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Review: Match Pointe - Indigo Bloome

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Review: Match Pointe - Indigo Bloome - January 2015 As readers will be aware May was Clear Your Bookshelf Challenge month and so I set forth to make sure that I could get rid of some of the books on my bookshelf. This was a fun challenge as it made me explore and pick up books that had been forgotten about and discover some diamonds in the rough like Match Pointe by Indigo Bloome. Match Pointe was the result of what you would get if you mixed Ballet, Tennis and added a BDSM erotica feel to the novel. The book starts with us meeting two of the main characters Caesar and Eloise. Caesar is wealthy and has made his money by being the best and raising tennis stars and elite athletes and Eloise is a ballet dancer. What happens when these two lives collide is Eloise has lost everything she has ever known and Caesar is offering her an opportunity of a lifetime that will set her up for the rest of her life. She is to dance for the Number 1 tennis player as a form of motivation before their ga...

Review: The Trial - Laura Bates

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Review: The Trial - Laura Bates - September 2021 I am so loving the Libby Library App as I am getting to read some amazing library books. This YA read captured my attention as I love survival stories that include deserted islands. In this book The Trial by Laura Bates, a private plane carrying football players and cheerleaders and their coaches are on their way to a tournament when turbulence strikes and the plane ends up crashing on a desert island. Only a few of them end up surviving and the rest are dead. On the island survived is Football players - Brian, Jason, and Elliott and Cheerleaders - Shannon, Hayley, Jessa, and May. Can the survivors work together to survive the environment until they are rescued or when strange things start happening that threaten their survival, is someone on the island trying to kill them off one by one? Hayley who is the outsider and only joined the cheerleader team to pad up her college application knows something happened at the party the night b...