... "Sandpiper Snippets"

Friday, 18 June 2010

New Banner

I was experimenting with a new banner for my YA books blog and I thought I'd post it here first to see what everyone thinks of it!

Top Four MOST WANTED

HALO by Alexandra Adornetto - out in August

FIRELIGHT by Sophie Jordan - out in September

ENCHANTED IVY by Sarah Beth Durst - out in October

MATCHED by Ally Condie - out in November

Book List

This month I have put together a list of YA book's I'm on the look out for! Enjoy!

Flipped - Movie Trailer!

I just watched a movie trailer for the new film Flipped and it looks amazing!

You can watch it here: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/flipped/

Finally, a simple down to earth romance story - with twinges of open honesty and buckets of well versed acting! I don't know about anyone else but I'm going to see this when it's released in August (if it comes to the UK).

Thursday, 17 June 2010

Skywatch Friday Post

The Lake District, UK.

"Dear native brook! wild streamlet of the West!
How many various-fated years have passed...
Visions of childhood! oft have ye beguiled
Lone manhood`s cares, yet waking fondest sighs:
Ah! that once more I were a careless child!"

- To the River Otter, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I love everyone's pictures, they're great!

This picture was taken while on a walk with my dad and my uncle - we meandered along a river and ended the day with cake! :-) The sky was so alive though, it was almost tactile the way it held its own in your vision, against the hills and the trees. (Does that make sense?)

[This picture is posted as part of the Skywatch Meme.]

Monday, 25 January 2010

Ruthless Magnate, Convenient Wife by Lynne Graham

THREE/FOUR STARS

Love the cover! (What a beautiful dress!)

Mills and Boon synopsis:

Billionaire in need…

Sergei Antonovich, a Russian billionaire, was famous for being knee-deep in stunning supermodels and aspiring actresses. But not one was suitable bride material. Would he ever grant his ageing babushka her dearest wish and present her with a grandchild? Of a bride and a baby…

So, why not handle this challenge as business? Without emotion, but with a contract of convenience that granted him the perfect deal: a wife he’d bed, wed, get pregnant…and then discard…

Pregnant Brides

Inexperienced and expecting,they’re forced to marry!

My review:

I didn't realise when I started this book that it was part of a trilogy (the 2nd one written I think) following a group of friends in their journey to finding love. This book was Alissa's story. Her greedy twin signs a contract agreeing to marry Russian billionaire and give him a child, then she ropes in Alissa to fill the role while she swans off with the money he paid her. An unsuspecting Alissa, who trusts her twin implicitly and is doing this to help pay off her mother's debt (and who knows nothing of the private side, planned to accompany this 'business' agreement), then slowly begins to fall for Sergei.

This couple had great chemistry and the story was promising, full of tension. What let the book down was the fact that these two characters hardly ever really talked to one another - the baring of one's soul is not conducted via sexual tension. This romance was good, but the lack of communication between the two was unedifying to say the least.

Ms Graham, you have a wonderful writing style, you have wonderful characters, and a full imagination. A Russian hero? How marvellous. But you were rushing, and avoided displaying true intimacy in this book. I know the hero was supposed to be strong, resilient, tough, mysterious, devilishly attractive, but did all of that really necessitate his loss of voice?

Sunday, 24 January 2010

New Artist: Anjulie

First Heard: At the end of ABC's The Deep End's Pilot, in Boom.

Album: "Anjulie" [self-titled]

This girl is about to get huge! :-) Check out her new music video for Addicted2Me on her homepage: http://www.anjuliemusic.com/

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