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Hi Book Lovers and Welcome to my Review of All I Want For Christmas. (WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS) Title : All I Want For Christmas Author : Claudia Carroll Publisher : Avon Date Published : 25th November 2014 Genre : Contemporary Romance Pages : 21 Synopsis : Christmas with the one you love. It’s going to be perfect … isn’t it? Three couples. Three Christmases. One perfect day! In three days Lucy and Andrew will to fly to Mexico for their beautiful wedding. What’s a twenty-year age gap when you’re this in love? Christmas dinner feels like the perfect occasion to introduce the two families to each other. What could possibly go wrong? Workaholic Jo Hargreaves spends most of her Christmas day wondering where her unreliable new husband is. Dawn and Kirk spend hours slaving over a mung-bean based vegan festive lunch - but Dawn’s mum is struggling to keep her true feeling to herself. Can these three couples manage the ma...

Hi Book Lovers and Welcome to my Review of Killer Christmas. (WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS) Title : Killer Christmas Author : Harper Lin Publisher : Harper Lin Books Date Published : 8th December 2013 Genre : Contemporary Mystery Pages : 71 Chapters : 18 Synopsis : After breaking up with hunky movie star Nick Doyle, Grammy Award-winning singer Emma Wild returns to her hometown for Christmas to get away from it all. In Hartfield, a small town in Ontario, Canada, she gets caught up in a murder case after a fan's drink is poisoned at the Chocoholic Cafe, owned by Emma's sister Mirabelle.  Source : Kindle book I purchased myself. Date Read : 16 December- 26th December 2014 Review : *** 3 out of 5 stars Killer Christmas is the first book in An Emma Wild Holiday Mystery series. Its is about a famous singer called Emma Wild, who has just recently split up from her movie star boyfrie...

Hi Book Lovers and Welcome to my Review of All I Want For Christmas. (WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS) Title : All I Want For Christmas Author : Amy Silver Publisher : Arrow Date Published : 25th November 2010 Genre : Contemporary Romance Pages : 325 Chapters : 12 Synopsis : Twelve days and counting... It's Bea's first Christmas with her baby son, and this year she's determined to do  everything  right. But there is still so much to do: the Christmas menu needs refining; her café, The Honey Pot, needs decorating; and she's invited the whole neighbourhood to a party on Christmas Day. She really doesn't have time to get involved in two new people's lives, let alone fall in love... When Olivia gets knocked over in the street, however, Bea can't help bringing her into The Honey Pot and getting to know her. Olivia's life is even more hectic than her own, and with her fiancé's entire ...

Hi Book Lovers and Welcome to my Review of Midnight Crossroad. (WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS) Buy it now from The Book Depository Buy it now from Amazon UK Buy it now from Amazon US Buy it now on Kindle UK Buy it now on Kindle US Title : Midnight Crossroad Author : Charlaine Harris Publisher : Orion Publishing Group Date Published : 8th May 2014 Genre : Paranormal Mystery Pages : 315 Chapters : 39 Synopsis : Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town with many boarded-up windows and few full-time inhabitants, located at the crossing of Witch Light Road and Davy Road. It’s a pretty standard dried-up western town. There’s a pawnshop (someone lives in the basement and is seen only at night). There’s a diner (people who are just passing through tend not to linger). And there’s new resident Manfred Bernardo, who thinks he’s found the perfect place to work in private (and who has secrets of his own). Stop at...

Hi Book Lovers and Welcome to my Review of I Was A Teenage Ghost Hunter! (WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS) Buy now on Kindle UK Buy now on Kindle US Title : I Was A Teenage Ghost Hunter Author : Brian K Henry Publisher : Smashwords Date Published : 18th March 2014 Genre : Young Adult Paranormal Pages : 271 Chapters : 30 Synopsis : Moody sixteen-year-old barista Devin Mulwray is doing his best to ignore bizarre manifestations at his job in the chilly Northern California town of Arcata. Already teased about his recurrent ‘phase-outs’, the last thing he needs is to get pegged as a guy who sees ghosts. It  doesn't  help his state of mind that his boss is a sarcastic slacker, his single dad is always on the road with clients and local occult fan girl Nayra is spreading ‘ghost boy’  rumours  about him online.  But when violent paranormal activity badly spooks teens at an abandoned estat...

Hi Book Lovers and Welcome to my Review of The Legend Of The Blue Eyes! (WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS) Buy it now from The Book Depository Buy it now from Amazon UK Buy it now from Amazon US Buy it now on Kindle UK Buy it now on Kindle US Title : The Legend Of The Blue Eyes Author : B. Kristin McMichael Publisher :  Lexia Press Date Published : 23 Mar 2013 Genre : Young Adult Fantasy Pages : 256 Chapters : 30 Synopsis : Arianna Grace liked her boring, Midwestern, teenage life where she ignored the many unanswered questions of her childhood. Why were her parents dead? Why did she not have family? Where was she raised until she was five? When someone offers to explain it all, Arianna thinks she’s just getting answers. Instead, she is thrown into a world of night humans who drink blood. On Arianna's sixteenth birthday, her world is thrown upside down when she changes into a vampire. Night humans, or demons, as ...

Hi there book lovers and welcome to my review of Branded! (WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS) Title : Branded Author : Abi Ketner & Missy Kalicicki Publisher : Self-Published Abi & Missy Books Date Published : 28th June 2013 Re-vamped version available 3rd June 2014 Genre : Young Adult Dystopian Pages : 314 Chapters : 23 Synopsis : Fifty years ago the Commander came into power and murdered all who opposed him. In his warped mind, the seven deadly sins were the downfall of society. He created the Hole where sinners are branded according to their sins and might survive a few years. At best. Now LUST wraps around my neck like blue fingers strangling me. I’ve been accused of a crime I didn’t commit and now the Hole is my new home. Darkness. Death. Violence. Pain. Now every day is a fight for survival. But I won’t die. I won’t let them win. The Hole can’t keep me. The Hole can’t break me. I am more than my bra...