Once Taken by Melody Anne: A new lodge has opened in the hills of Montana and its owner, Jenna Pine, just wants to make it through another lonely Christmas. One night she says a prayer out loud on her balcony, never imagining that anyone would be listening, or that she’s about to get more than she could ever hope for.
For the Win by Sara Rider: What happens when you fall for your biggest competition? Sara Rider scores with this charming romance about soccer stars battling their tough opponents and playing the field of love.
Flirting with Fame by Samantha Joyce: Elise Jameson is the secret author behind the bestselling Viking Moon series. But when a stranger poses as Elise, the painfully shy, deaf nineteen-year-old starts to see how much she’s missing. Can she really hide in the shadows forever? This clever, coming-of-age debut is for anyone who has ever felt unsure in her own skin.
Right Where You Are by L. E. Bross: In this smart, snappy romance—the first in the Second Chances series—a college senior finds herself sentenced to community service, where she happens to meet a bad boy who might just be exactly what she needs.
From Scratch by Rachel Goodman: This critically acclaimed novel, hailed as “smart, sexy, and funny” (Publishers Weekly) is a down-home, feel-good Southern romance that explores one woman’s journey back home to Dallas, Texas, where her family is cooking up a plan that doesn’t quite suit her tastes…
MY REVIEW:
ONCE TAKEN: MELODY ANNE
Jenna and Carter went to highschool together at 16 when Carter saw her he knew he had to have her. He told his friend Michael he was going to
date her. He thought Carter was
crazy. They were 16 and just starting
the dating scene. When he went to Jenna
and announced he was taking her out that night she was, “Yeah right, good luck
with that.” He was stunned. Every girl wanted him she had to know
that. Right?
Michael was laughing his ass off. Carter’s response he was going to “marry her.” It took poor Carter a boatload of rejections
to get that first date. It was a year
and a half but he got it. It was another
three months before he got his first kiss.
Once they kissed they knew there would be no one else for either of
them. Then, tragedy strikes sending
Carter into a tail spin.
It turns him into a man Jenna doesn’t even
know or recognize. He had disappeared
right before her eyes. 10 years and a
wish later passes and Jenna’s aunt passes away.
Leaving her the inn in Montana.
It was the one that Jenna had grown up in with her aunt. It’s riddled in back taxes, debt, and repairs
but she is determined to make a go of it.
When she makes a wish.
This is a heartwarming, sexually charged
and highly emotional story of two ex-lovers who come together not to have a
relationship but just to meet natural needs for the time they will be around
each other. Wow! Always love Melody’s story’s the spin she can
give to an average happening.
I give this story: 5 stars
For the Win: Sara Rider
Lainey used to have posters up in her
room of Gabe he has been her idol for years in the soccer world up there with
Pele. Not today though all she feels is that he has mocked her. She does not
like that feeling at all. If the rags are correct about him he thinks that his
sexy smile will endear him to her and is does in all the wrong places for this
event but not what needs to be happening right now or anytime for that matter
she will put it on her bucket list. (For things she wants to do after she wins
the World Cup for the second time.)
It’s when he says that she should go with his lead that gets her as if
she needs his help. That really gets her goat and that is what gets them in
even bigger trouble because she just talks off the top of her head.
You see Gabe is a secret admirer of Lainey’s also. But he can’t let on because inside him he has a real fear of what it would mean to practice at the Cricket Field. It is just the way he has grown up. What or who will it take to get him to get out of that way of thinking?
You see Gabe is a secret admirer of Lainey’s also. But he can’t let on because inside him he has a real fear of what it would mean to practice at the Cricket Field. It is just the way he has grown up. What or who will it take to get him to get out of that way of thinking?
As far as Lainey she has been so dedicated to her sport she has no time
to live and one of the things on her bucket list is get a library card.
Something most of us takes for granted but she can’t find the time to do
because she spends her every waking moment working at her craft. She’s good but
who or what can make her see what she is missing and who?
Very cute story about a young woman who was always made to feel made to feel different and not equal to a man. And her fight to make it in a man’s game and to help women make the cross over. Yet, she comes to realize she has no friends, no life, and no man until she meets her idol Gabe.
Very cute story about a young woman who was always made to feel made to feel different and not equal to a man. And her fight to make it in a man’s game and to help women make the cross over. Yet, she comes to realize she has no friends, no life, and no man until she meets her idol Gabe.
I gave this story: 5 stars.
FLIRTING WITH FAME: SAMANTHA JOYCE
This was a little hard at first for me to get into but once all the
supporting characters came into play, WOW!
What a mixture of dynamic personalities in a multilayer storyline that
just all works so well. It just makes
you want to keep turning the page. It
has you booing for the good guys and cheering for the good guys (males or
females I won’t tell.) Shhh! ;)
It’s about Elise Jameson a young woman inured as a young person to where
she is not only scarred but is totally deaf.
The only time she ever felt like she could still hear is when she was writing. All the characters had something to say. What started that path was reading the author
Duncan Creed who gave her hope. Through
that hope, she found a new way to use that sound to write a book that became a
bestseller. It has now become a series of
books that became a T.V. series.
Only as a minor at sixteen and being hounded by her agent for a picture
for a book back cover she panicked. She
sent one of a beautiful woman off the internet to go with her pen name.
They bought it. Now, the third book is coming out, she’s in
the works for number four the final one and they are picking up the book for a
T.V. series.
