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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Until You're Mine (DCI Lorraine Fisher #1) in Books

Jan 6, 2021  
Until You're Mine (DCI Lorraine Fisher #1)
Until You're Mine (DCI Lorraine Fisher #1)
Samantha Hayes | 2013 | Fiction & Poetry
6
7.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
This isn't my usual type of read, I like happy romance-y books, but every so often I like to read something different.

This was a lot darker than the description on the back made out:

<i><b>Claudia is heavily pregnant with a much-wanted baby, she has a loving husband and a beautiful home.
And then Zoe steps into her life.
Zoe has come to help Claudia when her baby arrives. But there's somthing about Zoe that Claudia doesn't like.
And when she finds Zoe in her bedroom, Claudia's anxiety turns to real fear.</b></i>

I just thought she'd worm her way into the family and steal them. That sort of thing. Not the gruesomeness in places--well, place--that it was.

Nevertheless I did enjoy it in the end, what with it all pointing at one person but things seeming a little dodgy about someone else.
  
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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Puddle Jumping (Puddle Jumping, #1) in Books

Jan 6, 2021  
Puddle Jumping (Puddle Jumping, #1)
Puddle Jumping (Puddle Jumping, #1)
Amber L. Johnson | 2014
9
9.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
4.5 stars.

I'll start by saying that the only reason I read this was because of this reading list on BookLikes: http://booklikes.com/apps/reading-lists/146/books-to-fall-in-love-with

And let me tell you I'm glad I did because this was an awesome story of romance between a girl and a boy and how they deal with Asperger's. It wasn't told traditionally, it was told from Lilly's memories and it was amazing reading, seeing how she went about trying to make Colton fit in and be seen as normal.

I'll admit I cried for a good portion of the book near the end and up to the Epilogue I wasn't sure about how it was going to end. Luckily there was a HEA or I would have had to mark it down a few stars for breaking my heart.

Really good story.
  
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M. Night Shyamalan recommended The Exorcist (1973) in Movies (curated)

 
The Exorcist (1973)
The Exorcist (1973)
1973 | Horror
8.3 (48 Ratings)
Movie Favorite Watch

"These are all based on books, right? And the most amazing source material, tonal source material. The Exorcist has, again, a collision of the time period with that style of cinema, but Friedkin’s kind of unlike the previous two. They did a bunch of ad-libby stuff, but The Exorcist was the most with regard to that contemporaneous kind of shooting. The story is about a reality-based story about the Devil, done at a time when docu-style was predominant, and it felt really natural. Friedkin spent an enormous amount of time shooting the movie and did it with reverence, and the structure is perfect. It starts in the Middle East, goes to a Georgetown bedroom, and gets smaller and smaller until you meet a side character, the second priest. The plot is this incredible kind of twisty thing, and then he ends up sacrificing himself. It’s awesome."

Source
  
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Kristina (502 KP) rated Tight in Books

Dec 7, 2020  
Tight
Tight
Alessandra Torre | 2015
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
I love Alessandra Torre. I haven't read anything by her that I haven't immediately fallen in love with; Tight is another book of hers, albiet different, that I really enjoyed. She stresses in the begnning that it's very different than her other books and, honestly, it wasn't nearly as dark as I've seen some stories go, so nothing bothered me about it. I was intruiged about the "banned book" she based Tight from, though. I'm not scared of reading the same stories where the relationship between the kidnapped and kidnapper becomes romanticized - I've read several and, while I realize that isn't real life, I enjoy them. While Alessandra's book isn't that, I still loved it. There were so many questions and assumptions, twists and surprises. I was shocked by a lot of the revelations in this book and I love that. Alessandra Torre can do no wrong in my eyes!
  
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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Tears of Tess (Monsters in the Dark, #1) in Books

Jan 11, 2021  
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Tears of Tess (Monsters in the Dark, #1)
Pepper Winters | 2013
7
9.0 (6 Ratings)
Book Rating
3.5 stars.

I dunno with this one. I'm hit and miss with D/s books. Sometimes I like them sometimes I don't. This one, that side of the story, I'm not that big a fan of. I don't always understand it, and I think that was definitely the case with this one.

I loved the storyline and everything--minus the above mentioned thing, anyway--the kidnapping and the owner who isn't all bad. The romance between them. I think it was the sex side of things, I skipped through the first one (at least I think it was the first one? About half way through?) and skimmed the rest, looking for the more romantic take on it all.

Hmm. I'm not sure if I'm intrigued enough to continue the series. I'll think about in my sleep and see how I feel in the morning.