Sunday, August 7, 2011

Review: Dream Lover by Adrienne Staff

3 STARS
Dream lover opens on Carol dreaming of a man running on a mesa than an old man says, "To Fly with the eagle is to reach for the stars" Then he reaches a hand out to push her off the cliff. Carol has this dream in Atlanta right before she moves out to southwest to be a assintant new manager of a hotel.
The first night thier she sees a display that draws her attention when she is told not to touch it. Dr. Cody Briggs startles her.and goes back to setting up the display.
Dr. Cody Briggs has had a hard year. He feels he has lost everything he cared about. People he trusted betrayed him. he was fired from his job that he loved for not being a team player. So now he is giving jeep tours out in the deseret working with the hotel.
As Carol  learns the new hotel she staffs the concierge desk while the regular one is on vacation. She is getting rave reviews about Cody jeep tours. how he does chants, holds bugs and she wonders if it is safe for thier visitors and wont use him till she finds out what is so different about his tours.
Cody really wants to keep giving tours because he can teach them about the deseret he loves. That way he doesent miss teaching so much. Cody is attracted to Carol but feels she has had worst time than he has.
Carol keeps dreaming and seeing Cody in dream and she wants to stay alone. She has a hard time sleeping at nights.
Cody sees a vision in campfire of Carol and at a sweat lodge is has another vision of her. That same time their is a sing for sick baby and Carol wants to help so she is staying outside and praying for the baby. An old Indian who is late to the sing stops and talks to her. Tells her to forgive herself and after the sing to ask for a eagle prayer feather. But he was not really thier.
Carol wants to be left alone but Cody fell in love with her and wants to help her and be with her and share her trails.
It is a nice romance but not a great one. easy fast read. After the story thier are a bunch of excerpts from other loveswepts that are comming out again this month.
I was given this ebook in exchange for honest review.
08/08/2011 PUB RANDOM HOUSE LOVESWEPT

Review: Legends by Deborah Smith

4 STARS
 remember reading this book years ago. I still like it and enjoyed reading again. Now I wish I could go back and read other books by her again.
Douglas Kincaid is a selfmade billionare. He collects things and puts the Kincaid name on everything including the dog. He thinks its time for a wife so he is sitting behind a one sided mirror being told about the different women at his party. When a big beautiful woman peers at the mirror and gives him an eyefull.
Elgiva MacRoth drew his attention and got him to show her his garden on the roof than shot him with a tranquiler gun. Kidnapped him off his own highrise building and put him in a cell in highlands of Scottland. Elgiva is a widow and plans to keep Douglas in the cell for a month till his agreement to buy option runs out. He plans to buy her home and village and kick everyone out turning it to a tourist village. He plans to help them find new homes but they have been thier for generations.
Elgiva is also planning to teach him about his own history of the Kincaid clan, She plans to take care of him feed him well and promises he won't be hurt.
Kincaid believes he will be rescued by his security long before his option to buy runs out. He is furious with her tries to embrass her, hurt her and he is attracted to her.
They are both stubborn and determened to have thier own way as they fall for each other.
I have read a lot of her books and plan to read more of her works. After Elgiva story is a lot of book excerpts from different authors that will be available again. I was given this ebook in exchange for honest review.

08/08/2011 PUB RANDOM HOUSE   LOVESWEPT

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Review: White Tiger by Kylie Chan

5 STARS

 

