Summary:

"Sisters in Love" is a steamy contemporary romance with alpha male heroes and sexy, empowered women. They're flawed, funny, passionate, and very relatable for readers who enjoy new adult romance, contemporary romance, and women's fiction.

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Danica Snow has always been the smart, practical, and appropriate sister. As a therapist, she prides herself on making reasonable, conservative choices, even if a bit boring, and as part of the Big Sister Program, she has little time for anything more in her life.

Blake Carter is a player. He never gets bored of conquering women, and with his sexy good looks and successful lifestyle, he has no trouble finding willing participants. When his friend and business partner dies in a tragic accident, he suddenly, desperately, wants to change his ways. The problem is, he doesn’t know how to stop doing what he does best.

When Blake walks into Danica’s office, the attraction between them is white hot, but Danica isn't the type to give into the heat and risk her career. Danica’s desire sets her on a path of self-discovery, where she begins to question every decision she’s ever made. Just this once, Danica wants to indulge in the pleasures of life she’s been so willingly ignoring, but with her Little Sister in turmoil and her biological sister’s promiscuousness weighing heavily on her heart, she isn’t sure it’s the right time to set her desires free.

Review:

I made it through this shit and deserve a medal for not having my sanity lost. It's hard to decided where to begin my review of this book - do I start with a hero that this a dude bro of the skiing variety who has sex in a bathroom with a random ski shop customer and doesn't bother with finding out her name OR do I start with a heroine that is a therapist because her parents' wanted her to be but she has so many damn mental and emotional hang ups that she could use a good shrink herself?

Maybe I should start with the fact that there is a cast of characters that are so fucked up in the head that this book clearly lives up to the blurb's "new adult romance" even though they are in their late twenties and mid-thirties? Or should I start with the constant binge-drinking and so casual sex that no one can have an actual relationship - in a romance novel? These men and women are not sex positive - they are over-sexed (not addicted to sex, just ruled by their damn hormones) to the point of eye rolling.

No I think I will start this review with how nasty our heroine, Danica, is about her chosen profession and how she is the worst therapist to the point of being dangerous. She enters a sexual relationship with her client (Blake) and eventually decides to give up her license so she can have her rocking orgasms. But prior to hopping into bed with a client, she often would fantasize about having sex with her client during his therapy sessions so much she wasn't listening fully to what his issues were (and there were a lot of them). She was so damn unprofessional! But she wouldn't refer him to another therapist, because she felt she was the best therapist in town/county/state and her pride wouldn't let her.

Then she started fantasizing about Blake while holding sessions with other clients, not giving them her full attention. Yet, we are told over and over again how competent she is - but to me she is a piss poor therapist who is basically a con artist she sucks so much at her job. And the whole situation with her "Little Sister" Michelle just proves again that Danica shouldn't be a therapist, she should be seeing one. Also, I am so over characters/real-life people who are in their late twenties who worry about aging and getting "old" and/or "fat." If these people are that shallow at 29, they are going to be obnixous at 39. Get your shit together and lay off the large amounts of alcohol.

0 stars and I am not going to bother with other Foster book I have in the queue. Both books are being deleted from my NOOK library pronto and I will avoid this author in the future.

At the 50% mark and now it is full on hate reading. Going to be more ranting than reviewing when I am done. Wondering if I should cut my losses now and delete the other Foster book I have waiting in the queue OR read it so that I know for sure not to read anything else by this author.

Indonesian officials are rushing to come with a solution to the newest hazardous trend in Jakarta: people who wander the city's railway tracks looking for free "electric therapy." Some say it’s a scam but people all over the country seems to embrace the therapy.

According to local media reports, because they believe it can cure all kinds of diseases, from diabetes to high-blood pressure to insomnia, several dozen people per day purposely electrocute themselves along the rails. People step aside for a while when the train is coming, but will hurriedly run back into a sleeping position on the tracks to feel electrical currents that is supposed to cure their ailments, as to their belief.

As word of the supposed miracle spread, train tracks in slum areas in northern Jakarta became trendy as impromptu clinics. Until recently, more than 50 people would show up at the city's Rawa Buaya tracks every day. The numbers have dropped recently, since police and the state-run railroad erected a warning sign, but some people still come, convinced the tracks can cure them.

Murti Utami, a spokeswoman for Indonesia's Health Ministry, says that there is no medical or scientific evidence to support the treatment. Officials have prohibited people to enter the site and implemented penalties of up to three months in prison or fines of $1,800. Despite this, it is difficult to police train tracks in Jakarta since it is stretch out in all directions across the city, often with people living bunched up alongside.

"We encourage these people to seek professional medical help," Ms. Utami said. Indonesia offers free health care for its citizens, so anyone in need should go to a government clinic, she said.

According to Westhill Consulting Travel and Tours, Singapore, known to be a travel agency who mainly focuses on Jakarta, Indonesia, those who have experienced it believe that electricity absorbed from the metal rails can alleviate, even cure, a host of health problems, including hypertension, diabetes, rheumatism, gout, obesity and high cholesterol but we are working on something to reach out to people to make them aware that there is no truth in it.

Furthermore, Indonesians often gather to quacks and quirky cures. For instance, four people died in a stampede when thousands of people sought to meet a boy shaman called Ponari—believed to be in possession of a special healing stone—after he was struck by lightning and survived.

Certainly, some Indonesians put more trust in their faith healers and herbal-medicine doctors than in Western medicine. Indonesian officials believe education would help overcome the distrust of Western medical practices, Ms. Utami said. But a warning that everyone must know, this could be very dangerous.