The Phantom Paragrapher

    Review: Lennon's Rain - Book #2 Lennon's Girls - Chris Myers - September 2013 Life can't be anymore perfect for Lennon as he has the best girlfriend Jinx , he's moving on up in the world and he has a band. However, all this can come crashing down at the speed of light and in Lennon's case - one night. The night he decided to attend a sorority party without his girlfriend who attended another event. At this party, Lennon runs into Rain - the girl who broke his heart eight years ago , the one he has never gotten over , the one he thought he would marry. If only he was single, then this would have been a perfect moment but he's not. To top it off , Lennon and his girlfriend Jinx have gotten to a comfortable point and Jinx has started to open up. We learn in Lennon's Rain that alot of tragedies have come to the three characters Jinx, Lennon and Rain. Tragedies that will in the end define them as the person and how they react today. Will...

      Alana sets eyes on Morgann for the first time in several years and what does he do? He captures her! But Alana refuses to go meekly with the sexy Highland warrior. Her kidnapping will reignite the rift that’s existed between the two clans since her father accused Morgann of theft and she doesn’t want to see her father harmed in the inevitable war that will ensue. Unfortunately for Alana, the faeries seek to interfere with her plans to escape. The sidhe have a debt to repay and Tèile, the green faery, is determined to mend the rift between the clans for good. And that means ensuring Alana and Morgann marry. Morgann has his own reasons for taking Alana and they are nothing to do with marriage or war. He wants to use her to reveal a secret from the past, the one that had him accused of theft. If only he didn’t find his childhood friend so attractive. When circumstances force them together, Alana’s life is threatened and war is imminent. Can Morgann reveal the...

  Review: Earthbound - Book #1 Earthbound Series - Aprilynne Pike - July 2013 Tragedy tends to only come around once for a normal person , but for Tavia Michaels she has experienced it in the most extreme way as she was a victim of a plane crash which killed 256 passengers and left one alive - herself. Now living with her aunt and uncle, she has been in therapy the past few months and life is starting to get back on track with her until she spots a mysterious boy - he turns out to be Quinn Avery. She is sure she has seen him before but cannot place where , soon the novel starts to get a bit weird and crazy as Tavia is about to discover her whole life as she knows it is a lie and that she is in fact an Earthbound Goddess and has been around for centuries and Quinn is her lover - her male counterpart. We soon learn that everytime the two get close enough to falling back in love, an organisation sets off to kill one or both of them and then they are reincarnated once a...

  Review: Rebecca's Rising (Salem VI) - Jack Heath and John Thompson - September 2012 The Salem News editor, John Andrews, is mourning the death if his wife, four years earlier, and lives in the house inherited from his aunt. Along with the house he also inherited a valuable painting that has been the property of his family for several generations. He had to make a promise never to sell it and always keep it hanging in the exact spot. The old woman in it always made him feel uncomfortable, until one day when he discovered something different about her. The book is well-written, suspenseful and intriguing, casting a new light on the Salem Witch Trials. It is very similar to the Da Vinci Code, which questioned history as we know it. This book also ask the question 'what if?' and present a new theory to the circumstances which lead to the death of the so-called witches. Were they really witches? His own believes would be severely tested. The dee...

  Review: The Cat's Table - Michael Ondaatje - August 2011 Michael was eleven years old that night when, green as he could be about the world , he climbed aboard the first and only ship of his life, the Oronsay, sailing for England from Colombo. Unbeknownst to him, the twenty-one days at sea would become twenty-one years of schooling, molding him into the adult he would one day be, when he joined the cat's table, the least important place to eat on the ship. The lessons he picked up from the adult company filled up several pages of his old school exercise books. He still had time to make those notes, amid the adventures in which he and his friends, Ramadhin and Cassius, engaged in on the ship. They witnessed an adult world filled with thieves, adulterers, gamblers, teachers, authority, natural healers, dreamers and schemers. Oh yes, and a shackled, dangerous prisoner. Each one of them becomes important in their lives through either their words or...

      Review: The School for Good and Evil - Book #1 - Soman Chainani - May 2013 Every year for the past 200 years , two children - one good and one evil are kidnapped from their town and taken to a school where nobody knows. The schools are The School for Good where Princesses are made like Rapunzel, Cinderella etc and The School for Evil where Witches , Trolls etc are made.  Sophie - pretty and in love with Pink dreams of being a Princess and can't wait to be taken to the school whereas her friend Agatha wants to be left alone - Agatha likes to mix potions and dress in black - so when the two girls are kidnapped it's assumed that Sophie will go to The School for Good and Agatha - The School for Evil. However, what happens when the two girls are dropped off at the opposite schools than people assumed. Has their been a mistake or will the girls discover in due time that being Good and being Evil isn't exactly skin deep and that to go to the school yo...

COVER REVEAL by Julianna Keyes and Omnific Publishing Adult Contemporary Romance Releasing October 29, 13   Kate Burke is done making bad decisions. Thirty years old and belatedly determined to grow up, the successful travel writer and one-time party girl returns to work at the remote Ponderosa Pines Ranch to reassess her life. Although her kitchen/cabin staff is lacking and the workload never relents, Kate’s main challenge is Shane Maddox, the ruggedly handsome and doggedly stubborn ranch foreman. Instantly at odds, they battle over everything from ceiling fans to bothersome bats—studiously ignoring the sparks they generate with each confrontation. They can’t explain their explosive physical chemistry, but after a few frustrated weeks they can’t deny it either. Their solution? Just once. They’ll get past their inconvenient lust and move on. Kate’s been trying to think with her head instead of her hormones, but is this just another bad decision in a lifetime of car...