Another good story by Teresa Medeiros. Each book is quite different and I have enjoyed all that I have read. This one had me laughing and crying.
This Another good story by Teresa Medeiros. Each book is quite different and I have enjoyed all that I have read. This one had me laughing and crying.
This is a very modern day romance which takes place on Twitter. Abigail Donovan is an author who has writers block, her publicist signs her up for a Twitter account (to meet your fans) She meets MarkBaynard and he teaches her how to use Twitter and they start "dating". Then she finds out that Mark has not been telling her the truth, she thought he was touring Europe but really he was ......!!
It was a quick read, only 222 pages (I would have liked the story to go a bit further) and a lot of it is Tweeting conversation (they seem to speaking just like I would expect people on Twitter to speak, about lots of nothing) but during the conversations something was said and lives changed.
At the end there are some questions, I think this would be a good book for a book club read....more
Anna Terry and Nick Diamond meet in the waiting area of their divorce lawyer's office. They exchange some small talk and catch each other’s names and Anna Terry and Nick Diamond meet in the waiting area of their divorce lawyer's office. They exchange some small talk and catch each other’s names and leave it at that, both regretting not asking for more details. Anna is looking for a job and a few days Anna shows up at Nick’s car yard for an interview and he hires her, mainly because of his attraction to her. Nick is going out that night with his mate Sam and it turns out that Anna turns up at the same place, only she had forgotten that she was going out with her friend Sophie.
Things move on from there but they both have issues with their ex’s which have to be cleared up first before they can move forward. I am glad that they did end up together, though I was worried for awhile there.
This was my first novel by Carole Matthews and I quite enjoyed it. One of the main reasons that I enjoyed it was that the characters were real to me and someone I could relate too, plus I love the narrator – I have heard before and she is quite good. ...more
What an absolute gem of a book, I loved it from start to finish – it was one that I wanted to finish to find the answer to the mystery, even though I What an absolute gem of a book, I loved it from start to finish – it was one that I wanted to finish to find the answer to the mystery, even though I had guessed and that I did not want to finish because I loved the characters so much.
At the start of the book we have Marguerite Piccard and Philippe (Marquis de St Martin) together, she is his mistress and they love each other very much but someone wants them apart. He threatens them, then Philippe is attacked and almost killed, along comes another who marries Marguerite and she leaves to protect Philippe.
Move forward 22 years and we meet Simon Quinn, he is a mercenary and at a party he meets Lynette Baillon but he thinks she is her twin sister Lysette. He has spent months with Lysette and had no sexual interest in her so he cannot understand why he is suddenly so drawn to her. As far as Lynette is concerned her sister died 2 years ago.
This has one of the best mysteries that I have read in awhile and the story came together so well. I love Sylvia Day as an author I do hope the library will get more of her books. ...more
Tamara Briggs meets Elec Monroe at a cocktail party and ends up catching a taxi with him. There is instant attraction and they get together on the firTamara Briggs meets Elec Monroe at a cocktail party and ends up catching a taxi with him. There is instant attraction and they get together on the first night and it was not even a date.
Tamara is a widow and has 2 small children, her husband was a stock car racer and had been killed in an accident at the track 2 years previously. Elec is also a race car driver and Tamara is reluctant to get into a relationship with him even though he makes her feel sexy and they are magic together.
I just loved this story it is a smooth sailing love story and it was told so very well. I loved both these people and their friends and family as well.
I hope the library has more books by Erin McCarthy. ...more
This wa s a nice story about Rebecca Lawson, who lost her parents during the war and after the war she went to live with her Aunt and Uncle in their EThis wa s a nice story about Rebecca Lawson, who lost her parents during the war and after the war she went to live with her Aunt and Uncle in their East End Pub wher she worked as a barmaid. One night she met Ian Beresford and they fell in love. After one night together Rebecca found herself pregnant and when she went to look for Ian because she had not heard from him she found out he had been killed at a football match. Rebecca then had to let her Aunt and Uncle know that she was pregnant. She decided to keep the baby. After that she met Johnny, who had been a friend of Ian's who wanted to marry her to give Anna a father but Rebecca had met David, a doctor, who held her heart. ...more
I loved this story; it was hard to put down. This book follows on from “Ring of Clay” which was about Rosemary’s mother Beth Sherwin. Both books can bI loved this story; it was hard to put down. This book follows on from “Ring of Clay” which was about Rosemary’s mother Beth Sherwin. Both books can be read on their own though.
Rosemary Latham was left alone, without a home and broke when her mother Brenda died in tragic circumstances. Her father had left them when Rosemary was 14 and they took in a border to help with money, Rosemary thought she had fallen in love with him but Tony betrayed her.
She finds a temporary home with a friend’s family and while there gets the idea to trace her grandparents. When she gets her birth certificate she finds out that she is adopted. She starts to look for her natural mother and to help with her search she takes a job in the area her mother lived when she was born.
