romance and short stories

Falling For Gracie by Susan Mallery - When Gracie Landon was 14, she became a legend in her hometown for falling for a local boy, 18 year old Riley Whitfield - a notorious legend due to her obsessive crush. Sent away to relatives to keep her from crashing his (forced) wedding, Gracie never came back. Now a successful wedding cake designer, she's come home to make a cake for her youngest sister's wedding - only to find her mother as unloving and judgmental as always and her two sister both self-indulgent drama queens. And, oh, yeah, Riley Whitfield is back home too, running for mayor. A suspected cheating husband, dirty politics, and a ruthless attempt to destroy her career bring the two together. Gracie is way too much of a doormat with her family, but the scenes with Riley are pretty good. Cute fluff. :)

Just After Sunset by Stephen King - King returns to the short story format. Some really good stuff, some okay stuff. He's got a gift for the short stuff - The Cat From Hell made me get out some treats and apologize for any offense I might have given, in hopes they'd let me live :) Some horror, some supernatural, some just a bit odd.


100 books challenge

thrillers...

that weren't so thrilling :)

The best of the bunch was:
Terminal Freeze by Lincoln Child - Set in the Arctic Circle, scientists find a creature frozen in ice. And despite the warnings of the local natives, it's cut out and set to be thawed for a documentary. Only it's not what they think it is - and it may not be dead. Thoroughly unbelievable, but still fun. Child has a good style with action and with scientific stuff, but the story here was... lesser - and the obsessive documentary maker was just annoying and deserved to die the horrible death that he got :) ::beams sweetly:: (Pub)

Butterfly by Sharon Sala - China Brown, pregnant and just evicted, witnesses a crime and almost becomes a fatality herself. Fluff, filled with cliches.

The 7th Victim by Alan Jacobson - Too much coincidence - and a fairly irritating heroine.

The Associate by John Grisham - Grisham is, as always, very readable - nice easy style. But, as with his last few, this one is eminently forgettable.

Cross Country by James Patterson - Please. Like the government couldn't keep Cross from flying to Africa if it wanted to. I found myself wanting the bad guys to hurt him more :)

Divine Justice by David Baldacci - missed the book before this one in the Camel Club series and didn't care. Must remember to miss the rest also. His other books I'll still check out :)


all books - 100 book challenge