Review: Shoe Strings

Title: Shoe Strings
Author: Christy Hayes
Genre: Adult Romance
Format: eBook, 263pg
Source: Author, Requested Review

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Synopsis


After a surprise visit from her estranged father, Atlanta-based boutique owner and shoe designer, Angelita Barros, heads for the mountains of North Carolina where she finds resisting the tempting Jesse Bloodworth as difficult as maneuvering small town life in her custom made stilettos. By the time her father’s threats force her home, she’s left footprints on almost everyone in Jesse’s life: his father, his ex-wife and his teenaged son.  Jesse knows he won’t ever find someone to fill Angelita’s fancy shoes and follows her to Atlanta where he’ll discover more of her past than he bargained for. Will Angelita’s prince charming come to her rescue or does Jesse’s love come with Shoe Strings attached?


Review

Wow! Let me first say I have been in a kind of reading funk.. I think its in big part to me not being home, but nothing was grabbing my attention. I picked up this book, and it blew me away. It captured me from the beginning and didn't let me go until I finished. Every time I set this book down i would think about the characters and what they were going through and wondering what was going to happen next until I just gave up. I told the dishes they would have to wait, I had to finish this book. Christy did a fabulous job with her writing style. Every scene is believable, she did an amazing job on detail. Every thing played out like a movie in my head.

I love the story. There is more than one story, more than one happily ever after, and it made me feel good inside. I know this is only a book but just thinking what these characters went through and how they end up.. you have to read this book. 


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Blog Award

First of all I would like to say sorry for the lack of reviews lately. My friend just had a baby so I've been out of town helping her. But now I am home and things will get back to normal soon.

And secondly I would like to thank Aliya@ A Story To Love  for nominating me for this award!

The award is called the Liebster Blog Award and is out there to recognize, mostly new, bloggers who have less that 200 followers.

 

And here are the rules for this award:

 

1. Thank the giver and link back to the blogger that gave you the award

2. Reveal your top 5 picks and let them know by leaving a comment on their blog

3. Copy and paste the award on your blog

4. Have faith that your followers will spread the love to other bloggers

5. And most of all -- have bloggity-blog fun!

Going through my list of bloggers I follow, I realized I don't follow very many people with less than 200 followers. So if you know of any bloggers just starting out, who don't have more than 200 followers leave a link for their blog in the comments. I will go check them out!

I only have 2 but that doesn't make them any less special.

And here are the blogs/bloggers I nominate (in no particular order)

 

Songhe's Book Blog 

A Cover Lover

They are wonderful bloggers with great reviews and adorable blogs! Hope you check them out!

Review & Giveaway: The Best Laid Plans

Title: The Best Laid Plans
Author: Sarah Mayberry
Genre: Adult Romance
Format: Paperback, 275pp
Source: Harlequin Ambassadors

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Synopsis


Boundaries. The key to how corporate lawyer Alexandra Knight manages her busy life. However, lately all her precisely drawn lines are getting blurred. Blame it on her out-of-control biological clock that is ignoring her single status…and on Ethan Stone.
Because her sexy, no-strings colleague has posed an outrageous solution to her dilemma—he'll be her baby daddy. This from the guy who avoids all commitment? Okay, so they're attracted to each other. Really, really attracted. But crossing the line from coworker to co-parent with Ethan could ruin Alex for all other men. After all, when you've had the best…


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I thought this was a very cute book. The whole time reading, you're hoping with all your might that they end up together. We can tell from the beginning how much they like each other, but both have been hurt so bad it's hard for them to open up and love again.

I loved the relation ship between Alex and Ethan. I think a story is really good when my moods would change with what ever mood the characters were in.

Alex still believes in Happily-Ever-After, but her time is running out. All she wants is a family that loves her as much as she loves them. Her time is ticking away. She has almost reached the point in time where she can no longer have babies so she decides to find a donor.

In steps Ethan, the charming, handsome playboy who's afraid of commitment. Alex and Ethan have been friends for a while, but that's it.

When Ethan finds out Alex is looking for sperm donors, he gets upset. He knows Alex doesn't really want to have a child that way, and he gets an idea.

Ethan wants to be her sperm donor. Alex is as shocked as she is happy. Could she get her happily ever after all?



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Now on to the Giveaway!

A huge Thank You to Harlequin Ambassadors. They have supplied me with 4 copies to give away!

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Review: Matched

Title: Matched
Series: Matched Trilogy #1
Author: Ally Condie
Genre: Young Adult
Format: Hardcover, 369pp
Source: Library

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Synopsis

Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows he is her ideal mate . . . until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. The Society tells her it's a glitch, a rare malfunction, and that she should focus on the happy life she's destined to lead with Xander. But Cassia can't stop thinking about Ky, and as they slowly fall in love, Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility and is faced with an impossible choice: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path that no one else has dared to follow.


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This is a very good book. I love the world Ally created. Everyone has made a big stink about her book copying The Giver. I read it in 5th grade, which is a long time ago but I still read it. maybe I would have to read it again to catch it but I didn't catch any similarities except for their perfect world falling apart. Mrs. Condie described her world so well I saw it playing through my head like a movie.

I was kind of disappointed that Cassia chose Ky instead of Xander. I didn't understand why she was so fascinated with him. I guess the mystery of him but still. How can she all of the sudden just stop talking to Xander?

In a way I want her to find Ky and save him but I really want her to choose Xander. I don't know why I'm so attached to Xander, theres just something about him..


For those of you who have read this book, How did you feel about the Xander/Ky situation? Who do you think she should choose and why?


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Called Home: Two Hearts Answer

Title: Called Home: Two Hearts Answer
Author: Gloria Schuman
Genre: Romance
Format: eBook, 342
Source: Author, Requested Review

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Synopsis

Emma Benson's view of life was crafted as a child by the death of her brother, the abandonment by her father and later, the man she trusted she would marry. A teacher by training, she forgoes her chosen path to save the Wisconsin farm she calls home from financial ruin.

A tornado threatens damage, but David Schlosser- back in town after years in New York writing best-selling novels—could ruin her neatly tended life. He's looking for the charms of the small town he once rejected and finds more than he bargained for. He risks everything to get what he wants.

The storms of life throw Emma and David together and into the world of a criminal determined to ruin their plans by any means necessary. Robbery and near death connect Emma and David to their nemesis and during the throes of securing life and limb they make every effort to resist falling for one another.

Review

This is a very cute story, although Emma did rub me the wrong way to start with. Her attitude made me want to smack her a couple times. But the more I thought about it the more I realized that something bad had to have happened to her to make her act that way.We later find out her brother died as a child, and her father abandoned the family.  So she has some trust issues, especially when it comes to men.


When we meet David, he is kind of a mystery. He has feelings for Emma from the start, which confuse me. Why would anyone want to put up with someone who's always mean? But he pursues her. Which I think scares her a little bit.

I thought this was going to be a simple mystery but the twist at the end just makes the story all the better! I don't want to give anything away, but this is a very good, clean Romance/ Mystery.


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