*******ATTENTION ALL***********
YES, I am crazy but that's another story. LOL! I have been consulting with someone I admire and love a great deal. Through our consultations he made me realize I was the one pressuring myself and this blog and reviewing are things I love to do. I love being part of the whole process. Please forgive me for all my prattling and carrying on.
I WILL BE CONTINUING my reviewing and my blog. I have missed it so much in the last few weeks. I am not taking on new reviews right now. I have a duty to finish those I have. Bear with me and I will get everything caught up.
Thank you for your continued support and for your understanding. I do appreciate it more than words can express.
Melanie Adkins
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
**** GENERAL NOTICE TO ALL AUTHORS*******
This notice is to all authors who have entrusted their books to me for review. I am leaving the reviewing business. I volunteer a lot of my time and effort to reviewing, endorsing and greeting new authors, established authors and indie authors. I have reached a point where I can not seem to satisfy everyone any longer, so I am withdrawing. If you sent me a book and you'd like it back, please just give me some time and I'll get the money to send the book to you through the snail mail. If you gave me a PDF or Mobi copy, I will delete the book from my kindle and computer. I have learned that I can't seem to keep up any longer with the expectations of me. I wish I could. So as of Monday July 15, 2013, I will shut down my site and discontinue taking reviews.
Thank you to those of you who continue to ask me for reviews and for those who support volunteer reviewers.
Melanie Adkins
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Coming SOON!! PERRY ROAD by EMI GAYLE
In 2132, “We the people …” means nothing, and it hasn’t for a hundred years.
Like all the citizens of the American Union, eighteen-year-old Erianna Keating is not to ask questions. She is not to believe anything except what the A.U. tells her. More importantly, she’s not supposed to know what she doesn’t know, nor that she’s a pawn.
Like everyone else, though, she is, and like everyone else, she is a hundred percent oblivious to what’s going on.
Or is she? Are they?
Erianna thinks going to Perry Road and joining the national registration program is her next step toward adulthood; the 2132 candidates for adult-classification, though, are in for a big surprise. Especially Erianna.
Thanks to Zane Warren, an awkward but hot guy who won’t shut up about a history that doesn’t—orshouldn’t—matter anymore, Erianna will know. Will learn. That includes finding out what actually happens after registration and doing something, anything, about it.
Fixing what went wrong, what caused the U.S.A. to split into two countries, though, is not on Erianna’s bucket list, but as she faces her future, she must decide whether to fall in line with the American Union’s plan for her, or to consider that Zane might not be wrong, and the time for revolution begins now.
Thursday, June 27, 2013
SUMMER BOOK CRUSH!! Check this out!!
WHAT DO WE WANT? Hot guys!
WHEN DO WE WANT THEM? Right now!
WHERE DO WE GET THEM? Summer Book Crush!
50+ titles. 99¢ each. Find this summer’s fling between the pages of a book.
Red hot books for that lounging on the beach or by the
pool day! Check out the selection!! For 99¢ each why not buy them
all???
Saturday, June 15, 2013
My Prison Without Bars by Taylor Fulks
* Preface required for this review- Taylor Faulks will try to tear me apart over this review because of what I say, however I hope you look at other reviews and make your own decision about it. Take what she says with a grain of salt. Thank you.*Taylor is a nineteen year old girl who is going on spring break. She's excited and ready for this trip. Meeting a handsome young man on the bus, she feels her luck has finally changed. Things went well for a few days, but luck changes. We are then thrown back to when Taylor was a child. She describes it all.
While the beginning of this book starts off as most romances do, with all the flowery descriptions and eloquent terms, it changes quickly into a nightmare. Ms. Fulks uses every cliche` you can think of to make this story seem more than it is. She takes extreme liberties with what a child might know or what understand. She claims a three year old's thought process is more advanced than even experts do. This book comes off as a cheesy sixties police show in many parts. I did read this book three times to see if it was just me but came up with the same conclusions after each read. It is extremely disturbing that a woman claiming to be abused would have been so descriptive when writing about it. Most abused people don't want to relive it in general let alone graphic detail. The author uses the descriptive writing to stimulate and titillate, not to express what happens. This book is a how to for pedophiles. Taylor Fulks comes across as flippant and uncaring of her own abuse or abused victims anywhere.
