tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600687980191944262024-03-13T07:46:57.627-05:00Good Family ReadsA blog dedicated to getting good books into the hands of all members of the familyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger262125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-260068798019194426.post-40212325742308729522020-07-18T20:47:00.000-05:002020-07-18T20:47:12.563-05:00<br />
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Author:M.S. Matassa<br />
Publisher: Outskirts Press<br />
Available: Now<br />
Rating: 4 stars<br />
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<a href="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1397360191l/20961995.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="20961995" border="0" height="200" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1397360191l/20961995.jpg" width="124" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">The Well House: A man's incredible journey to save his pregnant wife from the ultimate evil. The dream is back and Ben Carson is terrified. His pregnant wife, Anne, is locked in a coma and Ben is the only person who can save her but he has no idea how to accomplish this. His dreams contain clues but they make no sense. Ben can't figure what a small white well house and black flying creatures have to do with Anne. Then he meets a mysterious woman named Thelma Grippe. What he learns from Thelma shakes him to the core, but gives him the knowledge to free Anne from the force keeping her in the coma. Once he locates the well house, Ben finds a passage to another dimension, where he searches for Anne. After a long, arduous journey, Ben faces the ultimate evil that holds Anne captive. The Well House is an exciting, unique and thoughtful story of a man's fight against unbelievable odds to save his wife. Part drama, part fantasy and part parable, The Well House is a multi-layered tale that takes you on an amazing journey, from the mountains above Boulder Colorado to the depths of the dark zone.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">I love a good horror and this one hit the spot! There is a sense of dread from the first chapter that just builds as the books evolves. I knew from the beginning it would be a good vs. evil play but it was well built throughout the book. There were some times when I felt Ben was rather naive, but it played into the story. If you are looking for a horror story without a lot of gore but still want to be kept on the edge of suspense I'd pick this book up!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-260068798019194426.post-39130140296234275972020-07-17T20:57:00.000-05:002020-07-18T20:57:16.338-05:00Title: Masters of the Broken Watches<br />
Author: Razi Imam<br />
Rating: 4 Stars<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">When you’re in a near-death experience, people say time slows down. What if time does actually slow down? Or when people experience being at the right place at the right time. What if one could predict with certainty that right time and place?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Sebastian Miles, an adventure loving, risk-taking marine biologist accidentally discovers a new species that has the power to change the way we humans experience time. While performing research, he and his team are shocked by a logic-defying phenomenon–where during one experiment the world outside their lab jumps ahead by twenty-two hours.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">News of this discovery soon reaches the heads of powerful governments and inadvertently triggers a global hunt to capture and control Sebastian and his team, their research and the species.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">These leaders know that this one discovery would pivot the power equation and the group that control this species will have access to the greatest resource mankind has ever seen – Time. Sebastian and his team attempt to stay one step ahead of their pursuers, but are they willing to risk their lives—in order to share their discovery with all mankind?</span><br />
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This book started one way and ended in a way I never saw coming. I wasn't sure what to expect and that is always a high point for me in reading! I loved the fact we had multiple viewpoints and characters came from all aspects of life. I couldn't put this book down because I did not know what or who the next page might bring. As any good science fiction it made me think about the real world and what is really out there in the deep blue seas! I recommend if you like your sci fi with a little of scare as well as a lot of speculation about the world around us! I received an e-copy from Netgalley for my honest opinion.</div>
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Rating: 4 Stars<br />
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books<br />
Available: September 1st, 2020<br />
Source: Netgalley<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Twelve-year-old Lizbeth always has a plan, and those plans have usually worked--until now. No matter what she tries, she can't get rid of her dad's new girlfriend, Claire. And when she and her mom move, Lizbeth has to join a sixth-grade class already in progress, where her teacher makes her wear a name tag and she's seated with three notorious weirdos.</span><br />
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<tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="readable reviewText" style="font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; line-height: 21px;">This was a book about learning about yourself, even when you think you know yourself well. It is a realistic fiction middle grade read that will have you trying to help Lizbeth and her new situation in life. There are some great hidden gems of quotes throughout this book that I thoroughly appreciated.<br /><br />Being a person who doesn't always get the laughs that I think I should, I totally got Lizbeth and wanted her to learn about friendship and family and differences and all the things!<br /><br />Finding your way in a group, be it a family or friends is always hard for anyone, but especially those in the 6th grade. Highly recommend this book for all middle graders and anyone else who wants a feel good story!<br /><br />Thanks Netgalley and the publisher for the review copy!<br /><br />Author: <br />Ginger Garrett is the author of the middle grade titles Name Tags and Other Sixth Grade Disasters (Carolrhoda Press) and The Last Monster (Delacorte Press/Random House) as well as other titles for women.<br /></span></td></tr>
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Title: Third Grave Dead Ahead<br />
Series: Charley Davidson #3<br />
