Hitched - Dawn Rae Miller

If someone were to ask me

to name my favorite authors,

Dawn Rae Miller

would top it.

What makes her so great,

is her ability to get you to 

feel her characters.

You love them.

You care about them.

You feel like they are your friends.

A few years back,

I read Crushed.

I fell in love with Fletch.

The way the story was written,

it came to an end.

I never thought they'd be more.

But there was.

Hitched

picks up 5 years later.

Ellie and Fletch have broken up.

They meet again after 2 years

to attend their friend's wedding.

Still hurt,

Ellie isn't sure she can handle the weekend.

This is a lovely story.

While they are not many surprises,

what captures you are the characters.

From chapter 2,

I could not put the book down,

as I hurt.

Ellie hurt,

and I hurt.

I needed to know she would get better.

I needed to read on.

When Ellie was happy,

I was happy.

It's an easy read.

With the summer coming,

if you need a good beach book,

this one's for you.

Prince Lestat - Anne Rice

I would have to say,

that Anne Rice is the one

that got me hooked onto vampires.

Lestat was my first vampire love.

I devoured the first 4 books

of the Vampire Chronicles. 

I couldn't get enough.

And for this reason,

I eagerly awaited the release

of Prince Lestat. 

However, 

I haven't read her books

in a long time. 

Maybe I forgot what they were like. 

Maybe I had high expectations. 

But whatever it is,

I found Prince Lestat 

a hard read. 

We meet Lestat

and learn what he's been up to

since we last saw him in Memnoch. 

We also learn what Marius,

Armand, Louis, Pandora

and other beloved vampires 

have been up to. 

Once we're all caught up

we begin to learn of a mysterious

Voice.

We now revisit all our vampire friends,

old and new,

and learn what they think of this Voice.

It's a good story.

I guess I was just hoping 

for a great story.

Immortal - J.R. Ward

And another series comes to an end.

Immortal is the final installment in 

The Fallen Angels series.

And what an ending it was.

I'll admit,

I cried a little at the end.

So far, 

Jim, our fallen angel

is loosing to

Devina, our evil devil,

2:3.

He would have been up one,

but he exchanged a win in a previous book.

So now, 

there are 2 souls left.

If Devina wins the next round,

Hell wins.

But who is this soul?

Will Jim be focused?

He lost the last round,

as he could not focus on the "game".

His mind was focused on Sissy.

Even Nigel was disappointed in him.

Immortal begins with Jim deciding he needs to get

Nigel back.

He decides he must enter Purgatory.

The first half of the book 

you wonder who the soul is.

We all know Jim will be the last soul.

Jim spends the first half of the book

getting Nigel back,

working out his feelings for Sissy

and controlling his anger against Devina.

And even after he wins,

he's too focused on winning

and beating Devina

to realise there is another soul in play.

But really,

it's the last book with Jim.

Did you ever have any doubt he'd win?

Writer's Workshop - Books

October is National Book Month, 

tell us about the best book you've read so far this year. 

For the last couple of years,

I've challenged myself to read a certain number of books.

The challenge, 

and keeping track of the books

are all on Goodreads. 

So for MamaKat's prompt,

I decided to take a look at the 

26 books I've read so far.

Now really,

I'm suppose to choose the best

book from these?

Yikes!

Not sure if I can.

The Wishing Spell by Chris Colfer

is a children's book

that I could not put down. 

Phoenix by Dawn Rae Miller,

was the end of an amazing YA trilogy.

And this one did not disappoint. 

Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin

is the last book I read.

It's one I probably would never had read

had it not been recommended.

And I loved it!

I was chatting with a mate the other day,

commenting how I had a lot of reading to do

as it appears all the authors have chosen

October as the month

to release their new book.

In case you're looking for something to read

here are some great ones to look out for.