Future Tour: The Champagne Diet by Cara Alwill Leyba
Cara will be on tour December 3o-January 6 with her novel The Champagne Diet This book is for the woman who wants to feel good about…
On Tour: Zoey & The Moment of Zen by Cat Lavoie
Cat will be on tour November 18-December 9 with her novel Zoey & The Moment of Zen When coffee shop owner Zoey Everwood takes her obsession…
Book Review: Dollface by Renee Rosen
I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Summary:
America in the 1920s was a country alive with the wild fun of jazz, speakeasies, and a new kind of woman—the flapper.
Vera Abramowitz is determined to leave her gritty childhood behind and live a more exciting life, one that her mother never dreamed of. Bobbing her hair and showing her knees, the lipsticked beauty dazzles, doing the Charleston in nightclubs and earning the nickname “Dollface.”
As the ultimate flapper, Vera captures the attention of two high rollers, a handsome nightclub owner and a sexy gambler. On their arms, she gains entrée into a world filled with bootleg bourbon, wailing jazz, and money to burn. She thinks her biggest problem is choosing between them until the truth comes out. Her two lovers are really mobsters from rival gangs during Chicago’s infamous Beer Wars, a battle Al Capone refuses to lose.
The heady life she’s living is an illusion resting on a bedrock of crime and violence unlike anything the country has ever seen before. When the good times come to an end, Vera becomes entangled in everything from bootlegging to murder. And as men from both gangs fall around her, Vera must put together the pieces of her shattered life, as Chicago hurtles toward one of the most infamous days in its history, the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.
Review:
How I do love me a good ‘20’s era read! Dollface was one I was impatiently waiting for, eager to get this read, and I loved it! 1920’s, flappers, gangsters, speakeasies…all of some of my favorite things. I loved that the writing was able to transport me back in time, and feel as though I was seeing Capone from across the bar and that my husband was a dangerous gangster. Following Vera was breathtaking and felt so authentic. The characters and descriptions were researched and getting a history lesson while reading is a favorite of mine. If you like historical fiction or are a fan of this era like me, read this one!
4.5 stars
Book Review: A Medical Affair by Anne McCarthy Strauss
I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Summary:
While under the care of her pulmonologist after a life-threatening asthma attack, Heather Morrison enters into an affair with her doctor. This affair violates the state’s code of conduct and his medical treatment violates the Hippocratic oath. Heather’s life is shattered as a result. After the doctor terminates the relationship, Heather begins research for her own healing, and armed with this information, she initiates a civil lawsuit. Although it is a work of fiction, A Medical Affair was extensively researched. A Medical Affair is a critical book for women who want to make educated decisions regarding their relationships with their doctors.
Review:
When I first started reading this one, I’ll be honest – I wasn’t quite sure I would like it very much. I didn’t understand Heather’s attraction to Jeff. It just seemed too fast to me – she goes to the hospital and two visits later she’s having sex with her doctor on the exam table even though she knows he’s married. It seemed too rushed to me and I struggled to connect with the story at that point. I will say when we moved past that part and into the meat of the story, I highly enjoyed it. It seemed fast-paced, it was complex, and it was interesting. I was holding my breath when it came to parts of the lawsuit and especially during the parts about her pending adoption. But then…the ending I didn’t love. It was fast and almost rushed again and I felt a little cheated out of a resolution. I actually had to go back and re-read parts to help me understand what happened. I can appreciate that the author tried to show how patients can rely on their doctors so quickly and start unhealthy relationships, but I think it came too late for me. If I skipped over how fast the affair started and how little care Heather seemed to have about sleeping with a married man, I think I would have enjoyed this story a lot more, and maybe not have minded the fast ending. One last point – I wasn’t sure I understood why certain POV’s came in at the end, with Heather’s lawyer and a reporter. They didn’t quite fit with the story. Other than my critiques, it’s an interesting book that touched on a subject I didn’t know a lot about and I hope more people will become informed on this topic!
3 stars
Book Review: Lies You Wanted to Hear by James Whitfield …
Reviewer: Terry This book was given to me in exchange for an honest review. Often when I read a book, I read the notes the…
Blog Tour Sign Up: The Lies That Save Us by …
Alexa is beautiful, smart and alone in the world, a result of devastating losses in her life. She purchased a diner in the quiet out of the way town of Startup, Washington and hired employees to help run it. She’s just beginning to feel secure in her loneliness.
Suddenly her world is jolted awake by Cayman, a handsome young stranger that enters her diner seemingly from nowhere. Event’s happen quickly, and soon Alexa is deep into secret lives, deception and desire.
Will she figure out the riddle of her father’s death? Will she be able to resist the temptation to fall in love with Cayman, in spite of her suspicions? Will she live to tell the tale?
Future Tour: The Hunting by Kerry Peresta
Kerry will be on tour December 16-January 6 with her women’s fiction novel The Hunting Isabelle Lewis, top advertising salesperson at the Chatbrook Springs Sentinel newspaper,…
I’m Married!
So…I got married. Yes, I know this post is only about 2 months late, but do you know how crazy one can become after the…
CLP Blog Tours Book Review: Dandy Day by Annie Wood
Annie Wood is now on tour with CLP Blog Tours and Dandy Day
Summary:
Dandy Day is a thirty-five year old free-spirited, commitment-phobic, Venice Boardwalk roller skating waitress. When Dandy is suddenly dumped by her therapist, right when they were on the brink of figuring out why her relationships last only a whopping three months, Dandy decides to take her relationship issues into her own hands. With the reluctant help of her lifelong best friend, Simon, Dandy tracks down her exes one by one and does a relationship autopsy on each of them in order to get to the bottom of her relationship challenged life.
A short novel about love, friendship and grown ups (sort of) growing up (sort of).
Review:
What a fun book! This novel is short and to the point, filled with laughs and relatable characters. From reading the synopsis I thought this would be a book for me, and I was right! I read it on my recent plane rides and I hoped I didn’t disturb my neighbors too much with my snorts of laughter from certain scenes of the “relationship autopsies.” If you’re looking for a quick romantic comedy, check out Dandy Day.
4.5 stars
Animated Excerpt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuRylE-2C3E
Pinterest Board: http://www.pinterest.com/gypsywood/dandy-day-a-novella-by-annie-wood/
Author Bio:
Annie was born in Hollywood, raised in the valley. She avoided the valley girl accent by speaking backwards for the first 15 years of her life. As an actress she has guest starred on several TV shows. You may remember her best in her recurring role onBecker with Ted Danson, Lara in Good Luck Chuck and as the host of her own nationally syndicated dating show, BZZZ! which she also co-produced. As a writer, she is a produced and published playwright and recently had a comedic scene in the NBC/UNIVERSAL showcase. Her web-series, Karma’s a B*tch
http://anniewood.com/karma.htm was chosen by Virgin America as BEST OF
THE WEB and season 2 is now in the works. Her books of comedic scenes, Snapshots! & Act Up & Make a Scene have been performed on Hollywood stages and is available on Amazon. She lives in Los Angeles with her charming, Italian husband and her equally charming, Jewish/Buddhist/Italian dog, Lucy.
Connect with Annie!
Website: www.anniewood.com
Blog: I only occasionally blog at SheWrites:
http://www.shewrites.com/profiles/blog/list?user=1ljhao55bfiup
And my dog, Lucy, blog’s when we travel each year to Italy, where my husband is from.
http://thelucyadventures.blogspot.it/
Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/welcometoanniewood?ref=ts&fref=ts
Goodreads:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7131722.Annie_Wood
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/anniewood
Buy the Book!
http://www.amazon.com/Annie-Wood/e/B002BMFM1C
