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this a great opportunity and i hope i win as do many others. i love barnes and noble and i could certainly buy a lot of ebooks so i guess i will just have to crioss my fingers and hope i winalihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15275078286363405232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805172735955629601.post-9549993195472934702011-11-06T05:57:00.000-08:002011-11-06T05:57:18.253-08:00Best books: Darker Still (Magic Most Foul #1) by Leanna Renee ...<a href="http://bestbooks1.blogspot.com/2011/10/darker-still-magic-most-foul-1-by.html?spref=bl">Best books: Darker Still (Magic Most Foul #1) by Leanna Renee ...</a>: Darker Still (Magic Most Foul #1) by Leanna Renee Hieber The Picture of Dorian Gray meets Pride and Prejudice, with a dash of Dr. Jekyll...alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15275078286363405232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805172735955629601.post-37101171979001080602011-11-06T05:55:00.003-08:002011-11-06T05:55:55.047-08:00i so want to win wish me luck<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
</div>alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15275078286363405232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805172735955629601.post-63691415439789900822011-08-01T20:01:00.000-07:002011-08-01T20:01:49.711-07:00All I Ever Wanted by Kristan Higgins<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0ebNS7u3cDF8ultr5EER86bG-ZO_kvHb7QswfQIl7yIVwqgtb0I5wa_04jNf96uiBLTIPpdvRKz2u5Wd_bzwg0Hs8bKSiYpLd-SJw4o9KarEV8FFyOZa1-JTE0ZvWTLon3GRtvy3Oggl2/s1600/alliever.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0ebNS7u3cDF8ultr5EER86bG-ZO_kvHb7QswfQIl7yIVwqgtb0I5wa_04jNf96uiBLTIPpdvRKz2u5Wd_bzwg0Hs8bKSiYpLd-SJw4o9KarEV8FFyOZa1-JTE0ZvWTLon3GRtvy3Oggl2/s1600/alliever.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><b><u>summary:</u></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><b>One Happily-Ever-After Rocking Chair…</b> — and no sign of any forthcoming babies to rock in ol' Georgebury, Vermont. For Callie Grey, turning thirty means coming to grips with the fact that her boss (and five-week fling) is way overdue in his marriage proposal. And way off track because Mark has suddenly announced his engagement to<span id="e_1311986002.2168_content"> the company's new Miss Perfect. If that isn't bad enough, her mom decides to throw her a three-oh birthday bash in the family funeral home.<br />
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Bad goes to worse when she stirs up a crazy relationship with the town's not so warm and fuzzy veterinarian, Ian McFarland, in order to flag Mark's attention. So Ian is more comfortable with animals…. So he's formal, orderly and just a bit tense. The ever-friendly, fun-loving and spontaneous Callie decides it's time for Ian to get a personality makeover. But dang, if he doesn't shock the heck out of her, she might actually fall for Vermont's unlikeliest eligible bachelor….</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span id="e_1311986002.2168_content"><i>All I ever Wanted </i>is another great turnout for Kristan higgins. a lot people seem to complain about the first person POV but i like it in her books. Her books might be considered fluff or easy reads but i love them and would gladly reread . </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span id="e_1311986002.2168_content">I love Callie. she is strong and independent and although she has basically been in love with her boss from birth. They had a kiss at a party when she was a teenager and him a few years older but he never really noticed her after that . She goes away to college and comes back to her home town and Mark starts a firm and hires Callie. It was just what the place needed as in their neck of the woods jobs were slim pickings. She works with Mark and they become really good friends . she falls more in love with him as the days pass. They experience a traumatic event on the way to an awards ceremony and end up having an affair that ends short when he tells callie he isn't in the point of his life where he can have a steady relationship. Stupid her when he said they needed to talk she thought he was going to propose, if that isn't a knife through the heart i dont know what is. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial;"><span id="e_1311986002.2168_content"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;">The company takes on a new client and unknown to her Mark starts dating the daughter of said client, which becomes awkward because she has been waiting for Mark all these months. In an effort to get Mark off her mind she joins an internet dating site and has a few dates that go horribly wrong. She then turns to Ian McFarland, the new town vet who is reluctant at first since he has been burned in the past.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial;"><span id="e_1311986002.2168_content"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;">Ian is a great guy who has had some back luck and unfortunate things happen to him in his life.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial;"><span id="e_1311986002.2168_content"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;">He dated his ex-wife all through college and they got married a few years later. The relationship was great in his opinion but he found out something none of the friends or family knew when he came home early. He caught his wife in bed, not with a man but with another woman her childhood best friend. This was a shock to say the least and he is still trying to get past it. He moved away from the ex and the town they lived in to a small town in Nh where he had spent one summer with his uncle before he died. small town with a great community. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial;"><span id="e_1311986002.2168_content"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;">He avoids Callie at first since all the single women into seem to be chasing him, hers is not deliberate . they just keep running into each other and end up spending time together.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial;"><span id="e_1311986002.2168_content"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;">He gets an invite to the wedding of his ex and her fiance and to say it is awkward is putting it mildly. They goes as friends though Callie seems to want more and he doesn't not like her put is still shadowed by his past and is reluctant.They finally click soon after and enjoy each others company and they are both falling fast. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial;"><span id="e_1311986002.2168_content"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;">Ian still has some walls she has yet to break through and Callie is unsure if she is over Mark . </span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial;"><span id="e_1311986002.2168_content"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;">She buts in where he tells her is unwarranted and he doesn't trust her feelings for him because of her past relationship from her boss. When Mark finally comes calling , she is no longer interested. What she feels for Mark is nothing compared what she and Ian have. And to think she spent all these years chasing Mark and Ian is <i>ALL SHE EVER WANTED</i>....