The Phantom Paragrapher

  Have you been following my reviews in the Gifted Series ? Get ready for Book #5 in the Gifted Series featuring Tracey Devon. Review: Now You See Me - Book #5 Gifted Series - Marilyn Kaye - 2010 One of the main things that I love about this series is that you don't have to read it in complete order e.g if you have somehow ended up getting the books not in order - it's alright as you can easily read each book and catch up on the series and what's happening with our favourite gifted children. Book #5 follows Tracey Devon, though really like Amanda she has featured in more than one of the books as a strong character due to her ability.  Tracey Devon has the ability to fade into the background and disappear, it tends to happen when she has an overcome wave of emotions like the feeling of left behindness. Though, with the help of the Gifted Class , she is learning to control her acts of disappearances . When strange things start happening and soon the w...

    Looking for a Christian Fiction novel to engage yourself in ? Love reading books with edgy content ? Prefer Edgy Christian Fiction ? Have you read the first two books in Terri Blackstock's Intervention series ? 1) Intervention and 2) Vicious Cycle. Review: Downfall- Book #3 Intervention Series - Terri Blackstock - February 2012 Do you love reading Edgy Christian fiction ? Find it more engrossing than your everyday sweet, inspirational, romantic or Amish christian fiction ? For me personally, I have always been a huge fan of this theme of genre as it excites me, it intrigues and draws me in as well as the fact it is fascinating to read about. Downfall is the third book in Terri Blackstock's Intervention series which follows the Covington family of Emily, Lance and their mother Barbara. Downfall is set two years later and Emily is now sober, clean and getting back on track with her life as she works part-time at a local rehab centre helping those get t...

  What happens when you discover you have been shied away from truths and fed lies ? Review: Butterfly Summer - Anne-Marie Conway - May 2012 What happens when everything you thought you ever knew about your life turned out to be a lie ? Butterfly Summer tells the tale of Becky who at age 12 moves to the smalltown of Oakbridge with her mother. Becky thinks that moving out to the middle of nowhere will be boring with a capital B but what happens when she finds a photo of her mum taken 12 years before she was born holding a baby girl. Who is the baby and how did she not know that she had a sister ? On the same day, Becky recieves a mysterious note telling her to meet at Butterfly Garden after 11am . Becky heads down there and meets a strange girl named Rosa-May aka Fish. Soon though, Becky is thrown headfirst into a world where she finds Oakbridge familiar yet she hasnt been here before or has she and her new friend Rosa-May is starting to seem a bit possessive over Bec...

  Looking for a new chicklit novel to devour ? Did you love the TV Show Sex in the City , are you an Austen fan ? Join Aussie author Randa in her new book and the first written for the adult audience "No Sex in the City". Review: No Sex in the City - Randa Abdel-Fattah - July 2012 Randa has achieved what many try to do and fail at , she has successfully completed the transisition of writing for children and young persons to writing her first adults novel. I had tried to read her Teen books but found them quite hard to get into , but with No Sex in the City I was hooked from the first page whether it be due to the Jane Austen opener where Randa had used the Pride and Prejudice famous quote to help shape her story or the fact that I could relate and for me , in a way I was a Ruby or a Lisa  . No Sex in the City follows four best friends since college , together they are a melting pot of cultures but they all have one thing in common - they are all single and de...

      Do you love reading African-American Fiction ? Looking for a good book to read ? Review: Ada's Rules - Alice Randall - April 2012 When I saw this book, I wasn't too sure what to expect and as soon as I cracked it open , I could swear I was reading an autobiographical novel of Alice Randall's life. Ada's Rules is in fact a fictional autobiographical set novel about housewife and Preacher Wife Ada Howard. The novel starts when she recieves an invitation to her college reunion , once skinny and beautiful Ada has felt that she has let herself go over the years and feeling deprived of love at home she has her eyes set on her college crush Matt Mason.  In order to make herself perfect, Ada decides to make a goal to lose one hundred pounds in a year and sets to herself goals to research different methods of dieting , excercise in order to find the perfect solution for her. We read as over the year , pulling bits and pieces of advice from friends, fam...

  Are you following my reviews of Marilyn Kaye's series "Gifted". We have had Book #1 and #4 featured on The Phantom Paragrapher, so readers today .... Get ready for Book #3 - Emily's Story. Review: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow - Book #3 Gifted Series - Marilyn Kaye - 2009 Following the Gifted Series , in which we meet a classroom of teens - all from different walks of life and social statuses with one thing in common. They all possess a special ability that others do not have. For Amanda - it is the gift of body snatching , Ken has the gift of hearing the dead and Tracey - the ability to go invisible. In Here Today, Gone Tomorrow we meet Emily - her gift is that she has future premonitions though we are about to learn that besides the class , she is alone and her gift has plagued her and the worst thing is that sometimes her visions can be muddled or worse- not even come true as things can change in the course of the day. Emily has been having visions that...

    Looking for an Austen-related read ? Have you read Book #1 in the Austen Addicts series by Victoria Connelly and needing more ? Review: Dreaming of Mr. Darcy - Book #2 Austen Addicts Series - Victoria Connelly - January 2012 Life is at a standstill for fledging artist and Jane Austen Addict Kay Ashton. Her mother passed away and now recently , a women she befriended in the resthome Peggy as also gone. Imagine Kay's surprise when she discovers that Peggy had no ties and wasn't a cat person and has left her estate to Kay. Now Kay , has no reason to waste about living an unhappy life. So without further adieu, Kay picks up everything and heads to the seaside coast of Lume Regis. For Jane Austen addicts, Lyme Regis was where Miss Austen brought us Persuasion. When looking at houses Kay, spots an old rundown Bed and Breakfast titled "Wentworth House" and as a true austen fan would she sees this as a sign and purchases it on the spot.  To her excitement ...