Last week was spent reading Gone With the Wind and being a general all around slacker. (What's new, right?) So this week I'm gonna aim low lol
FORBIDDEN LOVE
Take the Paradise Heights Women’s League board. Lyssa Harper should have warned golden-haired DILF du jour Harry Wilder what he was getting into when she invited him to meet the mommies who run their suburban, gated community. At least he brought cupcakes. Since meeting the former Master-of-the-Universe turned stay-at-home single dad, Lyssa has been his domestic Sherpa, teaching him the ins and outs of suburban life. She just didn’t realize her friends would show up at his house unannounced with casseroles, leopard-print bikini briefs, and plans to rearrange his kitchen cabinets.
The truth is, if Harry and his wife, the neighborhood’s "perfect couple," can call it quits, what does that mean for everyone else? Lyssa’s husband, Ted, is a great father, but he pays her Pilates-pumped momtourage more attention than he does his own wife. Her friends gossip about the neighbors while ignoring their own problems: infertility, infidelity, and eating disorders.
When Harry sets boundaries with his new fan club, he is exiled from the neighborhood’s in-clique. But Lyssa refuses to snub him. What she never expects is the explosive impact her ongoing friendship with Harry will have on her close-knit pals—and on her marriage.
My Review:
I really wasn't expecting to like this book as much as I did. That is the honest truth. I thought I might have gotten myself into a soapish kind of book. It does have some soapy elements, but the GOOD kind of Soap. (I hope that makes sense?) I was never bored with the characters and never wanted to put this book down. I loved how each character is developed enough that we feel like they are our actual neighbors! I think every neighborhood has that group of catty women that make life a bit more..erm..challenging for the rest. Right?
Not that this book didn't have it's faults. The main couple didn't seem to have any real chemistry. The marriage didn't seem to be based on anything else but the children. The wife is pretty miserable most of the time. Her husband was definitely, for lack of a better word, a bit on the douchey side, but I guess that is the point. Not all marriages that look perfect, actually are perfect.
I rated this one a 4/5!!!
About the Author:
Josie Brown's celebrity interviews and relationship articles have been featured in Redbook and Complete Woman magazines, as well as AOL, Yahoo, AskMen.com, Divorce360.com, and SingleMindedWomen.com. She lives in Marin County, California with her husband and two children.
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It's obvious that nowadays you need Auto Insurance. There's just no getting around that fact! There are all sorts of crazy things that could happen on the road and you need to be prepared. I found out the hard way! *AGH!*
Read Last Week:
I am a HUGE GA fan so this is SERIOUSLY (see what I did there?) amusing for me! Cuz it's totally true!
This is me all this week ^ *Think, think, think...Oh bother!* No, really. It is. We have had some financial issues lately that have caused some stress. Tis why you might notice a bit more ads than usual. I'm not trying to spam you all, just pay a few bills!
I know the whole "vampire" thing has been sucked (sorry had to) dry but this book..OMG...this book was awesome! I loved it completely from start to finish. This is exactly how vampires should be like! No sparkly sparkly, no lovey dovey crap, and no whiny little...*ahem* Sorry. Back to business. This book breathes a bit of fresh air into the genre. Cade is a kick ass vampire. He does have a little "Angel with a soul" (Buffy reference) kinda thing going on. Now he doesn't exactly have a soul, but he is cursed to protect the President and follow his and his officer's orders.
Book Description:Have we all not wished to keep forever the one person we love the most?
The secluded beaches of a sun-drenched Mediterranean island are the perfect playground for young Sebastian and Adora. Emotionally adrift from their mother, Adora shelters her sensitive older brother from the cruelties of the world. Sophie does not question her children's intense need for one another until it's too late. Her beloved son's affections belong to Adora, and when he drowns in the sea, she has no one else to blame.
Still heartbroken years later, Adora fills her emptiness with Genevieve, the precocious young daughter of her husband's business associate and his jealous wife, Miranda. Thrilled to be invited into the beautiful and enigmatic Adora's world, the child idolizes her during their summers together. Yet, as the years progress, Genevieve begins to suspect their charmed existence is nothing more than a carefully crafted illusion. Soon, she too is ensnared in a web of lies.
Stunningly told in the tragic voices of four women whose lives are fatefully entangled, The Art of Devotion is evocative and haunting, a story of deceit, jealousy, and the heartbreaking reality of love's true power.
The Art of Devotion: Tuesday, June 8th
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It's Monday again! Whew! Last week went by so fast! I read sooo much! It felt so good too! :) This week I have plenty of time and definitely plenty of motivation to read more! Happy Reading!
Release Date: January 19, 2010