</span></span></span></span></div>alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15275078286363405232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805172735955629601.post-29948431041822333402011-08-01T06:54:00.000-07:002011-08-02T06:19:36.609-07:00doctor in the house by Marie Ferrarella<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP5MDmg0I1geczf16oCP5nPvs7uTBxCokFCvqhQUijocfLADm2TxMEOgiNqqpNRX2U48dbDGNdUgcDRH1sllcLkyXCrTMCKdO9uEMDJo97HjGqrSq2E_SHirHWIHa2VhJj8IG6mH0FEi4J/s1600/doc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP5MDmg0I1geczf16oCP5nPvs7uTBxCokFCvqhQUijocfLADm2TxMEOgiNqqpNRX2U48dbDGNdUgcDRH1sllcLkyXCrTMCKdO9uEMDJo97HjGqrSq2E_SHirHWIHa2VhJj8IG6mH0FEi4J/s1600/doc.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><b><u><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Ivan Munro wanted to be feared, not loved... — But Bailey DelMonico, his new intern, is determined to prove she isn't afraid of him?and more. In her own way, Bailey is as brilliant as Ivan?and people like her. Having realized she wanted to be a surgeon after several failed life experiences, she deftly absorbs a barrage of criticism from Munro wit</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span id="e_1312206812.6409_content">hout ever losing faith in her dreams. Or her conviction to show Ivan that no life is set in stone...<br />
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But the more Munro fights against his intern's charm, the more cracks appear in his abrasive facade. Bailey soon sees that contrary to hospital gossip, Ivan has anything but a scalpel for a heart. Ever the optimist and always persistent, can Bailey now show Ivan that it's never too late to change?or fall in love?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span id="e_1312206812.6409_less"> </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial;"><span id="e_1312206812.6409_less"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;">Ivan is most feared among his colleagues. They scatter when he enters a room and do whatever they can to avoid him. He is to the point where the chief of staff is forced to have him train a resident in hopes of him learning some humility. They have always been resistant to giving him residents in the past because the lack of heart he appears to possess. Which in reality he has one it has just been locked down since he was a teenager and his best friend committed suicide. He blames himself and if a neurosurgeon had been around he might have been able to save his friend. The only person who truly cared about him. His parents were alcoholics and his brother was ten years his senior and they had little in common. The Chief of staff thinks that if anyone can change Ivan it is Bailey. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial;"><span id="e_1312206812.6409_less"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;">Bailey is the daughter of missionaries and perseverance is her middle name. Ivan does not intimidate her. She can tell immediately that he has just constructed a shield around himself to prevent himself from being hurt. She learned this in one of the many areas her parents traveled too on her journey with them in the countries they visited. She loves her parents but she does not want what they do. she does not wanted to travel into impoverished areas where there is no running water or even the most basic amenities. She chose to be a doctor and went through school a lot faster than most. She is attracted to Ivan from the get go and is continually fighting it. She knows Ivan feels it too.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial;"><span id="e_1312206812.6409_less"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;">Ivan does not know what to do with bailey. She is one of the most talented surgeons he has come across in a long time but she compromises his composure. Her disposition is the complete opposite of his and he can not help but smile when he is around her. he can't let her get to close though because then he would lose his control and have the possibility of getting hurt. why would a man like him deserve an angel like Bailey?</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;">She does not see Ivan as everyone else does. He comes off as abrasive but that is just the way he talks . </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;">Ivan is strong and caring . He hurts deeply when he loses a patient though he does not let anyone else see it. That is one of the many reason why he has trouble relating to his patients. Why he avoids them at all costs. He has trouble dealing with emotions but bailey can help him. She has managed to get under his skin and make him genuinely care for her.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;">If anyone can change Ivan Bailey can ....</span></span></div>alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15275078286363405232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805172735955629601.post-44633356166593206302011-07-29T09:27:00.000-07:002011-07-29T09:27:45.078-07:00mystical warrior by janet chapman 3rd book in midnight bay series<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDALSBbV8a2zqMq4Ie9VmdngsUquibO0vMJk37I4an3bl4J2xR3j9x3dEqRB_ATh2pu7P0KUXhitfgH8-JC1WTj6g5yD6ljCYmsRO-V3Uc_Ze4410rfP_jg7GxZ045DSL4lGh3RCdrWyc_/s1600/mystical.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDALSBbV8a2zqMq4Ie9VmdngsUquibO0vMJk37I4an3bl4J2xR3j9x3dEqRB_ATh2pu7P0KUXhitfgH8-JC1WTj6g5yD6ljCYmsRO-V3Uc_Ze4410rfP_jg7GxZ045DSL4lGh3RCdrWyc_/s1600/mystical.jpg" /></a></div><br />
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0d0b0a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><u>Summary:</u></b></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0d0b0a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">An eleventh-century lass with a stubborn streak unleashes the red-hot hero inside her modern lover in bestselling author Janet Chapman’s irresistible new Midnight Bay adventure.<br />
Trace Huntsman’s peaceful life has headed to hell in a hand-basket ever since stunningly beautiful Fiona Gregor moved into the vacant apartment above his house. Kidnapped centuries earlier and transformed into a red-tail hawk, Fiona is human once more and must learn how to be a modern woman. But damned if Trace is going to be the one to teach her. Not when her mere presence ignites a fiery passion deep within his cautious heart.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0d0b0a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fiona longs to overcome the painful memories of her tragic past—to let down her guard and become a mother again. But so far her handsome landlord is not exactly thrilled with the stray animals—and suitors—that keep following her home. When the wizard Maximilian Oceanus shows up, Trace reaches the end of his rope. Weird things happen when Mac is around—raging storms, snarling demons—but this time, Midnight Bay is at the center of a fierce battle, and Fiona is the primary target. Only Trace can save her, but first, the lovers must set aside their fears . . . and open up their hearts..