As a work of fact. A memoir so to speak, I gave this one 0 out of 5 cheers. As a work of fiction, I gave this one a 3 out of 5 cheers. I FEEL STRONGLY this is a WORK OF FICTION!
* Anyone who reads my reviews regularly knows I am not vindictive or an out of hand reviewer. I do give each book a fair, honest, impartial reading. I am a survivor of CSA and I can tell you from experience, abused people don't think or act as Ms. Fulks says in her book. I work with victims and survivors of CSA everyday. I do have some idea of what I'm talking about. The format I usually follow for my reviews was suspended in this case because of the topic and the strong feelings readers are being told one thing when another is true.*
Friday, May 24, 2013
It’s Here! The third book in the Super Spies Series!!
Below are the cover, blurb, and an excerpt! Check it out!
To celebrate this new release the first two books
are on sale for $.99! Check it out! It’s a series you won’t want to miss!
Lisa Orchard grew up loving books. She was hooked on
mysteries by the fifth grade and even wrote a few of her own. She knew she
wanted to be a writer even then. “The
Super Spies and the High School Bomber” is the second book in the “Super Spies”
series. Her first book was published in March of 2012 and it has received rave
review.
After graduating
from Central Michigan University with a Marketing Degree she spent many years
in the insurance industry, pining to express her creative side. The decision to stay home with her children
gave her the opportunity to follow her dream and become a writer. She currently
resides in Rockford Michigan with her husband, Steve, and two wonderful boys.
Currently, she’s working on the third novel that stars the same quirky teens.
When she’s not writing she enjoys spending time with her family
running, hiking, and reading.
This book opens in a small town in
Michigan where fifteen-year-old Sarah Cole is stuck spending the summer at her
Aunt and Uncle’s with her sister, Lacey. She’s not happy with the situation
until she befriends a girl named Jackie. The three girls stumble upon the
ruthless murder of a reclusive neighborhood woman. One of the officers
investigating the crime believes the girls are responsible for her death.
Fearing that this officer will frame them for the murder, the girls organize
their own detective squad. They become the Super Spies and start their own
fact-finding mission. The Super Spies
can’t understand why anyone would want to murder the “Cat Lady” until they
start digging into her past and discover a horrible crime that happened thirty
years ago. They uncover a connection between the two crimes and attempt to
bring this information to the police, only to be reprimanded for meddling in
the inquest. Not only are the girls upset by the admonition, but they also
struggle with the fact that their exuberant investigating could provide a legal
loophole allowing the killer to go free. To make matters worse, the police
don’t even believe them. Frustrated by this turn of events, the Super Spies
realize it’s up to them to snare the Cat Lady killer, or die trying…
Barnes and Noble:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-super-spies-and-the-cat-lady-killer-lisa-orchard/1109518725?ean=2940014338202
This book opens in a small
town in Michigan where Sarah and her sister Lacey are now living with their
Aunt and Uncle. Still reeling from the fact her parents have disappeared, Sarah
starts the school year with her new friend Jackie Jenkins. When Sarah learns
the school has been bombed, she’s filled with dread. Uncle Walt is a teacher,
and he was in the school when the bomb exploded. Taking matters into her own
hands, Sarah decides to search for him. The rest of the Super Spies are right
behind her. When a fireman chases them away from the school, Sarah becomes
suspicious. She decides to investigate. The FBI arrives on the scene. Sarah
realizes this bombing could have even bigger implications. Searching for the
bombers, Sarah is introduced to the world of terrorism. She fears that the
bombing and her parents’ disappearance are connected and terrorists are
involved. To make matters worse, the bombers are determined to finish the job.
Can the Super Spies find the bombers before it’s too late?
