Birthright - Nora Roberts

As an archaeologist, Callie Dunbrook knows a lot about the past. But her own past is about to be called into question. Recruited for her expertise on the Antietam Creek dig, she encounters danger - as a cloud of death and misfortune hangs over the project, and rumors fly that the site is cursed. She finds a passion that feels equally dangerous, as she joins forces in her work with her irritating, but irresistible, ex-husband, Jake. And when a strange woman approaches her, claiming to know a secret about Callie's privileged Boston childhood, some startling and unsettling questions are raised about her very identity.

Searching for answers, trying to rebuild, Callie finds that there are deceptions and sorrows that refuse to stay buried. And as she struggles to put the pieces back together, she discovers that the healing process comes with consequences - and that there are people who will do anything to make sure the truth is never revealed.- Product description. 


I enjoy Nora Roberts - as I believe I have said before in this blog. Her books are often predictable, but there is always something new to explore with her. Whether you are jumping into a brush fire, running a winery, or digging up bones. I think that is why I enjoy reading her, even if the books having the same sappy happy endings. Because Nora writes from the heart, and if she doesn't personally know the subject matter, she makes sure she does when she sets out to right the story. I admire that.

This book was about and archaeologist who is fighting three battles. One she is trying to find dig up a settlement that is over 5,000 years old, and the locals are not so accommodating. She is trying to figure out who she really is after some difficult family questions come to surface and she is working with her ex-husband who tore her heart in two and stomped on it for good measure. Its a turn pager to see which one of the battles wear her down.

It was and enjoyable book!

Insatiable - Meg Cabot

This was a fun book. And it had a few twists that I really enjoyed.
Meena is a writer for a soap opera called Insatiable and their rating are suffering because of another station has a soap called Lust and they have...Vampires. Meena wants nothing to do with them. She hates them and the whole culture. She thinks Society has gone vampire crazy.

But when she meets a Prince, the perfect guy, well lets just say he has a very dark secrete. Like being the Prince of Darkness. Now it seems she can't get away from from vampires. The real liver er dead ones anyway.

Very enjoyable book, it took awhile to get into/read, but once I was in I was hooked. She is an enjoyable writer!

Elsewhere - Gabrielle Zevin

 

This book was okay. I was too impressed but it wasn't awful either. In this Liz dies in a traffic accident. When she gets to Elsewhere she has a hard time adjusting. She wants to go back to her old life. When she learns that everyone in Elsewhere is actually aging backward (from the time of death to newborn) and then is reborn on Earth, she actually gets sadder. She will never see 16, never get her drivers license, never get married. 

In away its a book on maturing. As I said, I didn't hate it but I am not running out to find other books by the author either. 

 

What happened to goodbye - Sarah Dessen

I enjoy all Sarah Dessen books, and this one was no expeption.

Mclean Sweet has started over, a lot. She is pretty use to being the new kid and always finds herself reinventing herself. A drama queen, a cheerleader, an all around volunteer. In Jackson, she has a hard time figuring out who she wants to be. Before she can decide it is chosen for her. She will be...herself. In doing such, she makes friends for the first time. People she actually cares about. Making it so much harder, to say goodbye.

Impossiable - Nancy Werlin

 

I had hard time putting this book down. 

This is the story of Lucy who comes from a long lined of cursed women. Each one has gotten pregnant before 18, and then goes mad shortly after the birth of their daughters. Lucy knows nothing of the curse, just that her real mother is crazy. When she gets raped on Prom night, he whole world comes crashing down. 

Thankfully she has wonderful loving foster parents, and a very loving family friend, Zach to help her get through everything. The only problem is, to break the curse she must first perform three seemingly impossible tasks. Can she do it before she delivers? 

The story is based (inspired) but the old folk song Scarborough Fair. I think it was very imaginative and wonderfully written.

Fly Away Home - Jennifer Weiner

I really enjoyed this book! I think its a must read for anyone who enjoys a really long conversation with a good friend.

This book follows three women, from the same family, but all on much different paths. Sylvia - is watching her 30 odd year marriage fall apart in the midst of a scandal.
Diane - is a busy ER Doctor who is finds herself in a very unhappy marriage, and Lizzy is just getting out of rehab for the last time. All three women are trying to figure out, just where they want their lives to go. It seems when one door closes, another opens and for them, the hardest part is having the courage to step through.

This is an amazing book of love, trust, family and life. I think everyone can probably relate to at least one of the characters.

Water wars - Cameron Stracher

"A gripping environmental thriller with a with a too real message" Very true statement, least about the message. Unfortunately I didn't find the book griping. I found the writing boring. Which is unfair, I know, since I can't write. This book had such great promise. It was practically ready made for an awesome story. I just wish it was told by someone else.

In this Vera and Will meet a new kid Kai. Kai is rich, he drives around in a gas powered car, he was things they wish they had, and he has enough to waste. Water. He also has a secret. This secret gets all of them in way over their heads. Its takes Vera, Will and a band of misfits the world forgot to save Kai and his father. I...enjoyed the idea of this book. And I enjoyed some of it, but other parts were just lacking, hard to read. I wouldn't compare it to the hunger games. I would compare it to City of Ember...a nice super easy read...if not a little dull in places.