PURPLE QUEEN FAIRY READS

Faith by Lesley Pearse is what I call a female drama novel for female readers. Totally 600+ pages, it has been a long time since I read one of such novels. Faith , set in the 70s and 90s is about Laura Branningan who has been in jail in Scotland for the murder of her best friend, Jackie. However, she insist that she is innocent even though she was convicted. Stuart, an ex-love, who has been away for the past few years believes her innocence and sets out to gather evidence for her to appeal against her conviction. The question is, if Laura did not kill Jackie, then who did? In Stuart’s investigation, Laura is forces to go down memory land, from her life as a little girl to her adulthood, her friendship with Jackie and what leads her into the arms of Stuart and out into the arms of another man and subsequently forced her to face circumstances of her current situation. I enjoyed reading Faith. The storyline is straight forward, not just about a woman wrongly accused of a crime she ...

C Synopsis : Colt McAlister was having the summer of his life. He spent his days surfing and his nights playing guitar on the beach with friends. He even met a girl and got his first car. But everything changes when his parents are killed in a freak accident. He’s forced to leave his old life behind and move to Arizona with his grandfather. The only person he knows at the new high school is a childhood friend named Dani. And Oz, a guy he’s sure he’s never met but who is strangely familiar. But what if his parents’ death wasn’t an accident? His mother, an investigative reporter, was going to expose a secret mind-control program run by one of the world;s largest companies. Before she could release the story, what if agents from Trindent Biotech made sure she couldn’t go public? Vowing to uncover the truth, Colt gets drawn into a secret world of aliens, shapeshifters, flying motorcycles and invisible gateways. I have many problems with this book. First, there were a few mistakes ...

As the say goes, Tuesday’s child is full of grace... Well unfortunately, full of grace does not describe our Tuesday’s child, Linda Evans at all. In fact, she’s the exact opposite. Eternally clad in her Doc Martens (she buys one annually as she thinks it’s pointless to have too many shoes. Yikes!), she loves heavy metal music and computer games and shuns anything ‘girly’. In fact, she works as a computer game reviewer for magazine. She doesn’t put on makeup and keeps her long blonde hair in a scrunchie. Oh yes, and her best friend/mate is a guy, name’s Ollie and they shared a flat (or rather she rent a room in Ollie’s flat). However, Lucy's world is about to change. She lost her job as the magazine was sold off by her boss, Ollie gets engaged and Lucy hates his fiancée. ( psst : we all know that she’s secretly in love with him, dont' we? ). Anyway, Ollie got her a new job as a receptionist in a real estate office and her new boss who is not just an American but a rich and ...

Synopsis : Kurt Warner is the two-time NFL MVP–winning quarterback of the Arizona Cardinals. Brenda Warner is an ex-Marine turned stay-at-home mom who collects coats for low-income kids and rocks babies to sleep at a hospital for chronically-ill infants. Together they’re the parents of seven, going into their 12th year of marriage, and founders of a foundation that helps disadvantaged children and families. Their formula for success? They put First Things First—family, faith, and giving to others—it’s their family motto, and it drives everything they do. First Things First is an honest, insightful, and entertaining look at life inside the Warner household. Kurt and Brenda speak candidly about their marriage, the values they are working to instill in their kids, things they’ve done right, mistakes they’ve made, the importance of giving back, and the legacy they hope to leave behind. Includes a 16-page full-color photo insert. I received a trade paperback version of this book from ...

Synopsis : Alex Hunter hasn’t come to Japan to fall in love. But Joanna Rand is the most beautiful, exciting woman he has ever met. But Joanne is not who she thinks she is. 10 years before, and halfway across the world, a brutally bizarre experiment recreated her mind. A violation so hideous that her dreams are filled with terror and her memories are a lie. If they are ever to be free, Alex and Joanne have to reopen the dangerous door into the nightmare past. Somehow they have to find the key to midnight. I love books by Dean Koontz. He's such a great storyteller and I used to read a lot of  what he wrote. That is books that I can associate Dean Koontz with...mysterious unexplained thriller with lots of elements of terror and suspense. I remember fondly weekend marathon reading during college time and I would complete one book in one or two days, reading them from morning till night and feeling exhausted but much thrilled at the same time. I can still remember titles such as...

