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Random thing I discover when looking for a email in outbox this morning.  Seems that Ritter the Dog and Holly the Cat have been emailing each other now!

Ritter,

Thank you for your recent package. I hope that it was no trouble sneaking it away from Christina. The small hairless one and I enjoyed reading Secrets last year, and had to sneak about to read Revenge once Betrayal show up.  Its a miracle that Sarah hasn’t found it yet. *hehehe*  I did have a bit of a scare since she brought it in from the mail at lunch.  Oh, what a merry chase it has been after the hardships of this winter (everyone was sick but me!)

Both small human and I agree that Betrayal is a great book.  An exciting end to a suspenseful series.  We laughed over the way there was that little nod to the Chosen Ones and Darkness Chosen. Not like she had done in one of her recent historicals, just a little nod. If you weren’t paying attention, you would not see it at all.  I have to wonder how many others will catch it.  Was it your idea to slip it in there?

I have to say, the description of the California wine country makes me want to get Sarah to take us all there.  Of course, it would help if she drank wine.  Perhaps I should start there!

I have been such a bad kitty – telling her I know the secrets now.  All the secrets!  She is threatening to keep my treats from me, little does she know I have a stash until I can wear her down.  

The Di Lucas sound like that would make wonderful owners – except that I would not want to have to break in new ones.  This family is very well trained, well, except for the small hairless one that keeps trying to de-hair me!  Good thing if I read to her, she stops.  

I have to say, that I hate saying good bye to them.  I believe that I will miss Nonna Sarah the most.  Not just for the name, of course, but that she is a good, strong, loving matriarch – and not a bad one like Eli’s grandmother.  Each of those poor boys were scarred, and while she nurtured and loved them, they still had to find their own true loves.  Each story was sweet with that. 

I’d better go.  Small hairless one is just back to sleeping through the night after being sick so much.  Poor little thing.  But I like to stick close if needed.  Reading to her seems to relax her.  And it is actually nice to have someone around my level in the house. 

Thanks again.  

Holly

Don’t worry… Holly will not be harmed.  If she has stuck around for ten years and a one year old – she isn’t going anywhere.  Though, I will be cutting down on her treats!

And yes, Christina’s Betrayal is out now!  So I need to get my copy (probably when she is in Texas at the end of the month).

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I really try to keep my reviews positive… I really do. I’m also of the – of “you can’t say anything good, shut up” club.  Which is why, I normally don’t talk about books that don’t agree with me.

But here… I can’t avoid it.  This book has gotten under my skin.

I read  Gastien: The Cost of a Dream recently… and I’m currently slugging my way through Gastien: From Dream to Destiny.  And, it’s tough to read it for me.

Usually, when a book becomes a struggle to read, I stop and move on to something else.  The only reason why I hadn’t is that I am hoping it gets better.  Why?  Cause I like the overall concept of the story – a peasant son of a farmer that goes to Paris to achieve his dream of being a painter and suffers hardships along the way.  And I feel bad that I’m about to rip apart the book, cause I wanted it to be good.  I don’t want to beat indie authors down…

I’m about 12% into the second book… And here are my criticisms of the book one (and a little of book two).

1.  Lack of conflict.  In a story that could be brimming with it, it is rare when I see it.  Huge missed opportunity.  How could the author have added conflict?  Make him work at a talent for painting, since his start was with charcoal and water colors.  Maybe he excels at pastels and chalk art (which he could do to get money), but painting with oil is a struggle.  Show the struggle.  Show the criticism from other student artists.  Maybe there are other students artists jealous of his natural raw talent – show that jealousy.  Nope… everyone loves Gastien.  Though, one thing that kinda of annoy me.  He spends a couple of months living on the streets.  Mic is supposed to be his best pal (becomes his best pal upon meeting) and yet does do everything he could to help him?  Like sneak him into his dorm for a night or two or for a bath?  Yes it would get him into trouble… but the risk was never taken.

2.  After loosing his virginity, he is a wonderful lover.  Yeah… He hooks up with a casual relationship with a woman about 4-5 years older than him.   Truthfully, the thought of him becoming a “kept man” of a cougar seems more plausible.  Progressing the story forward – instead of his taut of how he would never be a kept man and never take money for sex.  Hello… nineteen year old = sex manic… WOW someone is willing to pay me for sex!  More believable.  Then there could be conflict about how then he is replaced – then the idea that he would never been a kept man – makes more sense!

