Storm Cycle (2009)

Riveting suspenseful, keeping you wanting to see what happens next. True to all her books, a strong female character with a villainess' foe. Excellent read. ( )

Got this via a bookbox of CDs through BookCrosiing. As I've not read this author before, I thought it might work for an upcoming car trip. It was a struggle to get through, but I was a captive audience on a long trip through an NPR wasteland. This was an abridged version of the book. I'm not sure if my eye-rolling was due to poorly cut abridgements or the story/writing in general. I'm afraid I may have to give this author a pass in the future. ( )

Nonsensical romantic introspection overly injected into what could have been a decent and enjoyably ridiculous adventure story. I've read a few of her previous books, and those vague memories led me to say, "Sure, for $4, it's a good bet." I lost the bet. She's off my list, I'm afraid, and I'll look askance at anything by Roy, as I suspect him of being a wuss. ( )

I really enjoy books that Iris and roy write together.there action,drama,technolgy,spy and updated. Not a lot of swearing or sex but well rounded stories.
Dr. Rachel Kirby is in charge of a supercomputer that gets lots of computers together when people arent using them and leads projects one for NSA and other research one for the cure of a dease her sister is dying from. Someone tries to kill Rachel. Someone else was stealing her cycles on computer through backdoors.Tavak is the genius who figured out how and uses her computer to call her when hes trapped in a pryamid with bad guys tring to kill him. He is trying to find out all the pieces of cell regeneration that a Egyptian Dr. hundreds of years ago had and her followers hid around world. Of course the bads guys want the information anyway they can and are working for a drug company that will loose billion of dollars if they can find the cures she had. Cant put the book down. ( )

Rachel Kirby is a computer nerd who runs a lab at a Texas university. She's pioneered using the processing powers of off line computer systems to assist her "Jonesy" so he can process information much faster than any super computer. Rachel's sister, Alice, is suffering from GLD, a non curable, life threatening disease. The book opens with an assassin trying to kill Rachel and only grazing her. The next moment she's finding out someone has hacked into Jonesy, using cycles of processing power for his own use. Before she can find out who's doing this she gets an email from him asking her to help save his life, and if she did, maybe he could help find the cure for her sister, with the cure coming from Peseshet, female doctor, who taught 4,500 years ago. Thus begins the enjoyable globe trotting romp of John Tavek, Rachel and eventually a cast of characters. ( )