Review:I wish I could get back the time I wasted reading this book but I kept going on and on hoping that it would turn into something interesting. Unfortunately he didn’t. I’m sorry but I did not find this book at all interesting or anything worth holding my curiosity. I thought it would be more about refugees and how they fared in foreign countries etc. but just didn’t seem to do that. Read more

Review:The book is divided into sections of different character’s narration, but instead of echoing each other and filling narrative gaps, it did the opposite. I enjoyed reading the first part of the story but couldn’t quite follow the Aneeka stories, the twin brother plot as well as the love story. The author based the story on Antigone but seemed to me too stretched out for that purpose. Also I don’t know how to take the ending. Overall I am quite disappointed. The book seemed to me more like an ove... Read more

Review:I don't understand some of Hamid's writing choices. It's a pretty straightforward narrative but then there are these magical doorways, which might be good if it was a magical book with other magical things. But it's jarring having these weird doorways coming out of nowhere. Also the author seems to sometimes go off in weird directions without any explanations (like the doors but without the magic), leaving some of the narrative a bit headscratching. I'm 3/4 of the way through and having a hard t... Read more

Review:Just let me say that this was a very enjoyable book. I will read more of Mr. Barry's works. Thomas Mcnulty and John Cole are two characters that will stay with you..."He looks like he swallowed a live rattlesnake and it's biting him from inside." Thomas Mcnulty! Read more

Review:I read this book in (almost) one sitting over a Thanksgiving weekend. Revisiting these beloved books of my childhood and finding out what had happened to the "real" Laura throughout her long life was fascinating. The story of her life and work is awe-inspiring. She was able to take the darkness and bitterness all of us face in our adult lives and redeem it into core values of honesty, integrity, and thankfulness. Reading about Laura's life in the context of American history is fascinating. A gre... Read more

Review:I read this series backwards and I'm glad I did that because the third in the series is just charming but if I'd started with this one I'd have never gotten to the third. This book irritated me to no end.

(Spoilerish) The heroine hates, and I mean hates, the hero for the entire first half of the book. Not just pretends to hate him while secretly desiring him but hates him all the way to the bone. It is really hard to enjoy a book when for the first 180 pages the lead character is spitt... Read more

Review:WOW!!! Kresley Cole is such an incredible talent! I love a book you can't put down. I've read 3 of her books (so far) and though they are a series, each was completely different...ie different plots and characters...even the steamy parts (hot...HOT hot) were so well written and not a bit redundant as are in other novels by other authors.

I also enjoyed how the three stories intertwined and that we discovered how, in the Epilogue, we were left with a happily ever after for the three MacCar... Read more

Review:You all know what I thought of Kristin Harmel's The Life Intended (just in case you inadvertently missed it(!), you can go to my post from February 3 and read all about it). Now along comes Kristin's latest, The Room on Rue Amelie. She completely shifts gears from contemporary fiction to historical fiction. And, might I add, she does it seamlessly. I happen to be a big fan of historical fiction, especially that which centers on WWII. I have learned a bunch of history this way. And I would ... Read more

Review:Received this book as an ARC for my honest review.
The book shows of the horrors that Krystyna went through during the time the Jews started to get executed and shunned. The book is sometimes hard to follow and repeats itself quite a bit. I did enjoy the pictures that were in it as you got to see the progression of Krystyna when she was little. She seemed to have been very spoiled even when all of the bad things were happening. When she would talk about them there really didn't feel to be ... Read more

Review:Raised by an uncaring father in loneliness except for her friend the gypsy stable boy Colin, six years ago, Amelia Benbridge life turned upside down when her odious father was proven to be a criminal and her beloved Colin died saving her life. The only good to come out of that tragic period was Amelia was reunited with her long lost assumed dead sister Marie and her brother-in-law, a pirate, Christopher St. John (see A PASSION FOR THE GAME for their love story).

Now in 1780 Amelia is exp... Read more