Beth has always regretted giving up her daughter and her family have spent the last few years looking for Rosemary. When they are first reunited there were a few obstacles to overcome. Throw in her new relationship with a doctor she met on the train trip up, who has a mother who only wants him to marry the best you have a great story....more
**spoiler alert** The Chocolate Girls are Eadie, Ruby and Janet. Eadie & Ruby started working on the lines at the Cadbury Chocolate Factory in Birming**spoiler alert** The Chocolate Girls are Eadie, Ruby and Janet. Eadie & Ruby started working on the lines at the Cadbury Chocolate Factory in Birmingham when they were both 14 and Eadie met Janet, who works in the office during WWII.
Eadie had a horrible home life so as soon as she was able to, at 19, she married her boyfriend Jack. Tragedy stikes early though and Eadie loses Jack and not long after she loses the baby she was carrying. While doing her voluntary work one night she is given a baby who was found outside a bombed house. Not long after this she moves in with Janet and her mother Frances and they help her by looking after David while she works at the factory which is now making items for the war effort as well as some chocolate. Eadie spends the next 16 years bringing up David and really has no other life but that of a mother. When David turns 16 she tells him that she is not his real mother and that if he wants to she will help him find out who his parents were. They find out that his mother was a young Jewish woman who had been sent from Berlin by her husband so she and her child could be safe in England, they also find out that his name is Rudi Mayer. After spending time with people who knew his mother David decides to go to Israel to find his father and to learn his origins. While there he decides to stay there and become an Israeli. Eadie is quite upset to find that he wants to turn his back on her and his upbringing. David asks Eadie, on behalf of his father to write to Anatoli Gruestoff, who had helped David’s father Hermann Mayer at the end of the war in Germany. Against her better wishes at the time she writes to him and arranges to meet him and they fall in love.
Ruby marries Jack’s best friend Frank and falls pregnant as well but her marriage is short lived and Frank dies in the war. After this Ruby meets an American soldier who is based nearby and they have an affair that results in a child as well. Ruby is left with 2 small daughters Marlene and Grita. Eventually she finds out what happened to her American and meets his family and actually goes there to live in America for a few years.
Janet meets Martin while working as an ambulance officer and after WWII they get married and go off to live in the Congo where Martin is a doctor.
This story took me to places I did not expect to go. The story is mainly about Eadie and David....more
Luc Warnecke has come back to Half Moon Bay to the reading of his father’s will even though he had been disinherited 10 years earlier. He comes back hLuc Warnecke has come back to Half Moon Bay to the reading of his father’s will even though he had been disinherited 10 years earlier. He comes back home to “Echoes”, his childhood home that has a lot of bad memories.
Jessie Flood was bought up poor by a drunkard step father who had died 10 years earlier. She married Simon Warnecke after saving his life.
Luc and Jessie had been childhood friends but Jessie felt that Luc had betrayed her at 16 so now she hates him but he has something on her and with this he forces her to marry him. There is also her daughter and Mel and her sister Shelby to add to the story.
I enjoyed this story though there were some parts I wasn’t sure how we got there and at times I did not like Jessie. It was tied together pretty well though....more
When Ella Burton takes a job as a cleaner at The Palace Theatre in Swansea she falls in love with the place and it doesn’t take her long to fall in loWhen Ella Burton takes a job as a cleaner at The Palace Theatre in Swansea she falls in love with the place and it doesn’t take her long to fall in love with the Manager Anthony. She is in her element when he promotes her to wardrobe dresser.
But tragedy strikes and Ella and her mother are left with no money, and Ella does not hear from Anthony who has left take a position in Yorkshire, so she marries the man her father had chosen for her even though she does not love him.
Jolly is a good husband to Ella. He leaves his job and buys The Palace and Anthony comes back to work for him. They fall on hard times though and it is a struggle, then Ella loses Jolly and finds she is again left with no money and 6 children. She does some brain storming and comes with an idea to save The Palace.
This was an okay story, there were parts of it I thought not so good but overall an okay read. ...more
Lara Lewis has spent almost a year planning a second honeymoon, for her 25th wedding anniversary, when her husband Bill, a famous Heart Surgeon tells Lara Lewis has spent almost a year planning a second honeymoon, for her 25th wedding anniversary, when her husband Bill, a famous Heart Surgeon tells her that they will have to postpone it because he will working overseas at that time and cannot go. She is devastated and realizes then that Bill is having an affair with one of his assistants.
In the meantime Lara has just met Dan Holland, who is 32 to her 45, she decides to take him on the holiday to France with her. They have a disastrous start to their trip and this makes her look back on her honeymoon and as she does she remembers that it was not the great vacation that she had remembered. This trip too has it’s up and downs, towards the end of the trip Dan finds out this was to have been a honeymoon trip and Lara’s husband turns up wanting her back. She realizes though that it is Dan who she loves and that her and Bill have never really been a great team.
Listening to this book to me was like taking a trip to France yourself, at times I could imagine myself in the places that they visited....more
This is a collection of three stories where the main character has been cursed. This book is by Aphrodisa and each of these stories a quite erotic. ThThis is a collection of three stories where the main character has been cursed. This book is by Aphrodisa and each of these stories a quite erotic. They are really hot!