And… immediately – he will never be with a prostitute.  I would rather have seen him go to a room with one, see her conditions or see something on her body – before going with that.   Again, I want to experience with puts his idea in his head.  Cause how many eighteen year old boys off the farm listen to anyone?

3.  The latter of the book deals with the sexuality of his employer… which is like a bomb dropped on us.  It would have been nice to have built up to that… say… I don’t know… I’ll throw out an idea.  How about him having an innocent homosexual relationship with… I don’t know… an instructor from the art school.  One that promises to teach him painting – Gastien thinks it is all innocent… Then we have an “on screen” interaction and reaction of a gay man putting the moves Gastien, and his reaction.  Oh yeah… throughout the whole book… it is always…  homosexual…  homosexual…  homosexual…  ”Sodomite” was more likely to be used.  And surely there were slang terms.  (The same thing with prostitute… though whore was used a couple of times.)  The more clinical terms seemed out place and pulled me out of the story.

4.  Lack of tangible and visceral detail.   I didn’t feel Paris.  I didn’t see Paris.  I didn’t feel any reaction to what happened to Gastien.  Part of it could be the passive voice or the lack of details (smells/textures)  that could draw me into the story.

5.  Info dumping.  Where the story really began should have been when he got off the turnip truck (so to speak) in the city, because we got to hear about his back story several times when he met people.  The same thing with the second book – except that we get a history lesson on the village Gastien moves to.  Details need to spread out throughout the book, not dumped at the beginning.

6.   I feel that the author selected the wrong, less dramatic reaction to the outcome of the end of book one.  I could spoil the surprise, but I just feel that Gastien’s reaction and post reactions to the event were the easy way out.  I feel his character didn’t change sufficiently.  At the end and beginning of the next book, I keep thinking, he is just still the same Gastien that we started with.  Again, there is no struggle within him, and therefore, I have little sympathy with him.  All I get is  - aching hip and “I am not homosexual and I refuse for anyone to see me that way”.  I would love to see his painting suffer, and perhaps he would have to regress to charcoal and pastels for while until he can feel the brush in his hand.  And his sex life should suffer but doesn’t, when there is a significant opportunity there if a woman or two were to find out – and therefore want to help heal him.  Or if he can’t pleasure himself (or get himself up), he focuses on pleasuring women – which would make his reputation even more rakish.  (which would make the reaction to the love interest in the second book that much more important)

7.  Point of View.  In the beginning of the book, it is presented that this is a much older Gastien looking back at his life.  So then why do I get the POV of people that aren’t Gastien.  He isn’t psychic, so he shouldn’t know what other people are thinking.  But we get a switch to another person’s POV, be it barber or perfumer, to know that he/she is sexually interested in him.    Or even a characters decision to do something to help Gastien (cause everyone loves Gastien) and then we find out about it in the next scene – rendering the decision thought process unneeded.

Yes, I know… not a romance.  And I am not holding it to the “laws” of romance writing.  There are just  flaws in the story and craft.    I did approach this book with an open mind, but from the get go, things started trickling into my head.  And perhaps it is my years of studying the craft of writing that made me see these things where a casual reader might not.

Part of it was the progression of the story.  I just felt that the natural progression wasn’t there.  The seeds planted along the way were not sufficient to lead where they ended up.  No, “okay, I can see how that happened.”  It was more of a “huh?”  His pattern of behavior and story events lead me to believe one conclusion, where the story went way out into left field without even a crumb to guide me there in retrospect.

All let you know my further feeling when I finish book two.

 

On Wednesday, Shana Galen’s third book in her Sons of the Revolution Trilogy came out. The Rogue Pirate’s Bride. Doesn’t it have a lovely cover?

Passionate, action-packed Regency romance by RT Reviewer’s Choice award-winning author Shana Galen features the swashbuckling Sebastien Harcourt, Marquis de Valere, and the nautical genius heroine destined to best him. After escaping France on a privateer’s ship, Sebastian becomes the notorious privateer Captain Cutlass. His reputation as a rogue precedes him and he’s undefeated in battle, until he crosses swords with the beautiful daughter of a British admiral. Raeven Russell is out for revenge, but now she’s not so sure she wants the dashing captain to change his wicked ways.

The book was originally suppose to come out last year, with a different cover and title.  While the original cover and title (The Making of a Rogue) matches the other books in the series – The Making of a Duchess and The Making of a Gentleman- I like the second cover better (and I’m kinda partial to the color blue.)  I know Shana -and I remember joking that she should have put it in her contract that she gets the dresses from her covers – cause the dresses are so awesome!  Both covers have awesome dresses in my opinion.

