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About Melina

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As a four time participant and the time Cannonball Read failure, I stand before you ready to kick ass, read books and somehow keep my children clean and sign their homework books daily (well that's never going to happen, so let's hope I can at least read 52 books this year). Teacher of 160 seniors, mom of 3 kids/ two dogs, and wife to one pretty great husband. I need a nap and some Calgon (substitute Calgon with rum) so that I can rinse and repeat this insanity on a daily basis.

Melina's Reviews:

I’m NOT Drinking That

February 8, 2016 by Melina Leave a Comment

So this is embarrassing. I can’t stop reading this book series. Every time Ann Charles puts one out, I’m like, “Ooooh! I like these books!” And so I buy them.  But the truth is? I don’t think I actually like them…I just CAN’T stop reading them. It’s like that one time I ate an entire Blooming Onion by myself and I felt greasy, ashamed and most of all sick. I learned something that day at the Outback Steakhouse but apparently Ann Charles speaks to me […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Suspense Tagged With: Ann Charles, Back in Deadwood, Book #6, CBR8, deadwood series, Meanwhile, Melina

Like Kool Aid And Boxed Wine (Mixed Together)

February 2, 2016 by Melina 2 Comments

So Book Bub is sometimes my friend and sometimes my nemesis.  This time? I have no idea what it is to me.  So I guess I checked off Romance, Mystery and Suspense…and this one has all three in its parenthetical sub title so it would make sense that they would send this selection to me as something I may want to read.  And read it I did.  171 ridiculous pages of something I really didn’t want to put down but I have no idea why because […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: CBR8, elise sax, Melina, murder, mystery, serial killer, switched

Never Going to Romania…Sorry, Not Sorry

January 27, 2016 by Melina Leave a Comment

Follow You Home follows (see what I did there?) Daniel and Laura as they are wrapping up what is supposed to be a trip of a lifetime.  After this, these thirty somethings are going to settle down, have a baby and live an uneventful but happy life in London.  But you know what they say about best laid plans right?  Yeah, everything pretty much goes to hell.  The happy couple find themselves on a train travelling through Romania.  There’s already a little tension because Daniel […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: aintgoingthere, CBR8, Follow You Home, Mark Edwards, Melina, mystery, Romania, Suspense

Comoran and Robin Complete Me

January 27, 2016 by Melina 4 Comments

The third installment of the Comoran Strike series begins with yet another gory mystery.  Someone delivers a woman’s severed leg to Robin.  While she’s sickened by this (you know, like people are wont to do when they receive body parts in the mail), Strike is less grossed out and more concerned that someone from his past is sending a very clear message that Robin’s life is in danger.  While the police are focusing their investigation on one of the four people Comoran believes it could […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: career of evil, CBR8, Comoran strike, enthusiastic five stars, Melina, Robin

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