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Luke (Learning to Love #3)
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Can Luke learn to love the man who left him? Headmaster Luke Lawson is committed to saving his...
Contemporary MM Romance Trigger Warning: Non-explicit mentions of childhood anxieties.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 7
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Sarah Michelle Gellar takes on the role of Buffy Summers in this TV version of "Buffy the Vampire...
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NYC Basic Tips and Etiquette
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New York Times Bestseller Living in New York City for five years as a transplant from Ohio,...
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A Day at the Office
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One office, five lives, on the most romantic day of the year. For most people, Valentine’s Day...
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The Misfortune of Marion Palm: A Novel
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A wildly entertaining debut about a Brooklyn Heights wife and mother who has embezzled a small...
Fiction
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The Amazing Crime and Trial of Leopold and Loeb
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The crime itself was indefensible. The brilliant, spoiled and bored sons of two of Chicago's...
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Busted Lip: Anthology
Cory Cline, Michael Noe, A.R. Vidal, A.T. King, Xtina Marie , Essel Pratt , Kasey Hill and Peyton Pratt
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In the land of nightmares and gore lives a troop of authors that were sent to haunt your happy...
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Carma (21 KP) rated Worth the Wait (Guthrie Brothers #2) in Books
Jun 17, 2019
As with most Lori Foster novels we find ourselves getting involved in secondary characters and stories both separate from or including main characters. Some we hope to see get a book of their own (Barber, Colt) and some well maybe we don’t. Worth the Wait has a possible don’t with a secondary romance between Nathan Hawley and Brooklin Sweet. I enjoyed Nathan’s brief introduction in Don’t Tempt Me but I felt like his story was just randomly inserted in the book as a way to fill the pages. After finishing the book I feel like I know a little more about Nathan but mostly that his story was just a way to fill the pages between Hogan and Violet’s dance around each other. I know Nathan wasn’t a main character for this book and I know he was a friend of Hogan and Jason. I also know his story with Brooklin ties in to the story of Hogan and Violet, I just don’t feel like his time was in this book.
Seemingly I felt like the story between Hogan and Violet dragged on a little long with some interactions taking a long time on mundane things and speeding through things that may have set up a bigger connection between them. I think more time could have been spent on Violet’s family life, her connection with her uncle etc and grow that a little more for her back-story. Both main characters fell a little flat with detail on the who/what/why of their pasts. Don’t get me wrong, they definitely felt right for each other, I just didn’t get swept away by their romance as I normally do with a Lori Foster novel.
Overall I enjoyed Worth the Wait, even the parts that bug me like being able to see someone roll their eyes behind big ridiculous sunglasses, but it probably won’t be one book I go back to read and read over again (i.e. Rowdy, Trace, Zane to name a few). Sadly this book just didn’t grab my uninterrupted full interest, this time. But I know Lori Foster will grab my attention over and over again with each new book she publishes. I received Worth the Wait as an ARC in exchange for an honest review (watch out because blunt is my middle name). Hope this review helps now hurry and buy your own copy of Worth the Wait to prove me wrong, everyone loves to be right!!
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Nick Drake: Dreaming England
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Since his untimely death in 1974 at the age of twenty six, Nick Drake has not only gained a huge...
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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated The Nix in Books
Dec 4, 2017
It spans nearly fifty years, with flashbacks to student protests during 1968, from the present day, and the travails of an academic, struggling to engage with lazy and disaffected students, and playing ‘Elfscape’, an online role-playing game that works along the lines of World of Warcraft. The narrative perspective moves around quite a bit in the first few chapters, but a strong theme quickly emerges.
Samuel Andresen-Anderson is the principal protagonist, and is a genuinely empathetic character. Far from perfect, he is beset with irritations, ranging from the cheating and ignorance of many of his students to the family upheaval suffered during his childhood, which still troubles him more than twenty years later.
Behind all this is the story of Faye, Samuel’s mother, who walked out on her family more than twenty years earlier, and who is catapulted into the public consciousness following a sudden impulsive act. This offered Hill the opportunity for some acute observations about the motives and actions of the student rebels from the late 1960s, while also exposing the hypocrisies of the establishment and the cruelties of some of the police during those troubles. In between, the author even delves into Norwegian folklore.
The writing is fine – clear and accessible - and Hill manages the complex storylines admirably. Moving backwards and forwards between the late 1960s, late 1980s and 2011, the plot never flags. This was a long novel, but very entertaining throughout.