Synopsis : After departing London to follow her heart’s desire to become a psychology lecturer, Ceri D’Altroy vows to leave her matchmaking ways behind her for good. Unfortunately, all she seems to do is inspire the new people she meets to change their lives. There’s Ed, who’s decided to declare his love to a woman who is way out of his league, Mel and Claudine, two long-term friends who are now tempted to start an illicit affair, and Gwen, the chain-smoking head of department who has a deep, dark secret she only wants to share with her new employees. No one who comes into contact with Ceri is ever the same again. Could this unsuspecting young woman be a modern-day Cupid? Like the synopsis says, the story is about Ceri who left her job in London and moved to Leeds to lecture at the college there. She wasn’t that excited by her adventures into the love lives of those she met in Leeds because she doesn’t have a love life of her own, except for her love fantasy that involves Ange...

Synopsis : Jamie Swift has one priority in quiet Beaumont, South Carolina: running the local newspaper. Romance runs second. But with the arrival of her silent partner, the notoriously mysteriously and sexy Maximillian Holt, Jamie’s life gets shaken up. Max claims he’s here to give his brother-in-law a vote of confidence. A former wrestler, Frankie Fontana’s now taking his shots in the political ring. Beaumont could use a major with scruples, but what it gets is a crime – and what Jamie gets is a story that’s taking her for a ride on the wild side, complete with two assassins, a washed up stripper and an insane poacher. Between a spray of bullets and a fast gateway, could it get any more romantic or dangerous? Max and Jamie are betting their lives on a long shot. This is my first introduction to Janet Evanovich. I have another of her book that I have yet to read. Although this book is published in 2003, the style that it’s written is very 80s. Needless to say, this is not my kind...

Synopsis: In a secluded house not far from Washington DC, the FBI is interviewing one of the most important witnesses it has ever had, a young woman named Faith Lockhart. For Faith has done too much, knows too much and she’ll tell too much. Feared by some of the most powerful men in the world, Faith has been targeted to die. But when a private investigator walks into the middle of the assassination attempt, the shooting suddenly goes wrong and an FBI agent is killed. Now Faith must flee for her life – with her story, with her deadly secret and with an unknown man she’s forced to trust. I bought this book from here and this is my first encounter with David Baldacci. I enjoyed Saving Faith for what it is - a without pretendence espionage thriller with the good guys and the bad guys and the traitors and makes you wonder who’s the good guys and who the bad guys are. Washington DC is the city of focus and the author gave us an insight to political lobbying in action and whic...

Synopsis : Maggie Bradford is on trial for murder – in a celebrity trial of the decade. As one of the world’s best-loved singer-songwriters, she seems to have it all. So how could she have murdered not just one, but two of her husbands? Will Shepherd was Maggie’s second husband. A magnificent athlete and film star, he was just as famous. But Will had dark, dangerous secrets that none of his fans could have imagined and that his won wife could never have dreamed of. That sounds like a good read especially when you’re on holiday and won’t want to read anything too heavy.  Something to relax by after a day of shopping or after a day by the beach.  It also works well when you’re in the airport in between flights. The writing is fast paced. A chapter is only about 2 – 3 pages and you’ll be tempted to move on to the next chapter after completing one. Before you know it, you’re reached the last chapter. I read mine within 2 days while on work travel. While it's a good read, t...

Synopsis : A developer has slated an ancient Abenaki Indian burial ground for a strip mall, and now strange happenings have the inhabitants of tiny Comtosook, Vermont, talking of supernatural forces at work. Ross Wakeman is a ghost hunter who’s never seen a ghost – all he’s searching for is something to end the pain of losing his fiancée, Aimee, in a car accident. Ross lives only for a way to connect with Aimee from beyond. Searching the site for signs of paranormal, he meets the mysterious Lia, who sparks him to life for the first time in years. But who is Lia? The discoveries that await Ross are beyond anything he could dream of in this world – or the next. I was just thinking before getting this from the library that it has been a long time since I read a good ghost novel...one that is not gross but a good haunting with interesting storyline. Guess which book fell right into my hand while at the library recently. Reading Second Glace is like going out on a first date. T...