Pirate of Mystique Island by Myla Jackson
Lord Rafe Herrington, former governor of Mystique Island and now a pirate has been cursed by Busara, the local witch to be a human half the time and a sea serpent the rest of the time, he is sick of this life so he decides to find Sirens Cove and kill Busara or get the curse lifted. On his way to this task he is bewitched by Melodie who has a similar curse in that she is half the time a human and the other half a mermaid. They meet, they love and the curse is lifted or is it?
Ghostly Legacy by Layla Chase
Truda Borg is a historian in antiquities and she has come to Wybjorn Castle to take a inventory of the antiques there when she senses a ghost. She is a decedent of Reidun of the Dale, who was once married to Garet the Protector who was once master of this house and he is the ghost. She has heard their story and has fantasized about meeting Garet and her fantasy comes alive and with the help of a broach he is able to become human and whole again.
Keket’s Curse by Shayla Kersten
Jamila has been cursed by a jealous priestess because she dared to have sex with her man. She has been cursed for all eternity with having unfulfilled sex until she meets someone who she feels betrayed her. It is 3000 years later and she meets a policeman David Craise when she is in the throws of the curse and they have quick sex and he is smitten. Jamila has also never felt about anyone the way she feels about David. David and his partner are investigating 2 murders and looks like Jamila could be part of it – this was the best story. ...more
This is a delightful story of 4 different women who meet during world war 2 in England.
Diane and Myra find themselves billeted and working together atThis is a delightful story of 4 different women who meet during world war 2 in England.
Diane and Myra find themselves billeted and working together at Darby House and Ruthie and Jess work together at the munitions factory, the four come together at The Grafton, a dance hall that is frequented by American GI’s.
Ruthie is befriended by an American Glen; Diane is running away from a broken engagement; Myra does not want to be married to her husband Jim and has visions of a life in America and Jess is in love with her long time neighbour Billy. ...more
This story is of a relationship between rich boy Jared Parsons and New York Editor Cathy Bissette. Cathy had come home for a 3 month break to Swan QuaThis story is of a relationship between rich boy Jared Parsons and New York Editor Cathy Bissette. Cathy had come home for a 3 month break to Swan Quarter, North Carolina after a relationship breakdown. Jared had come to ask her father Lucas if he could fix his broken down yacht.
The blurb of the book read fine but the book did not live up to expectations. There was not enough depth in any of the characters and I think more time should have been spent on the ending. ...more
This was a heartwarming family story and I enjoyed it very much that takes place in Liverpool, New York & Ireland from 1925 to about 1945
It is FebruarThis was a heartwarming family story and I enjoyed it very much that takes place in Liverpool, New York & Ireland from 1925 to about 1945
It is February 1925 and 16 year old Mollie and 13 year old Annemarie Kenny are running away from home in Donethly, Ireland where they have both suffered abuse by their father since the death of their mother. They have the help of their sister-in-law Hazel. Annemarie has been traumatized and has put herself in a sort of trance where she says not many words and does not seem to know what is going on around her. They are off to Liverpool then New York to live with their Aunt Maggie.
They board their ship and befriend their room mates, then with a cruel twist of fete Mollie is not on the ship when it sails to America so Annemarie goes there alone. When she arrives in America it is with the wrong name. Annemarie is put in a taxi driven by Levon Zarian and he is told to take her to the address where her aunt lives, but when he arrives, there is no-one home and as he is loathe to leave this lovely young girl who does not speak, on her own so he takes her home to his wife Tamara. Not long after, they find that she is pregnant and when the boy John is born Annemarie wants nothing to do with him, so Tamara makes him her own. When the Zarians move from Manhattan to Brooklyn, Annemarie goes to live with Ollie & Lizzie Blinker and their son Herbie and her story moves on from there.
Mollie ends up staying in Liverpool, at first she still plans to go to America when she has enough money but meets and marries a policeman Tom Ryan and they have 4 children, her story moves on but she always wonders about what happened to Annemarie.
This story goes from Mollie in Liverpool across to Annemarie in America and back again a few times. Mollie keeps in touch with her brother Finn in Ireland as well. ...more
It’s Christmas Eve and Mary Jo Wyse goes to Cedar Cove looking for the father of her unborn child but finds that he is not in town.
The local librarianIt’s Christmas Eve and Mary Jo Wyse goes to Cedar Cove looking for the father of her unborn child but finds that he is not in town.
The local librarian, Grace Harding takes Mary Jo under her wing after she has a dizzy spell and offers her a room for the night, above the stable at her ranch. Mary Jo’s 3 brothers have come looking for her but take their time finding the ranch as they get very lost finding the place.
In the meantime with the help of a local paramedic Mac McAfee Mary Jo has baby daughter Noel at the ranch.
I found this story rather slow and I looked forward to finishing it but it was cute enough. ...more
What a great idea for a book. The description is Romance & Recipes - A sinfully sweet selection by Australia's favourite romance authors.
The short stoWhat a great idea for a book. The description is Romance & Recipes - A sinfully sweet selection by Australia's favourite romance authors.
The short stories were all good which is unusual in my opinion. I don't usually take to short stories and for all of them to be good is very different. There are 26 short stories and all involve a meal of some sort with the recipe to follow. At the back of the book are biographies of the authors.
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