Review: The Personal Touch - Caroline B. Cooney - October 2013  Originally published in 1982, Caroline B. Cooney's books are being re-released and reprinted and are now considered classic romance. The Personal Touch reminds readers of what was considered a teen romance book back in the 80's. A book that is clean and sweet . Growing up, Sunny had a love/hate relationship with Summer as Summer brought on freedom from school, but the invasion of her horrible neighbor Tim as his family always came to stay in the New England town over Summer break. Tim has always been a nuisance and causing mayhem and pranks. It seems though that people can change as now that they are seventeen which means jobs and work on the horizon and possibly a young budding romance. Sparks are flying between Tim and Sunny.  Will they see each other in a brand new light this Summer? With a summer filled with work, work, and more work, will the pair get to spend time with one ...

    Review: Courted - Celia Cohen- June 1997 As a fan of sports novels and tennis in particular , I downloaded Courted and when I opened it I was definitely in for an eye-opener novel as I wasn't sure to exactly expect . Turns out that Courted features Allie - a champion on the Wimbledon court , who is here for a tennis tournament. She has been given Officer Wendy Kotter as her escort. As the story goes along, we discover that Wendy is a lesbian and later on Allie -our tennis player bats for the same team and so does Wendy's boss - the police Captain. In this book we have a slight story about the tennis player, but in fact the majority of the book was rehashing Wendy's life story about how she became a police officer and her different relationships which funny enough were all with athletes, seems our Officer Kotter has a thing for the sports players.  Courted was quite a quick read and read more like a novella , than an actual novel. So if you love ...

    Review: The Violet Hour - Richard Montanari - September 1999 Before his Jessica Balzano and Kevin Byrne series  , came a few single novels and one of them was The Violet Hour. This one reminded me of those horror movies like Urban Legends : Bloody Mary or I Know What you did Last Summer. The type of movies that a tragedy happens and someone will die and the remaining of those involved in the incident will try and cover it up, forget it never happened. Though years later, there is still someone who remembers it like yesterday - someone who had an attachment to the victim but was on the outside so the group never really paid attention to them. Then one day the person with the attachments snaps and decides to exact revenge on those involved with the incident those many years ago and of course they die. Not before of course receiving a warning from the killer that they are next - the warning tends to be something that the killer will know that the vic...

  Today's Guest Blogger is Ken Myers he comes to us with a book review and is the founder of   http://www.longhornleads.com / ; has learned o ver the years the importance of focusing on what the customer is looking for and literally serving it to them . He doesn’t try to create a need, instead he tries to satisfy the existing demand for information on products and services.       Review The Stand by Stephen King - 1979 When an apocalyptic super flu is released from the constrains of a military base, more than 99.9% of the world's population is affected. As most of the world dies from this fast-acting flu, unlikely souls are brought together to form two groups. Those who are goodhearted and caring of each other, and those who bring out the worst in humanity who only work towards their own personal goals. When the two groups meet, it is the righteous who survive. "The Stand" is one of those books that every time you read it, you discov...

  When you start out writing, I find it's hard to find places in order to be published and help build your portfolio, so that's why I like to offer The Phantom Paragrapher to those who are wanting to get their name out into the world of book blogging.   Guest Review written by Jack Myers : http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/book/bunnicula When I was a little kid, there was nothing I loved more than a book about animals: talking animals, funny animals, animals on adventure. It did not matter to me what the story line was or where they went. I just loved cats, dogs, horses, and everything in between. The only thing that could make a story about animals better was if they talked. Talking animals were the pinnacle of story perfection for me. To that end, I had a book series that was my favorite for a long time. It was called Bunnicula by Deborah and James Howe. The overarching story is this: a rabbit is found in a midnight showing of Dracula and brough...

  Are you looking for a read that is almost a romance crossed with a Stephen King novel ? Review: Some Kind of Magic - Theresa Weir - Originally Published 1998 - Reprinted Jan 2012 You know how when you get the Pixel of Ink Catalogues and they have all the free Amazon books of the day and how friends recommend Amazon books and you are like OMG I Have to have that or if you see a book you really want and so you buy it on Amazon and then when you have this long list of stuff on your Amazon Kindle App and you can't remember for the life of you , why you have it or how you got it ? Well, this is what happened with this book as I have literally hundreds of kindle books on my Kindle App. Some Kind of Magic by Theresa Weir for me was one of those books that I couldn't remember why I got it or how but as soon as I started reading it - I was glad I did as I enjoyed it. Some Kind of Magic is a romance mixed with a bit of...

I'm definitely getting there as I have just finished reading "Hot Six" in the Stephanie Plum Series. It's funny as I refused to read this series as it didn't look like me but as the first book was released into a movie , I thought Ok, I'll give it a go and what do you know, OMG I'm in LOVE with the series. Review: Hot Six - Book #6 Stephanie Plum Series - Janet Evanovich - June 2000 It's Plum time again as Stephanie hits the books for Hot Six, the Sixth book of course in the series. Like the previous ones, I think what attracts readers is the amount of fun trouble and ideas that Stephanie has and gets up too, I love the humour in it. In Hot Six , the big bucks is on Ranger and since he is like the bounty hunter God and Stephanie knows there is no way he is going to turn himself in or let himself be captured she passes this one on to Joyce which of course never goes to well for Joyce as in Hot Six, she finds herself tied naked to a tree. Stephanie Plu...