about a bunch of people being traumatized by vampires. But not vampires how we usually think of vampires. It's hard to describe -- it's horror with some goulish and creepy bits. Very atmospheric - the setting is like another character. But also the characters are kind-of humorous. It's an odd tone but it works.