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text 2017-02-07 03:17
January Reads
Man on the Run - Carl Weber
The Score - Kiki Swinson
The Mark (The Score Series) - Kiki Swinson
Copycat - Kimberla Lawson Roby
A Note Yet Unsung (A Belmont Mansion Novel) - Tamera Alexander
Luxury and Larceny: Part 1 - Ty Marshall
Breathless - Beverly Jenkins

I read 7 books in January. I'm so proud of myself that I stayed focused and tried to read everyday. There were a couple books that I did have to put down, but I'm happy I did. Leaving books that aren't working for me is something I promised to do in 2017 and obviously with 7 books read it's working. 

 

I read;

 

Breathless by Beverly Jenkins                    4 stars

 

Man on the Run by Carl Weber                   4 stars

 

The Score by Kiki Swanson                         3 stars

 

The Mark by Kiki Swanson                          3 stars

 

Copycat by Kimberly Lawson Roby             3 stars

 

A Note Yet Unsung by Tamera Alexander   3 stars

 

Luxury & Larceny by Ty Marshall                2 stars

 

 

It was a good month and in February I'm expecting to read more and hopefully read more 5 and 4 star reads.

 

                   

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review 2014-12-27 17:50
Could have been sprinkled with a little more magic....
First Frost - Sarah Addison Allen

 Arc provided by St. Martin's Press through Netgalley

 

Release Date : January 20 th, 2015

 

 

It may not seem like it, but Sarah Addison Allen's writing is amongst my favourites.

I fell in love with it while reading "Garden Spells", and it just grew with "The Peach Keeper"...

Since too many years have gone by since I last read the first one ( August 2008), I decided to re-read it...which may have caused a little anxiety on my part:

Garden Spells(GS) is one of the untouchables , my all time favourite books..what if, while second time re-reading it, I were to find myself disliking it?

The potential for catastrophe was gigantic.

Fortunately all went smooth _ I devoured t in less than one day_, and I still found myself loving the characters and the plot.

 

First part accomplished. Time to start with "First Frost"....

 

The thing with sequels, _when you're not expecting one _ is that they can have the potential to ruin a whole tale.

That doesn't happen here, but, I was not left with the feeling that what happens in this tale, is amazing or vital to the story. Maybe if it had taken place twenty years regarding the end of GS it would be better...

 

As it is, _and unlike what happens in GS, despite the trigger warnings for abuse _ this story for most of its duration left me somewhat depressed.

The thing is, I really didn't want to know that the Waverley sisters were getting lost in their problems!

 

Claire starts doubting her gift, and Sydney is allowing one situation to rule over her mind... I am not going to say anything about it, in order to not spoil it, but honestly I disliked the introduction of that theme...and the predictability of what was going to happen in the end..

 

Also, after all that happened in the previous book, to end up seeing the younger of the Waverley Sisters still unease about her gifts, well more her daughter's than anything else, felt a little hypocritical. Especially when Bay is so at ease with them.

 

I guess my main problem with this book, is that most of the time I felt as if I was reading a contemporary/ chick lit book. The magic wasn't there.

 

Yes, I am aware that the timeline in which the story takes place is a very specific one: the magical Apple tree is waiting for the First Frost to arrive, in order to wake up...so everything sounds more problematic than ever.

The thing is: I wasn't particularly interested in that.

I didn't care about their dramas. And once again the guys _ Tyler and Henry _ don't have a very active role on the plot.

 

On the positives, I can't get enough of Evanelle! ;)

Here hoping that she makes it until one hundred and ten. At least!

I would love to share some quotes with you guys, to show you the extent of her amazing(ness), but this is an arc...o_O

Evanelle is amazing. Her relation with Fred is still strong, and honestly I don't know what will become of the other two _and of the story! _without her.

 

Then there's Bay...

Bay is a great character. I was a little scared that a fifteen year old could have already found her "one true love" due to her gift _ the whole knowing where she belongs thing? _ but fortunately the plot seems to have space to develop itself in another direction, and I honestly hope it does so!

 

The introduction of the mysterious character felt a little flat...I don't know, I guess I was expecting that he would bring a little more magic with him, and a lot less mundane issues. 

 

The writing however is still great as ever, and this is a good book!

