one for the money

 




***** a 5 star read
ok this is another series that i wanted to read that i have started and will probably take me forever to finish because sometimes i forget what i have read and what i need to read!

well, this book was a fast pace read, and i am glad that i am finally taking the plunge to read it! i love mystery's especially ones that are funny with it. i couldn't stop laughing, because i am a criminal justice major, and working with felons is part of the rush that i love so with that said i love love love this book!

Stephanie Plum was laid off from her job as a lingerie buyer for a local (Trenton, NJ) department store. Needing money quickly she turned to family and out of the goodness of his heart (not) her cousin Vinnie hired her to be a “skip tracer” in his bail bonds company.

As luck may have it, one of Vinnie’s best bounty hunters, was in the hospital, so Stephanie picked up his case load.

Her “luck” continued when she found out that the most money could be made by bringing an old neighbor (with whom she has had sex with) to justice.

Among a host of problems for Stephanie: She has zero experience with guns or apprehending people. The skip, Joe Morelli, is a cop on the run with skills that Stephanie cannot match and she still has the hots for him. To top it all off…..world champion boxer (Benito Ramirez) with a sadistic streak….. is after her.

Murders start piling up and a sinister drug ring is uncovered. LOTS of action.

forward pass

 

a ***** 5 star read

i got this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

this book was a good quick read.

this book is about a private school who has a very good soccer team. most of the players are looking for a tryout for the national team which then leads them to the Olympics.

parmita is the star goalie for this team. she works really hard with her practices and then she heads home to her house parents and works on her studies. She wants to be a surgeon and knows that she has to get all A's so she can get the education that she wants. she also wants to play for the national team so she can play for the Olympics.

the teams assistant coach was a formal goalie for the national team and is a really go player and has been teaching Parmita everything that she knows. Then after a few unwanted advances the assistant couch tells her that she knows about her sexuality and corners her in the locker room. Parmita's assistant couch starts to kiss her and secretly touch her when the rest of the team is not around. worried that everyone will find out her secret she has to find out with herself how far she is willing to go for this national team tryout.

on top of the all stress her house parents are full blow Christians. having a secret with her sexuality can ruin her house situation and her availability to play with the great Canadian soccer team. also, she is not ready for the high school to find out that she is a lesbian. she has a plan to let it all come out when she is accepted into a great college.

this is a great coming to age book and i suggest everyone to read it if you want a quick weekend read.

touch

 

 a ***** 5 star review

I got this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

this book was great! very heartfelt. i couldn't help but feel bad for this kid.

Ethan is 16 years old and he idolizes his dad. his dad is a computer programer and boy can he hack. his dad made a virus that would wipe out all the "e" on someone's computer. well, Ethan thought it would be some good bonding if he took it and fixed it and released it on the school site.

Being very proud of himself that his dad would watch the news or read the hacker blog site to get at least of smile from his dad he rushed home. But, to his surprise his dad didn't even noticed. even when he yelled to his dad to watch the news.

Haley is a 15 year old girl and is Ethan's step sister. his dad married Haley's mom. their parents are madly in love and Haley and Ethan have a good relationship. Ethan is jealous of Haley. Haley gets in trouble for stealing and his dad buys her the neck less that she stole. Haley gets a vampire tattoo and she gets a shopping spree at the mall. So, today of all days she cuts her hair spiky and gets red tips with a eye brow ring and she gets a movie night with dad and her friends. The funny thing is that Haley is not happy. Since her makeover she can't stop crying and she is very hateful to Ethan's dad and him. He tried playing the nice brother, all he got was yelled at.

to top off Ethan's bad day his girlfriend and best friend had asked him to join their robot team for school. So, with his help for the robot with his dads advice gets him on the wrong side of friendship with his best friend and girlfriend. now feeling alone he needs his friends more than ever

coming home from school he finds out that Haley is stating that his dad touched her in bad places and now is not in the house. Ethan thinks he is arrested for it and doesn't believe his step sister. with all the anger that he is boiling up he says the wrong things and ends up getting kicked out.

Ethan make its top business to find out the truth and save his relationship with his best friend. When Ethan uses his skills for good and not bad will the outcome change his life forever?

nothing but trouble

***** a 5 star read
this book was a great quick read. i love romance books so i couldn't put down the chance to read this book. plus, the author is from the same area i live so it is a plus! I got this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

this book is about a girl who worked for everything in her life. she couldn't care less about a boy in her life right now. She divorced the last man she let in her life because he wanted to sit on the couch and do nothing. She has a horrible past, but she doesn't let that ruin what she is. she is glad that she was raised that way.

Laura owns a bar, and keeps a good job on running a tight ship. she is not afraid to take down a bar fight. being little everyone comes to the bar to she her in action, and for those that know her are scared to mess with her.

Laura has 2 best friends who come to the bar all the time. Ali, she works as waitress for the bar and she is psychic. Well, she can only tell the future from juice pulp! well Ali tell Laura that tonight is the night she will find her prince charming. Laura laughs because Ali is never right when she makes these predictions and no one ever says anything because that is what friends do.
Hannah is her other friend and works as a stock broker. she hates men just as much as Laura does, so they find themselves bad mouthing men all the time. Hannah give advice to the men who think they have a chance with Laura.

