It's been awhile since I have participated in a Top Ten Tuesday , but there's a few things I have wanted to get back into for my blog "The Phantom Paragrapher". Here is a Top Ten of My Favourite New Authors from 2017 Reads : R.C Boldt -  A new Romantic Comedy author that I fell in love with after reading her Debut novel "Clam Jam" and then later Blue Balls. Sylvia Fox - If you are ever in the need for a Quick Smut read.  Lauren Campbell - With her Psychological Thriller Debut series The Evolution of Ivy.   Amity Cross - I was drawn by her Thornfield Series which was a contemporary Jane Eyre variant.  Katy Regnery - First with her The Little Mermaid variant - Don't Speak and then later on in the year with her thriller Unloved.  Carrie Aarons - I read a couple of her's last year  first The Ghost in His Eyes and then Privileged and then As Long As You Hate Me.   Angie Thomas - Th...

  Review: You Don't Know My Name - Book#1 The Black Angel Chronicles - Kristen Orlando - January 2017 Every couple of years Reagan and her family move from place to place, and they are constantly changing their identities. Her parents are part of a secret spy agency called The Black Angel. They are the group of people who are called in to help save the situations when the CIA or FBI can't help. The Black Angel is the top of the spy world, and for Reagan, it is common knowledge that she has been trained since birth to take her parent's place and join the agency. She is the poster child for the agency. What happens though when Reagan finally has good friends, a boyfriend and decides that maybe the spy life isn't for her and she wants to head to college and experience a normal life. The type of life with a picket fence, a husband, and two kids. What will happen though when her parents head away on a mission, and the mission goes wrong? Now...

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  Title: Zenka By: Alison Brodie Publication Date: November 6, 2017 Genre: Contemporary Romance #zenkarelease Ruthless, devious, and loyal, Zenka is a Hungarian pole-dancer with a dark past. When cranky London mob boss, Jack Murray, saves her life she vows to become his guardian angel – whether he likes it or not. Happily, she now has easy access to pistols, knives and shotguns. Jack discovers he has a son, Nicholas, a male nurse with a heart of gold. Problem is, Nicholas is a wimp. Zenka takes charge. Using her feminine wiles and gangland contacts, she will turn Nicholas into the son any self-respecting crime boss would be proud of. And she succeeds! Nicholas is learning fast that sometimes you have to kill, or be killed. As his life becomes more terrifying, questions have to be asked: How do you tell a mob boss you don’t want to be his son? And is Zenka really who she says she is? What Others Are Saying 5* "To say I loved this book is...

Tauranga Arts Festival’s tenth anniversary programme offers a line-up of writers and speakers with plenty of appeal. Hopping the Tasman from Australia are Kate Grenville, author of the much-loved historical Secret River trilogy and more recently non-fiction about her mother and this year’s The Case Against Fragrance, and surfing writer Phil Jarratt. Kate has a session on her own on Saturday, October 21 and the next day joins Stephen Daisley (Coming Rain) and Catherine Chidgey (The Wish Chil d) to talk to Kate De Goldi about literary fiction in Australia and New Zealand. Stephen, by the way, is a Kiwi who lives near Perth but who’s the current Randell Cottage writer in residence in Wellington. Stephen pairs with Catherine to talk about their Acorn Foundation prize books on October 21 – he won the inaugural prize in 2016 and she this year’s award. At $50,000 it’s the country’s richest literary prize. Phil Jarratt has been surfing for nigh-on 55 years and writing abo...