</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0d0b0a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0d0b0a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><u>Review</u></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">: Janet chapman is one of the few time travel romance authors that are able to weave together a believable story. I love all her books and have read and own all her books published to date. </span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0d0b0a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">I love Trace and Fiona . She is new to the century and comes across as docile and weak at first but she is anything but. She has the heart of a warrior and is fiercely independent. She is a true mother. nurturing and domestic. She organizes trace's shed for him which results in him knocking a compressor on himself. As result he is laid up for a few days and can not work. so Fiona takes care of him. his whole house is a pig sty so she cleans it. Trace would have never known that the kitchen was white . He thought it was the tan color it was in when he bought. You would think Trace was a slob until you found where he concentrated all his time and effort on. The room in the tunnels is plated in steel and lined with surveillance equipment so he can monitor the place when under attack by the souls searching for Kenzie.</span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0d0b0a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Fiona wants to be a mother more than anything but husbands seem to be more trouble then are worth after watch Matt and winter and Kenzie and Eve. To her they seem to all bow to the men but that's not the case, that's just how it appears to make the men think they have won. Fiona is unaware of this so she wants to go about and have a baby with no husband as in this day and age they are unnecessary in some cases with IVF. She takes a job watching a man from towns children he starts making advances towards her and Trace puts a stop to that because he is no good , with or without the children he is still a cad.</span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0d0b0a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Day by day they get to known each other while still allowing space. Trace allows her to clean for him and Fiona learns what she can and cannot touch and turning his home into a small farm with all the animals she has been bringing home.</span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0d0b0a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Then when Max's father kidnapped Fiona as a wife for his son, Trace saves her and claims her as his. </span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0d0b0a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">They care deeply for one another and though they are not married yet they are living together in harmony.</span></span></div></div>alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15275078286363405232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805172735955629601.post-83751794319919396402011-07-29T08:51:00.000-07:002011-07-29T08:51:09.168-07:00Yours to Keep by Shannon Stacey<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><u>Summary</u></b>:</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Sean Kowalski no sooner leaves the army than he's recruited by Emma Shaw to be her fake fiancé. Emma needs to produce a husband-to-be for her grandmother's upcoming visit, and, though Sean doesn't like the deception, he could use the landscaping job Emma's offering while he decides what to do with his civilian life. And, despite his attraction to Emma, there's no chance he'll fall for a woman with deep roots in a town he's not planning to call home.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Emma's not interested in a real relationship either; not with a man whose idea of home is wherever he drops his <nobr><a class="FAAdLink" href="http://ebooks.carinapress.com/2E297C42-D9DF-492C-80B0-5E05246B4A71/10/134/en/ContentDetails.htm?ID=9AF095E8-94AB-4FA7-AC5B-0DA1ECF8770E#" id="FALINK_2_0_1" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(174, 4, 232) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(174, 4, 232) !important; display: inline !important; font-weight: normal !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; text-decoration: underline !important;">duffel bag</a></nobr>. No matter how amazing his "pretend" kisses are...</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><u>Review</u></b>:</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Shannon Stacey is a newly discovered author of mine and is quickly becoming a favorite. She is the cousin of my best friend and I love all her books. She is one of the few romance authors that I know of that can captivate her readers from the instant you pick up the book. only problem is she does not have a lot of books published and I am quickly running out of books to read. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Yours to Keep </i>is the the third book is the Kowalski saga. The first book </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Exclusively yours, </i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">dealt with Sean's cousins' Joe and his ex Keri who thankfully got back together. They were destined for one another in my book . In the second book, </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Undeniably Yours</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">, Joe's brother Kevin and Beth get together and have a one night stand ending in a baby. The Kowalski's are always having one adventure after another with a barrel of laughs thrown into the mix and <i>Yours to Keep</i> is no exception.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This book had a great story and was a page turner. I just did not want to put the book down and was sad when is came to end . Now just for the wait for the next book. I feel in love with Sean and Emma. She had a few quirks about her. She had a habit of going on a serious cleaning binge when she was worried or stressed. So much as to taking out a tooth brush to clean. I don't know many people who will willingly clean with a tooth brush. Seas is just trying to find himself after being in the Army for so long he is not sure what he wants to do in the meantime. He is shocked to say the least when Emma arrives on the door step telling him He is her fake Fiance and she wants him to live with her while her grandmother visits as she has told her they were engaged . She had told her she was engaged so she would not worry about her taking care of herself and the big house while she was down living in Florida as she had recently moved down there. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Sean thinks she has gone off the deep end at first but he agrees in the end. Upon arrival her grandmother knows instantly that they have not been living together or being intimate. People who have been intimate with one another have a way about them and are not jumpy at the slightest touch, which is how Emma reacts to Sean . Her grandmother gets the story from Sean's aunt Mary at welcome barbecue and they plan to make the two fall in love. The plan works and they both love each other without a shadow of a doubt but when it comes time for Sean to leave as was expected Emma does not stop him and they are both hurting. Thankfully they both have sense and get back together with a big push from Sean. </span><br />
