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Barnaby Scantlebury _arnaby — ** spoiler alert ** In hindsight, I'm not sure why I bothered reading this all the way to the end as there were no plot revelations that surprised me in any way. I was several steps ahead of the dim-witted protagonist the entire way through. What I can't understand is if Kate Morton meant her book to be so meta? Example 1: Sickly child Rose gets better through the love of a hidden garden being tended back to life by her cousin. Later on, Frances Hodgson Burnett visits Rose's house and hears the story. "The healing power of a secret garden? Lol, I'm writing a book about that!" she says. Example 2: Dim-witted Cassandra meets two blokes who are doing up her house and garden. Bloke #1 makes her swoon and flutter with his rugged good looks. Bloke #2 is quieter, but Cassandra feels the stirrings of attraction True Love™. Later that evening, her friend (who used to write Jilly Cooper-esque novels) says, "If this were a novel I was writing, Bloke #1 would be the sexy man candy but Bloke #2 would get the girl. ;)" (Needless to say, Cassandra ends up with Bloke #2.) There's also a line where Cassandra says, "Life would be so much easier if people all belonged to stock character types." That was the point at which my eyes rolled right out of my head, because Kate Morton couldn't create a unique and realistic character if her life depended on it. Two of her female characters, Julia and Ruby, were more like pantomime dames than real women. Every single one of their actions and utterances was so overblown that I half expected one of them to whip off a wig and reveal that she was, in fact, a man in drag.

Jordan Major majorjordaa337 — super cute, it made me laugh

Tracy Bloom dreamboardstudios — From: Lilac Wolf and Stuff The cover is so colorful and well drawn that it looks like it will be a fun story. In fact the cover is the reason I couldn't wait to read this one. The author lives in the metro-Detroit area, and the story takes place there. It was great to see all the references to Royal Oak and Ferndale. Places I've at least heard of and been to before. The descriptions and dialogue were all top notch. The characters are so well developed, you just love the three girls, Ginny is the central character here. She rooms with her best friends Jen and Annie. Jen is very organized and a great cook. Annie is more wild and an actress. Ginny is unsure of the direction of her life, working as a Nanny when she discovers she is pregnant. Having broken up with Josh, the boyfriend, she is terrified. The way the author goes into Ginny's feelings really puts you there. Your stomach clenches with the humiliation at what she had done. With the fear of losing her job, the joy at finding her dream job. Ginny really grows in the year of this story. Through her pregnancy, which at times seemed unreal, and after giving birth to Danny and learning to be a mom. And she's a great mom. I was tensed up when the doctors asked if she wanted a circumcision for Danny and I heaved a heavy sigh of relief when she consulted her friends and finally refused it. I'm just personally against it, and refused it for both the boys. It's a great story and I can't wait to read the next installment Three Girls and a Wedding, which is told from Jen's perspective. And that makes me think there will be one from Annie's as well. YEAH! I hope Rachel Schurig will let me review them as well.

María Torres mariatorr — Evidently #4 in a series (I haven't read the previous 3). Historical erotic romance. A desperate Irish noblewoman journeys to London, to take up the life of a whore, in an attempt to support her 5 orphaned siblings. She encounters an unknown man who hires her to play tricks on a duke. Needless to say, she falls in love with the duke, and he with her. The trickster turns out to be... well, you'll see if you read it. A few words about dialogue: When Nia is sexually excited - "Oh hh." When she's close to orgasm - "Oh hh hh." A change-up - "Oh hh, Radford," or, "Oh hh hh, love." In the final orgasmic interlude - "Oh hh hh hh!" Nia never says anything else when in the throes of passion. Not to be outdone Radford manages to say, "Judas," "Christ," "Fuck," and, of course, the slightly changed, "Ah hh." And entirely too much squealing - "'Radford,' she squealed'" as just one example. A note about the Kindle edition: The usual types of errors - underling for underlying; corpus for copse. A little racism thrown in - "gentile feminine nose." A complete change in historic location - Vaudeville Gardens for Vauxhall Gardens.