Author: Darynda Jones<br />
Rating: 4 stars<br />Source: Netgalley and purchased<br />
Publisher: St. Martin's Press<br />
Available: Yes<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Paranormal private eye. Grim reaper extraordinaire. Whatever. Charley Davidson is back! And she's drinking copious amounts of caffeine to stay awake because, every time she closes her eyes, she sees him: Reyes Farrow, the part-human, part-supermodel son of Satan. Yes, she did imprison him for all eternity, but come on. How is she supposed to solve a missing persons case, deal with an ego-driven doctor, calm her curmudgeonly dad, and take on a motorcycle gang hellbent on murder when the devil's son just won't give up?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"> This is the third book in a series that has me laughing and fanning myself at the same time. There are some definite hot times and some hilarious times and some family times. I love that Uncle Bob is there for her and they all work together to solve those crimes. Reyes is...well...a bad boy in a bad boy's body that is really probably a good guy. You need to read this series to find out more!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px;">NYTimes and USA Today Bestselling Author Darynda Jones has won numerous awards for her work, including a prestigious RITA, a Golden Heart, and a Daphne du Maurier. As a born storyteller, she grew up spinning tales of dashing damsels and heroes in distress for any unfortunate soul who happened by, annoying man and beast alike. She currently has two series with St. Martin's Press, the Charley Davidson Series and the Darklight Trilogy. Darynda lives in the Land of Enchantment, also known as New Mexico, with her husband of more than 25 years and two beautiful sons, the Mighty, Mighty Jones Boys. She can be found at </span><a href="http://www.daryndajones.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #00635d; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">www.daryndajones.com</a><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">.</span></span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-260068798019194426.post-20946050831275897092020-03-16T20:41:00.000-05:002020-07-07T20:41:29.756-05:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-260068798019194426.post-70591831968363553102019-08-08T10:53:00.000-05:002019-08-11T10:53:53.936-05:00Title: Sweet Summer Sunset<br />
Author: Delores Fossen<br />
Available: Now<br />
Source: NetGalley<br />
Publisher: Harequin<br />
Rating: 4 stars<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Rodeo rider Nico Laramie may have a not-so-squeaky-clean reputation with the women of Coldwater, but there are rules he doesn't break. No bullies. No married women. And definitely not his best friend, Eden Joplin. So what exactly is Nico thinking, kissing Eden in front of her jerk ex-husband? With the proverbial bull out of the pen, Nico is about to get gored--</span><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">hard</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Eden has secretly been writing a sex-advice blog called "Naughty Cowgirl," but her divorce killed all her sexy inspiration. Then, when her gorgeous best friend kisses her in a way that makes her toes curl, suddenly Eden's mojo is back. And the heat isn't going away. Now something deep and long-denied is happening between them. Something that could destroy their friendship...or finally prove that this time it's the real deal.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">SWEET SUMMER SUNSET, the third in the Coldwater Texas series is the story of Nico and his best friend Eden. The fun thing about these books is they can by read as stand alones and you aren't left in the dark about previous books. That being said, I can't wait to read more about this family! </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">This book has a little bit of everything from family drama to mind blowing sex and not sex scenes (a lot of frustration shall we say) to a mystery that kept me invested in this book. The various story lines were followed extremely well and never let me not understand what was going on in the book although at times there was a lot going on! I really enjoyed this book and another great addition to my friends to lovers collection (one of MY favorite tropes).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-260068798019194426.post-25660522259326668692019-07-15T11:07:00.000-05:002019-08-11T11:07:25.041-05:00Title: First Grave on the Right<br />
Author: <span itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-decoration-line: none;"><a class="authorName" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4175419.Darynda_Jones" itemprop="url" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-decoration-line: none;">Darynda Jones</a></span><br />
Publisher: St. Martin's Press<br />
Source: Purchased<br />
Available: Now<br />
Rating: 5 stars<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Charley Davidson is a part-time private investigator and full-time grim reaper. Meaning, she sees dead people. Really. And it's her job to convince them to "go into the light." But when these very dead people have died under less than ideal circumstances (like murder), sometimes they want Charley to bring the bad guys to justice. Complicating matters are the intensely hot dreams she's been having about an entity who has been following her all her life...and it turns out he might not be dead after all. In fact, he might be something else entirely. But what does he want with Charley? And why can't she seem to resist him? And what does she have to lose by giving in?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">What a great paranormal sarcastic HOT start to a series. I am over the top for this book! The book flew by and took no time to read. If you are into snarky heroines and hot bad boys, pick it up. This is the start of a series that is still going on so plenty of time to get started!! </span><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-260068798019194426.post-64303907152586563612018-11-06T13:31:00.002-06:002018-11-06T13:33:25.858-06:00In Pepperrmint PerilTitle: In Peppermint Peril (A Tea and Read Mystery Bk 1)<br />
Author: Joy Avon<br />
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books<br />
Available: November 13<br />
Source: Netgalley<br />
Rating: 4 stars<br />
