This YA book took me completely by surprise. I try not to read other reviews if I think I’m going to review a book myself, but I had read the synopsis. It sounded intriguing, but didn’t sound special, yep, insert foot here. I’ll get back to this statement, I promise, BUT, Rebel of the Sands did have some similarities to other YA novels. Continue reading “This Chick Read: Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton”
Aubrey and Josh Hamilton seemed to have the perfect life. He was a med student at Vanderbilt and she was a grade school teacher. Newly married and very much in love, they’d known each other since they were children and knew everything about each other. One day, on their way to their friends bachelor party, Josh disappears, and Aubrey discovers she may not have know as much as she thought she did about her husband. The police look at Aubrey as the prime subject and her life goes into a tailspin. Continue reading “This Chick Read: No One Knows by J. T. Ellison”
Lisa Shearin’s SPI Files series takes place in New York City, but it’s a New York that regular people don’t see. Unless you have taken Brimstone, a new designer drug that allows the user to “see” the true form of those around them. Something that SPI, does not want to happen. Humans would freak out if they knew what they were living among. Continue reading “This Chick Read: The Brimstone Deception by Lisa Shearin”
The Cosy Tea Shop in the Castle was a fun, light hearted romance. As an American reader, I got a kick out of the British witticisms, and cheeky humor. I’ll admit that part of the fun for me was trying to figure out some of the British slang, but the story was also well told. Ellie, at times felt a bit young, but I admired that she wanted to leave the safety of her parents house and boring job to open a tea shop in a castle. She had absolutely no experience at all, Continue reading “This Chick Read: The Cosy Tea Shop in the Castle by Caroline Roberts”
“When I found my husband lying at the bottom of the stairs…”
Lisa Lutz engaged my imagination from the very first sentence of The Passenger. Did Tanya kill her husband or didn’t she? This question was only the first of many that I had as I read this book. Tanya was the first identity we knew our heroine as, but it certainly wasn’t the last. Continue reading “This Chick Read: The Passenger by Lisa Lutz”
Forgive me but I’m going to gush for a moment. Kristen Callihan’s Darkest London series is a fantastically dark, dangerously fun, sexy thrill ride. I enjoyed Moonglow, the second book in the series, just as much as Firelight, the first. The characters are not perfect. They are flawed in the best way possible. They are interesting, and hold my attention to the extent that I am reading each page like I eat a piece of chocolate cake, savoring each bite and disappointed when my plate is clean. Continue reading “This Chick Read: Moonglow by Kristen Callihan”
Morrigan’s Cross is the first book in Nora Roberts Circle Trilogy. This book was first published in August of 2006, and was just reissued in January 2016. Apparently I must have been living in a hole in the ground because I’ve never read this series! As with most of Ms. Roberts trilogy’s, this storyline has a good versus evil theme. Six people, of mixed backgrounds join together, using their various abilities, magical and warrior, to become a unit with the purpose of saving mankind from the evil Lilith. Continue reading “This Chick Read: Morrigan’s Cross by Nora Roberts”
Ghost Talker, the fourth novel in the Ghost Seer series, finds Clare and Zach trying to solve the problem of a poltergeist disturbing Buffalo Bill’s grave. Robin D. Owens has done a good job of evolving the psychic abilities of these two characters, as well as increasing the depth of feelings between them, Continue reading “This Chick Read: Ghost Talker by Robin D. Owens “
Two If By Sea is more than a tragic tale of a man who survives tragedy, only to find love again. It’s about an honorable man, ex cop, Frank Mercy, who, after saving a young boys life, illegally takes him back to his home in the United States.
It’s about the bond Continue reading “This Chick Read: Two If By Sea by Jacquelyn Mitchard”
Jill Shalvis, the author of the Lucky Harbor series, is my go to author for quick humor and an adept emotional touch. My Kind of Wonderful, the second book in her Cedar Ridge series, definitely has both of those attributes. Continue reading “This Chick Read: My Kind of Wonderful by Jill Shalvis”
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