A Wallflower Christmas by Lisa Kleypas
Just when I thought I had read the whole Wallflower series I found a new one! Since all of the original four Wallflowers are happily married (and this book provided a nice peek into their married lives) this book features Daisy and Lillian's brother Rafe. Which is a great name. He is coming from America to marry a rich girl but instead - spoiler alert - falls madly in love with someone (gasp) inappropriate! I don't know why, but this story line never gets old to me, I just love it!!!
I also see on Amazon that there are several new books out this week that I very much need to read including but not limited to a Nora Roberts wedding series book and a Linda Lael Miller Stone Creek series book. Very exciting!!!
Friday, October 30, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
No. 94: Match Play
Match Play by Merline Lovelace
This is another in the OMEGA/spy series. This time, it is a former olympic athlete - Rogue, who is supposed to befriend a North Korean female golfer to assist her in defecting to the US with her nuclear scientist father. So, in order to do so she participates in a charity golf tournament in the UK (luckily she is super awesome at golf) where coincidentally, her ex boyfriend who is a stealth bomber pilot is stationed secretly (don't want anyone to know the bombers are in the UK) Of course they run into each other but at first they hate each other because of how they broke up - right before the Olympics - but after she is poisoned by a masseuse and almost dies and is also kidnapped, they realize their love for each other didn't die and they are going to give it another chance.
These books are definitely not my favorite, but they are amusing - heck, just writing a brief summary of the plot kind of cracks me up - and they are quick reads, which is always kind of nice if you don't have a lot of time.
This is another in the OMEGA/spy series. This time, it is a former olympic athlete - Rogue, who is supposed to befriend a North Korean female golfer to assist her in defecting to the US with her nuclear scientist father. So, in order to do so she participates in a charity golf tournament in the UK (luckily she is super awesome at golf) where coincidentally, her ex boyfriend who is a stealth bomber pilot is stationed secretly (don't want anyone to know the bombers are in the UK) Of course they run into each other but at first they hate each other because of how they broke up - right before the Olympics - but after she is poisoned by a masseuse and almost dies and is also kidnapped, they realize their love for each other didn't die and they are going to give it another chance.
These books are definitely not my favorite, but they are amusing - heck, just writing a brief summary of the plot kind of cracks me up - and they are quick reads, which is always kind of nice if you don't have a lot of time.
No. 93: Undercover Wife
Undercover Wife by Merline Lovelace
Yet another OMEGA book. This time Gillian has become an agent and is paired with Mike for an op in China where they are trying to figure out who is smuggling sick monkeys into the US for use in religious sacrifices. Awesome, no? But wait, it gets better - their first contact in China is a woman who ownes an export business who just happens to secretly be Mike's love who he thought was murdered in the jungle but instead was only almost murdered but was then kidnapped and kept captive by some creepy English guy - who she later murdered and then used his money to have extensive plastic surgery and start an export business in China all in an elaborate plot to get her revenge on Mike who she thought abandoned her in the jungle. Also, there are two con artist kids, their grandfather, a kidnapping, a mudslide and did I mention sick monkeys? And Mike and Gillian fall in love and live happily ever after.
Yet another OMEGA book. This time Gillian has become an agent and is paired with Mike for an op in China where they are trying to figure out who is smuggling sick monkeys into the US for use in religious sacrifices. Awesome, no? But wait, it gets better - their first contact in China is a woman who ownes an export business who just happens to secretly be Mike's love who he thought was murdered in the jungle but instead was only almost murdered but was then kidnapped and kept captive by some creepy English guy - who she later murdered and then used his money to have extensive plastic surgery and start an export business in China all in an elaborate plot to get her revenge on Mike who she thought abandoned her in the jungle. Also, there are two con artist kids, their grandfather, a kidnapping, a mudslide and did I mention sick monkeys? And Mike and Gillian fall in love and live happily ever after.
No. 92: Stranded With a Spy
Stranded With a Spy by Merline Lovelace
This book was free on my kindle! I love free books! It is actually part of a series that I have read before about a secret special operations group called OMEGA.
