![]() Not only that, but he also happens to be the same guy she turned down at the bar a few months ago.Īs they begin to spend more time together, their working relationship blossoms into something more. ![]() Just when she thinks she has nailed her presentation, the company’s CEO, Jackson Holt, walks in and inserts himself into the meeting. As the business administrator for their family’s event hotel, the Spark House, London has more important things to worry about, like bringing in new clientele.Īs luck would have it, a multi-million-dollar company calls a few months later asking for a meeting to discuss a potential partnership, and London is eager to prove to her sisters, and herself, that she can land this deal. So when a very attractive man pays for their drinks and then slips her his number, she passes it right back to him with a ‘thanks, but no thanks’. Especially not when she’s out celebrating her single status with her sisters. Having just broken up with her boyfriend, London Spark is not in the mood to be hit on. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.***Ĭharming, hilarious, and emotional, Starry-Eyed Love is Helena Hunting at her very best! ***I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review. Genres: Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy ![]() ![]() Purchase Here Buy on Amazon US - Buy on Apple - Buy on Kobo - Buy on Google - Buy at Barnes and Noble - Buy on Audible - Buy on Amazon UK ![]()
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![]() ![]() Eats, Shoots & Leave Illustrated Edition is also accompanied by a colorful foreword by wordsmith extraordinaire Frank McCourt. Created by renowned cartoonist Pat Byrnes, each illustration brings to life a different punctuation pitfall in a wickedly playful style that matches Truss's trademark wit. ![]() Language lovers everywhere will cheer the arrival of this new edition, beautifully packaged in a larger format with a red cloth-over-board cover and containing more than fifty vivid, full-color drawings. ![]() The runaway bestseller that has everyone minding their p's and q's (and their commas and semicolons), Eats, Shoots & Leaves has delighted audiences around the world and elevated Lynne Truss to superstickler status among those in the know. Now in a handsome, hilariously illustrated new edition: The stickler-tickling punctuation polemic that has sold more than 1.6 million copies in North America is even more fun with the whimsical art of acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist Pat Byrnes. ![]() ![]() ![]() But I’ll be nice to you, Color Monster, and your anger will disappear!”. ![]() This makes sense as to why my most favorite line in the book is “ Sometimes, you want to take out your anger on others. One of my favorite things to tell young people is that f eelings aren’t good or bad – they are just our bodies way of letting us know what is going on in the world around us! For a lot of the littles (and teens too) that we work with there can be a lot of judgement that comes with anger and a portion of the therapeutic work can go towards decreasing shame about this real, normal, human emotion. The level of compassion in this book is SO wonderful. A little girl takes the monster by the hand and gently helps the Color Monster untangle and separate out all of these feelings and put them into jars. ![]() This book is a wonderful story about a “Color Monster” who is full of mixed up colors and emotions. ![]() Enter “ The Color Monster” by Anna Llenas! This book is AMAZING and as I talk about here and here bibliotherapy is such a wonderful practice that is so adaptable to provide as a therapeutic approach in all sorts of settings – office, in home, at school, and of course Tele-Play! This can be confusing and sometimes we need help untangling them and sorting them all out. ![]() ![]() Interspersed with the murder mystery, are scenes between Alyssa and her boyfriend Jack, who is still as adorable as ever. I always try to pay careful attention to these because I’m desperate to spot the clues that are vitally important. There are several passages throughout the book where Alyssa has to think back on things that have happened or conversations that she has had with people. This is a trait which Alyssa shares and makes each mystery even more interesting because you know that even the smallest detail could be the one that breaks the puzzle and solves the case. This series reminds me so much of the TV show ‘Unforgettable’ which is about a female detective with perfect memory recall. ![]() She’s unable to resist investigating the death, when she starts to receive taunting clues and messages, indicating that someone is playing a taunting game of cat and mouse with her. ![]() ![]() Alyssa’s photographic memory comes in handy when a local girl dies and she begins to find unusual links between the two of them. This is the second book in the series about main character Alyssa and the girls of St Jude’s Academy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gigi Pandian is a USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning mystery author, breast cancer survivor, and accidental almost-vegan. But as she delves further into the mystery, Tempest can’t help but wonder if the Raj family curse that’s plagued her family for generations-something she used to swear didn’t exist-has finally come for her. ![]() Fearing she was the intended victim, it’s up to Tempest to solve this seemingly impossible crime. When Tempest visits her dad’s latest renovation project, her former stage double is discovered dead inside a wall that’s supposedly been sealed for more than a century. Secret Staircase Construction specializes in bringing the magic of childhood to all by transforming clients’ homes with sliding bookcases, intricate locks, backyard treehouses, and hidden reading nooks. ![]() Though she resists, every day brings her closer to the inevitable: working for her father’s company. The intrigue of hidden rooms and secret staircases.