Just Like Heaven by Julia Quinn


My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Simply one of the best historicals I've read in a long time. That's all.




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Call Me by Lena Matthews


My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Pretty good read about best friends who don't realize how much they really mean to one another. I got this as a free read from Amazon, so I am quite pleased with the purchase. :) I would very much like to read about Chris and Eliza. Now that story seems like it's gonna be a very good read.




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Review: Too Good To Be True by Kristn Higgins

OK. I liked it. I really did. However, I was so lost in Grace's first person musings that I almost stopped reading the book. I am normally so charmed by the quirkiness of Higgins' female characters that this shouldn't have bothered me but it just seemed to be too much. Let me say that I did find the book to be funny and it tugged at my heart strings a few (appropriate times) but COME ON!

*****I usually don't do spoilers but this deserves it*****

Grace is a jilted woman. Three weeks before her weddings her fiancé announces that the relationship is no longer working for him; this is after he meets her Cinderella look-a-like younger sister, Natalie. Having noticed that Natalie and Andrew shared an instant attraction and being the loving sister that she is, Grace gives the green light for them to have a relationship. Are you kidding me? Who in the h&ll does this? I would choke my sister with a reinforced piano wire if she would even think of dating the fiancé that just left me holding the invitations and catering bill. But in Grace’s eyes Natalie can never do anything wrong and always has the best of intentions. I think this is what bothers me most: Natalie never seems to get the fact that she is a truly selfish biotch and Grace is feels it’s okay to continue to protect her. Ok done with the tirade.

Other than Grace acting like a martyr all the time, the book was actually quote good. Callahan was too good of a man for her. He was honest and hot and knew he way around a hammer pretty well. I mean there was the whole ex-convict thing but it was a white collar crime, so no need to hide the silver. There was some serious unresolved issues with family in this book. Did I say I liked it? Well I do---and all because Natalie gets left at the altar too.

#nowreading: Too Good To Be True by Kristan Higgins

 About to start on this book, borrowed digitally from the Dallas Public Library.   Just noticed that several new titles had been added to the digital library and I am so glad of it. Kristan Higgins is one of my favorite authors for contemporary, romantic comedy. Her stories are sexy, funny and tug at the heart.

Updated TBR

The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Pozsch, Lee Chadeayne (Kindle)

Blue Velvet by Iris Johansen (Kindle)

Maid to Match by Deena Gist (Kindle)

Silent Run by Barbara Freethy (Kindle)

Just Like Heaven by Julia Quinn (Paperback)
Snowfall at Willow Lake by Susan Wiggs (Paperback

In the Doctor's Bed by Brenda Jackson


My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Not the usual Brenda Jackson fare but still a solid story. I would like to give it 3.5 stars.....only because with a longer book, the peripheral characters could have been explored more. It was like Lucien and Jaclyn were the only two people in the book and that didn't work for me. Maybe I've gotten too used to the Westmoreland and Madaris clans. Great start to this multi author series.




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Dark Side of Dreaming by Ann Bruce


My rating: 3 of 5 stars


I have one complaint about this book....where are the other four or five chapters? I felt this book could have been a five it was just longer. A cat burglar comes out of retirement for one last job and it set up by the man she's set to rob. And the man? Sasha Michaels is this rugged Russian guy (I picture one on the Klitchko's) with too much money and time on his hands who wants Cleo find the mate to the statue that she wants to steal from him. Complicated relationship? Yeah. There is also this other guy who has some serious delusions of grandeur who is chasing Cleo and the statue. Really creepy.


As much as I liked this story, it goes back to it not being long enough. I think with some added length this would have been a great caper. The relationship that develops between Cleo and Sasha is wonderful and uber sexy but I just think that there could have been MORE! MORE! MORE! MORE! And what about Elena? Is there another story out there for her? I felt as it everything ended too abruptly; so much so that I wanted to shake my Kindle to see if there were more pages. I hope there is more about Cleo and Sasha soon.






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