Change of Heart

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Overview:
Can we save ourselves, or do we rely on others to do it? Is what we believe always the truth?

One moment June Nealon was happily looking forward to years full of laughter and adventure with her family, and the next, she was staring into a future that was as empty as her heart. Now her life is a waiting game. Waiting for time to heal her wounds, waiting for justice. In short, waiting for a miracle to happen.

For Shay Bourne, life holds no more surprises. The world has given him nothing, and he has nothing to offer the world. In a heartbeat, though, something happens that changes everything for him. Now, he has one last chance for salvation, and it lies with June's eleven-year-old daughter, Claire. But between Shay and Claire stretches an ocean of bitter regrets, past crimes, and the rage of a mother who has lost her child.

Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?


I wanted to like this book. I just couldn't though. I want to like Jodi Picoult, but I just can't seem to get around all the deep emotions in her books. This may be due to the fact I do get emotionally attached to books. There are so many emotions I just can't seem to handle her books.

Jane Austen & Jane Eyre

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I am going to just tie all of these together. I love almost all of Jane Austen's books. I love the stories that she created. Mr. Darcy, Mr. Ferrars, Mr. Knightley, Captain Wentworth & Mr. Rochester are the men that as teenagers you dream of marrying. I love the depth of the characters in all the books. Jane Eyre is darker than the other four, but so worth the read!

House of Thunder

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This is such a thriller.
Overview
In a cavern called The House of Thunder, Susan Thornton watched in terror as her lover died a brutal death in a college hazing. And in the following four years, the four young men who participated in that grim fraternity rite likewise died violently. Or did they?

Twelve years later Susan wakes in a hospital bed. Apparently involved in a fatal accident, she is suffering from amnesia. She doesn’t remember who she is or why she is there. All she knows is that her convalescence is unfolding into a fearful nightmare – and that the faces that surround her, pretending loving care, are those of the four men involved in that murder years ago.

Have the dead come back to life? Or has Susan plunged into the abyss of madness? With the help of her neuro-surgeon, Susan desperately clings to her sanity while fighting to uncover who or what could be stalking her…

Susan Thorton awakens in a hospital, after a near-fatal car crash, to see four men lurking outside her door--men who exactly resemble those who killed her boyfriend years before. Can these be the same men? As she tries to uncover the identities of those stalking her, Susan enters a terrifying nightmare--one from which she may never escape.


I loved this book. This was the first Dean Koontz book I had read. I don't dare go into the book, because the twist at the end is so unpredictable. It is so great. I recommend this book to anybody that loves a good mystery! This book is not bloody or gory. However it keep me on edge until I finished the book!!

Julia's Chocolates

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This was such a great book.
Overview
"I left my wedding dress hanging in a tree somewhere in North Dakota. I don't know why that particular tree appealed to me. Perhaps it was because it looked as if it had given up and died years ago and was still standing because it didn't know what else to do. . ."

In her deliciously funny, heartfelt, and moving debut, Cathy Lamb introduces some of the most wonderfully eccentric women since The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and The Secret Life of Bees, as she explores the many ways we find the road home.

From the moment Julia Bennett leaves her abusive Boston fiancé at the altar and her ugly wedding dress hanging from a tree in South Dakota, she knows she's driving away from the old Julia, but what she's driving toward is as messy and undefined as her own wounded soul. The old Julia dug her way out of a tortured, trailer park childhood with a monster of a mother. The new Julia will be found at her Aunt Lydia's rambling, hundred-year-old farmhouse outside Golden, Oregon.

There, among uppity chickens and toilet bowl planters, Julia is welcomed by an eccentric, warm, and often wise clan of women, including a psychic, a minister's unhappy wife, an abused mother of four, and Aunt Lydia herself—a woman who is as fierce and independent as they come. Meeting once a week for drinks and the baring of souls, it becomes clear that every woman holds secrets that keep her from happiness. But what will it take for them to brave becoming their true selves? For Julia, it's chocolate. All her life, baking has been her therapy and her refuge, a way to heal wounds and make friends. Nobody anywhere makes chocolates as good as Julia's, and now, chocolate just might change her life—and bring her love when she least expects it. But it can't keep her safe. As Julia gradually opens her heart to new life, new friendships, and a new man, the past is catching up to her. And this time, she will not be able to run but will have to face it head on.


For me this book was such and easy read. It was simple, light hearted, and by the end of the book I just loved the book. There are parts of the book where I just laughed out loud at. Kraig probably thought was nuts while I read this book. I love how real the characters are. Julia is great character that I felt for. Aunt Lydia is a eccentric, but fabulous. As the story unfolds I learned about each of the women in the group, and what makes them stronger, and how as group they fit together. There are a lot of people out there that will not enjoy this book, but I loved it!

Reviews

I decided to start this blog as a way for me to tell my thoughts on books I have read. These are all my personal bias opinions, so if you don't agree with my thoughts that is fine with me. I can not promise how often I will update this, or if I will write about every book I read (or attempt to read). My first reviews will be of some of my favorite books.

One of my absolute favorite books is The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy.

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The Scarlet Pimpernel is set in 1792 during the French Revolution. During the French Revolution the French people over turned their government and the new government tried and sentenced all the aristocrats to death by guillotine. However there was a band of English men lead by someone only known as The Scarlet Pimpernel, plotting daring escapes of those sentenced to death.
Across the English Channel in London is Sir Percy and Lady Marguerite Blakeney the are the center of British society. Sir Percey is known as one of the wealthiest men in England, he is the most fashionable man in London, and considered dimwit. Lady Blakeney is French. She is a stunning former actress, and “know for being the cleverest woman in Europe.
Lady Blakeney ends up being in the middle of the Frenches search for the Scarlet Pimpernel. A man by the name of Chauvelin, once a friend of Lady Blakeney, has been sent to London on behalf of the new government. Chauvelin has declared that he will find out the identity of the Scarlet Pimpernel and catch him red handed in the act of treason against France, so the he maybe sentenced to death. Chauvelin comes across information that leads him to believe that Lady Blankeney's brother is working with the Scarlet Pimpernel, and has asked Lady Blakeney to find out who the Scarlet Pimpernel is, or let her brother be tried for treason against France.
This book is amazing, the book is written from Lady Blakeney's perspective. As she goes through the book you feel her joy, you feel her sorrow, and you feel her heartbreak.
This book will forever be one of my favorites!
The story of this woman touches my heart. This is such a great story. I love it.