Īfter a disastrous accident derails Tempest Raj’s career, and life, she heads back to her childhood home in California to comfort herself with her grandfather’s Indian home-cooked meals. ![]() Under Lock & Skeleton Key layers architecture with mouthwatering food in an ode to classic locked-room mysteries.Īn impossible crime. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lucy’s decade long relationship goes belly up and she knows that her life is now in need of a much required rewrite. What she has not enjoyed though is the demand of family’s social circle or her kind of engagement to her dad’s law partner’s son. ![]() ![]() For a decade now, Lucy has pored over rare tomes filled with literature for Harvard’s Library and she has enjoyed doing so. “By Book or By Crook” is the first novel in the “Lighthouse Library Mystery” series that was released in the year 2015. For Delany, the series was a joy to write about and she thanks her fans for supporting her characters in the series. ![]() Under this pen name of hers, she writes the “Lighthouse Library Mystery” series which is a bookish cozy mystery series that stars Lucy Richardson, who is a librarian. It was around this same time that her new career as a writer started and has written many novels as part of series, but also some stand alone works as well. She worked as a systems analyst and took an early retirement and enjoys living a rural life in Ontario, Canada. Delany is one of Canada’s most prolific crime writers who incorporates many different things into her works. Eva Gates is one of the pen names that cozy mystery author Vicki Delany uses. ![]() ![]() One last thing I need to comment on is the book's general plot development and the ending. While the proofreading wasn't as bad as it could be, after I've come to experience many other independently published works, it wasn't perfect either. Out of all characters I found the sidekick quite predictable, the antagonists/villains were neither original nor exciting and the rest just sort of existed, so the main story could develop. ![]() After having read this first book I have to conclude that the premise wasn't as interesting as I had hoped it would be. ![]() Some human being reborn as a sentient dungeon in an rpg-like world I hadn't ever heard or read about a plot-device like this and it sounds quite ridiculous at first, but it drew me to this story and made me stick with it until the end. ![]() ![]() ![]() I found it oddly distracting that this author kept using the word "thickening" to describe our heroes' "bits" when after a lot of heavy petting and mouth play they should already be thick enough. ![]() I would have loved to see some more intimate interaction between these two that wasn't of the sexual variety. ![]() There is hot sex (really long, drawn-out sex), but little else to their relationship. Our heroes' love story fell rather flat for me. I get that they were going on different assignments, but I feel like if they had a "faction" or a specific group of terrorists against which they carried out their battles, it would feel more cohesive. There doesn't seem to be one main goal throughout the narrative. There seemed to be the general notion of our heroes battling against bio terrorists, but in each battle, they take out a different set of "bad guys". I like the idea of splice and metahumans I was merely surprised that there were so many of them, considering the genetic mutation is so rare.Īs for the story's overall plot, I found it a bit scattered. From the view of a SFF novel, this idea was intriguing. ![]() ![]() The Pirate Hunter, Leisure Books (New York, NY), 2004. The Pirate Next Door, Leisure Books ( New York, NY), 2003. Perils of the Heart, Leisure Books ( New York, NY), 2002. AWARDS, HONORS:īest Historical Mystery, Romantic Times 2005 Best Historical Romantic Adventure, Romantic Times, 2006 RITA Award for best novel with romantic elements, Romance Writers of America, 2006, for A Lady Raised High: A Novel of Anne Boleyn Golden Quill Award for best novella, 2006 Romantic Times, 2006 The Care and Feeding of Pirates was a Mystic Castle Book of the Month has won awards for unpublished manuscripts. Hosted the Internet radio show Spotlight on Romance, on the Book Crazy Radio Web site. Hobbies and other interests: Hiking, painting, cooking, playing guitar and flute, building miniature rooms and dollhouses. Ashley, Jennifer (Ashley Gardner, Laurien Gardner, a joint pseudonym, Allyson James) PERSONAL: ![]() |