Brandon happens to come to the bar one night with his friend Ned. he is finally done with school and needs a break before he starts his job. he sees Laura breaking up a bar fight and knew he had to have her.
Brandon comes from lots of money. oh, did i mention his last name is prince! Brandon ends up making a bet with Ned that he can land a date with Laura

as you can see a lot will happens and i am not going to ruin it with anymore details just know this book is like the romance for 2 different worlds. like rich and poor. there is a lot of southern humor and will have you smiling. i am pretty sure you will finish this book within a couple hours if you would start it.

dont panic

 **** a 4 star read
i got this book from the author in exchange for an honest review.

this book was a really good book. it was really sad because there are a lot of teens around the world that are suffering from this problem and parents are not aware that this is a huge problem.

Samantha is a great student. She has good grades a lot going for her. Lately she struggles with everyday tasks like school. the very thought about waking up and going to school makes Samantha's chest tight and she feels like everyone can hear her thoughts and her heart beat. it takes everything that she has to stay in school, but she can't she up and leaves to find the comfort of her bedroom. She doesn't understand what is wrong with her. When she starts thinking about it she gets dizzy and starts all over again.

Samantha's mom is tired of her skipping school. She thinks that Samantha is making this all up so she can stay home. She went to numerous doctors appointments and the doctors said that everything is ok, and nothing is wrong. Therefore, her mother thinks she is lying. Her father on the other hand wouldn't care. He hasn't been around he just up and left. Samantha is also struggling with that. Samantha waits for the phone call from her 1 1/2 year long boyfriend chad. He moved to California and hasn't spoken to her since. All this heartache and no one to talk to about her problems.

Samantha has a best friend, but her best friend doesn't understand either what is going on with her. One day while Samantha was in school and her AP teacher told her she was going to present to the class her report she freaked out. She thought everyone was staring at her and that everyone was talking about her. She up and ran out of the classroom to the bathroom. She sat on the floor and couldn't believe that she can't even sit in class. Till a very cute boy asked her if she was ok. right then and there she wanted to die because she had went into the boys bathroom

This boy was a old school mate that moved away and then came back. he use to be very fat, but losslots of weight. His name is Eli. he told her that he knew what she was going through because he had the same thing anxiety. He told her about all the symptoms that she was going through and he started to sing to her

now everything was falling into place. she has this very cute boy who was trying to help her through this issues, and it was working! he would walk her to class and even talk to her at home. he suggested that she see a doctor because they could help her. She didn't want to go to the doctor because she thinks nothing is wrong. her mother didn't believe her when Samantha and Eli explained that they think she has anxiety. now Samantha starts to have feelings for Eli, but right when she thinks she has everything controlled her ex boyfriend comes back and he isn't the same.

this book hits home because everyone who reads this knows someone who went through this. this book is very touching and the more you read the more you will understand Samantha and the real problem with anxiety. there is a lot of drama and action in this book that you will have to read for yourself to figure out.

i loved this book and wish there was more books like this one.

look again

***** a 5 star read
OMG!!! WOW!! words cannot express how much i loved this book. i might be a little more emotional than other readers because i am pregnant, but i must say this book broke my heart and also made me happy. so, after reading this i have to ask. If you had a child that you took care of as your own and is legally yours would you give it up when you found out the child was stolen? I would die before i would do that. i know that is selfish and blah blah blah but judge away!

this book is about a reporter named Ellen. she worked very hard and one day she did a piece at a hospital. she saw a little boy with tubes in his nose and fighting for his life. days went by and no one came for the child. she thought it was weird that their wasn't any parents concerned for this child. she asked around and found out that child was left and he was waiting to be adopted. Ellen did everything in her power to adopt that little boy. so, now according to the common wealth of Pennsylvania the little boy was hers.

Will is now 3 years old and attends pre school. is a normal little boy, and has mother who worries sick about him because of his previous medical history. he has a babysitter that you could call a nanny because she is there all the time and helped raised him. her name is connie. she would do anything for that child and for Ellen.

Ellen one day looked at her mail and saw a post card for a missing child. they get these junk mail all the time, but this time the child looked like her little will. she folded it and kept it in her back pocket. she continued her daily routine and had trouble completing her work at the newspaper because she kept looking at this picture for a missing child. Ellen then went on the internet and started to research about this missing child. the child's name was timothy. he was stolen out of a car in a car jacking and the nanny was killed. the family paid the ransom money, but killer never returned the child. she printed out the papers and continued to do her research.