Wow I have never heard anything about the mythology of China. Just a little bits here and there. It was confusing for me to get it straight but sounds like others do to or they mean different things in different regions and different names. I enjoyed reading about them.
Emma is a kindergarden teacher in Hong Kong from down under. Emma has one private student she teaches english to Simone. Simone father is Mr. Chen a rich powerful man. The owner of the school Miss Kwok wants Emma to spy on Mr. Chen. Emma resigns and is offered full time nannie position, which is a livein job for 5000 US dollars a month. Emma wants to know what his work is and is it legal. She is told that it is and after you have been here awhile he will tell her.
Simone is a 4 yr old girl, who is charming and loving. Who is excited to have Emma full time nannie. Emma has different lessons she is learning,piano, violin,horseback riding, english, martial arts and demon fighting.
Leo is called a black Lion he is over 6 foot a big black body gaurd. He will protect Simone with his life he feels quilty he could not save Simone mother life.
Mr. Chen you learn about him the whole book a little at a time. He is a shen. He is a general lived on the mountain thats not on this plain. Till he got Married and stayed humane to take care and protect Simone. He is part turtle and snake. He is dark Lord. Because he cant go to the mountain he is getting weaker and weaker thinks he has two more years left before he will have to leave this plain and has no idea how long it will be before he is strong enough to come back to earth. He is god of martial arts infact he invented most of them.
Emma fits right in as the nannie but it is driving her crazy not to know who or what John does. Who are the badguys. Why are they trying to kidnap Simmone. About 6 months after she is fulltime she learns the main secrets. She asks to learn martial arts to help protect Simone and herself. She is falling in love with John but can never be with him without killing herself.
The story draws you into the world of Chinese gods. They come and visit John and to be trained by him. It feels real and natural how the story unfolds it goes in great detail of life everyday and training of martial arts and demon fighting. It has a lot of love between the characters, family bonds, friends bonds and even romantic love. It has a lot of demon fighting and killing. Rich lifestyle, full of mythology of China.
Its a nice size book of 528 pages. Their are two more books in this series cant wait to read them. Would recommend this book. I was given this ebook in exchange of honest review.
09/01/2011 PUB Harper Collins Voyager

Friday, August 5, 2011

Cooking the Books by Bonnie S. Calhoun

5 STARS I would read more Sloane Templeton mystery books. I enjoyed Cooking the Books. Felt her taste in men was not great.
Sloan was working in a bookstore but not happy to be there. Her mom had owned the bookstore, but 3 months ago she died. In fact Sloan owns the whole building all 4 floors of it. thier are inside stairs and outside stairs. Sloan apartment is 3 and 4 floors. Her mom is on the second floor and bookstore on the ground floor.
Sloan exhusband abused her so she left and got a divorce and now he sueing her for part of what she inherted. Her next boyfriend Trey beat her and runs the neighbord gang. Now she dating dr. Andreas. Trey does not like Sloan is dating someone else especially a white guy. Trey wants Sloan back. Sloan tries to keep Andreas and Trey away from each other.  She hides that Trey is bothering her or that he beat her up again.
Sloan is being pestered to sale the building without her building the major rebuild project won't go through. They won't take no from her.  Sends Robbie over again and again and finally with someone else over.
Someone is threatening her over the internet. Sloan aunt  Verlene is threatening her with her cooking. Verlene keeps on starting fires and then gets robbed at gunpoint. Verlene new boyfriend is a cop who fixes all her tickets. We here a lot about him but don't meet him, just his partner Justice. Who investigates the robbery of antique book worth a lot of money. Also the death threats and the dead rat with knife in it.
the group of senior citizens meeting at bookstore is not about books.  The senior citizens all are carrying guns and go to target practice once a week. Trey does not like her dating Andreas.
Their is a lot going on in the book and not everything was answered so leads to another book hopefully. Good clean fun mystery book. I was given this ebook in exchange for honest review.
04/02/2012 PUB 304 PAGES  ABINGDOM PRESS
ISBN: 9781426733888