Meanwhile… I feel kinda bad.  I read this one without reading the others first. I need to go back and do so. I tend to read on impulse. I got a copy, and read it. Love it! It made me want to read more sea-faring books. (Yes, made me want to go back and read the others… have I done this… no) If you like a little adventure in your Regency, I suggest you pick this one up. You will love Raeven and Sebastian.

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And if you have any Piraty books (arrrrr) to suggest to me – tell me! I’m in a piraty mood, matey.

Whilst I was in the piraty mood- I read Tides of Love and Tides of Passion by Tracy Sumner.  Not piraty books, not really seafaring, more like sea side.  The two books (originally released in 2000 and 2002) are the first two books in what I hope will eventually be a three book series.  They are set in a small town on the coast of North Carolina in the 1890′s, and centers around the Garrett brothers – Zack, Noah and Caleb.

Tides of Love is a homecoming/reunion book of sorts, featuring Noah and Elle, a childhood friend and friend of the family.

He left all he loved behind…

Will he be able to return and win her heart?

Elle Beaumont has learned life’s lessons the hard way–by foolishly exposing her youthful heart to love, only to have it broken when her true love fled Pilot Island, North Carolina. Now Noah Garrett is back, rekindling dreams she’d given up for lost, and turning her world upside down. Elle’s girlish yearning for him has become something more powerful than she’d ever imagined.

A man dedicated to science and rational judgment, Noah rejects all notions of romance…until the girl who used to cling to him like a shadow begins haunting his every thought. But even as he struggles to resist Elle’s sensuous beauty and the wildfire attraction erupting between them, Noah cannot deny that their passion is as irresistible and endless as the tides of love.

Tides of Passion is a … how can I describe it… sex arrangement (cause that always works out well) that turns into love, featuring Zack and Savannah, friend of Elle and suffragette.

She is his greatest temptation.
He is her forbidden desire.
A battle of wills leads to love.

Spirited Savannah Conner is passionately committed to stamping out social injustice. Yet when she arrives in the seaside town of Pilot Isle, North Carolina, ready to take up a new cause, she quickly finds herself on the outs with the town constable. Zachariah Garrett is the most arrogant, infuriating, maddeningly attractive man it’s ever been her misfortune to meet. And suddenly, Savannah is fighting a whole new battle – this one against her own yearning for a man who is impossible to resist.

Ever since his wife’s death two years ago, Zachariah Garrett has dedicated his life to keeping the peace. So when he sees the pretty newcomer atop a wobbly wooden crate stirring up the crowd, he doesn’t hesitate to haul her off to jail. But Savannah Connor isn’t any ordinary law-breaker. She’s a beguiling beauty with the power to awaken emotions he thought he’s never feel again, and the tenderness to help him forget his fears…and risk his heart once more.

The biggest refreshing thing to me about these two books… they have nothing to do with England. Nothing to do with Prinny. Nothing to do with France. Nothing to do with a war. Nothing to do with guns. Nothing to do with throwing the hero/heroine into some situation that I wouldn’t believe. No bigger than life villain.  No important historical events.

They are just about the people of this sleepy little seaside port who’s lives involve fishing and sailing, and only threat is weather and shipwrecks.  Yes, this is during a time when women are struggling for their rights, and its in there.  It’s in there without being center stage.  I would have to call them cozy, sexy reads, a great escape from the ordinary.

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I swear I have been sick more in the past year.  I could blame this last nasty virus on Pax, but she’s wasn’t patient zero in the house this time.  It was Juan.

Meanwhile, Pax turned one Saturday.  Still can’t believe that it has been that long.  She is such a joy.  Happy birthday, baby girl.

[Left: day she was born, Right: 11 1/2 months old]

Since I was off yesterday (and sick in bed), I spent the afternoon reading Trouble at the Wedding by Laura Lee Guhrke, which – of course – I find out that it is apart of a series half way through it. Has it distracted me from the story – no… but I haven’t finished, so I don’t know how it will impact me if I haven’t read the others.

Trouble at the Wedding in many was the usual heiress and impoverished peer story – he needs the money, she wants the status upgrade. A little difference here. Annabel’s American New Money, a southern girl, and still viewed as white trash. Christian’s still a heavily in debt British peer, but he’s trying to stop her wedding to a different heavily in debt British peer (who will just spend all her money on mistresses). Annabel’s uncle hires him to talk her into postponing her wedding, cause her uncle doesn’t trust the guy she has her sights on to marry.