Like that wasn’t bad enough her parents are making her go to college and
stay in the dorms even though her house is 20 minutes away. Also, her agent calls to say how lucky she is
that the T.V. show is moving the show to her hometown so she can be near set in
case they need her. There is a small
matter when she goes to the book signing of the third book and the woman on her
book cover is there signing as if she were her.
WHAT THE HELL!
She and her BFF Lin are floored.
She has to think what to do. Lin, he says to confront the B….! You will not believe what all happens but it
is fun and enjoyable to read.
I give this story: 5 stars.
RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE: L.E. BROSS
Avery Melrose Hartley was in a relationship with Grant for almost four
years. When she arrived at his apartment
and found him banging the out of some blonde in the bed they shared. As she left his apartment he shared with a
roommate she grabbed Grants baseball bat he always left by the door on her way
out. She walked over to his pride and
joy and started beating the hell out of it.
Beat out all the windows and mirrors first. Then started on the body before the roommate
and Grant could pry the bat out of her hands.
He tried to tell her it wasn’t what she thought. Well, either was the truck she said. Now they were even. Only now he took her to court and now she has
a record with fifteen thousand dollars to pay him in damages. Not to mention three hundred community hours
doing road work in scratchy orange jump suits.
Which does not make her father and lawyer one in the same happy at
all. You see he’s running for mayor who’s
tough on crime. Plus, he’s the D.A. The only good thing he had it filed under
her mother’s maiden name. Grant after
was gloating until she announces for all to hear from her mouth out to everyone
why she did what she did. He wasn’t
laughing anymore.
Avery being an overachieving child but a very rich pampered daughter
tried to have her dad get her out of it but he said no. She said she had her sorority agenda to do
but he said she had to take a semester off but she said she couldn’t it was her
senior year you don’t do the hours he said you go to jail. Not happy when he says remember you now have
a record you are a criminal.
Now Seth is being acclimated back into the community after serving
twelve months in prison. Because he said
he would have three months’ community service.
For beating his crap out of his stepfather. You see his mom married him when Seth was ten
and by fourteen she was dead from an overdose.
Within, three months his stepfather had gotten her hooked on heroin,
running drugs, and turning tricks for him also. When, she died Davis ended up with the
kids. Seth went off the deep end acting
out when he got his senses back and started watching and paying attention to his baby sister Sara, he realizes she is acting just like his mother. He asked her if she was using, she said she
was and that Davis had given it to her.
When he confronted Davis about it he called child protective services
saying he was acting out and was being violent.
Locking him in juvie for a while.
When he was allowed out and to come home again he came home one day in
the middle of a transaction where his sister, sixteen, was higher than a kite,
and was being offered up for the drugs.
He lost it. Out on work program
and his CS program. Meets Avery one
night before they both start serving their sentence. Now things get sticky.
Sometimes things happen in our lives that are bigger than us. With this story the author shows that not all
things were done out of our control.
Sometimes we have to rely on the power of love and friendship. Other times we just need to get out of our
own way. This was a very touching story
that was one you just didn’t want to put down.
I give this story, 5++++ stars.
FROM SCRATCH: RACHEL GOODMAN
This was an amazingly good book.
I so enjoyed the lifelong friendships, the angst, her father, and the
community budding in out of love. The
situations of the friendships of their pasts are funny and heartbreaking all at
once.
Lillie Turner and Nick Preston have known each other since she was five
and he was seven. They were best friends
through thick and thin. Him loving music
and she loving to cook. Which was good
since her dad owned Turner’s Greasy Spoon.
It used to be her mother’s pride and joy until one day her mother
disappeared. No one knew what happened to her.
All anyone knew is that after she had Lillie she became despondent. Leaving three-year-old Lillie with her
dad. Having to quit his job to take over
the restaurant or lose it and the house. He couldn’t afford either. Using the recipes his wife left behind he
made it work.
Until Lillie started cooking at a young age. When she could stand on a chair she wanted to
cook with her dad. She would order him
around and tell him what she wanted and he would do it and they would taste
it. He was amused when these little
hands would come up with such creations.
Eventually the “blue plate special” came into play.
Nick on the other hand came from old money. His father was a well-known heart surgeon,
fifth generation, and by gosh so would Nick be.
Although Nick groomed to be one his heart was just not in it. With his love of music always his first
choice. From the first day Lillie’s dad,
Jack, taught him to play the guitar.
He got so good at it he was even writing his own songs. As his and
Lillie’s friendship and support for their individual interest they grew
closer. Her listening for hours and him
helping her with recipes, well as much as she would let him.
That’s
when that first kiss happened. It was an
explosion that lasted and a love that opened up and grew quickly and, forever
right? As their love grew she moved in
with him. He did his residency started
to change him with all the odd hours and the cases. Nick started becoming more and more detached. More angry, short tempered, never just wanted
to spend time together, cuddle, and he wouldn’t even talk to her when he was
home. He felt like she was attacking him
if she dared ask how his day was so she stopped asking.
Till the one fateful night, when she really needed to talk to him. She had been crying and she really needed to
discuss her situation with him and he got angry with her and before she could
even say what was even wrong he discounted her feelings. He blew up at her and throwing a plate at a
wall that was on the coffee table. That
night she realized she was worth more than to be treated that way. She was hurt so deeply and need to get out
while he was sleeping or she would never go.
She packed a bag and she left what she needed to talk to him about on
the bar in the kitchen and left.
See if things can be
saved. See what can happen when you don’t
try and even if you think you do.
I give this story: 5 ++++ stars.
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