Karen Bergreen's "Perfect is Overrated" is a thoroughly enjoyable read. It's a murder mystery, a romance, a story about a woman getting her life back together after a serious bout of postpartum depression, and a comedy all rolled into one. I love Kate Alger. Within minutes of finishing the book I was searching the internet hoping for a glimpse of info stating that Karen Bergreen might be writing a sequel (or, even better, a series!) about Kate and her family. "Perfect is Overrated" is chick lit on it's "A" game.

Note: I received this book for free in exchange for a review. This in no way affected the contents of my review.

This was a fast paced, quick read zombie apocalypse novel. It's a pretty typical book of it's type, but this did not detract from the book. I enjoyed it. We are introduced chapter by chapter to the major players of the book... and they don't all survive. I liked that there were enough twists that you really never knew who would die next and how they would go. I'd recommend it and have already downloaded the short story, "Air," book number 2 of the series from amazon.com

I received a copy of this book in exchange for a review, which in no way determined the outcome of my review.

I liked "The Burning Sky." If you enjoy action books, I'd recommend this one. I think that someone who wasn't an avid fantasy reader could still easily enjoy this book. There were a lot of characters and it did take me quite a few chapters to sort them all out as each character gets his or her own point-of-view chapter. Because of this, there are many many chapters, all of which are only a few pages long. But there is a glossary in the back which helps sort of the characters and made up inventions. I used it more than once in the beginning. By the end, I could remember who was who without a problem. I think I'll get the other two in the trilogy--though this is a stand-alone book--because I'd like to keep reading about what happens to the characters after this conclusion.

This is the second in the trilogy and I have to say, I skipped a lot of it. Once you get to the action of the story it's good. But like the first of these books, Cardew uses the first half of the chapters to give an encyclopedia-like history of that is unnecessary and dull. Since I read the first book, and had the glossary in the back, I really didn't need this at the beginning of each chapter. Like I said, I skipped most of it. I will get the last of the series, just because I am interested to see what happens. I like the characters, I like the action, and I want more of that. Would I recommend the books? Probably not because of the long winded stuff at the front of the chapters. I don't want to recommend a book and then recommend you skip half of it to get to the good parts. I received a free copy of this book to review which in no way affected my review.

This was a great book. I can't wait to read the next in the series. I can't say a lot about the plot without giving things away but let me say this: I did not see that coming. It was well written and fun to read. The only thing that might bother some, but didn't bother me, was that the point of view would switch from Llandry in one chapter, then Eva the next, then back to Llandry in the following chapter. I think the author did a good job with this, as the action would pause as you switched characters and were eager to learn what happens with each woman. I definately recommend.

Though I am eager to read the second of this trilogy, I am not anxious to deal with the long encylcopedia-like/history of... at the beginning of each chapter. Once into the action of the book, it is quite enjoyable. The problem is that every single chapter breaks up the action of the story as the each chapter is broken into 2 parts. The encyclopedia takes up several pages at the beginning of the chapter while the story itself is the second half. It causes a disjointedness to the action that I didn't really enjoy. Also, I highly recommend using the glossary of many, many pages at the end, which I unfortunately did not discover until almost the end of the book since it does not have its own section in the table of contents. If you can get of the boring encyclopdia/history of... at the beginning of each chapter, I recommend it.

This book is not what you would consider a normal suspense. Really, it's a love story. No murder mystery, no thriller, nothing like that. What you have is a story a lot like a Greek play. Whether it is a comedy or tragedy has yet to be determined as this is the first book of, I believe, three. Like Oedipus, we, the readers, know most everything. The characters don't. And like Oedipus, if the chracters had the correct information, most of the bad stuff in the book would not have happened. Though the plot wouldn't be considered slow, I think the main reason I gave this book 3 stars is because if she had known "this" and he had known "that," they would have been able to live happily ever after by the end of the first chapter. Drawing out this ending to more than one book seems a little too much for me. I'd recommed it though, as the prose is beautifully written and anyone who has studied classic literature can appreciate the various themes Tyrpak has taken from Greek plays and even Shakespeare and written a book in modern prose. (Modern PROSE, not modern setting).

