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Bookit Review: The Girl I Used to Know

Posted on April 25, 2018April 25, 2018 by sokorra

Title: The Girl I used to know
Bookit #11
Author: Faith Hogan
Release Date: 2017
Medium: Kindle Unlimited Ebook

I found this book on the Kindle Unlimited service while looking for something different to read. This book actually was better than I anticipated. For one thing, the romance of the book was minor and almost a background story point. THe main focus on the story is the two main characters whose POV switches back and forth.

Amanda King is a forty-something mother of two who has suppressed her dreams to help her husband get ahead in his career. Throughout the book she is forced to see how little of herself remained after all these years, and start to live on her own terms again.

Tess Cuffe, a sixty something women who lives in Amanda’s basement has her own issues. She had a falling out with her sister forty years before and never really allowed herself to get over it. She is forced to reevaluate her life as well.

This story is as much about friendship then any romance. It has a happy ending for both Amanda and Tess, but its focused on them, and not their romances. It’s a good story, although sometimes I felt the sentences were a little stagnant. I definitely recommend this book and gave it a B+

The only issue I had with this book is that Richard and Douglas both made me want to throw my kindle. Particularly Douglas and his “a girl like Tess.”. He leads Tess on, and then blames her for everything and convinces her sister of the same. Richard is a little easier to handle, though the way he tries to manipulate Amanda into what he wanted in a wife also is hard to take at times.

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Bookit Review: Love Bites

Posted on April 11, 2018 by sokorra

Title: Love Bites
Bookit #10
Author: Skye Turner & Amanda Lanclos
Release Date: November 11 2017
Medium: Kindle E-book (Kindle Unlimited)

When I spotted this book on the ‘You May Like’ list, I thought it sounded cute and decided to read it. It sat in the not-read pile for awhile but I finally got down to reading it this month…and I was disappointed.

The book description warns you that it is a book for adult readers. Normally this doesn’t bother me as I am an of age reader. However, by the end of the book it was too much. The book was almost all sex scenes, with very little plot. What little plot there was wasn’t very good and the whole book comes out as a shallow story. While I don’t mind the occasional love scene, I prefer it to compliment the story, not be the entire story.

The story at first seemed to have some merit, but it soon stopped being a story. It jumps time with no warning, and most of the non-sex scenes are just a few paragraphs leading to a new sex scene. And I didn’t think they were written all that well.

I don’t know if it was perhaps the 1st person narration (Done with two characters alternating) or the fact that it just seemed rushed and nothing holding it together. Either way, this book gets a strong C-. I feel it could do alot better if they had added more to the plot so it didn’t seem like out of nowhere at the end, and developed the characters a little more so I actually cared about what was going on.

I may give the authors another chance individually, but I don’t see myself continuing this series when they do continue it. The other reviewers on Goodreads apparently disagree with me, so perhaps it was just me.

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Bookit Review: Sugar Daddy

Posted on March 19, 2018March 18, 2018 by sokorra

Title: Sugar Daddy (Travis Series #1)
Bookit #7
Author: Lisa Kleypas
Release Date: 2007
Medium: Kindle E-book

A few weeks ago I reviewed a book called Brown Eyed Girl. I found out later that the novel was in fact the last book in a four book series about the Travis Siblings. The first book in the series was Sugar Daddy and was focused on Liberty Jones, a woman who grew up poor and ended up having to raise her baby sister. She gets torn between her first love – Hardy Cates, and the man she has started falling for – Gage Travis.

I like this book better than Brown-Eyed Girl because it seems to have more details and more consistent pacing. Liberty’s story has a strong backstory. I had to admit I found the fact that Gage didn’t show up till about 2/3 thorugh the story odd for a romance, but it put more emphasis on it being Liberty’s story. She’s the narrator (and its in first person) and the story is more about her moving on. Given the information in the ‘description’ I thought both Gage and Hardy would have showed up more then they did.

Reading this novel was helpful in improving my thoughts on Brown-Eyed Girl simply because some of the information I found lacking in that novel gets explained in this one (and the two others). So while each book can stand its own, its a good idea to read the series in order to get the full story.

Final Grade: B+

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E-books Vs Paper Books

Posted on August 28, 2017 by sokorra

I’ve often read arguments about how either electronic books are better than physical copies or the opposite. People get quite passionate about their books, and I don’t blame them. Personally I tend to live in the middle ground, where e-books on my Kindle and my bookshelf full of paperbacks and hardbacks are living contently together.

I’ve tended to have more E-books Books lately because I wanted to read something right away, or move on to a sequel but didn’t have the time to get the paperback. Occasionally it was simply because I don’t have the room…at the moment. I’m the type of person who has stacks of books everywhere. Some are read, some aren’t. I always plan on reading them, but I also have the OOOH SHINEY feeling when it comes to my books.

Physical books are an expeirance. Perhaps it is because I trained to be in a field where paper is part of communication, but having the physical book in hand is great. The feel of the paper, the neat lines of ink. The Book Covers and Dustjackets. It appeals to the senses with touch, and the contrast between the ink and paper. It has a smell, different as it ages. A used book store smells different than a new book store. The ones with collectable and hard to find ones have a smell all of their own too. So picking up a paperback is a experience that involves all your senses. Used books have a history too, so in a sense you are sharing it with someone else.

That’s not to say I don’t like my e-books. They are good too. They fed my need to consume a story. They are easier to read when traveling because you don’t have the weight of all those books. They last longer because they don’t get affected by the environment. Well, within reason. Killing your e-reader will affect them. They can be interactive, with many e-readers now having a way to share quotes and notes from your readings to your friends on social media. It can make its own expeirance.

So I think in the end, the argument is a silly one. They are all books, waiting for us to morph into the story, and find enjoyment. There are so many adventures out there to enjoy, don’t waste time fighting over how you got there.

What do you think?