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Synopsis: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">This Christmas, Callie Aspen returns to her childhood hideout Heart's Harbor, Maine where her great aunt runs Book Tea, a vintage tearoom where every sweet treat contains a bookish clue. Upon arrival in the fairy-tale snowy town, Callie is drawn into the preparations for a special tea party at Haywood Hall, the rambling house of Heart's Harbor's oldest resident, rich but lonely widow Dorothea Finster, who invited her estranged relatives, old friends and the elite of the town to make a mysterious announcement about her will. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">There's something magical about a small town and especially a small at Christmas time. This debut book is no exception. It's a definite feel good cozy with lots of mystery and mayhem and perhaps even a little romance. I love a good cozy and I think this series is going to have a lot to offer in the little town of Heart's Harbor, Maine The mystery was good, the characters were written in such a way that we know a little about them, yet there is so much more to be discovered in future books. If you are looking for a good Christmas who dun it book, pick this up!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-260068798019194426.post-62913599232066294152018-11-01T13:19:00.000-05:002018-11-06T13:19:45.419-06:00Title: Worth the Risk<br />
Author: Zara Cox<br />
Publisher: Harlequin Dare<br />
Available: Nov 1st<br />
Rating: 4 stars (goodreads)<br />
Spice: HOT<br />
Source: Netgalley<br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Merriweather","Georgia",serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">With a multibillion-dollar deal on the line, billionaire playboy Gideon Mortimer can’t afford another tabloid scandal. He’s committed to a chastity contract, but being on the same yacht as Leonie Branson—temptation personified—is pure, unadulterated torture. Relinquishing control of their thrilling sexual chemistry to tenacious Leonie feels tantalizingly worth the risk—to his reputation and his well-protected heart.</span></div>
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Who doesn't want to be rich and have it all? But is it worth the risk? A hot story with steaming hot sexual content with a big boat and lots of money. Not being able to touch and find their way into each others....well...each other... threw a fun aspect in the story. The big story is finding your way to forgiveness from a difficult past and putting it where it belongs so one can focus on the future. Always a good trope for me! Great story and great writing made this book fly by and I do suggest it if you are looking for a little steam this time of year!</div>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35135012-such-dark-things" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #00635d; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #b00000; font-size: small;">Title: Such Dark Things</span></a><br />
Author: Courtney Evan Tate<br />
Publisher: Mira Books<br />
Available: Current<br />
Genre: Psychological Thriller<br />
Source: Netgalley<br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Merriweather","Georgia",serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">A modern day </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-family: "Merriweather","Georgia",serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Fatal Attraction</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline !important; 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letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, by </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-family: "Merriweather","Georgia",serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">New York Times</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Merriweather","Georgia",serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> and </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-family: "Merriweather","Georgia",serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">USA Today</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Merriweather","Georgia",serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> bestselling new adult author Courtney Cole, now writing dark psychological suspense under the name Courtney Tate Evans.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-family: "Merriweather","Georgia",serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-family: "Merriweather","Georgia",serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Merriweather","Georgia",serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">From the outside, Dr. Corinne Cabot is living the American dream: a successful ER physician, she is married to a hardworking and handsome psychologist. Together they own a charming house in the Chicago suburbs. But Cabot has a dark personal past and her memory has holes she tries to fill in. Her sleep is ravaged by recurring nightmares of that night when, as a teenager, she found her father standing next to the bodies of two people he had shot dead. It is what she can't remember about that night that utterly haunts her. Her father is still alive in jail for that terrible crime. At times now, despite her success, she fears she is truly unable to determine what is real and what is not. Then she starts to suspect that something is amiss with her husband and realizes that nothing--and no one--in her life is as it appears.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Merriweather","Georgia",serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">This was page turning, and had some dark and deep scenes. It kept me in the book which so many books don't seem to do. I did read this in one day so I think that says something! The story has many triggers...so if you have issues I'd probably not pick this up. </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-family: "Merriweather","Georgia",serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Merriweather","Georgia",serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The aha moment wasn't as over the top as I would have expected. I wish there could have been more of the before story told...I'm feeling like I'm missing a part of the story. </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-family: "Merriweather","Georgia",serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Merriweather","Georgia",serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Above all...a darn good dark thriller! </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-family: "Merriweather","Georgia",serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-family: "Merriweather","Georgia",serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Merriweather","Georgia",serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Review in thanks to Netgalley and publisher!</span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-260068798019194426.post-42525647749035505802018-06-25T12:52:00.001-05:002018-06-25T12:52:21.717-05:00Title: Inked<br />
Author: Anne Marsh<br />
Imprint: Dare by Harlequin<br />
Genre: Erotic Romance<br />
