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I review all genres and I post them in 30 spots. Check out previous posts and I'm sure you'll find several books to catch your interest. I am a published reviewer and an award winning one. I am one of the best reviewers around. CELEBRATING 16 YEARS OF BOOK REVIEWS!!

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

A moment of weakness…an afternoon of passion…a brutal murder hits close to home…

A PERFECT SETUP
DOUGLAS WICKARD
The explosive sequel to A PERFECT HUSBAND.
Sami’s back! And this time it’s personal!

The New York Times, Daily News and New York Post all hailed her a hero!

Samantha Saxton ‘owned the night,’ they reported. She was the victor, the quiet champion, the anti-heroine single-handedly destroying the career of a lethal serial killer stalking the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania for six unremitting years. The disappearance of six teenage girls and the horrific details of their deaths received national, frenzied attention and Sami Saxton became the unlikely poster woman in all the coverage.

Sami’s attempt to find a quieter, less hectic life by moving to a cabin her deceased father built years ago in the remote urban township of Montague, New Jersey didn’t turn out quite the way she’d planned.

Returning to the City, Sami purchases a spacious, fifth floor, open-airy, glass-walled condominium on the Upper West Side overlooking the Hudson River…another new start!

But, that night continues to haunt her...in her dreams and in her life. The nightmares persist, vivid, ongoing and relentless. Posttraumatic stress syndrome paralyzes her, keeping her a prisoner in her newly renovated home. The anxiety attacks intensify and not even prescription painkillers are helping to relieve the anguish.

Then, the unthinkable occurs. A young, female model is found brutally murdered in a midtown hotel. And, Jerry Saxton, Sami’s ex-husband, is taken into custody for the heinous crime.

TRUST NO ONE!

COMING AUGUST 15, 2013


Friday, July 26, 2013

Spotlight On....ROBYN NEELEY

About Robyn

Robyn Neeley is an East Coaster who loves to explore new places; watches way more reality TV than she cares to admit; can’t live without Dunkin Donuts coffee and has never met a cookie she didn’t like. If you have a must read romance suggestion or a fabulous cookie recipe, she wants to know. Visit her at robynneeley.com.

Twitter: @robynneeley







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     Wedding planner Kate Ashby’s fear of flying is eased by a sexy stranger and one slow lip lock that rockets her into another obit.

CEO Luke Cannon has just traded seats with his identical twin. Little did he know that an innocent kiss while pretending he was his brother would soon create havoc.

What happens in the air doesn’t stay up there. Once on tropical land, Kate believes that the handsome stranger who gave her the best kiss of her life is now her new client, Drew Cannon, fiancĂ© to the beautiful and wealthy Lauren Kincaid. While Kate struggles with the intense feelings she thinks she has for Drew, Luke discovers Kate’s been hired to plan his brother’s destination wedding. He also realizes the initial sparks they shared 30,000 feet up are now mistakenly aimed at Drew.

Can Luke get Kate to realize that the feelings she has are for him? He’s got forty-eight hours in paradise to try.

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      Review of this book will be posted Monday July 29th. Stop back by to see the review and in the mean time, check out Robyn's great book deal on Amazon!! 

Thursday, July 25, 2013

I know I'm crazy but.....LOL... please bear with me!!!!

*******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

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

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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.*