Heh… and they are forced to do a little back peddling when Christian stands up and Annabel’s wedding DRUNK saying that the bride and groom shouldn’t get married.

Yeah, that makes the whole situation look so good for Annabel’s reputation.  Not.

So, I hope I finish over the next couple of days.  I’m enjoying it.  So far it feels a little refreshing to read.  In a market where it seems that the hotter, the sexier, the better, it’s nice to read something where they have only kissed where I am at in the book (about 1/2 way).

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I finally read Kismet’s Kiss recently.  I got it a while back.  Okay, last summer, after reading a blog post about her first year as an indie (self-published) author.   I’m old school.  I like the idea of a publisher, vetting processes, editing, etc… But I have to say… New York – you are missing out on a wonderful book here.

Cate Rowan finaled twice… TWICE… in the Golden Heart (Romance Writer’s of America’s Unpublished contest) with this  story – and she wasn’t able to sell it.

Why? There isn’t a flaw in it.  This is a wonderful fantasy romance about a healer and the sultan who need her help to save his children, wives, and servants from a mysterious and deadly sickness.  No, I didn’t mistype that… I said wives.  He has a harem of wives.

You’re thinking… “Sarah, the hero isn’t allow to have wives.   He’s not really married to them, right?”

Nope.  He’s married.  How so very naughty.  No, this isn’t an erotic romance.  There is no eight way orgy.  This is a wonderful fantasy romance, and in many ways it makes me think of some of the fantasy/futuristic romances I read years ago.  It’s unconventional with so many paranormals these days having the single mate thing going on (or I’ve been reading way too many werewolf books).   And Rowan really makes it work.  The book has this magical Arabian vibe to it.

In the desert realm of Kad, a deadly epidemic strikes the palace of Sultan Kuramos. Only a magical healer from an enemy land has the skill to save his royal household, but Kuramos never imagined the healer would be a woman.

Healer Varene finds her own surprises in Kad. She expects the sultan’s arrogance, but not his courage or his selfless care of the ill–or the possibility that the epidemic is the curse of a vengeful goddess.

Kuramos’s culture condemns Varene’s mystical talents. Her presence triggers an insurrection, yet as he and the healer toil for a cure, he loses his heart to her. She falls for him as well, but how can she relinquish her homeland and her principles–especially when he already has a harem and his family may be cursed?

Rowan has released a prequel to Kismet’s Kiss – The Source of Magic, and is planning more set in the same universe.    And as soon as I can get around to it (me and my slow reading brain…)  I’ll be getting The Source of Magic (even though what I really want to k now is what happens with the wives after the end of the book!).

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You might have seen the picture of one orange cat guarding her precious ARC copy of Chains of Ice by Christina Dodd.  Strange thing about this cat, she claims to be descended from the “poor cat, no name slob” of Breakfast at Tiffany’s fame, where her name comes from… Holiday “Holly” Golightly.  She takes it rather seriously, calling anyone named Paul “Fred, baby”.

So, my biggest wonder when I came home last week and found her clutching the ARC – was how she freaking got it!  Seriously.  I had to dig out a copy of A Monkey’s Guide to Understanding the Feline of Superior Intellect to get the gist of what she was saying.  Of course, by the time I found the manual to talk to her, the ARC was no where to be found.

So here’s how the conversation went down.

Me:  Holly, how did you get the book?

Holly:  *blink*

Me:  Okay, you’re not telling.  What did you like about it?

Holly:  Meow.

Me:  The Ural lynxes.  They were very true to life?  *shakes head*  When did you meet a lynx?   I don’t know if I want to know that.  Okay, okay.  What about the story?  Genny and John? What about them?

Holly:  *licks paw, cleans face*

Me:  They made you feel dirty?  Well, Christina does write a hot book.  If I remember correctly, you wanted an actual  bath after reading the first two of the Chosen series – especially Storm of Visions.  Anything else?

Holly:  *rolls over and shows belly, tail twitches happily curling around her foot before sweeping across the blanket and repeating*

Me:  *flips through Monkey’s Guide*  You would let John rub your belly any time without attempting to claw him and bite him.  Liked him that much, eh?

Holly:  *bliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiink*  Chirp.

Me:  I’ll take that as a yes.  Would you let Genny rub your belly?

Holly:  *gets up, turns several times before setting into a curled up sleeping position with her back to me*

Me:  Ah, so while not willing to let her rub your belly, alpha thing, you would be completely comfortable with her around as you sleep.  So you trust her.  So you think she is good match for John?