Just not as great, and enchanting as Garden Spells was/is...for me at least. I wanted more out of the magical realism department.

 

 

Author's Official Site

 

 

 

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text 2014-01-02 22:09
January New Releases, Week 5 (Jan. 26-31)
Up From the Grave - Jeaniene Frost
Tiger Shrimp Tango - Tim Dorsey
The Silence of the Library - Miranda James
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe - David I. Kertzer
Into the Still Blue - Veronica Rossi
The Bride Says No - Cathy Maxwell
Shadow Ops: Breach Zone - Myke Cole
At the River's Edge - Mariah Stewart
Breakaway - Jeff Hirsch
An Officer and a Spy - Robert Harris

Sources:  Fictfact,  Dear Author, and Bookreporter.

 

Monday, January 27:

 

Convincing Rowena by Tara Rose (#6 in Passion Peak, Colorado)
Death Defying by Nina Croft (#3 in Blood Hunter)

 

Tuesday, January 28:

 

A Case of Possession by KJ Charles (#2 in Charm of Magpies)
At the River's Edge by Mariah Stewart (#7 in Chesapeake Diaries)
Blindfolded Innocence by Alessandra Torre (#1 in Innocence)
Breach Zone by Myke Cole (#3 in Shadow Ops)
Breakaway by Jeff Hirsch (#2 in 39 Clues: Unstoppable)

The Bride Says No by Cathy Maxwell (#1 in Brides of Wishmore)
Burn for Me by Cynthia Eden (#1 in Phoenix Fire)

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text 2014-01-02 21:21
January New Releases, Week 4 (Jan. 19-25)
Hunting Shadows - Charles Todd
The Course of True Love (The Bane Chronicles, #10) - Cassandra Clare
Dark Bites - Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dirty Magic - Jaye Wells
The Last Enemy: The Malichea Quest (Malichea Quest) - Jim Eldridge
Pandemic (Infected) - Scott Sigler
That Old Black Magic - Mary Jane Clark

Sources:  Fictfact,  Dear Author, and Bookreporter.

 

Monday, January 20:

 

Final Vow by Kathleen Brooks (#7 in Bluegrass Brothers)
The Professional: Part 3 by Kresley Cole (#3 in The Game Maker)

Static by LA Witt, also The Beginning of Us by Sarah Brooks (both according to Dear Author are re-release-revised and edited second edition of Static, originally released in 2011 by Amber Allure.  With still yet another edition releasing 1/27/14)

 

Tuesday, January 21:

 

A Little Too Hot by Lisa Desrochers (#3 in A Little Too Far)
Avalon by Mindee Arnett (#1 in Avalon)
Bad Wolf by Nele Neuhaus (#2 in Bodenstein & Kirchhoff)
Be Mine Forever by Marina Adair (#4 in St. Helena Vineyard)

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text 2013-12-23 16:34
January New Releases, Week 3 (Jan. 12-18)
White Trash Love Song - Teresa Mummert
The Seventh Door - Bryan Davis
The Priority List: A Teacher's Final Quest to Discover Life's Greatest Lessons - David Menasche
The Polaris Protocol: A Pike Logan Thriller - Brad Taylor
For the Benefit of Those Who See: Dispatches from the World of the Blind - Rosemary Mahoney
Entangled - Opal Carew
The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World - Greg Grandin
A Dark and Stormy Knit - Anne Canadeo
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches - Alan Bradley
NYPD Red 2 (NYPD Red,# 2) - James Patterson,Marshall Karp

Sources:  Fictfact,  Dear Author, and Bookreporter.

 

Monday, January 13:

 

Accidentally in Love by Cindi Madsen #3 in Accidentally In Love
Deceptive Innocence, Part One  by Kyra Davis #1 in Pure Sin
The Escape by Shoshanna Evers #2 in Pulse

Dirty Deeds by SE Jakes #1 in Dirty Deeds

It's Not Over by A L Zaun #2 in The Do Over
Lian/Roch by Alexandra Ivy, Laura Wright #9 - 10 in Bayou Heat
NYPD Red 2 by James Patterson #2 in NYPD Red

Tuesday, January 14:

 

Andrew's Brain by E.L. Doctorow

The Answer to the Riddle Is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia by David Stuart MacLean 

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