Available: <span style="background-color: white;">Immediately</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Source: Netgalley</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Format: E-book</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Rating: 4 stars</span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: #181818;">Bankers and bad boys don’t mix<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span></b><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-family: "Merriweather","Georgia",serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">So why is she getting under his skin?</i><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-family: "Merriweather","Georgia",serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-family: "Merriweather","Georgia",serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Merriweather","Georgia",serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Harper, a buttoned-up banker, is a tattoo virgin before Vik draws her first ink. And once the bad-boy biker lays his hands on the beautiful canvas of her body, he’s addicted! Harper says the two of them could never mix outside of the bedroom—but she’s finding that she wants the feeling of Vik’s touch to last forever.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-family: "Merriweather","Georgia",serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Title: Claim Me, Cowboy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Author: Maisey Yates</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Publisher: Harlequin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Imprint: Desire</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Available: Now</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pages: 218</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Source: Netgalley</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="freeText5962098967067429339" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Wanted: fake fiancée for a wealthy rancher<br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;" /><br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;" />Benefits: all your dreams come true<br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;" /><br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;" />#1 Rule: don’t fall in love</b><br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;" /><br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;" />The woman on his doorstep is brash, independent and holding a baby! His father won’t approve, which makes her perfect for Joshua Grayson’s scheme. He’ll pretend he’s marrying unsuitable Danielle Kelly to keep his father from meddling. He won’t be tempted to touch her, to claim her…or to fall in love.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cute cowboy love story! Very short and feelgood. While it is part of a series, I didn't realize it when I requested this book but I didn't feel like I needed the other books to know what was going on. I will go back and read, because Ms. Yates has a way of making the words fly. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />**I received an advance copy of this book from Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.**</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-260068798019194426.post-24326034148921049722018-02-23T12:36:00.006-06:002018-02-23T12:36:56.196-06:00<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Title: A Week to be Wild</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Author: JC Harroway</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Genre: Erotic Romance</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Available: Immediately</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Source: Netgalley</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Libby Noble is done with men who live on the edge, but sexy British billionaire Alex coaxes her out of her comfort zone—professionally and very personally! She’ll agree to play his game…but only by her rules!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Review:Well, hot and wild in a week, this book did deliver that. It was short but filled with lots of steam if that is what you are looking for. This is a new print for the Harlequin line and will be sure to find a suitable market ready to devour all the books in the line. As of now, it seems that all books are only in e-book format. I did find the insta-love a little too far fetched, but we have all seen that guy that sets our heart a thumping! There is a lot to be said for an author that can make 'safe' sex erotic! Definitely looking for more books by JC!</span><br />
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What happens when one California<br />
community has a disturbing spike in homicides? It catapults cops into a deadly<br />
game of murder. Frozen human body parts hideously displayed at the crime scenes<br />
offers a horrifying interpretation that only a sadistic serial killer could<br />
design—and execute. <br />
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On the hunt for a complex serial killer, vigilante detective Emily Stone must<br />
face her most daring case yet. Stone’s proven top-notch profiling skills and<br />
forensic expertise may not be enough this time. <br />
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Young and ambitious, Detective Danny Starr, catches the homicide cases and<br />
discovers that it will test everything he knows about police work and the<br />
criminal mind. Can he handle these escalating cases or will the police<br />
department have to call in reinforcements—the FBI.<br />
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Emily Stone’s covert team pushes with extreme urgency to unravel the grisly<br />
clues, while keeping their identities hidden from the police. With one<br />
last-ditch effort, Stone dangles someone she loves as bait to draw out the<br />
killer. She then forces the killer out of their comfort zone with her partner<br />
Rick Lopez, and with help from a longtime friend Jordan Smith. A revelation of<br />
the serial killer’s identity leaves the team with volatile emotions that could<br />
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The killer continues to taunt and expertly manipulate the police, as well as<br />
Stone’s team, and as they run out of time—they leave behind everyone and<br />
everything—in Dead Cold.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">ESCAPE WAS IMPOSSIBLE. TEARS STREAMED</span> down her<br />
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She hadn’t eaten anything in three days and had only a<br />
limited amount of water—her strength continued to fade with every hour. With<br />
her wrists and ankles secured with duct tape, her skin stung with pain every<br />
