Review Get Fluffy by Sparkle Abbey

4 STARS
Get Fluffy is the second bookin the PAMPERED PETS MYSTERIES books.
Its funny and takes off right after the first one Desperate Housedogs ends. 
The setting for these stories is around the rich stars and their very pampered dogs.
Melinda is the main character of Get Fluffy and her cousin is main character of Desperate Housedogs. One gag that makes me laugh is the feud the two cousins are having about a jewel fruit basket pin that is worth a lot but ugly. Thier grandmother in her will left it to her favorite grandaughter.  So they both think its thiers and are breaking into each others houses or business and stealing it back and than wearing it in public.
Melinda gets in a big fight with two different society women at the big fundraising ball that Carol had helped plan in Desperate Housedogs. In fact Melinda through  tea on one of them.
Next day Melinda's business Bow Wow was busy with everyone wanting to gossip about the fight and buy what other society pets had that they don't have when Mona comes in her business and threatens to sue if Melinda does not apoligize.
Mona is a rich mean lady who pampered dog actually is a actor who has won an emmy. Mona and her ex-husband Cliff share the dog so sometimes they just drop dog off at her business. Which Cliff did and Mona won't pick up the phone to come and get her dog. Finally she takes the dog home and finds the house unlocked and in Fluffy room is Mona who was murdered.
So Melinda calls cops and her boyfriend who is undercover FBI.  Malone is the homicide detective who in Desperate Housedog was always upset with Carol trying to solve the murder. In fact did. He warns Melinda not to be like her cousin and interfer with his case.
When her bestfriend is prime suspect Melinda thiniks well Carol figured out and saved her friend so she will too.
Both mysteries are funny and keep you guessing about who the murders are till the end can not wait till the next book is out.  I was given the ebooks to read in exchange of honest review from Netgalley.
03/31/2012 PUB Bell Bridge Books

Review:Project Moses by Robert B. Lowe

5 STARS
Project Moses is a Mystery Thriller that is scary that some of it could happen with all the science being discovered.  I did not want to put it down till I had finshed reading it. Its a good length of a book.
I have to admit crying at part of the story.
Enzo Lee writes fluff pieces for San Francisco newspaper for the last two years. His boss just assigned him to cover a prosecutor death.  Enzo does not want it and I thought he was not much of an investigator.
Then he is asked to cover a Judge Miriam Gilbert's death in her office she is found the next morning. They did not know yet what she had died from but the prosecuter and the Judge were just on a case that ended in a hung jury.
The next day the Judge's niece Sarah Armstrong comes to talk to Lee about her Aunt the judge and as she is leaving the newpaper building she is runover by a hit and run that seamed aimed at her. Lee was a witness to it and took her home from the hospital and to his place because he did not like all these deaths happening.
The more that Lee and Sarah find out about the deaths they find lots more accidents have happened accross the country.
Lee is being set up on a drug charge but he is warned by the police detective who was investigating the judge death till it was taken over by Feds.
Two lawyers that went to law school and argued against Sarah and her friend the dead prosecuter where also killed by mysterous deaths. One of the deaths was Brent Donsen who worked as prosecuter for Justice department.
Finding what he was looking at opens a lot of information. Brent was actually the first death in New York than is buddy in florida and than the deaths in San Francisco.
Thier is a lot of science about gene splicing to help the food supply but than you see how that same technology is used to wipe out crops of certain areas and animals.
The story is well told and kept my attention on the story. I would read more books by Robert in the future based on this book.
I was given this ebook from Librarything and asked in return to give honest review of the story.
01/23/2012 PUB  Words: 85474

Review: Prelude to Backyard Horse Tales 3 by Jackie Anton

4 STARS
Prelude to Backyard Horse Tales 3 Don't Call Me Love
Its a cute short story told by the foal's point of view.
Chelsea Love is the registered name, but his barn name is Love. When Love had questions the first year he would ask his mother to explain them. Love  was taught to never let anyone push her around by her mama.
Its cute and different made me think about different sides of horses. I would read more of her books.
02/05/2012 PUB

review:Diamond Dreams by Zuri Day

3 STARS
A nice story line but too many love scenes for me and the mystery not much of a story line.
The settings sound lovely I would like to stay their.
Diamond Drake works for her family vineyard. Her designs a major part of the hotel and spa they are building. Even though her brothers tease her that she got the job because she kept turning it in time after time.
Dexter and Donovan Drake work along with Donald their father and company founder.
The vineyard has been in their family over a 100 years but Donald the one that built it way up. They are a close family and live on the same estate plus two older generations live thier too.
Jackson "Boss" Wright owns Boss Construction and they are handling the building the Drake hotel and spa resort. Someone has been threating his life by sending letters but he has not called the police.
He is overseeing the hotel one day and Diamond is over for a walk through and they can't take eyes off each other. Diamond things he is just a foreman and threatens to tale his boss about the sexual comments he is making to her.
That night at a fundraiser she runs into him again and finds out who he is and when she is out for a walk he grabs and kisses her.
The next time they meet and she is asked to give him the tour they have sex in wine cellar.
Just seems like too make sex scenes and short on plot or conversations that are not about sex.
I was given this ebook to read in exchange of honest review from Netgalley.
03/27/2012 Harlequin Kimani Romance