Ellen called her lawyer who did the adoption process for her and she found out horrible news. her lawyer killed herself. Ellen did some digging and was able to get her old case file. she was putting all the papers together when she found the paper that had the mother, father and witness signatures for the removing of parental rights. she was going to call the mother. she knew she shouldn't start digging because if she was right she didn't know how she would be able to give away will. she kept telling herself that the adoption was legal she had the judges signature and she was safe, right? after not being able to fight the mother she found the grandmother and here comes the twist.
the grandmother hasn't herd from the mother in over 5 years. Ellen told her that couldn't have happen because she showed the paper were she was supposedly witness her daughter sign her rights away. the grandmother said that was her daughters signature but not hers. the same thing happened with the sister. now Ellen knew something was wrong with her adoption.

while playing hookie at work she decided that she was going to find out more about this child that was missing. she ended up flying to Florida and stalking the parents of the missing child. she saw the mother and the father and stole cigarette butts and a soda can and put them in a brown bag for a DNA test. she was going to figure this out once and for all. now while doing this digging she found a picture of the mother who she thought was the mother of will and her boyfriend. the boyfriend looked just like the picture of the man who killed the nanny and stole the baby of the child she was researching. Ellen knew in her heart that will was this family's baby.

after sending away all the samples and waiting for the results she continued to dig about this missing child. everyone who knew about the baby was ending up dead. the lawyer killed herself, the mother how she thought was the mother was murdered, and now everything fell into place and Ellen knew her and will were in danger. right then and there she and will was attacked and now facing the man who killed the nanny and stole the baby. to make matters worse the mother of the missing child started pounding on the door demanding that Ellen give her the baby back. The FBI got involved and took will right from Ellen and will was screaming for his mother because for his whole life that is all he knew.
i will not spoil the book for you but be prepared for heartache and evil madness, and maybe some happiness you never know. i have to tell you that if you are a mother you will defiantly shed tears after reading this book. it had a great ending and it was the best book i have read this year.

so many reasons why

 ***** a 5 star read

WOW!!! i cannot wait till the 2nd book is out. How can someone end a book like that! lol. No, before half of you get mad there isn't a cliff hanger. just a perfect ending to a book that makes you want to continue the read. i love how fast i could read this book. it was always interesting and not boring. even though it is only 170 pages it still got to the point and told a very wonderful story. i got this book from the author in exchange for an honest review.

this book is about a girl named Emma who had a very horrible past. one night while at a friends house she called her mom and asked for a ride home. her mother said it is only a couple houses down just walk home. well, that was the worst mistake of her mother's life. she was kidnapped, raped,stabbed, and left for death at a community park. Emma was 10 at the time. now 10 years later she cannot cope with everyday life

Emma has a fear of leaving the house. she cannot go on her porch or even out her door because of fear that her attacker who get her again. her attacker is in jail, but up for parole in a couple of weeks. Emma has horrible nightmares and even panic attacks when she thinks of it. Emma is in college and trying to work on her finals for school. her professor sent her a nasty email stating that she could not have an extension on her paper because everyone is asking for one. he suggested that if she was having trouble with her paper that she needed to come to a study group. Emma being pissed of at her teacher for not reading her file and knowing that she has a medical condition that she cannot leave the house sends a nasty email right back. so, it starts!

Emma's profession Simon starts flirting with her over emails. he says he is sorry for not looking at her file and starts sending her information on the criminal cases that she needed to work on. Emma is totally into her professor because he is hot and decides why not flirt back with him, so she uses her not being able to leave the house a good excuse to talk. the emails turn into texting and phone calls. Simon tells Emma he knows this is wrong because he is her professor but tells her he has a crush on her. Emma gets excited and tells him the same thing. To rush up the story a little bit they start dating.

Emma's best friends tom and Cass are over all the time watching movies and brings her food and other things that she needs from the house. Emma hears about all of Cass' relationship issues and sexual experiences. tom is her best friend and often sleeps over at the house to make Emma feel safe. before you jump to conclusions they never do anything besides cuddle. Honestly, they both really don't have that kind of feelings for each other! Cass doesn't know how to take the information about Emma being with someone 18 years older than her and plus she think Simon is an asshole.

Emma and Simon's relationship heat up and he helps her fight her fears of leaving the house. no, she didn't leave the house yet, but now she is able to go on her deck. Simon introduces a little 4 year old child of his and they hit it off. Emma starts to baby sit for him while he is working as a assistant district attorney. Emma has no problem playing with a 4 year old and getting her to eat her veggies! Emma even hit it off with Simon's ex wife. strangely they both found each other nice.

now here is where it gets good. Emma's attacker gets out on parole and she is afraid that he is going to attack her again. she starts to have tons of panic attacks to the point where someone has to watch her at all times. She is tried to being stuck in the house and babysat so she decided it is time to concur her fear. When a sudden phone call hits home and finds out that her secret love life is now in the paper she doesn't know what to do. Simon is suspended from the college and now has to take a "break" from her to be able to keep his job. they talk on the phone all the time, but now she is alone. She starts to have nightmares and turned on the TV. She saw her attacker on TV. he is most wanted to a disappearance of a 12 year old girl. Emma now has to save this girl. Emma takes a bunch of medicine that she can find in the house and as the doorman order her a taxi. She asks him to come along to the park where she was found over 10 years ago. now calling everyone that she knows and no one will answer she is on her own. Can she save this little girl before he hurts another person. Will Emma be able to overcome her fears of leaving the house?

OH i forgot!!! there is a huge twist in the story that will leave your breathless. Want to know what it is?!! well, read the book! i think i told you enough!