time she struggled to move. At least the man had peeled the tape from her eyes<br />
and mouth so that she could see something besides pitch-blackness. </div>
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Even if she could escape, the only way to safety was jumping<br />
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The only thing thirteen-year-old Kayla Swanson thought about<br />
was home. Fond memories flashed through her mind of her parents, her little<br />
brother, and her dog Charlie. She was never going to see them again. Their<br />
smiling faces were forever etched in Kayla’s mind, and she constantly held them<br />
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The boat rocked, and seemed to sway more violently as the<br />
tide flooded in and out of the harbor. Kayla could hear a consistent clanking<br />
noise above her as the boat rolled back and forth. The sound had a hypnotic<br />
quality, and kept her mind on something else besides when the man would return<br />
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Her lips were dry and cracked as she bordered on dehydration.<br />
Even her tears dried on her cheeks, leaving her skin stiff and drawn. Her body<br />
began to shake, not only from fear, but also because of the extreme exhaustion<br />
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The boat rocked more, but this time it shifted from the<br />
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captor’s heavy walk. She strained her eyes in the darkness and thought she saw<br />
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The dark shadowed areas played tricks on her eyes—it was<br />
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She waited for several minutes.</div>
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Nothing appeared.</div>
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The only sounds she heard were the usual boat noises she had<br />
grown accustomed to hearing. Whatever she thought she heard was gone now. It<br />
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As she relaxed her shoulders and leaned back against the<br />
wall, the reality of her world pressing down hard. Tears streamed down her<br />
face. She tasted the saltiness that settled around her mouth. Her last moments<br />
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Jennifer<br />
Chase is a multi award-winning crime fiction author and consulting<br />
criminologist. </span><span style="color: black;">Jennifer holds a bachelor<br />
degree in police forensics and a master's degree in criminology & criminal<br />
justice. These academic pursuits developed out of her curiosity about the<br />
criminal mind as well as from her own experience with a violent sociopath,<br />
providing Jennifer with deep personal investment in every story she tells. In<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's the perfect time of the year for thrillers, and this one helped bring in the season of thrills!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are twists and turns, while not entirely unexpected it did add to the page turning ability of the book. I would suggest starting with book one in this series because you may not get all the details of the history without the beginning. The date and time headings made for a nice timeline instead of chapter headings. If you are in the mood for a little murder this Halloween season, It's a pretty fast read and keeps you on the edge of your seat. Pick this up!</span></div>
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my diabetic and borderline diabetic readers that they have the power to reverse<br />
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you think. By removing old beliefs to new ones that better serve you, the<br />
path to recovery from diabetes can be that simple. Once I provide the<br />
rationale for changing old beliefs to more productive ones, I then share with<br />
you ways to stay motivated as you journey to a new way of eating. You are<br />
then given a deeper understanding of why so many people have diabetes.<br />
This knowledge will allow you to remove thoughts you may have had where<br />
you blamed yourself for having diabetes. You are then given tips on how<br />
to maintain the motivation needed to make a successful transition to a diabetic<br />
friendly diet. Additional knowledge is given about the many complications<br />
which could occur when this condition is not well controlled. Empowered<br />
with the understanding of why diabetes occurs and its many complications, you<br />
will be given a case for changing how diabetes is treated. This is done<br />
by changing the focus of diabetes management away from the symptoms (elevated<br />
glucose), which is how we currently manage this condition, to treating the<br />
cause of the disease (insulin resistance). You are then given the<br />
rationale for increasing healthy fats in your diets while reducing starchy<br />
carbohydrates and processed foods. Once this is explained, examples of<br />
foods that should be considered for smoothies, snacks, and dinner are given so<br />
you will know how to choose foods which are best. Finally, tips on how<br />
to avoid being fooled by marketing labels and claims of so-called healthy foods<br />
provide the framework by which great dietary choices can be made. This<br />
new approach to reversing diabetes with diet will reverse diabetes in nearly<br />
anyone willing to make these simply lifestyle changes.</div>
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Now that you understand that Type 2 diabetes is about<br />
insulin resistance, it’s time to rethink how you are approaching your treatment<br />
for this condition. Most doctors and their patients focus on reducing the blood<br />
glucose values and if they’re successful they feel they’re controlling<br />
diabetes. But I asked myself if we were fixing the core problem or simply<br />
treating the symptoms. After reflecting on the question, I realized the core<br />
problem may not be elevated blood glucose levels after all. High glucose values<br />
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The answer is insulin resistance. By focusing on this, you<br />
could achieve much better results, since this is essential to fixing your<br />
diabetes. Let’s use an analogy to help think about this concept in a different<br />
way. If I see a patient who presents with a painful throat, red and swollen<br />
tonsils, swollen lymph nodes in the neck, and a fever, I know I likely have a<br />
patient who needs to be treated for strep throat. In order to solve his<br />
problem, I will need to give him an antibiotic to fight the bacteria that is<br />
