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Valentines Day Books

Valentines day is the holiday that people love to hate - especially those without someone to celebrate it with. I've heard it all - heck, I've said it all.   "It's a made up holiday created to sell cards."   "It's a holiday meant to make people feel bad about being single."   "Chocolate!!! That's the only good thing about this day."   While some of these may still ring true, it can also be a day to celebrate truly epic love stories. Maybe it's just the writer in me that sees it that way. The

Touching the Wire by Rebecca Bryn

  Hauntingly Brilliant   I can't remember the last time a book touched me like this one. I've always been fascinated by the holocaust and read a lot of books with the goal of trying to see what makes a human being do the kinds of things the SS did. What makes someone so evil?  Fear. That's basically what this book boils down to. It was my first time reading one about someone from the other side of the war, an SS doctor. He is not evil. In fact, he does everything he thinks he can to save those[image error]

Cara's Twelve by Chantel Seabrook

  Wow, what a story!    This was one of those books that I couldn't put down. It kept me up late into the night until I finished. And then, once I was done, I missed it. I wanted there to be more.    Cara is nothing. She is the niece of the queen of Elbia but that doesn't mean anything when she lives in a province that struggled to feed it's people. She hates the queen because it is her taxes that has driven a place that Cara loves into poverty.    Then the unthinkable happens. Cara's cousin[image error]

Cara's Twelve by Chantel Seabrook

  Wow, what a story!    This was one of those books that I couldn't put down. It kept me up late into the night until I finished. And then, once I was done, I missed it. I wanted there to be more.    Cara is nothing. She is the niece of the queen of Elbia but that doesn't mean anything when she lives in a province that struggled to feed it's people. She hates the queen because it is her taxes that has driven a place that Cara loves into poverty.    Then the unthinkable happens. Cara's cousin[image error]

Zodiac Lives by Rhoda D'Ettore

Thriller- this book truly lives up to that tag. There’s a thrill rippling through every page that makes your heart beat faster and your mind is gripped by the images flashing through it. Serial Killers. Our society is entranced by them. We eat up every bit of news, every graphic description. So what happens when it’s the smallest, most innocent of us that is suddenly plagued by these horrific events that she could know nothing about. A child. No, not a child. Is she? Can they believe it? Can she

Zodiac Lives by Rhoda D'Ettore

Thriller- this book truly lives up to that tag. There’s a thrill rippling through every page that makes your heart beat faster and your mind is gripped by the images flashing through it. Serial Killers. Our society is entranced by them. We eat up every bit of news, every graphic description. So what happens when it’s the smallest, most innocent of us that is suddenly plagued by these horrific events that she could know nothing about. A child. No, not a child. Is she? Can they believe it? Can she

Zodiac Lives by Rhoda D'Etorre

Thriller- this book truly lives up to that tag. There’s a thrill rippling through every page that makes your heart beat faster and your mind is gripped by the images flashing through it. Serial Killers. Our society is entranced by them. We eat up every bit of news, every graphic description. So what happens when it’s the smallest, most innocent of us that is suddenly plagued by these horrific events that she could know nothing about. A child. No, not a child. Is she? Can they believe it? Can she

Emerge by Melissa A. Craven

Wow, what an entertaining read!   Allie and Aidan have had very different upbringings but have always lived with a similar sense of isolation and loneliness. Allie has always just believed people thought she was weird- that she was just your average outcast. Aidan knew the truth. They each had an immense amount of power that people could sense. He was surrounded by people that loved him but he still always felt alone.   All of this changed when Allie's family moved to Kelley's island, bringing

Reality is in a Dream

Reality is in a Dream   I was really surprised how much I loved this book. The beginning was interesting but it didn't quite grab me at first. Once it did, however, it never let go.    Lily is just a normal teenage girl- that is, until she begins to dream of another life, another family. Struggling to live in the regular world with the people she thinks have raised her, yet somehow missing people she doesn't even know, life is anything but normal. Nothing is what she thinks it is. The only thing

I am a writer!

It took quite a while for me to be able to say this without scrunching my face up and laughing in embarrassment. I had two books published and on sale before I could force the word “author” past my lips. There’s a stigma attached to it, one that I used to buy in to on some level. Writers are people who have nothing better to do with their time. They are loners. Most of them will never amount to anything. Here’s the best: writing is easy! Easy! I wish it was easy!   Truth be told, I never wrote