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week 11 spot 91 1st in series
Finished May 29, 2015 4 stars
Ryder is kind of hard to describe. He is a successful business man that has worked hard for everything he has. He has a few bars he owns with his friends along with an underground fight club. Even though he can have just about any woman he wants, he doesn’t. He cannot abide by cheating and refuses to be a part of it.
He is put into a position that he really doesn’t care for when he has to track down someone who owes him money. Upon arriving at the house, instead of finding Jamie, he finds his sister Cassie. Cassie has a lot of baggage. She escaped England and left her abusive husband behind and planned on filing for divorce. Even though she meets Ryder under bad circumstances, she cannot help but be attracted to him. She volunteers to do his books for him with her pay going towards paying off her brother’s gambling debt.
As their relationship grows, she is battling her conscience about telling Ryder about her abusive husband and winds up waiting too long. When Ryder realizes she is married, he feels betrayed. After she is finally getting to explain herself, he wants to do whatever possible to get her husband out her life.
They eventually get him out of her life. It was definitely a lot more violent than she wanted to deal with, however minor the injuries.
Week 11: (90 - #1)Carry the Ocean by Heidi Cullinan
Read: (5/31)
Rating: ★★★★★
This book is beyond amazing! I mean I laughed, I cried, I couldn't put it down. I straight up devoured this book and it completely cements Ms. Cullinan as one of my all time favorite authors. I always tend to enjoy the stories about characters with disabilities, but this resonated with me in so many ways and was just plain touching. I adored watching these boys struggle to find their feet and step into the life that they could have together.
Emmet Washington may just be one of the strongest characters I've ever read. His autism is severe, but he's learned ways for him to function. Ms. Cullinan does a brilliant job writing his voice. As someone who grew up with a family member on the autism spectrum (though really I think looking back he probably would have been diagnosed as Asperger's if he'd ever had any sort of diagnosis) I understand how difficult it can be for someone to relate to and function in the "normal" world. I love how committed Emmet is to not only finding more ways to help himself, but how much he wants to help Jeremey and realizes that things are not right for the other boy. Emmet's voice was so distinctive and clear. I was drawn in by him and loved how he related to Jeremey.
As for Jeremey, oh my heart just broke for him. He was so buried under all of the emotions around him. He struggled each and every day just to function. But with Emmet in his life you could see the will to try growing for him. I really loved watching him find his feet, deal with his setbacks, and truly face the overwhelming depression and anxiety he was dealing with inside.
These two boys are two people whose difficulties in life should have made it impossible for them to be together and yet they so perfectly compliment each other. The skills they've had to learn in order to get up everyday and function actually help them to work things out as a couple no matter how hard it is.
I can't recommend this book enough and I know I will come back to it time and time again. It's so poignantly written and I fell in love with these characters. I can't wait to read the next book in the series!
Week 11Spot 91
by Patricia Briggs (287 p.)
Week 11Spot 91
by Patricia Briggs (287 p.)Finished: 2015/6/4
Rating: 5 Stars
Review: In this book Mercy is finally picked Adam, and they now are mated, but as always Mercy founds trouble. Marsilia seeks revenge for killing what was hers. So that Mercy didn’t make more trouble for the wolf pack, she comes to Spokane, where she can help her old friend, who got ghost problems. In that city is just one vampire. There nothing can go wrong. Can’t it?
Week 12 rolled a 5 now on spot 96. 6th or 9th in series, or texted item mountain.
I'll go with
and text item mountain.pg. 16 (Kindle version) Perched on a mountaintop on more than twenty acres of pristine forest, the twelve-thousand-square-foot manse was far more than he needed for his small family—his wife, Dominga, and four-year-old daughter, Solana—but he had worked hard to get where he was, and he felt entitled to enjoy the fruits of his labor.
Is the world allowed to be part of a bigger word? Please let me know as I have another book that has this word in it.
Holli wrote: "I'll go with and text item mountain.pg. 16 (Kindle version) Perched on a mountaintop on more than twenty acres of pristine forest, the twelv..."
I'll ask Jenne to make sure it's okay.
Ora wrote: "Holli wrote: "I'll go with and text item mountain.pg. 16 (Kindle version) Perched on a mountaintop on more than twenty acres of pristine for..."
Jenne said that its okay to use mountaintop
Team 13 are the winners of this round. It was fun and I enjoyed playing with you ladies.
Ora wrote: "Team 13 are the winners of this round. It was fun and I enjoyed playing with you ladies."
I had fun as well. Thanks for letting me be on your team. :-)
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Spot 91
1st in series
Finished: 5/29/15
Rating: 3 stars
Review: Quite different from the movie made from it, which kind of influenced me about this book as I watched it first. It's pretty good and a fast read. Although I didn't realize Bond was such a chauvinistic ass when it came to women in the books.