This a cute children's book. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me, but I suppose it doesn't have to because it's a kid's book. My son is 1 years old and he sat in my lap while I read him the book from the computer screen. He hasn't gotten to the point where he is super interested in books, but he did look at the pages on the screen. It's not formatted very well for Kindle for computer, though, with a lot of white showing and the pages aren't very big. Of course, you will only want to read this on your ereader with color, otherwise read it on your computer as it's very colorful.

I received this book to review and was really excited. From reading the plot, this book was right up my alley. I love authors like Jayne Castle, Kim Harrison, and Ilona Andrews and TV shows like Fringe, so Thin Hope sounded great.
I can read most books in 1-2 days. I have been reading Thin Hope for more than a week and haven't gotten past chapter 7 and have read 28% of the book. The plot is a little confusing, the writing is choppy, and the world building is a complete failure to me. World building problems for me: Where are we? When are we? What are we? The book has kings,emperors,and kingdoms. The places do not exist in the modern world (Delainia and Lateine). There are humans and not humans (aliens? mutants? I don't know). I thought perhaps we were in the future. But the world also had the internet and what appears to be your average gasoline loving sedans. Why hasn't technology adavanced? But there appears to be magic of some sort.
Darren Storm (the bad guy- and oh what a name!), the ruler of another kingdom starts a war. Then all of a sudden 5 chapters into the book we find out that there's another kingdom on the other side of them run by an emperor, who is also a bad guy. Where did he come from? The good guys are a princess, her fiancee, and her parents-the king and queen. Darren Storm, however, doesn't seem to be a king or emperor, just a guy who controls another contry or something. I am SO confused here.
What finally killed the book for me ('cuz I'll let you string show more me along with a crazy plot for a long time with the assumption that you'll explain it to me eventually) was the writing style itself. Here's a quote: "The doctors wanted to discharge her today. Her blood count was looking much better. Her husband had told her an hour ago." The books is filled with choppy sentences and bad dialogue. Some of that can be excused as often ebooks have typos that hard copies don't have, but this happend too often to blame it on ebook conversion.
Give me lots more details about the people (in general. Like where did these emoshies come from??) and places to improve world building,and give me better dialogue and I'll try the book again. I really wanted to like this book, but I couldn't. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, and honestly, don't plan to finish it. show less

I got this book for free from LT and am so glad that I did. The price doesn't affect my review, so believe me when I say that I truly enjoyed this book. Miles Franco made me laugh. I love that he never really took himself seriously even though he spends most of the book terrified. It was a little Urban Fantasy, a little Pulp, and a little Noir. Whatever it's catagory, it was well written and extremely entertaining. Other than making me laugh, two of the best things about this book were the world building and the twists that I didn't see coming (I usually spot plot twists from a mile away). I look forward to the next Miles Franco book.

Practice Cake is a feel good YA novel. The concept and the plot were a lot of fun. I rooted for Maddie throughout the story as she goes from not very sure of herself to assertive. The other characters? Not so much. It seems that every single person Maddie meets, with the exception of her male boss, is both mean and vain. They also don't seem believable as real people. Her friends are an actress and a fashion blogger. She goes clubbing with her boss's wife. Many of the side characters are one dimensional and stereotypical. We have the best friends who are always green with envy. The boyfriend who is a verbally abusive jerk. The boss's hot wife who finds pleasure getting away from her kid and husband to go clubbing and doesn't seem to be super happy in her marriage. The hot guy at work gives mixed signals. However, the reality show was fun and there was a lot going on in the book, so I never got bored. In the end, good triumphs and Maddie finds her career and decides what she's going to do with her life now that high school is over. Is the ending a little cliche and silly? Yes, but so it the whole book, so I saw it coming and I enjoyed the predictable ride yet inevitable happy ending. It was a cute YA read.

