Review: The Good Samaritan - Toni Halleen - March 2025 The Good Samaritan by Toni Halleen is a chilling psychological thriller that delves into the complexities of redemption, moral choices, and the consequences of helping others—even when it might be the wrong thing to do. Matthew Larkin, a sociology professor whose life has unraveled in the wake of his toddler son’s death, is barely holding it together. After a messy divorce, the estrangement of his daughter, and the loss of his job, Matthew is clinging to the last thread of stability with a new tenure-track position at a small college. But life has a way of testing you when you're already at your breaking point, and that test comes on a desolate stretch of road one stormy evening. Caught in a hailstorm, Matthew’s attention is drawn to a small child huddled under a tarpaulin. The boy is unconscious, soaked, and potentially hypothermic. In a split-second decision, Matthew makes the choice to rescue him, even though it means putt...

The Consequences of Fate Mary E. Palmerin (Heartless, #2) Publication date: December 1st 2020 Genres: Contemporary, Young Adult When I was little, I wanted to be a superhero to fly over the moon. Then I found a suitcase with a photo of the brown-eyed angel. The bad man changed me. I became lost and unlovable. After the consequences of fate reared its ugly head, I decided I would be the master of my ultimate plan. I am not a good boy. I watch people. I hurt them. And I destroy the truth. Add to Goodreads / Pre-order Author Bio: Mary E. Palmerin is an internationally bestselling author of The Monster Series, Redeeming Rhys, and half the madness behind The Red Market Series. She currently resides in Indiana with her husband and two boys. She enjoys writing raw, taboo tales that strike various emotions in her readers. When she isn't busy writing, she usually has her nose in a good book. Mary loves spending time with her family and friends, being outdoors, cooking...

      Tucked away at the base of the Rocky Mountains lived a little boy with one singular dream: leave this broken and battered home and become someone. Be somebody’s hero. That boy was me—Colby Brooks. Except I’m not that same little boy anymore. My dreams might still be the same, but my reality isn’t. I’m smarter. Stronger. A man. And I learned a long damn time ago, the only way to achieve my dreams was to avoid distractions—at any cost. Focus. Resolve. Determination. But all it took was one single night. One night and my entire life…changed. One night had me colliding head first with the biggest distraction of my life; Rory Oaks. Smart. Charming. Beautiful. Rory changed everything. Quickly, my one-track mind started to bend. Each kiss faded decade-long dreams. And with one single incident, I fly off course.              THE DOWNSIDE OF LOVE – July 5 th This isn’t a story about a love triangle. The...

Review: The Consequence of Rejection - Book #4 Consequences Series - Rachel Van Dyken - March 2018 If there's one series that I have to admit that makes me LOL every time , then that is Rachel Van Dyken's Consequences series. The mischief and mayhem that the characters get up to are enough to make readers laugh out loud and then, of course, their's Max Emory. Max has got to be my favorite character of the Consequences series as he is a hard case character and does what he wants, just because he can. I was hoping that this was going to be Jason's story and was excited when I started reading it. Jason is Milo's brother and remembers he was the one with the evil bride to be aka Jane aka The Woman whose name we do not speak. This was as we are about to learn the second time Jason was about to walk down the aisle as when he was in high school, he proposed on graduation day to his then-girlfriend Maddy . She turned him down and then left town wit...

Title: The Consequence of Rejection A Standalone Consequence Novel Author: Rachel Van Dyken Genre: Romantic Comedy Release Date: March 26, 2018 Blurb You know the universe is trying to tell you something when you get struck by lightning, but only after getting hit on by the elderly, almost getting run over by a semi, and running into the one who got away. Why do they say it like that anyway? Like I accidentally lost her when she was the one that got in the car with my best friend and left me. The day after I proposed. We were eighteen. I wanted forever. She didn't. It's been ten years. I tried to move on, tried to get married, had that same wedding crashed by my now best friend who says the only way for me to stop pissing off the universe, is to gain closure with the one woman I can't forget. So I do it. I embark on a journey down memory lane that not only lands me in prison but on the receiving end of a fist fight in front of th...

    Review: Before The Fall - Noah Hawley - May 2016   Maybe I am one for irony, and also I know a book is a book. Before The Fall is about a plane crash and guesses where I was when I started reading it. I was sitting in a plane flying to Texas. Before the Fall by Noah Hawley was an intense read and it delves into the aftermaths of plane crashes and how easily people's perceptions of others can change the course of how others are viewed as either the hero or the villain . Before The Fall takes a hard look at what goes on before an accident and what can happen afterward and how those small decisions that we make every day can have deadly consequences. From someone being invited onto a plane and surviving.  To finding a little boy and helping him. To rejecting someone at a bar as you didn't want to have a relationship with them. These tiny decisions can affect all of our lives and those around us, and the scary thing is at the time we make those...

Review: The Consequence of Seduction - Book #3 Consequences Series - Rachel Van Dyken - February 2016 I first fell in love with this authors writing style and humour when I read Book #1 in the Consequences series. If you love witty banter and downright funny moments , that have you starting to question that maybe your family isn't as insane as you thought after you have read the family dynamics of these characters from Milo and her brother Jason to Milo's husband Colton and finally the Emory brothers - Max and Reid and Max's fiancee Becca. If I had to chose my two favourite characters from this series would have to be Max and Jason. In Book #3 it's Reid's turn to find true love and for this playboy movie star it's going to be nothing be trouble and mayhem especially since he has an older brother called Max . Reid has gone to sign up with a new PR Firm and gets the manager Jordan who is awesome at her job and definitely not his type of girl. It'...