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</div>alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15275078286363405232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805172735955629601.post-91525203371521326402011-07-27T17:05:00.000-07:002011-07-27T17:05:40.587-07:00rereadsi also re-read the last 4 in the the stephanie plum series but Janet Evanovich as a refresher to the next that had come out recently. that definitely left a cliff hanger and cant wait for the next book.alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15275078286363405232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805172735955629601.post-8566191056878240172011-07-27T17:01:00.000-07:002011-07-27T17:01:18.358-07:00clarity by kim harrington<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIn0-ZhIqGvRFLyofU6kSgBStIwrQEJhE6pjwbMmLeSGr5Pwlx15k97XRFlqzjwKop5M4e3TN9wTT7wDvkX8wkw1omBT0g-jsAijzsjyGGbzY1gek6VqUeOMAEnb0XLGwF_r7Xj4xwJhYm/s1600/clarity.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIn0-ZhIqGvRFLyofU6kSgBStIwrQEJhE6pjwbMmLeSGr5Pwlx15k97XRFlqzjwKop5M4e3TN9wTT7wDvkX8wkw1omBT0g-jsAijzsjyGGbzY1gek6VqUeOMAEnb0XLGwF_r7Xj4xwJhYm/s1600/clarity.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Clarity "Clare" Fern sees things. Things no one else can see. Things like stolen kisses and long-buried secrets. All she has to do is touch an object and the visions come to her. It's a gift.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">And a curse.<br />
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When a teenage girl is found murdered, Clare's <nobr><a class="FAAdLink" href="http://kimharringtonbooks.com/Books.html#" id="FALINK_1_0_0" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(243, 91, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; display: inline !important; font-weight: normal !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; text-decoration: underline !important;">ex-boyfriend</a></nobr> wants her to help solve the case — but Clare is still furious at the cheating jerk. Then Clare's brother — who has supernatural gifts of his own — becomes the prime suspect, and Clare can no longer look away. Teaming up with Gabriel, the smoldering son of the new detective, Clare must venture into the depths of fear, revenge, and <nobr><a class="FAAdLink" href="http://kimharringtonbooks.com/Books.html#" id="FALINK_3_0_2" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(243, 91, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; display: inline !important; font-weight: normal !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; text-decoration: underline !important;">lust</a></nobr> in order to track the killer. But will her sight fail her just when she needs it most??<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">her </span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b><u>Review</u></b>: I am fairly new to the young adult genre but I am learning to love it. They have great stories without all the sexual /sensual interest of the mainstream adult novels. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This book is a definite winner. I was hooked after the first paragraph and did not want to put it down. unfortunately it ended all too soon for my liking and another long wait for the next book in the series. The wait it always worth based on recent evens and i hope the next one is as good as this one.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a series of murders happening and the only person initially connected to them is her brother, Perry. He was the last person reported to see the victim, victoria"vicki", alive. He is somewhat of a heartbreaker. Sleeping with various women with no care for their feelings. They live in a tourist town and chooses to sleep with them rather than the townies to avoid any possible entanglements. He had a prior experience go bad that resulted in his sister breaking up with her boyfriend. Turns out that the townie that he slept with,tiffany, targeted her boyfriend as retribution for rejecting her after he slept with her. She wanted more and he did not. Seeing Justin as a pawn was the only way she could hurt him as she knew how much he cared for his sister. </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The family is close knit as they all have their special gifts. Their mother is telepathic, Clarity "clare" is psychic and Perry is a medium. alot of people find them to be weird or consider them frauds but the mayor son's, justin, clare's ex, is the only person who valued her "gifts" and did not condem her for them. He truly loves her i believe but one night at a party where they were serving beer and he cheated on her. He did not realize it until the next morning when he woke up naked in someone's basement with a girl next to him. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">unfortunately Clare's gift allowed her to find out before he could explain and he has been apologizing and waiting for her ever since.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Gabriel is the new detectives son. They left new york and came here after his father was fired for using more force than necessary. He accidentally killed a man but they did not see it as how the situation really was, they could only go based on the evidence they had and it unfortauntely pointed against his father. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Gabriel is suppose to work with Clare and Justin to find the murdered using her talents and his means as clearance through the investigation. He is prejudiced against her though because his mother had used psychics as a means in hoping of finding his sister when she was kidnapped as a young child. She had spent a lot of money on a lot of people who turned out to be frauds and scam artists. He tries to keep Clare as arms length but he is soon having feelings for her that he is having trouble fighting and does not want to fight them anymore. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Clare returns his affections but she is still not over Justin and deeply cares for him. Can she gets past what happened between him and Tiffany? or must she let go and move on?