Review: The Kingdom by Amanda Stevens

3 STARS
This is the second book in the series and I feel like I missed a few things by not reading it first. The story is still good but I feel if I had read the first would  of not  been lost and confused. I do want to go and read it now
Amelia Gray sees ghosts and she restores grave yard. Amelia has been hired to restore Thorngate cemetery in Asher Falls.
The only way into the town now is across a ferry over a Asher Reservoir or bell lake as locals call it because of at least one cemetery is buried under the reservoir and people hear the bells ring.
Thane Asher heir to his grandfathers money. Pell Asher.
The  town of Asher Falls is almost a ghost town. Amelia sees lots of ghosts around the town and feels weird things. Thier are pictures with ghosts in them. pentagrams and talk of witches. She finds a hidden grave outside the cemetery. People warn her away and threatens her. 
One of the ghosts she sees she knows was murdered but everyone says she died in a fire.
the society she thought had hired her was a local historicaol soiety but others say it was witches who brought her here.
If I saw ghosts and wanted to ignore them I don't think I would work in cemeterys like Amelia and her father do.  I was lent this ebook in exchange of honest review.
03/27/2012 PUB Harlequin Mira Books

A Perfect Storm by Lori Foster

4 STARS
I like Arizona Storm she is fiesty. Arizona has had a hard life her father was abusive and sold her to human traffickers. Arizona does not give up.  She escaped from them. Unfortunately she was got and to teach a lesson to the others. Arizona was tied up and thrown off a bridge into a river.  Arizona still struggled to survive.
Jackson was down by the river and saw her. He jumped in and grabbed her. Arizona thought he was one of the bad guys and fought him.  Jackson rescued and brought her into his family. Even paid for her to go to a finshing school.  Jackson,Dare,Chris and Trace all live close and work together to stop human traffickers and make good money.  Jackson was like her big brother and wanted to keep her safe.  They had her working the computers, backgrounds. Arizona wanted more.
Arizona on her 21 birthday broke into bounty hunter Spencer Lark's house and sat watching him sleep.  Arizona met him on another job and felt she could trust him. She found a bar that she thought was dealing in smuggling. She wanted to be bait and catch the bad guys and free the others that are like her.
Spencer agreed to help her because he knew she would do it on her own. Spencer has been fighting his feelings for Arizona. He was 11 years older than her.  He wanted to help her get over her fears and protect her.
Part of a deal he was making with her was everytime she swore she owed him a kiss.  He would help her and go to Jackson up comming wedding.
Arizona carries a gun in a ankle holster and a knife down her back and is willing to fight dirty & smart. She has some issues dealing with men and swimming in water. She was working to get over them.
This is a good story and I wish their are many more heros out their and less bad guys in real life. I want to go back and read other stories in this group of books.  I was given this ebook to read in  exchange of a honest review from Netgalley.
03/27/2012 PUB Harlequin HQN

review: Just One Kiss by Isabel Sharpe

3 STARS
I love the story line and the characters a lot but too many sex scenes for my taste.
A group of collage friends get together and buy a building and open their business in it and each have a apartment on top floors. Each business deals in one of the five senses.
A Taste for all pleasures is a bakery owned by Angela who is divorced after a short marriage. She wants to have a European bakery but her pastries are not catching on but everyone loves her cookies, cupcakes,and brownies.
Seth Blackstone owns a music studio. Bonnie Fortuna owns Bonnie Blooms. She used to date Seth but after a year he broke it off. She still has lots of feelings for him. Jack has a photography and Physical therpy studio that Demi Anderson had bought from their other friend.
Angela has not really dated since her divorce but when a goodlooking sad guy comes in to buy white on white cupcakes she is flirting with him and sneaks a chocolate cupcake in the middle of the ones he ordered.
Daniel Flynn was engaged to high school girl friend who died in accident but made Daniel promise not to date till after the date of their wedding had past. He agreed. That date was two years in the future. He still had six months to go.
He went back to bakery next day they both were flirting and Angela asked him out and he explained that he did not date yet. Angela said she wanted to talk business with him.
I want to see what happens to all the other friends in the future books. Just enough information that makes you want to read more about them.
I was given this ebook to read in exchange of honest review from Netgalley.
04/03/2012 PUB Harlequin Harlequin Blaze