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

AUGUST WINS

01-Foxy's Tale by Karen; Gschwandtner Cantwell  LT
The Choice by Lorhainne Eckhart           LT
02-Erekos by A.M. Tuomala LT
 Domina: Society's Ilk by Edmund Alexander  lt
The Ultimate No-No by Tamika Newhouse LT
 Bad Vibrations by Christine PopeLT
8/03Taken Hostage by Ranae Rose
8/06Cassie Draws the Universe by P.S. Baber  LT
8-07Stray : Touchstone Part 1 by Andrea K Höst LT
8-08Restless Highways by Melissa L. Webb LT
Woodcliff Anthology by D. A. Blankinship LT
8-09Kings & Queens by Courtney Vail LT
8-10
Children of the Elementi by Ceri Clark LT
8-11The Schliemann Legacy by D.A. Graystone LT
Two Graves by D.A. Graystone LT
8-12Willowtree by Mike Bove LT
8-13eFiction Magazine by Doug Lance  LT
Harbingers of Mortality by Steve Thoma LT
8-15Fast-Tracked by Tracy Rozzlynn LT
 The Traveler's Companion by Christopher John LT
Blood Duty by CRDaems JRTomlin LT
The Society of Sinners by Charity Parkerson  LT
8-16RIPPLER by Cidney Swanson lt
Color My Horse by Bev Pettersen LT
8-18Strangers On A Plane by Emma Shane LT
The Story of Solomon Bear by Phillip Laird LT
8-19American Nightmare by T.K. Murphy LT
8-20WIRED by Douglas E. Richards LT
The Old One by Todd Brabander LT
Playing with Fire by Chryse WymerLT
Ten Typewriter Tales by Mobashar Qureshi LT
Sea Change by Francis Rowan LT
8-22 Maya & Filippo Make Friends in Auckland by Alinka Rutkowska LT
Daughter of Dreams by Marshall  LT
Energy by MJ Schutte LT
 Touch of Frost by Jennifer Estep LT
The Full Moon Bride by Shobhan Bantwal LT
Together Again by Mimi Barbour LT
8-24 Run From The Reaper by Cristian YoungMiller LT
8-25Wayward Son by Tom Pollack LT
26The Patriot Paradox by William Esmont LT
8-27 Hal Spacejock Second Course by Simon Haynes LT
8-28 Blood of the Dragon by Samantha Warren from LT
8-29 5 NETGALLEY BOOKD total 79
i'ma reader not a writer win , Acadia, Book I: The Lost King and the Goddess of Time
The Bound Soul (Halcyon #3) by Joseph Robert Lewis LT
My Summer Blog by Jessica BartlettLT
The Mosswoods byAstrid Yrigollen LT

A Lawman's Christmas by Linda lael Miller

5 STARS
It's been awhile since I have read a book by Linda Lael Miller, makes me want to dig out my other books by her and reread them. Definately read more books of hers.
Clay McKettricks want to start his own ranch so he moved away from his family to texas. Clay plans to mark time over winter as a new sherriff in town. Thier is a small house that comes with the sherriff job, but the last sherriff widow and two daughters still live thier. Soon as Clay gets his horse of the train Edrina comes up to hold his reins so he can help the train conducter shut the car up. Edrina is up on the horse bareback when Clay turns around. I love Edrina she is smart,nice and funny at age 7. She tells Clay that now he is thier they will have to go to poor house.
Clay tells Dara Rose for now he will bunk at jail. The mayor tells her she needs to be out after Christmas if the new sherriff does not want it the town will sell the house.
Dara Rose does not know where to turn. Her choices are to be a ranch housekeeper and cook than after a year the ranger might marry her, but girls are not welcome. The other choice is work at brothel and girls cant live her. Thier is no way she is leaving her girls.
When Clay hears what the Mayor says he proposes marriage to Dara Rose right now it will be in name only and hope that one day will be a real mariage.
I like this good christmas story. I was given this ebook in exchange for honest review.
09/27/2011 PUB HARLIQUIN

Monday, August 1, 2011

The House at Sea's End by Elly Griffths

5 stars
Thier are a lot of things in this story I liked and some I did not. Personally all the different affairs dont like.  I have not read the other books that are before this one, But I want to now.
Ruth is a brand new mom. Her daughter is Kate. Kate father is Nelson, but no one knows that. Nelson is a Policeman and happily married man.
Ruth is a professor teaches archaeologie and helps the police when old remains are found. Ruth is struggling the whole way through the book with being a new mom. Feels quilty when she leaves kate to go to work. Finding baby sitters.
Thier are 6 bodies buried by the ocean  ane once they start moving the rocks they have only till the high tide comes to get everything out or be lost to sea.
They have to find out how old and where they came from.
Its a good mystery and good insight to her friends and coworker's. A little hard for me with the English meaning of some of the police terms like DCI. I would read more of her books.
I was given this ebook in exchange for honest review.
01/12/2012 PUB Houghton Mifflin Harcour