Review: If We Ever Meet Again - Book #1 If Love Series - Ana Huang - June 2020 With the popularity of Ana Huang's Twisted and Kings series, I decided to hop on the Ana Huang bandwagon and of course being the type of person I am, I brought all of her series in its entirety and then what happened is that they ended up on my bookshelf, till the spark occurs to read them. I needed something that felt like a quick romance read as the other ones I had tried were just blah and boring. Ana Huang's If Love series is not too big so I grabbed the first one and started reading. The first chapter was a break-up scene so we already get the idea that this book will not end in HEA and it's a book that we all can relate to as most of us have had that one love that we have fallen hard in, only to be left hurt and the one standing on the sidelines while the other person walks away. The love that should be forever, but for some reason, it can never happen that way.  Farrah and Blake, both met ...

Review: Bad Kids - Zijin Chen - September 2014 This month I have felt a bit of a reading slump, and this one was on my Libby App. I was in two minds as I never have read any books set in Asia. I was captivated by the title and as I was reading it, I was immediately drawn into the book. We first meet Zhang who has been working up to killing his parents’ in-law and so he has found the perfect crime scene and way to murder them. Or he thought it was as turns out at the park with a camera three friends who have captured the whole thing and now can prove it was murder. Chaoyang and his friends need money to survive as his two friends are on the run from the orphanage, they plan to blackmail Zhang. What will happen though when Chaoyang's friends come up with a plan to get back at his stepmother and accidentally kills his young stepsister. Soon Chaoyang and his friends are stuck in the middle of several murders and must figure out how to get away with murder and throw the cops off their ...

Review: Heiress Apparently - Book #1 Daughters of the Dynasty Series - Diana Ma - December 2020 Growing up in a Chinese American family, Gemma has always preferred to be a bit of a rebel daughter. Her mother is a Museum Director and her dad a Professor. Gemma wishes to take a year off and try her hand at acting in LA. What will happen though when Gemma is given a chance of a lifetime to star in a new film and gets the lead role as well? She agrees but will discover something that doesn't play in her favor - the filming is in Beijing, China. Growing up, Gemma's mum always warned her to stay well away from Beijing and that stepping foot in the city was forbidden. With the help of her roommates back home in LA, she lies to her parents and tells them she is filming in Nebraska, etc. When Gemma arrives in Beijing though, she is immediately accosted by paparazzi and people screaming at her. She later discovers that a Beijing socialite Alyssa Chua looks identical to her and could be h...

NEW RELEASE SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE NINE-DRAGON SIGIL Tim Symonds Genre: Mystery and Thriller Publisher: MX Publishing Publication Date: November 16, 2016 Add to Goodreads Never had Holmes and Watson found themselves up against a human-being as clever, devious and frightening as the Empress Dowager of China. It's the year 1907. Rumours abound that a deadly plot is hatching - not in the fog-ridden back-alleys of London's Limehouse district or the sinister Devon moors of the Hound of the Baskervilles but in faraway Peking. Holmes's task - discover whether such a plot exists and if so, foil it. But are the assassins targeting the young and progressive Ch'ing Emperor or his imperious aunt, the fearsome Empress Dowager Cixi? The murder of either could spark a civil war. The fate of China and the interests of Britain's vast Empire in the Orient could be at stake. Holmes and Watson take up the mission with their customary confidence – until they find...