In this book, a woman is pursued by OMEGA agents when a CD with classified financial information is found in her luggage by TSA when she travels to France. OMEGA thinks she is going to sell or otherwise provide the information to a terrorist called The Russian so they send an agent to follow her and retrieve the CD and catch the bad guy. The FMC, Mallory, is the former aide of a US Senator that she accused of making inappropriate advances towards her. It was kind of a scandal and she left the country to get away from the attention. The agent made contact with her, they fell in love and it turns out she is not a bad guy after all - surprising!
This book was free on my kindle! I love free books! It is actually part of a series that I have read before about a secret special operations group called OMEGA.
In this book, a woman is pursued by OMEGA agents when a CD with classified financial information is found in her luggage by TSA when she travels to France. OMEGA thinks she is going to sell or otherwise provide the information to a terrorist called The Russian so they send an agent to follow her and retrieve the CD and catch the bad guy. The FMC, Mallory, is the former aide of a US Senator that she accused of making inappropriate advances towards her. It was kind of a scandal and she left the country to get away from the attention. The agent made contact with her, they fell in love and it turns out she is not a bad guy after all - surprising!
No. 91: Closer Encounters
Closer Encounters by Merline Lovelace
This was a weird one, a lady was haunted/possessed by the spirit of her deceased "Uncle's" fiancee who died after she was pushed off the balcony of a hotel at the begining of WWII. I didn't really get into it as much as the others in the OMEGA series because I am not really a fan of ghost stories. A little too weird for me.
Although, I did recently like another book where there was a ghost/spirit. Interesting...
This was a weird one, a lady was haunted/possessed by the spirit of her deceased "Uncle's" fiancee who died after she was pushed off the balcony of a hotel at the begining of WWII. I didn't really get into it as much as the others in the OMEGA series because I am not really a fan of ghost stories. A little too weird for me.
Although, I did recently like another book where there was a ghost/spirit. Interesting...
No. 90: With Every Breath
With Every Breath by Lynn Kurland
This was actually the first book I read on the Kindle. I was surprised to find this book - it is by one of my favorite authors and I thought that I had read everything from her. But I had not, it was a nice surprise.
This book was about Sunshine who is the sister of a character in a previous book. She is in Scotland to help her sister (in the present day) while she had her baby and does not want to go back to Seattle. She is living in the witch's cottage. One night there is a knock at her door and a man asking for her help to save his brother. When she steps through the doorway she goes back in time! Yeah! Time travel!
This was actually the first book I read on the Kindle. I was surprised to find this book - it is by one of my favorite authors and I thought that I had read everything from her. But I had not, it was a nice surprise.
This book was about Sunshine who is the sister of a character in a previous book. She is in Scotland to help her sister (in the present day) while she had her baby and does not want to go back to Seattle. She is living in the witch's cottage. One night there is a knock at her door and a man asking for her help to save his brother. When she steps through the doorway she goes back in time! Yeah! Time travel!
No. 89: Secrets of a Summer Night
Secrets of A Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas
This is the first in the Wallflower series. Annabelle is a beautiful girl from a poor family and she has no dowary but she needs to marry someone rich to save her family and it needs to happen fast because her Mother is having an affair with a disgusting guy who helps pay some of her family's bills in exchange.
Annabelle meets Simon hunt and a house party in the country, he is not a peer, but an industrialist that is a friend and business associate of their host. Simon pursues her and is determined to have her but she resists. But of course later they fall in love and get married. Before that happens though she gets bitten by a snake, accosted by her mom's creepy guy, and plays rounders in her knickers.
This is the first in the Wallflower series. Annabelle is a beautiful girl from a poor family and she has no dowary but she needs to marry someone rich to save her family and it needs to happen fast because her Mother is having an affair with a disgusting guy who helps pay some of her family's bills in exchange.
Annabelle meets Simon hunt and a house party in the country, he is not a peer, but an industrialist that is a friend and business associate of their host. Simon pursues her and is determined to have her but she resists. But of course later they fall in love and get married. Before that happens though she gets bitten by a snake, accosted by her mom's creepy guy, and plays rounders in her knickers.
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