causing his symptoms. If I gave this patient Tylenol, I would only be treating<br />
his symptoms, and would likely end up with a patient who feels better but isn’t<br />
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This is what we are doing with our diabetes treatment. This<br />
is also likely the reason we consider this a progressively worsening disease.<br />
By shifting your focus, you will find a path to the solution you’ve been<br />
searching for. Why focus on insulin resistance? Because when insulin levels are<br />
high due to resistance, lipolysis (fat breakdown) is inhibited, sensitive<br />
arteries throughout the body are exposed to damaging higher levels of glucose,<br />
muscle protein synthesis is reduced, and glycogen-filled cells are converted to<br />
fat for storage.</div>
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Dr. Tony Hampton has been treating patients with multiple<br />
chronic conditions for nearly two decades. In addition to his role as an<br />
Advocate Medical Group (AMG) family physician over the last nine years, Dr.<br />
Hampton currently holds multiple responsibilities within the Advocate<br />
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Over the last two years, Dr. Hampton has worked closely with<br />
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He is a champion for change that results in greater work-life balance for<br />
physicians and an enhanced patient experience. His interpersonal skills,<br />
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A regular speaker for the American Diabetes Association and<br />
consultant for the Illinois Department of Public Health’s Initiative to Improve<br />
Diabetes Care, Dr. Hampton is passionate about empowering patients by changing<br />
old beliefs to new ones which better serve them using evidence-based medicine.<br />
Educating them on the root cause of disease processes and the importance of<br />
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Tony authored the book <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fix-Your-Diet-Diabetes-Reversing/dp/1941478387/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8">Fix<br />
Your Diabetes, Fix Your Diet, Your Dietary Solution to Reversing Diabetes</a></i><br />
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Having a family history of diabetes that goes back several generations, I found this book highly beneficial to read. Even if you don't have diabetes it's still a great read to get to a manageable control of diet. It's not a cure or even a diet, but a guide to help you in your choices and where to find more information. I appreciated that this is written in simple language not the Dr. speak with words that normal people don't use or understand. Learning to fix your diabetes with diet instead of drugs is always a learning curve, but Dr. Hampton helped make this journey a little more understandable. </span><br />
Recommend even if you don't have diabetes, just learning better eating habits is always a good thing!<br />
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justice. These academic pursuits developed out of her curiosity about the<br />
criminal mind as well as from her own experience with a violent sociopath,<br />
providing Jennifer with deep personal investment in every story she tells. In<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Title: <span style="font-size: large;">Best Day Ever</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Author: Kaira Rouda</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Available: Sept 19, 2017</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Publisher: Graydon House</span><br />
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<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SPehZcBaYkw/WSnLpsszgkI/AAAAAAAAOR4/ZsxS7IZKcF82IqEbK1n7j2jPXJ1MDeaJQCLcB/s1600/34007977%2B%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;">“I glance at my wife as she climbs into the passenger seat, and I am bursting with confidence. Today will be everything I’ve promised her…and more…”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;">Paul Strom has the perfect life: a glittering career as an advertising executive, a beautiful wife, two healthy boys and a big house in a wealthy suburb. And he’s the perfect husband: breadwinner, protector, provider. That’s why he’s planned a romantic weekend for his wife, Mia, at their lake house, just the two of them. And he's promised today will be the best day ever.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;">But as Paul and Mia drive out of the city and toward the countryside, a spike of tension begins to wedge itself between them and doubts start to arise. How much do they trust each other? And how perfect is their marriage, or any marriage, really? </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;">Forcing us to ask ourselves just how well we know those who are closest to us, Best Day Ever crackles with dark energy, spinning ever tighter toward its shocking conclusion. In the bestselling, page-turning vein of The Couple Next Door and The Dinner, Kaira Rouda weaves a gripping, tautly suspenseful tale of deception and betrayal dark enough to destroy a marriage…or a life.</span></span><br />
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Title: Lies She Told</div>
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Marianne Brogan can’t sleep. She’s plagued by a nightmare: someone in the shadows, whispering threats, stalking her every move. To make matters worse, Marianne can’t get hold of her brother, Billy. Despite knowing some shady characters from Glasgow’s underworld, Billy’s always been there for her – until now.<br />
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Detective Chief Inspector William Lorimer felt the swish of the plastic tape behind him as he entered the crime scene. He glanced at the house, one eyebrow raised in slight surprise. It was such an ordinary two-up, two-down mid-terrace, a modest suburban home, like thousands of others in and around this city in a district not particularly known for a high rate of crime. And certainly not for ones like this. But impressions could be deceptive, that was something he’d learned long ago, and as the Chief Inspector took another look around him his mouth became a hard thin line: scratch the surface of any neighbourhood and the veneer of respectability could expose all manner of human depravity.<br />
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The entire garden was cordoned off and a uniformed officer stood guard at the front gate, his eyes shifting only momentarily to the DCI. Lorimer turned to look behind him. Across the street a huddle of people stood, clearly undeterred by the driving rain, their curiosity or compassion binding them in a pool of silent anticipation. Three police vehicles lined the pavement, a clear sign of the gravity of the situation.<br />