</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span id="e_1311686492.4407_content"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;">Zachary drake has always loved her from afar, never thinking that his chance would come for him to be able to love her for real and for them to have a chance. Karen is the best person he knows. He genuinely cares for her but many still see him as the Drake boy, tagged for trouble for the one time he was caught stealing . He stole for the purpose to feed his baby sister since his mother was a drunk and was never home to provide for them . He did whatever he could but it was not always enough. He is from the outside of town living in a run down home, holding down two jobs so he could care for his siblings and give them a better life. </span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span id="e_1311686492.4407_content"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span id="e_1311686492.4407_content"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;">They start off as friends but Zack wants more and Karen is reluctant to fall in love again so soon and it not be returned but holding Zack's hand is like a shock to the system. She never had that with jay, he was comfortable but his touch was lukewarm. It did not set her on fire as Zack's does. The more time they spend together as "friends" the more she realizes she wants more from this man. She does not care who he used to be or where he comes from . She loves the man he is today without fault. </span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span id="e_1311686492.4407_content"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span id="e_1311686492.4407_content"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;">Zack loves her but pushes her away when his drunk of a mother comes back to town after being away for ten years. He is embarrassed and finds her too good for her so for the sake of hurting her and breaks his into thousands of irreparable pieces.Then is is in the hospital from being in accident where he saved a young boy's life with no thought to his own. </span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span id="e_1311686492.4407_content"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial;"><span id="e_1310869166.1608_content"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;">Hope Ashton has a brick wall built around her heart and fears it crumbling. She has very little faith in true love and the happiness it can bring . She has not had very many positive examples of love. Her own parents marriage and following divorce was a disaster and </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 19px;">The man she thought she loved when she finally opened up turned into a completely different person once they were engaged. Extremely controlling. not the type of man she wants to marry. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;"> Her love for her grandmother and the only home she has ever known resides in small town america </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;">Montana. When she comes home to montana to care for her grandmother after an injury matchmaking is the last thing on her list. She has closed herself off from a life of family because of the previous road blocks placed in her path. Her grandmother and her friends have other ideas though . To set her and widower matthew sheridan up together. He also has 3 small children who are his world. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;"><i>This is a great story. I always love Jillian harts stories. quick easy reads with a proud story of love and faith . How love can break down the falls and faith can bring you through the toughest of times. i would highly recommend this story to anyone.</i></span></span></span></div>alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15275078286363405232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805172735955629601.post-12045551447383053302011-07-17T22:14:00.000-07:002011-07-17T22:14:18.271-07:00shadowfever by karen marie moning<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifCP0WTHjYclyS9gvPv9cxZQuCHAj43RR9NS6hBAYth8LcJQk1uIF6KRudX0yXO3M-4xHwKXnrkqaCqwZHB3hk2j2c9_iWpWn3wsFiSqqXXbyuCKH7jOEXFuwqz9fHh8pahA3txQMHxpnc/s1600/9780385341677.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifCP0WTHjYclyS9gvPv9cxZQuCHAj43RR9NS6hBAYth8LcJQk1uIF6KRudX0yXO3M-4xHwKXnrkqaCqwZHB3hk2j2c9_iWpWn3wsFiSqqXXbyuCKH7jOEXFuwqz9fHh8pahA3txQMHxpnc/s1600/9780385341677.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><strong><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><strong>Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it’s good.”</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">— MacKayla Lane was just a child when she and her sister, Alina were given up for adoption and banished from Ireland forever. — Twenty years later, Alina is dead and Mac has returned to the country that expelled them to hunt her</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span id="e_1310964786.5174_content">sister’s murderer. But after discovering that she descends from a bloodline both gifted and cursed, Mac is plunged into a secret history: an ancient conflict between humans and immortals that have lived concealed among us for thousands of years.What follows is a shocking chain of events with devastating consequences, and now Mac struggles to cope with grief, while continuing her mission to acquire and control the Sinsar Dubh -- a book of dark, forbidden magic scribed by the mythical Unseelie King that contains the power to create and destroy worlds.In an epic battle between humans and Fae, the hunter becomes the hunted when the Sinsar Dubh turns on Mac, and begins mowing a deadly path through those she loves.Who can she turn to? Who can she trust? Who is the woman that haunts her dreams? More importantly, who is Mac and what is the destiny she glimpses in the black and crimson designs of an ancient tarot card?From the luxury of the Lord Master’s penthouse, to the sordid depths of an Unseelie nightclub, from the erotic bed of her lover, to the terrifying bed of the Unseelie King, Mac’s journey will force her to face the truth of her exile, and make a choice that will either save the world … or destroy it</span></span><br />
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<span id="e_1310964786.5174_content"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;">Review: This book had an amazing conclusion. After reading them all so close together i was trying to fathom how this book could possibly end and all the questions answered. Though not all the questions were answered some of the important ones were and now there is buzz that there will be another book after this one. I personally never liked Rowena this leader of the sidhe-seers and was glad that she died. I wish she would have been tortured more after what she did to Alina and mac and Dani as well. Mac learns how her sister actually died and who is responsible. although Dani led her sister into the slaughter she did not actually kill her. Rowena coerced her against her will into doing it. For that alone Rowena should have been terminated. Who has the right to chose who lives and dies.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 19px;">Rowena may have the knowledge but it this day and age she was the weakest link and held all the sidhe-seers back from achieving true greatness. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 19px;"> Alina may have been involved with a fallen fae but their love was true and she was not hurting anyone by being with him. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 19px;">Barrons shows how he feels for Mac and everyone learns what V'lane truly is. That was a shocker for me , i never expected for a moment that cruce would have killed the real v'lane and been impersonating him all these years. He had befriended Mac but she was just a means to an end. when she learned that he was the fourth fae that raped her she was truly appalled and all he had to say was that everyone was was already doing it so why not one more. He gave her a serum that prolonged her life because what the other fae had been doing to her would have killed her if he did not help her. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 19px;">Mac was not Alina's true sister as everyone had thought but a extension of the book and it's power. