VBT# Review - Aqua Paws - Patricia Allieri and Stella Maris - April 2023 Aqua Paws was such a cute little picture book and beautifully illustrated by Stella Maris. I enjoyed this book as we meet our Kitten who wants to swim but he's scared, it's not the water that scares him but what is beneath the surface, especially crabs. As someone who isn't a confident swimmer, I related to this cat as I would probably swim more in the ocean but what scares me is not knowing what's beneath the surface and I have a fear of crabs and jellyfish as I don't want to be snipped or stung while swimming. I dream of snorkeling but being around all those sea creatures while I am swimming at the same time freaks me out. After reading this book, I have decided I need to be brave like the cat in this book as if he can do it, I suppose I could too. The other thing I loved about Aqua Paws is that recently I was chatting to the author and learned that she had written this book and based the c...

Review: Loner - Book #1 The Boys of Welles Series - Ginger Scott - July 2022 I have been looking forward to reading this book as I do love Ginger Scott as an author, not only is she a great author - she is an awesome person. The other reason I wanted to read this book was that the release date was my birthday :P. In this first book, we meet three girls who are moving into their dorm rooms- Brooklyn, Morgan, and Lily. There were supposed to be four of them but tragedy struck over summer and one of them died. Lily a champion swimmer tried to save them all, but couldn't. Starting the new year, she sees Theo - he is the twin brother of the girl who died and the guy on who Lily has always had a crush. This year, things are awkward between them as he has now lost his sister and he blames Lily as she saved the others and herself but not his sister Annika - his other half. As the book goes on though, we read as both Lily and Theo are conflicted as they really do care about each other but...