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The incident had occurred sometime during the night yet the bright glare from a sun struggling to emerge from layers of cloud made a mockery of the situation. This was an ordinary Monday morning where nothing like this should be happening. He could hear the hum of motorway traffic several streets away as people headed to work, oblivious to the little drama that was about to unfold. A bit in tomorrow’s newspaper would command their attention for a few moments, perhaps, then they would dismiss it as someone else’s tragedy and continue about their business, glad that it didn’t impinge upon their own lives.<br />
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His business lay ahead, behind that white tent erected outside the doorway, keeping the scene free from prying eyes. Lorimer nodded, satisfied to see it in place. At least one journalist might be among that knot of watchers over the road, he thought wryly. Closing the gate behind him he ventured up the path then stopped. Someone had been violently sick out here, the traces of vomit splashed over a clump of foliage not yet washed away by earlier torrential rain. Whatever lay inside had been shocking enough to make one person’s stomach heave.<br />
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With a word to the duty officer the DCI let himself into the house, his gloved hands closing the door carefully behind him. The body lay spreadeagled on the hall carpet, the gunshot wound clearly visible in the artificial light. He was clad in thin summer pyjamas, the shirt open revealing his bare chest. Any traces in the immediate area would assist the scene of crime officers in learning a little more about the victim’s end, as would the bullet lodged within his head. For Lorimer, the story was one that seemed sadly familiar; a gangland shooting, maybe drug related. The single shot to the temple indicated a professional hit man at any rate, he thought, hunkering down beside the body.<br />
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‘What can you tell me?’ he asked, looking up at Detective Sergeant Ramsay, the crime scene manager, who hadarrived before him.<br />
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‘Well, so far as we can make out there was no call from neighbours about hearing a weapon being discharged.’ The officer shrugged as if to say that didn’t mean much at this stage. To many people, having a quiet life was preferable to giving evidence in a criminal trial.<br />
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‘The killer’s weapon may have been fitted with a silencer, of course,’ Ramsay continued, ‘or the neighbours on either side could just be heavy sleepers. We haven’t found a cartridge case, by the way,’ he added.<br />
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‘So who called it in?’ Lorimer wanted to know. ‘Colleague of the victim, sir. Was coming to give him a lift to work. Didn’t get an answer to the doorbell so he looked through the letterbox, saw the body . . . ’<br />
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‘ . . . And dialled 999,’ Lorimer finished for him.<br />
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‘Suppose that was the same person who was sick outside?’ Ramsay nodded. ‘Poor guy’s still shivering out there in the patrol car. Had to wrap a blanket around his shoulders. He’s been trying to give us what information he can.’<br />
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‘Okay. What do we know so far?’ Lorimer asked, looking at the dead man, wondering what his story had been, how he had been brought to this untimely end. The victim was a man about his own age, perhaps younger, he thought, noting the mid-brown hair devoid of any flecks of grey. For a moment Lorimer wanted to place his fingers upon the man’s head, stroke it gently as if to express the pity that he felt. No matter what his history, nobody deserved to die like this.<br />
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‘Kenneth Scott,’ the DS told him. ‘Thirty-seven. Lived alone. Divorced. No children. Parents both dead. We haven’t managed to get a lot else out of the colleague yet,’ he added, jerking his head in the direction of the street.<br />
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‘Too shocked to say much when we arrived. After he’d seen his pal.’ Lorimer continued to focus upon the dead man on the floor.<br />
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The victim’s eyes were still wide with surprise, the mouth open as if to register a sudden protest, but it was not an expression of terror.<br />
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‘It must have happened too quickly for him to have realised what was happening,’ Lorimer murmured almost to himself. ‘Or had he known his assailant?’<br />
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‘There was no forced entry, sir, but that might not mean all that much.’ The DCI nodded a brief agreement. Men were less likely to worry about opening their doors to strangers, if indeed this had been a stranger. And a strong-armed assassin would have been in and out of there in seconds, one quick shot and away. Lorimer sat back on his heels, thinking hard. They would have to find out about the man’s background as a priority, as well as notifying his next of kin. The pal outside had given some information. They’d be checking all that out, of course.<br />
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‘What about his work background?’ Lorimer asked.<br />
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‘They were in IT, the guy out there told us, shared lifts to a call centre on a regular basis.’ Lorimer stood up as the door opened again to admit a small figure dressed, like himself, in the regulation white boiler suit. His face creased into a grin as he recognized the consultant forensic pathologist. Despite her advanced state of pregnancy, Dr Rosie Fergusson was still attending crime scenes on a regular basis.<br />
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‘Still managing not to throw up?’ he asked mischievously.<br />
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‘Give over, Lorimer,’ the woman replied, elbowing her way past him, ‘I’m way past that stage now, you know,’ she protested, patting her burgeoning belly. ‘Into my third trimester.’<br />
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‘Right, what have we here?’ she asked, bending down slowly and opening her kitbag. Her tone, Lorimer noticed, was immediately softer as she regarded the victim. It was something they had in common, that unspoken compassion that made them accord a certain dignity towards a dead person. Lorimer heard<br />
