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Review: Cotton Candy - Erin Lee

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Review: Cotton Candy - Book #15 The Ice-Cream Shop Series - Erin Lee - December 2018 As we are in Quarantine full-lockdown in New Zealand, I decided it was time to try and clear my kindle of some older books. Years ago, I read Thing Fifteen which was Jimmie's story - Jimmie was finally arrested and put on death row and called The Ice-Cream Killer. Cotton Candy introduces us to a character called Candy Kane whom first was wrongfully convicted and in prison, she finally gets her case overturned and leaves prison. She starts to get her life back on track with her Taco Truck. Candy decides to start writing as a pen pal to the Prison and ends up having Jimmie as her pen-pal. The pair exchange letters and of course soon they meet up and it feels like they have finally met their match in one another. In Cotton Candy, Candy talks to Jimmie about his murders as she tries to discover how and why he killed. During this book, the case of the Boy in the Box is talked about. A ...

VBT# What I Did For Love - Mickey J. Corrigan

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Review: What I Did For Love - Mickey J. Corrigan - October 2019 I have to admit I wasn't 100% sure what to expect with this book as the genre of psychological thriller/suspense had drawn me in and then the tagline of First comes to desire, then comes murder. What I Did For Love reminded me strongly of the books Lolita and The Graduate with Mrs. Robinson. Our main female character loves sex and with young men - those naive, innocent nerdy boys. The younger the better which I have to say this bordered on the line of pedophilia but at least she didn't go with too younger boys - they had at least hit puberty and were wanting to lose their virginity cards and who better not to lose it with - the sexy older teacher. Cat has found herself wet for her new student whom we know throughout the book as Mojito. He is her idea of a wet dream as he is well-read and hot stuff. Cat finds herself being pursued by his father whom if Cat liked older men then he would have be...