What an old fashioned romance novel. I don't mean that because it's a historical romance, but because it is a sweet story, with no sex and almost no passion that is in almost every romance written in this decade (though it seems this story really was written several decades ago). I only gave the book 2 stars because even though it is a sweet story, it isn't anything special. It was hard for me to care about the characters or become personally involved with them because the author keeps them at arm's reach by continuously calling them by their titles. Our female lead is called Miss Cherwood more often than by her first name, Rowena. This makes the story difficult to follow at times since there is a Lady Bradwell, Lord Bradwell (Lady Bradwell's son), Mr. Bradwell(her other son), 2 Miss Cherwood's, a Mrs. Cherwood, and 3 Miss Ambercot's, and Mr. Ambercot (a son) and a Mrs. Ambercot. It gets confusing which Miss Ambercot or which Miss Cherwood I'm reading about sometimes. While a story doesn't need sex to be romantic, it does need some passion, which I find lacking in this novel. There are no lingering looks, no hearts set aflutter, nothing. In fact, if I hadn't know it was a romance novel, when our leading lady gets together with her man, I would have been surprised. Until they declare their love for each other (in a rather boring and uninspired way) they didn't seem to be interested in anything other than friends. I would recommend passing on this unless you want a blast show more from the past (I mean 1980s style writing, not the historical part of this novel) and read Lisa Kleypas' historical romances; she is my favorite for this genre. Perhaps I will check to see if Ms. Robins has written anything recently. If her style has evovled with the times, that might be more to my style. show less

Irreparable Harm completely entertained me. I read it as fast as I could. Sasha is a wonderful character and I had a blast reading about her. I always try to guess whodunit, and I'm usually wrong. This time I got it right pretty quickly, but it didn't detract from the book. I still enjoyed reading the story play out. Miller does a decent job explaining the legal jargon, though I admit my eyes glazed over during some of those paragraphs. The lawyer talk really makes the book seem more authentic to me. Some thrillers have so much in them, you really have to use your brain to keep everything straight and this wasn't one of those books--which is more to my taste than the other kind. So if you want something really complicated, I wouldn't recommend this.
All in all, Irreparable Harm, the legal thriller, thrilled me. Legally. I'm excited for the possible sequel and would recommend this book to anyone not looking for a good, easy read, thriller.

FYI: I received a copy of this book to review, which in no way helped determine the outcome of my review.

I don't even know how to describe this book. It wasn't awful. It wasn't great. I didn't like the characters. I think you were supposed to start liking the characters, or at least, become invested in their awfulness, but I didn't. They weren't even characters that you love to hate. The book was full of philosophical questions, too. Lots of questions about God, and heaven, and punishment, but they didn't resonate with me. I thought there were too many questions, like the author was forcing me to think about the religious aspect of the book instead of the entertainment part of the book. To me, what redeemed this book was that it was different. I've never read anything quite like it. The characters really don't show major change until the last few paragraphs of the book. I kept waiting for Annabelle to do something that would make me like her and she never did. It's unusual for me to read a book and not be "rooting" for the main characters. It hints (strongly) for a sequel at the end of the book. Needless to say, I wouldn't be reading it.

The Geek Job was not wonderful. It took me about 4 or 5 chapters before I started to enjoy it and I wouldn't read it again. I was expecting more of a romance novel, not an erotica novel. I haven't read any of Eve Langlais' work before. Perhaps these characters have been introduced in other novels or her shifter/vampire world has been explained better elsewhere. She doesn't do the best job explaining what groups of fantasy characters are "real" and what part of the lore is real for each group of characters. For example, we don't find out that vampire's saliva has a coagulant until someone is bleeding and a vampire licks the person's wounds clean. And, I'm still not sure if wolves can change at will or only just at the full moon. (I think only the full moon). Are there other kinds shifters? These questions aren't necessary for the plot, but it would help make the world more cohesive. It seems like she doesn't mention these things until it's convenient for her plot. Because of this, her world doesn't become real to me. Heck, it's not even just the fantasy element she doesn't explain. The main character wakes up in her own apartment at one point and I don't know if we are even still in Vegas or not!
The personalities of her characters are cookie cutter. Bad girl wolf, geek who wishes he wasn't so awkward.
There are few plot twists in the book. I for one didn't see the twist in chapter 6 coming. Almost everything else though? Pretty unimaginative and typical.
What this book show more lacks in plot, it makes up for with sex. Lots and lots of steamy sex. In spades. The first sex scene might have taken place in the first chapter, but I can't remember for sure. The sex talk is crude, but the sex itself is pretty vanilla. I'd to categorize this as soft core erotica, if I may since I can't imagine it would offend anyone (who reads romance novels or erotica) with its sex scenes. If you're in the mood for an easy, mindless read with sex scences galore, this would be one of the first I would recommend. I guess I just wasn't in the mood for that when I read this book. show less