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;">Barrons reveals what he truly wants with the book and how it will end both his and his sons suffering as unlike him he is mostly beast after things he had endured early on. He wants nothing more than to give the child peace and only a spell from the book can do that. We learn that barrons may die but he always comes back so not to worry. This book was wonderful. there was just so much i dont want to give any spoilers but for those who have not read it , it is a definite must read. </span></span>alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15275078286363405232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805172735955629601.post-35226436883192852252011-07-17T21:10:00.000-07:002011-07-17T21:10:45.415-07:00carnal innocence<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtBx2jKFWgzP6NJitJssnINEO7A38KKyt35dbhb66ZuOj-Z9pv-ofwmd9OuBBlT0EpwHWQND0aP5-uKEb47JijOZbuwWE18hJUPSs1_4mFSdhdxCbdtjrqx-dhVKT8yzSPaM6rJfnpj8vo/s1600/carnal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtBx2jKFWgzP6NJitJssnINEO7A38KKyt35dbhb66ZuOj-Z9pv-ofwmd9OuBBlT0EpwHWQND0aP5-uKEb47JijOZbuwWE18hJUPSs1_4mFSdhdxCbdtjrqx-dhVKT8yzSPaM6rJfnpj8vo/s1600/carnal.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><b><u>summary</u></b>:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts provides a potent mix of small-town secrets, scandalous romance, and down-home Southern atmosphere as a young woman searching for some bayou R&R finds herself entangled in a serial killer’s wicked web. — — Burned out and still reeling from a love affair gone bad, world-class violinist Caroline</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span id="e_1310958374.3657_content"> Waverly goes to her grandparents’ home in Innocence, Mississippi, for some much-needed rest and relaxation. Instead she finds herself overwhelmed all over again?first by Tucker Longstreet, a charming local with a sideline in no-strings-attached relationships, and then by a deadlier, more disturbing development.<br />
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For Innocence is being stalked by its very own serial killer, whose brutal knife blows have pierced the veil of tranquillity in this sleepy Southern town and left a trail of mutilated female corpses in their wake. When a federal agent arrives to investigate, the town’s deepest secrets bubble to the surface and suspicion turns on Tucker as the most likely suspect. After Caroline finds the latest murder victim floating in the murky waters behind her house, she too is inexorably drawn into the path of a crazed killer who may be closer than she could have ever imagined. </span></span><br />
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<span id="e_1310958374.3657_content"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;">Besides the negative aspect i was able to relate with the characters. I was immediately drawn in by Tucker Longstreet, he plays one of the leads and is known around town as a ladies man and every woman pretty much wants to be with him. He is upfront on the fact that he does not want a commitment and when things get too dicey he leaves for greener pastures. He makes everyone think that he does nothing but hang around all day, drive fast cars and pick up women. don't let his easy going attitude fool you because behind the facade he presents is a hard working businessman who just does things in his own time. He never wanted to have a commitment until Caroline, she does something to him and he tries to fights it but ultimately fails when he falls and she owns his heart. </span></span></span><br />
<span id="e_1310958374.3657_content"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;">Caroline Waverly, She comes back to Innocence to the only home she has ever know. Though he time spent her was brief as a child it was the one place that made her not feel like an outsider. She was the product of a mother who chose to disown her background and married into wealth. She was named after her paternal side, heaven forbid he mother actally acknowledge the parents that gave birth to her and worked to the bone so she could go to school which she left to marry into love and wealth, leaving her old world behind her. She was a child prodigy violinist , something that never made her happy but did because she did not want to let her parents down. This became a familiar trend until she finally had a breakdown a few months before coming to innocence. She could no longer but what he parents wanted her to be, her mother was not the warmest of people though her father did make her feel loved. Tucker is the last thing she wants but it happens regardless. He is the first person to want to know Caroline the person not Caroline the child prodigy.</span></span></span><br />
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<span id="e_1310958374.3657_content"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;">The way the story progressed i always thought the killer was a man with a hatred for women but i never suspected it to be a woman . There are subtle clues as the story progresses that could have hinted at it being a woman or one woman in particular.</span></span></span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;">The killer provided Tucker with an Alibi while given herself one at the same time. </span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;">Slept with 2 prime people on the case to gather information</span></span></li>
</ul><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;">Even with the information I still never pegged her but know that i went over the details , it certainly made sense. Which is superior though nature vs nurture. She claimed she was a bad seed because of her fathers DNA and there was something powerful compelling her to kill. She grew up in a well off family and had everything she could have ever wanted. What creates a serial killer? are they to blame or is it something in their chemistry?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;">You will never know since the murder committed suicide when she admitted the truth.</span></span>alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15275078286363405232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805172735955629601.post-56238275674489345042011-07-16T19:42:00.000-07:002011-07-16T19:45:58.299-07:00the Book Blogger Hop<a href="http://www.crazy-for-books.com" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7805172735955629601&postID=5623827567448934504&from=pencil" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.crazy-for-books.com');"><img alt="Book Blogger Hop" height="150" src="http://i595.photobucket.com/albums/tt34/crazybookblog/cfbmemebutton-2.png" width="150" /></a><br />