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‘Name’s Kenneth Scott. His mate came to collect him for work at seven this morning. Nobody heard anything last night as far as we know,’ he offered, making eye contact with Ramsay to include him in the discussion. This was a team effort and, though he was senior investigating officer, Lorimer was well aware of the value everyone placed on the scene of crime manager who would coordinate everyone’s part in the case.<br />
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‘Hm,’ Rosie murmured, her gloved hands already examining the body. ‘He’s been dead for several hours anyway,’ she said, more to herself than for Lorimer’s benefit.<br />
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‘Rigor’s just beginning to establish. May have died around two to four this morning.’ Rosie glanced up at the radiator next to the body. ‘I take it that’s been off?’<br />
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‘I suppose so,’ Lorimer answered, feeling the cold metal under the layers of surgical gloves. He shrugged. ‘It’s still officially summertime, you know.’<br />
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‘Could have fooled me,’ Rosie replied darkly, listening to the rain battering down once again on the canvas roof of the tent outside. ‘That’s two whole weeks since July the fifteenth and it’s never let up.’ Lorimer regarded her quizzically.<br />
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‘St Swithin’s day,’ she told him. ‘Tradition has it that whatever weather happens that particular day will last for forty days. Or else it’s more of that global warming the doom merchants have been threatening us with,’ she added under her breath.<br />
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‘But this fellow’s not been warmed up any, has he?’ Lorimer said. ‘Nothing to change the time of death?’ The pathologist shook her blonde curls under the white hood. ‘No. Normal temperature in here. Wasn’t cold last night either so we can probably assume it happened in the death hours.’ Lorimer nodded silently. Two until four a.m. were regarded as the optimum times for deaths to occur, not only those inflicted by other hands. He had read somewhere that the human spirit seemed to be at its most vulnerable then. And villains seeking to do away with another mortal tended to choose that time as well.<br />
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Alex Gray was born and educated in Glasgow. After studying English and Philosophy at the University of Strathclyde, she worked as a visiting officer for the DHSS, a time she looks upon as postgraduate education since it proved a rich source of character studies. She then trained as a secondary school teacher of English. </div>
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A regular on the Scottish bestseller lists, her previous novels include Five Ways to Kill a Man, Glasgow Kiss, Pitch Black, The Riverman, Never Somewhere Else, The Swedish Girl and Keep the Midnight Out. She is the co-founder of the international Scottish crime writing festival, Bloody Scotland, which had its inaugural year in 2012. </div>
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My Review:<br />
What a great who dun it! I love a book with lots of turns and peaks and valleys and this book delivers. It's number 8 in the series and I think the series just keeps getting better with each book. It isn't a hard read, but does have enough twists to keep you guessing. Seeing other countries through the books is a favorite of mine and this book series brings Glasgow to life for me. If looking for a new author for a mystery, I'd check this one out! <br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-260068798019194426.post-69149231517335693442017-09-02T16:29:00.000-05:002017-09-04T16:35:51.829-05:00<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Title: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rabbit Hole: A Satanic Ritual Abuse Survivor's Story</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Author: David Shurter</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Publisher: Consider it Creative</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Available: Now</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Genre: Memoir</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Source: Netgalley</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Synopsis:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">From the nationwide satanic panic in the 1980s to local political cover-ups, shocking kidnappings, unsolved child murders, and scandalous pedophile rings, this book takes you behind the deceptive headlines and, finally, reveals what was going on in Omaha when all hell broke loose. Rich and well-connected members of Omaha's elite carried out unspeakable acts of abuse and even murder on innocent children. David Shurter was one of those sexually abused survivors forever scarred by the horrible rites performed on him by his own parents and other followers of Satan. It wasn't until he entered psychotherapy in midlife that long ignored childhood memories came to light, and when he discovered his gruesome nightmares were indeed real. This book, finally, is an expose of the surprising participants and unbelievable horrors involving murder, drugs, lavish parties, pedophiles, suspected government conspiracies, and the Omaha gay scene that cast a dark cloud of suspicion over an unsuspecting city. David Shurter takes you down the rabbit hole.</span><br />
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0XW1adrJtio/Wa3Fhe78jrI/AAAAAAAAPfA/bNqtcEFxrls7OiXXbbQ_Atajz8AzkhdOgCLcBGAs/s1600/15724368.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="317" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0XW1adrJtio/Wa3Fhe78jrI/AAAAAAAAPfA/bNqtcEFxrls7OiXXbbQ_Atajz8AzkhdOgCLcBGAs/s320/15724368.jpg" width="213" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">Wow, speechless. There's the camp that thinks this is a true tale of the cover-up of the 80's and those that think there is no way this could happen. I know something had to have happened to David, the story that is told is just so horrific for some of it not to have happened. (trigger warning- this book has a lot of abuse and if that is troublesome for you, I'd skip this book) Even if the abuse isn't always explicit there's enough knowledge to infer what happened. There are some editing problems that make the book seem run on, but it's still one of those memoirs that will stick with you and be glad that there are good people in the world too. Thanks to netgalley for the review copy.</span><br />
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