Review: A very enjoyable book!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 20, 2012
I really enjoyed "Radical Equations". Being a middle-aged woman myself, I like seeing middle-aged women such as Bonnie Pinkwater and Rhiannon Griffith as the main characters of the books I read. They are active and independent and very capable women. Bonnie teaches math with the same gusto that I felt for my own career. It's another area in which I can identify with her.  Rhiannon is a follower of Wicca which I would have to describe as an alternative religion. These ladies are good friends and from the list of books Robert Spiller has produced, they also solve crimes together.While walking in a nearby Colorado canyon looking for mineral deposits used by the native Americas as face paint, Bonnie and Rhiannon discover the body of the high school Vice Principal Clarence Murphy. When they are finally able to get the local law enforcement people to the canyon, Clarence's body has disappeared!  Bonnie is determined to find Clarence when a sudden storm and tornado forces her to take shelter in the high school. After barely making it through the tornado in a closet, Bonnie finds Clarence's body again, but this time in what is left of the school after a direct hit from the tornado. This is how the book continues, very exciting and engaging. Bonnie makes even me interested in the history of mathematics and her story is cleverly woven in.I plan to read more of Bonnie and Rhiannon's adventures since I found this book to be a fun read. I received a complimentary copy of the book for review purposes.