Wednesday 28 January 2015

Risking It All by Tessa Bailey

I absolutely hated it...hated that it had to end. The story and the characters...those I loved to the moon and back. This book caught my attention from the opening line and kept it right through til the last word.Tessa Bailey cleverly portraits the fact, that every person has something good and bad in them - it makes both Bowen and Sera believable and real as they come alive on every single page.

Bowen is raw and rough to very core of his being. His anguish and pain drip of the pages as he desperately tries to cling to the last shredded pieces of his soul - he never had a choice in what kind of man he was to become.

Seraphina is pure - raised with an all-girls school run by nuns, going to church and still a virgin. She is the white to Bowen's black. When their worlds collide passion, lust and mixed feelings explode all over the place. Black and white runs together creating those grey zones that can be dangerous and tricky to negotiate.

If you like it steamy...if you like it hot...if you like it kept real...then Risking I All is for you. Don't wait to pick it up. Me...I can't wait for the next book in the Crossing The Line series...Up In Smoke should be out in June 2015.

Risking It All gets 5 stars from me.



Sunday 25 January 2015

Freedom Rein by Sarah Louise Clark

BI finished this book today and was rather surprised to find, that the author is a married woman and not a teenage girl.

The writing needs help - the style and vocabulary seems immature to me as does the scenes involving sex. I would say that this book is best suited for teenage girls and young adults - but beware that it does contain descriptive sex scenes.

The story is sweet and gives off definite  feel-good vibes. However for my taste it's a little to sweet.

The young heroine Estelle is barely seventeen but has already been through beatings and sexual abuse in a foster home. She runs away and from that moment everything turns perfect for her - she finds a great job, finds love with the employer's son and ends up a show jumper with horses taking her to Olympia.
Sure there's a few bumps in the road but they seem too easily negotiated by young Estelle.

Still, I give this books 2 stars and say go for it if you're into books like The Black Stallion.

Sunday 18 January 2015

The Enforcer by Nikki Worrell

I love ice hockey. And I love books about romance and hockey, so I was looking forward to reading The Enforcer - sadly I was rather disappointed with it and after chapter 7 I skimmed the rest...just to make sure, I didn't miss out on anything. I didn't.

The storyline itself is cute - your run of the mill romance story that you have read tons of times before but still love and crave as a romance addict. Unfortunately the characters and writing are not that impressive.

The characters lack a dimension and therefore come off as being boring and flat. Still, the thing that made my interest wander was the writing. The author should have let the characters tell the story through dialogue, but instead it's paragraph after paragraph of narrator monologue.

I give this book 2 stars.

Saturday 3 January 2015

In the beginning...

In the beginning there was a Danish girl...well, I guess you could call her a woman since she was in her mid thirties...and make that closer to forty than thirty.

From a very young age this woman loved to read...all kinds of books but mostly feel - good romance, crime and classics. Anything centered around horses or ice hockey was particularly popular.

But with all the books she read during the years she began to loose track of which ones she liked and would recommend to others...and then an idea occurred to her: why not blog about the books she read? That way, she would always be able to keep track of the books she'd travelled through.

And so this blog was created..here you will find news on the books in her life...did she like it? If not, then why? And all sorts of other things but everything here will have one thing in common: books.