This book is the story of Ellen, a hypnotist living in Sydney. She meets a man named Patrick and starts dating him. But Patrick has a past! On their fourth date, Patrick tells Ellen that he has a stalker from a past relationship. We are introduced slowly to Saskia, the stalker, and there are chapters from her point of view, as well as the point of view from Ellen. As Ellen and Patrick grow closer, Saskia seems to grow more desperate and does more crazy […]
I didn’t hate it.
Sometimes I read because I am too tired and too stressed to do anything else. In that frame of mind, a book like Sarina Bowen’s Rookie Move is perfect. We met Leo Trevi in Bowen’s all most entirely excellent Ivy Years series. He is the big brother of the unfortunate DJ, whose book is not to be mentioned. He is a nice guy, and a nice character with whom to spend 300 pages. We briefly met Georgia in the book that shall not be named. She’s […]
The Non-Romance of Male Tears
I started this year with a plan to review every book I read, but that fell by the wayside pretty quickly, because there are just some books about which I have nothing to say. It may be that they are neither good, nor bad, or they are fine, but not interesting, or they are bad, but not offensive. I recently read two installments in Sarina Bowen’s True North series, and initially thought they would remain among the unreviewed. Alwaysanswerb’s review of The Chocolate Rose made […]
Couple of Comfort Reads
Here, have a review about two recent (ish) stand alones by the ever popular and uber-prolific Nora Roberts. Of whom I am a huge, unashamed fan. Her books are often comfort reads for me – I know somewhere, in the midst of whatever nonsense is flourishing, there will some sort of happy ending, and that’s reassuring in a way I can’t really explain. Other readers complain about the formulaic nature of some of Roberts’ work (particularly when it comes to trilogies), but – for me, […]