Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: William Morrow Publication date: 02 Apr 2013ISBN13: 9780062007476 Queenie Wake, a country girl from North Star, Texas, has just been fired from her job as a chef for not allowing a customer to use ketchup. Again. Now the only place she has to go is home to North Star. She can hope,…
Category: 2014
DNF – The Rich are Different by Susan Howatch
Kindle: 566 pagesPublisher: SphereFirst Publication date: 15 Mar 1977ISBN – 9780751553123 First lines – “I was in London when I first heard of Dinah Slade. She was broke and looking for a millionaire, while I was rich and looking for a mistress. From the start we were deeply compatible.” 1983 Synopsis – Dinah Slade was young…
Review – Mountain Man by Keith C Blackmore
Kindle: 514 pagesPublisher: CreatePublication date: 15 Dec 2011ISBN: 9781475298659 Boomstick.Samurai bat.Motorcycle leather.And the will to live amongst the unliving. Augustus Berry lives a day-to-day existence comprised of waking up, getting drunk, and preparing for the inevitable day when “they” will come up the side of his mountain and penetrate his fortress. Living on the outskirts…
Review – The Future for Curious People
Paperback: 317 pages Publisher: Pan Books Publication date: 02 Sept 2014 ISBN: 978-1444770360 What if you could know your romantic future? What if an envisionist could enter the name of your prospective mate into a computer that would show you a film of your future life together? In The Future for Curious People, a young…
Review – The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
Paperback: 291 pages Publisher: Random House Publication date: 26 June 2012ISBN13: 9780812984750 On an ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia awakes to discover that something has happened to the rotation of the earth. The days and nights are growing longer and longer; gravity is affected; the birds, the tides, human behavior, and cosmic rhythms…
Review – Once a Ferrera Wife by Sarah Morgan
Paperback: 480 pages Publisher: Harlequin Presents #3043 Publication date: Feb 2012ISBN13: 9780373130498 For better…or for bedding? Laurel Ferrara wouldn’t know a happy ending if she fell over it – of course her whirlwind wedding was always going to end in disaster. But it wasn’t as simple as just walking away. From the moment she is summoned…
Review – The Cat Kin by Nick Green
Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Lulu Press Publication date: 01 Jan 2005ISBN13: 9781411664234 Everyone who came across the strange gym class was looking for something else. What they found was Mrs Powell – mysterious Mrs Powell with her silent feet, unnerving stare and merciless warm-up exercises. What they found was pashki, a lost art from an…
Review – True Love by Jude Deveraux
Paperback: 516 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books Publication date: 27 May 2014ISBN13: 9780345541819 Just as Alix Madsen is finishing up architectural school, Adelaide Kingsley dies and wills her, for one year, the use of a charming nineteenth-century Nantucket house. The elderly woman’s relationship to the Madsen family is a mystery to the spirited Alix—fresh from a…
Review – The Three by Sarah Lotz
Kindle: 480 pages Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Publication date: 22 May 2014 ISBN: 978-1444770360 First Line – “Come on, come on, come on…” They’re here … The boy. The boy watch the boy watch the dead people oh Lordy there’s so many … They’re coming for me now. We’re all going soon. All of us….
Review – Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Corgi childrens ISBN: 978-0552546126 First Line – “Her laugh turned to a moan at the first ripple in her bones.” Vivian, at 16, is a beautiful young werewolf with all the young wolves in her pack howling for her. But then she falls in love with a human. If she reveals…