Holly:  *visibly sighs contently*

Me:  Okay, so you liked the chemistry between them, but you don’t feel like talking anymore.  Holly?  We have ways of making you talk.  *reaches to the hiding place of kitty treats*

Holly:  *ears perk up when there is a crinkling sound*

Me:  *Shakes bag*

Holly:  *gets up, trots across the bed, rubs on the treat bag*  Purr Purr Purr.

Me:  Ah ha!  so you really enjoyed the book and can’t wait for Chains of Fire.  Though you really want Aleksandr’s  -cause you really liked the Darkness Chosen series.  Holly, Aleksandr’s book isn’t going to be out until 2011 – last I heard.

Holly: *bits into the bag* Meow!

Me:  Not until you give me the ARC or tell me how you got it.

Holly:  *sits pretty*  Meow.

Me:  Ritter?  Ritter got it for you?  Seriously?

Holly:  Meeeow-ow-ow-ow.

Me:  You met on petbook.  *sighs, pours out some treats and closes the bag*  Okay.  So where is the ARC now?  Will you let me read it?

Holly:  *rubs head on hand with the prize treats in it*  Mew.  Meow-ow-ow-ow.

Me:  *drops treats on to quilt on the bed*  You put it in the rasputye for safe keeping.  What does that mean?  You could have let me read it.

Holly:  *Purrs happily as she eats her treats*

Me:  I really hate it when you rip apart my books you don’t like, but you don’t have the hide the ones you like.  I still can’t find my old Julie Garwoods.

Holly:  *looks up, licks her lips*

Me:  What do you mean, “What’s a yeti?”  *sigh*

So… it looks like I’m waiting until July 6th, like everyone else to find out more about Chains of Ice.

Okay… first off… This romance is an Inspirational Romance. I don’t normally read Inspirational. I try to read a little bit of everything – but hadn’t jumped onto the Inspirational band wagon.

So… what made me give this one a try?

The RISK!

I heard about this story on Saturday, and Deeanne took a moment to talk about the book. It is set “below stairs” during the Gilded Age. Romance between servants was forbidden, leading to the woman being sacked and the man being thrashed. It screamed “CONFLICT!” So that (and it being described elsewhere as “Christian Lite”) made me get it to read it. In fact, a friend wants to borrow it from me.

So, I read it over the weekend and really enjoyed this “spicy”, “edgy” Inspirational romance. Now before you get all hot and bothered over it being “spicy” – this is a sweet romance by secular sensuality standards. What it means in the realm of Inspirational is the characters have feelings below the neck. Yes, I laughed at that statement when I first heard it. But, I’m a total secular reader (I guess you could call me that) who expects that in a romance novel.

Here’s the blurb:

From the day she arrives at the Biltmore, Tillie Reese is dazzled–by the riches of the Vanderbilts and by Mack Danvers, a mountain man turned footman. When Tillie is enlisted to help tame Mack’s rugged behavior by tutoring him in the ways of refined society, the resulting sparks threaten Tillie’s efforts to be chosen as Edith Vanderbilt’s lady’s maid. But the stakes rise even higher when Mack and Tillie become entangled in a cover-up at the town orphanage. They could both lose their jobs…and their hearts.

This book  is rich with detail of life at the Biltmore estate.  Makes me want to go and visit to see the decor that Tillie saw.  This books also reminds me that while there was beauty in the upper levels of society, there were still  views that we today would view as backward – women/children viewed as property.  And I loved the blossoming romance between Tillie and Mack – I love that while she is looking at her future place in the Biltmore pecking order (being a lady’s maid), he does everything to dissuade her from what has been her life long dream.  Even with his faults, Mack is a good man that any mother would love as a son-in-law.

If you are worried about it being too Inspirational or fire and brimstone… Deeanne did an excellent job of not laying it on thick.  She sprinkles it through the book, and it is only heaviest when Tillie is at her crisis moment, where I believe anyone might turn to God and ask “What should I do?”  or “What do you really want of me?”  To me, it made it genuine.

So, I challenge you to step out of your comfort zone as I have.  Try an Inspirational (like this one) if you haven’t.  Try a paranormal.  Try a romantic suspense.  Try a sweet romance or a sexy one.  Try a new author.

Last night, I picked up my copy of Ten Things before settling in for the night.

Yes, I received an ARC with extreme GLEE and read it in one afternoon with extreme GLEE (even with “Juan” disrupting my joy a couple of times.)  But I picked it up and settled into bed with the TV on some music station playing adult contemporary artists I have never heard of.