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This is my first time participating. got it from my friend lauren's blog(<a href="http://laurenstvtotebookbag.blogspot.com/">http://laurenstvtotebookbag.blogspot.com/</a>) and she got it from the original site.I am slowly but surely trying to regularly post on my blog but it is a struggle some days with cleaning the house, work and two kids. i swear it seems like all i do is clean. The plan for next summer is to buy a house. i found a few i love now lets just hope they are still on the market when the time comes. ok so here are this weeks questions for the <b>book blogger hop</b>.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">I love paperbackswap. i used to use it constantly. i use it mainly for wishlist books and hardcovers. i can get a hardcover for roughly 7 dollars where i would get it for almost 35.00 dollars in some case in store. i know the books are not new but are usually is great condition. I also used bookmooch.com. great for books that aren't that popular and they have a great point system. for every 10 books you post you get 1 point. i loved that factor but i closed the account because i really was not using it. maybe i will open another at a later date. now i read mostly ebooks on my nook color. got it in February. i had a nook b and w first edition </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">previously. i use overdrive.com a lot and other sharing sites. i love the nook friends so you can borrow other nook owners books. gotta love bn.coms free book fridays. i have gotten tons of books through them . bn.com also has plenty of free books in their database. also love the feature where you can get a free sample if you are unsure whether you want to buy or not.</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">1. dead until dark by charlaine harris</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">2.living dead in dallas by charlaine harris</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">3. club dead by charlaine harris</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">4. dead to the world by charlaine harris</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">5. dead as a doornail by charlaine harris</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">6. definitely dead by charlaine harris</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">7.all together dead by charlaine harris</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">8.from dead to worse by charlaine harris</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">9. dead and gone by charlaine harris</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">10. dead in the family by charlaine harris</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">11. this side of the grave by jeanine frost</span>alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15275078286363405232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805172735955629601.post-4967427688922855832011-07-08T17:54:00.000-07:002011-07-08T17:54:56.210-07:00Fools Rush in by Kristan Higgins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFyVc-pEZIMwE2SrGxOXigIgFZu4pE22ZMJjq49oIvdfNudVXEMH99Gj5PCaRTT_RuSpppd7NIzN5aqOWVlfxJa74RMw4RgQiPEIT5cQeNoAaLRM_bUg5HZ0G8bVJTwuH7-yzDWcIlRgrh/s1600/fools.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFyVc-pEZIMwE2SrGxOXigIgFZu4pE22ZMJjq49oIvdfNudVXEMH99Gj5PCaRTT_RuSpppd7NIzN5aqOWVlfxJa74RMw4RgQiPEIT5cQeNoAaLRM_bUg5HZ0G8bVJTwuH7-yzDWcIlRgrh/s1600/fools.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><u>summary</u>:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Since her freshman year in high school, Millie Barnes has been head over heels for Joe Carpenter. A brainy and plain gal, she was all but ignored by Joe, in an adolescence that was filled with angst, unwanted baby fat, and acne. After stalking him for over a decade to find out his likes and dislikes, she's about to return to Cape Cod, and has a plan for landing her man. Coinciding with her return is the divorce of her older sister, who has relocated to New Jersey with her new man, so she consoles her former brother-in-law Sam and his son with meals and tries to set Sam up with her divorced friend.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Armed with a new body, new job as a physician at the local clinic, new wardrobe, and a funky new hairstyle, Millie does in fact snare her man. But is this Joe the same Joe she's idolized most of her life? As the two begin a relationship, Millie realizes something is missing. Will she follow her heart and attempt a chance withthe man she truly loves?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This was a great fluff romance as they call it. I heard plenty of other reviewers call joe carpenter a tool which i found amusing because his slogan was joe carpenter the carpenter. I was rooting for millie the whole way through and had a feeling she only loved sam all along. We then see a softer side of joe and her best friend which would make a great plot for a new book.</span>alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15275078286363405232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805172735955629601.post-12653296263862874322011-07-08T07:48:00.000-07:002011-07-08T07:48:49.025-07:00catch of the day by kristan higgins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZQ5ZFascD6vJoW1TDclHBgucxqsIrr7hKT3xcSsn5v5Aus9Id65Tb_80rUSF1w2ZK0qxI1PgNJGHxjU8JpHqo9bdn9ecxqYqQXAtwHHkIXPT-ABaskPMq9OeFPQUUuUNR4BV-T4dL6CPT/s1600/catch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZQ5ZFascD6vJoW1TDclHBgucxqsIrr7hKT3xcSsn5v5Aus9Id65Tb_80rUSF1w2ZK0qxI1PgNJGHxjU8JpHqo9bdn9ecxqYqQXAtwHHkIXPT-ABaskPMq9OeFPQUUuUNR4BV-T4dL6CPT/s1600/catch.jpg" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><u><br />
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ok so my friend is having her first ever giveaway. i need to get around to doing that one of these. so if u love to read make sure to enter.alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15275078286363405232noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805172735955629601.post-24209679708081450622011-06-18T18:32:00.000-07:002011-06-18T18:32:06.815-07:00Chasing Fire by Nora Roberts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMU8unf5ylgGwb2AKoH51HgXDjznv_XdVxpz-xX3CKrohGmcIwzJtmXK3GFgQk1_qiNVPLmUb63Ic4Bhk_EorfyH9A9RlM4UtN7W-n-zWWdY_dsSbVyMG1l-rk6eGbbs998lsgpvlolL6c/s1600/9780399157448.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMU8unf5ylgGwb2AKoH51HgXDjznv_XdVxpz-xX3CKrohGmcIwzJtmXK3GFgQk1_qiNVPLmUb63Ic4Bhk_EorfyH9A9RlM4UtN7W-n-zWWdY_dsSbVyMG1l-rk6eGbbs998lsgpvlolL6c/s1600/9780399157448.jpg" /></a></div>Lately I have been finding her books have not been up to par in my opinion and latest is no exception; It is a great story but there was too much on the smoke jumpers in my opinion and did not focus enough on the murder and the two relationships in the story.<br />
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This story surrounds of the life of the Missoula Smoke jumpers aka Zulies. They fight forest fires all over but instead of driving in like the hotshots of the different areas they jump out of a plane to get to their destination. <br />
Smoke jumpers have an off season so they do not spend the whole year in this occupation.<br />
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Rowan Tripp is in her fifth year as a smoke jumper and she cant see her life any other way. she is the daughter of renowned smoke jumper Lucas "iron man" Tripp. On the off season she helps her dad with his sky diving business and also some training as well. She has always made it a rule to not pursue a relationship with any of the fellow smoke jumpers in her unit and has never had a problem with that rule until this season......<br />
