Rochelle Carlton's Blog, page 2
August 15, 2016
Book updates
I am currently working on a love story set in the 1940's. Do you like historical fiction? This love story is not too far away.
July 10, 2016
One of my favourite authors
4.0 out of 5 stars Books that a reliably good reading, July 10, 2016
This review is from: Mercy (Kindle Edition)
Jodi Picoult is one of my, if not my, favourite author. I have read many of her books and just finished “Mercy.” I would have to agree with other reviewers that this was not my pick of her work. But having said that it still kept me turning the pages, and her writing was, as always exceptional.
Why wasn’t it up to the previous reads? While it was enjoyable it was a little predictable. Some of the characters were not particularly likeable (or relatable) and some irritating enough to throttle!
That being said, Jodi Picoult does it again. This book is well worth a read and the author is without doubt, brilliant.
April 24, 2016
This is It, by Jackie Parry
This is a totally absorbing read.
I have just finished reading Jackie Parry’s book “This is it.” Having read her previous stories, “Of Foreign Build” and “A Standard Journey,” I was not convinced the latest offering would be able to maintain the same entertainment value as I had previously enjoyed. I need not have worried.
Following on from her adventures on Mariah, Jackie swept me up on another fabulous journey of escapism. Together with Noel, her husband, they negotiated and purchased Pyewacket, (as with most things in their lives this was not such an easy feat!) a fifty-one-foot vessel and embarked on another nail biting adventure.
I am not as a rule, a huge fan of non-fiction/memoire genres. However, I do make an exception when I come across a book by this author. Jackie Parry has a way of entertaining while passing on practical information. She draws pictures with her words of exotic locations, colourful people and the harsh, often life threatening conditions they encounter while sailing offshore.
I look forward to seeing where this adventurous lady takes us to next.
This is It, Jackie Parry
I have just finished reading Jackie Parry’s book “This is it.” Having read her previous stories, “Of Foreign Build” and “A Standard Journey,” I was not convinced the latest offering would be able to maintain the same entertainment value as I had previously enjoyed. I need not have worried.
Following on from her adventures on Mariah, Jackie swept me up on another fabulous journey of escapism. Together with Noel, her husband, they negotiated and purchased Pyewacket, (as with most things in their lives this was not such an easy feat!) a fifty-one-foot vessel and embarked on another nail biting adventure.
I am not as a rule, a huge fan of non-fiction/memoire genres. However, I do make an exception when I come across a book by this author. Jackie Parry has a way of entertaining while passing on practical information. She draws pictures with her words of exotic locations, colourful people and the harsh, often life threatening conditions they encounter while sailing offshore.
I look forward to seeing where this adventurous lady takes us to next.
February 20, 2016
A Capable and Wide Revenge. Review.
If you have read, as I have, Glen Barrera’s previous book, “The Assassin Who Couldn’t Dance” this one is a must.
Again, the author wraps the reader in a fast moving, action packed story, and sweeps them along with a plot that keeps the pages turning.
“A Capable and Wide Revenge” is a well written, and gripping tale set against a vividly described backdrop. It is full of exciting conflict, complex relationships and loss, all weaved together with a little romance.
The characters are flawed, the events often unpredictable, and the ending was satisfying.
I certainly hope there is a third book by this author. I would certainly recommend this story, the previous one and any that follow.
December 1, 2015
October 9, 2015
Crumbs to Caviar is live
Shona McGuire's life was ordinary. At least it was before her car plummeted over a cliff.
Everything then changed. Blake Coleman entered her life, three men desired her, and one man watched her every move.
They said she couldn't go back. They never told her that if she did it could cost Shona her life.
Available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited and in paperback.
http://www.amazon.com/Crumbs-Caviar-O...
September 27, 2015
“Crumbs to Caviar” released
Available as a pre-order on Amazon. Delivery 9 October, 2015 http://www.amazon.com/Crumbs-Caviar-Obsessive-chances-Beginnings-ebook/dp/B015UTUVUY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1443318233&sr=1-1&keywords=crumbs+to+caviar
Crumbs to Caviar
Behind which smile lurks a monster?
It was Christmas Eve and Shona McGuire’s ordinary life was about to become front page news. A beautiful wife and mother trapped in a wrecked car and scarred for life.
Now Shona faces the future as a single parent, with a 'for sale' sign outside her home, a secretive best friend, controlling ex-husband and a man that wants more than she has to give.
When Shona is offered the chance to launch her dream career, she begins a journey that brings handsome and ruthless businessman, Blake Coleman, into her life. He has a reputation as a womaniser and is about to tear Shona’s world apart, but someone else is watching her every move.
Shona finds herself fighting to prove she is a fit mother, fighting to save her little piece of paradise and fighting to save her family's lives.
They say you can never go back. That the things you have left behind are best not revisited. But they never told her to go back would be the biggest mistake of her life.
Book one of the “Beach and Beyond” series can be read as a stand-alone novel. Or sign up to receive updates for the continuing story of Shona’s McGuire’s new life.
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September 3, 2015
New book update
Here is a sneak preview.
Prologue
A bleak December day, a slippery highway, and Shona McGuire’s ordinary life would never to be the same.
Before the accident Shona’s life was not exactly as she would have planned it. In fact, it was nothing like the dreams that filled her head while she struggled with the trials and tribulations of adolescent hood.
For Shona McGuire, her early memories always return to the beach. To the tumble down bach her family have owned since she was a child, covered in sticky candy. As far as she can remember, it has always been tumbled down, with threadbare carpets and frayed curtains. A special place where sand carried in by bare feet, and their old dog’s tooth marks on the corner of the sagging couch, go unnoticed. The lawn is a tapestry of course white sand and sparse patches of Kikuyu, the only grass resilient enough to survive the salt laden air that blows off the waves, and coats the distorted glass windows in a thin, greasy film.
The handful of tiny wooden homes sit empty for most of the year. But when the holidays arrive, they come alive with the sound of laughter, and the smell of sausages, pipi fritters and crayfish cooking on the barbeque.
Her mind takes her back to Sea Dog Takeaways, and the old couple wrapping greasy fish and chips in unsold newsprint. Of her father sipping cold beer, while her mother tossed green salad, and baked fresh loaves of crusty bread.
It takes her back to a time of innocence. Memories of a handsome boy named John Myer, of two free spirits galloping ponies down the windswept beach, of diving in the crystal clear waters of the harbour, and gathering shellfish from the shallows.
Now only the bach remains unchanged, a tumble down wooden structure, that holds the family’s memories etched deep within its walls.
They say you can never go back. That the things you have left behind are best not revisited. But they never told her to go back would be the biggest mistake of her life. It all started on a slippery highway on December 23rd.