My mind is still muddled these days.  It was a struggle to read the last two books I read – they were good – but it was my mind that made it a struggle – I know that.  And I think that was why I picked it up.  Mom had mentioned going back and reading old favorites in the past months.

Ten Things is already an old favorite.  Granted, I skimmed most of it last night, but it was familiar and beloved already.  Sebastian is my new favorite Quinn hero, unseating Dunford’s long reign.  Perhaps it is his chosen occupation.  It makes so much sense since his dramatic readings of romance novels in What Happens in London.

Ten Things You Should Know About This Book

1. Sebastian Grey is a devilishly handsome rogue with a secret.

2. Annabel Winslow’s family voted her The Winslow Most Likely to Speak Her Mind and The Winslow Most Likely to Fall Asleep in Church.

3. Sebastian’s uncle is the Earl of Newbury, and if he dies without siring an heir, Sebastian inherits everything.

4. Lord Newbury detests Sebastian and will stop at nothing to prevent this from happening.

5. Lord Newbury has decided that Annabel is the answer to all of his problems.

6. Annabel does not want to marry Lord Newbury, especially when she finds out he once romanced her grandmother.

7 is shocking, 8 is delicious, and 9 is downright wicked, all of which lead the way to

10. Happily. Ever. After.

In so many ways, this book was what I needed. Something light and joyful. I have been a fan since reading Splendid when it came out. And while she had done more serious books in the past, this one was not one of those. I didn’t need a dark and serious book. I needed top ten lists. I need something clever and witty. I needed Sebastian and Annabel. I needed the Valentines. I needed this book.

Now… can we talk about Winston… Edward? When are we going to see their books?

Laurel McBane has always relied on her friends for support, especially when her dream of attending culinary school was almost ruined by her parents’ financial problems. Now laurel is repaying the kindness of her friends by creating extravagantly luscious tiers of cakes and other confectionery delights that add the perfect touch to their clients weddings.

As for romance, Laurel believes in it-in theory. But she’s too low-key to appreciate all the luxuries that other women seem to long for. What she does appreciate is a strong, intelligent man, a man just like Parker’s older brother, Delaney Brown, on whom Laurel has had a mega crush on since childhood.

But some infatuations last longer than others, and Laurel is convinced that the Ivy League lawyer is still out of her reach. Plus, Del is too protective of Laurel to ever cross the line with her, or so she thinks. When Laurel’s quick silver moods get the better of her-leading to an angry, hot, altogether mind-blowing kiss with Del–she’ll have to quiet doubts in her mind to turn a moment of passion into forever….

I loved how she put Del and Laurel together. Through out the last two books i was hoping these to would get together. And it was nice that she didn’t change the family dynamic too much even though the childhood friends turned into lovers. And let me tell you some of the cakes in this book makes my mouth water.

Savor the moment is book three in the all new Nora Roberts series The Bride Quartet. I loved the first two but this one is my favorite to date. Then again there is another one coming our in September. Happy Ever After is the last book in the series and Parker’s story! Parker is my favorite so I can’t wait for this book.

For more information on this book and Nora’s others check out her website at http://www.noraroberts.com/

Is it September yet *LOL*.

Kristin Montgomery is more than a little shocked when her aunts inform her they’re fairy godmothers. Worse, after dropping that bombshell, they hand her a wand and head off on a world cruise. Now Kristin’s uncomplicated life as a CPA in San Diego has disappeared like magic, and she not only has to deal with her burgeoning magical powers but also a reluctant and distractingly sexy magical arbitor.

But before Kristin can hone her skills and pass the tests necessary to fully claim her powers, she and Tennyson must work together to defend the world, both magical and human, against those who would claim her powers for their own.

Tennyson Ritter is a historian. A scholar by choice, he is yanked from his studies to act as a arbiter for the newly chosen fairy godmother. He doesn’t want to waste his time with a woman who doesn’t know anything about magic or the magical world, but soon the beguiling Kristin draws him away from his books and into her life.

This charming debut is everything you could ever want in a lighthearted, fun-filled romance. The chemistry and banter between Kristin and Tennyson is priceless and will have you laughing in no time.  Stevens has created a wonderful world where magic is there for those who wish for it. The Wish List is the first of three books in the Time of Transition series; this is the perfect book for those who love Harry Potter and fairytales with a happy ending.

If you would like to know more about Gabi Stevens and her magical world of Fairy Godmothers, visit her at:  http://www.gabistevens.com/