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Gulliver Curry is the last guy she would have thought her self to fall for. In the off season her runs an arcade and is well established. It might not be the typical job but it makes him happy and it supports him very well. He is a rookie and breaks the base record for running and earns himself the name" fast feet". From the first time he set eyes on Rowan he knew he was going to have her. No matter the time it would take, he believed he would wear her down.<br />
Gull was not like other guys from his job in the off season, to his surprising interests. He is well read, a great fighter and strong willed. He is determined to get what he wants and he wants her.<br />
Rowan has never been in love and she has never seen her father with anyone. Her mother walked out on them when she was young. So she is shocked when she sees him kissing a woman in public for the first time.<br />
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Ella is great for her father and makes him happy, though there are some rough patches to start. She was married to man for a long time and always put his wishes above hers when they constantly moved around the country for his jobs. Now she has a life of her own, with a fulfilling life . Now she also has a man who makes her feel complete.<br />
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Review: I loved this book though at times I think some of the smoke jumping details could have been toned down a bit. I loved gull. He and dobie were my favorite characters. Rowan I learned to love though I was not instantly drawn to her. I love the close relationship she had with her father . It was great to learn about something new. lately you have learned something new from each of her single titles and she must have gone through a lot of research for these books. Gull is very lovable and he has the characteristics of a great lead male. He has unerring patience , which he needs when pursuing Rowan. I was lost at times with the murders because there was so much background on the smoek jumpers but i loved it over all. Id say is a 3.5 stars</div>alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15275078286363405232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805172735955629601.post-13637009920976920432011-06-10T07:15:00.000-07:002011-07-09T16:56:25.903-07:00Rapture in Death by Jd robb<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8twAoGdca1cy8rSY6qCvebqJ2ytL3ffnLzJe0teNhYCdAtQZ1HRM1Bw0AnKnNwx6TDCEI6e7IrSXL0J3PnzfWIoC1YFDhioPDsDZGi4IJfyccRAHQ8ZJZS0h8SlZU1ZmJd3ZXTKVtDP2s/s1600/rapture.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8twAoGdca1cy8rSY6qCvebqJ2ytL3ffnLzJe0teNhYCdAtQZ1HRM1Bw0AnKnNwx6TDCEI6e7IrSXL0J3PnzfWIoC1YFDhioPDsDZGi4IJfyccRAHQ8ZJZS0h8SlZU1ZmJd3ZXTKVtDP2s/s320/rapture.jpg" width="190" /></a></div><b><u>Summary</u>:</b><br />
Roarke and Dallas are on their honeymoon and as it is coming to a close a murder occurs while off-planet. one of the autotronic engineers commits suicide. He has no reason apparent reason to want to self-terminate. He was happy in his work, had a woman he was happy with, though no one seemed to know who she was. His room mate had just seen him recently and he seemed happy. No signs of depression or anxiety. It appears as a suicide but the situation just seems wrong. She returns from her honeymoon to find that a high-powered senator had also committed suicide while she was away. He just jumped out a window naked as the day he was born with a smile on his face. Also no soon after the prosecuting attorney on a case she was working was found dead in his home with is wrist slashed. He seemed way too arrogant and self important to want to self-terminate. Not long after owner of a tabloid magazine followed simliar situation as the senator, she jumped off the ledge of the building where the tabloid ran seemingly happy but was then smashed to bits on impact. What do they all have in common? Bran scans were done and first three all had small burn marks in the front lope. last appeared to have it as well but brain was hard to tell since it was distorted from the fall. What was making these seemingly happy people self-terminate? what do they have in common. They also seemed to all have used VR unit before self-terminating. Some sociopath was terminating people because they could . no known provocation. Its nothing worse than when it turns out to be one of your own. someone you had trusted and was using the company for their ploy.<br />
Also an musicology tech had created a console that when the music was played he could manipulate it to make people feel a certain way. This is what caused Eve's nightmare episode and Roarke's opening of his past.<br />
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<a href="http://socratesbookreviews.blogspot.com/2011/05/book-giveaway-and-interview-with-author.html">http://socratesbookreviews.blogspot.com/2011/05/book-giveaway-and-interview-with-author.html</a><br />
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she will be giving away 3 books of her mams jos books to two lucky winners. i hope i win. i have always adored reading and always willing to try out a new author. what might not be someones favorite could be a new favorite for the next. the more ways to follow the more entires you have. additional entries awarded for following the blog.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">ok so this month i am trying to be organized so here is my plan for books to read. i had a few carry overs from last month so i finished one of those first. the others are on hold for now. hoping to be able to read atleast half of the books on the list. can always carry over into next month as i dont have many books planned for next month.</span><br />
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<u>TOTM</u><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;">rapture in death by jd robb<b>---READING---</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;">ceremony in death by jd robb</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;">vengeance in death by jd robb</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;">no mercy by sherrilyn kenyon</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;">confessions of a shopaholic by sophie kinsella</span><br />
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<u>AOTM</u><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966;">pride and prejudice by jane austen</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966;">sense and sensibility by jane austen</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966;">emma by jane austen</span><br />
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<u>group reads</u><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">chasing fire by nora roberts</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Abandon by Meg Cabot</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore</span><br />
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<b><u>for me</u></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">the darkest lie by gena showalter<b>---READING---</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">the darkest secret by gena showalter</span></div>alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15275078286363405232noreply@blogger.com0