Astraea Press:
http://www.astraeapress.com/#!/~/product/id=13594238
Barnes and Noble:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-super-spies-and-the-high-school-bomber-lisa-orchard/1112263058?ean=2940014992244
Chapter
One
“What do you mean you lost them?” Sarah Cole
fidgeted as she waited for Agent Gray to answer. I can’t believe it! He lost
the only clue to our parents’ location. What is wrong with this picture?
Agitated, Sarah shifted in her seat and chewed on her lip. She was
uncomfortable in the folding chair and rearranged her petite frame so she
wouldn’t feel the cold metal against her bare legs. Shivering, she glanced
around the all-too-familiar room.
The gray cement block walls no longer gave her that creepy,
closed-in feeling she’d used to get when she first came to the interrogation
rooms. She remembered the first time she’d been in that tiny space. It had been
the day she’d discovered the Cat Lady’s dead body. Sarah shuddered at the
memory and then smiled when she remembered forming the Super Spies and bringing
the Cat Lady Killer to justice. Glancing around the room again, she realized
she’d been in this room quite a bit these last few weeks, not only during the
Cat Lady investigation, but the High School Bomber investigation as well.
Shivering again, Sarah rubbed her arms but she really wasn’t cold. Her mind
filled with the image of the bomber the Super Spies had helped apprehend just a
week earlier.
Wow! Was it just last week?
She tugged at a lock of her honey colored hair, then
brushed it away with an impatient hand. She sighed and glanced at her younger
sister. Lacey sat beside her with her legs crossed, jiggling her foot at such a
rapid rate it seemed like her whole body was electrified. She caught Sarah’s
eye and for a moment her eyes glittered like emeralds before she shifted her
gaze to Aunt June, who had placed her hand on Lacey’s leg in what appeared to
be an attempt to quiet her. Sarah shifted in her chair and sighed again. Are we
ever going to find Mom and Dad?
A commotion out in the hall drew everyone’s
attention. Sarah leaned forward
and craned her neck to see what was happening.
“Chief, we’ve got an OD!” An officer yelled.
“What?” Chief Johnson yelled as he rushed by. “An OD
on what? Give me the details.”
“The parents found their son unconscious in his room
this morning, and an empty bottle of prescription medication on his bedside
table.”
“What was it?” Chief Johnson asked.
“It’s Myodine.”
“Who makes it?”
“Ah… Piper Drugs.”
“Call Poison Control with the name and manufacturer
and ask them what to do about an overdose. Instruct the parents to get their
son to the hospital pronto,” Chief Johnson ordered.
“They’ve brought him here.”
“What?” Chief Johnson exclaimed.
The sound of policemen rushing through the hall
pulled Sarah and her sister out of their seats. They hurried to the door,
unable to stifle their curiosity. Peering down the corridor, Sarah caught a
glimpse of a young man sagging between two officers as they desperately tried
to keep him on his feet. One officer gently slapped his face while the other
officers held him up. The young man blinked and then gagged, puking on the
officer in front of him.
The rancid stench of fresh vomit filled the air.
While plugging her nose, Sarah ducked back inside the interrogation room,
followed by her sister. Sarah closed the door, hoping it would keep the smell
from penetrating the room.
“Did you hear that, Lace? Piper Drugs! That’s the
company Dad works for,” Sarah whispered in her sister’s ear before proceeding
back to her seat.
Lacey opened her mouth to speak, but closed it when
Agent Gray cleared his
throat and motioned for them to sit down.
He continued his conversation as if they hadn’t been
interrupted. We were on our way to the location of the ping… but before we got
there it disappeared.”
“So, what does that mean? Did you find our parents
or what?” Sarah blurted out as she sat down. She stared into Agent Gray’s icy
blue eyes, trying to read his mind.
Friday, May 17, 2013
Come Back Dear Sun by Geena Bean
A fabulous book about children spending too much time indoors. A great way to get across to them they need sunshine and fresh air too. This book will speak to young children in a way they will understand and get the message across easily. Ms Bean found a fantastic way to make kids listen to the message of play outside.
I found no issues.
I gave this one 5 cheers out of 5 because it's a unique way to stress the importance of being outside.
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