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Alina B

Alina B

I like a good book and I try to find some time every other day to read. In my opinion, it is the perfect past-time!
I have some favourite authors (as you will see in my Favourites section, one of them is Salman Rushdie and the recently discovered Margaret Atwood) and I have a few least favourite ones (e.g. Coelho). However, I try not to... more »
  • Bv, Bv, Romania
  • member since February 12 2008

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  • Splendid
    • Rated 5 stars

    One of the funniest most entertaining reads I've ever had these past years, it's such an unexpected pleasure to find romance AND good humour all in one book. Julia Quinn managed it wonderfully, I'm looking forward to other novels from her.
    As far as the two protagonists are concerned, I really liked their chemistry, it sparkled all the way through the book, quite wonderfully. Alex is very alpha but yet not so arrogant not to be able to understand when he makes a mistake. Emma is witty and really funny, feminine but not in the 'too-stupid-to-live' way some others seem to enjoy. She enjoys to fight, she is stubborn and, most of all, is surrounded by people who really love her. I was beginning to get fed up with the romantic cliches (the big misunderstanding, the secret past, the feisty heroine, the masculine hero, the deceitful despicable father/so called friend/sister). Julia Quinn somehow manages to include them all the while avoiding them; their big fight turnes oput quite ok, after all they are highly intelligent people.
    I alos enjoyed the fact that we get mote than a peek at their MARRIED life, their adjustments to it that are sometimes quite a problem.
    All in all, a wonderful book.

    Alina B wrote this review 2 days ago. ( reply | permalink )
  • Moby-Dick
    • Rated 5 stars

    Such a pleasure and a surprise to read it after 10 years and still find it quite extraordinary!

    Alina B wrote this review Saturday, November 28 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Da Vinci Code
    • Rated 2 stars

    I had so few expectyations about this book and even thise were not met; I expected at least a good detective story. The clues were there, the pursuit of something bigger but nothing was ever clear, just a line of obscure (and over-explained) cultural references. The characters remain barely sketched, no inner depth, no internal struggles. Pity, the material and the starting point had been soooo promising.

    Alina B wrote this review Saturday, November 14 2009. ( reply | permalink )
    • Rated 2 stars

    Well, just when I tough Penny Jordan was getting better, she wasn't.
    The beginning showed SUCH promise! I thought this was really a very styrong character, after all, a mature woman with a teenage daughter ought to show some sense. Wrong! She behaves like every other cliched trembling virgin from the other books. The only thing that saves her is the fact that Silas is NOT quite so stereotyped and comes across as quite a live person, with his feeling gone upside down because of the meeting with Hazel.
    Another plus, Penny Joradn resisted the temptation to play the Big Misunderastanding (i.e. Silas is not Katie's lover) right until the end. They settle it rapidly and are free to deal with the more pressing issues of intimacy (Hazel's) that are never resolved as far as I am concerned.

    Alina B wrote this review Tuesday, November 3 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • Response (Harlequin Romance Audio)
    • Rated 3 stars






    'all the hallmarks of a man well used to the luxuries that money could buy, but it was the man within that drew Sienna'

    making no attempt to hide her love and adoration from him.

    Alina B wrote this review Saturday, October 31 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • Just Trust Me...
    • Rated 3 stars

    Waaay too much 'Any complaints? Hell, no!' retorts. Seems like every 20 pages or so there is one exchange like that.
    Kayla saves the day though from being a 2-star.Really nice, down to earth, funny. I liked her.

    Alina B wrote this review 12 days ago. ( reply | permalink )
  • Lawless
    • Rated 3 stars

    A little too long and pointless but with the second romance developing (Cash and Tippy), I guess it's normal. As usual, there is the medical emergency that brings them together.
    The suspense plot - the murder and the Clark brothers - seemed a bit superfluous to me and it does not really influence the main plot, except for the shooting part that Judd (amazingly, to mr) takes sooo hard.

    Alina B wrote this review Friday, October 2 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Texas Ranger
    • Rated 1 stars

    As a suspense it's a flop, it wasn't really difficult to see who the bad guy was so that part was really really boring.
    As for the so-called romance, I felt there was no real tension between them, they seemed to go from past to present in a few easy moves, appologizing all the time which made it even more difficult to read. Josie seems to have NO real memory at all, she simply erases the past as if THAT did not mean anything in terms of judge of character.
    Ohh, let''s not forget: THE ONE time she seemed to get a nice line through (the joke on Putin), what does she do? She EXPLAINS it as if we're really from Mars and never in all our lives had we heard that name or knew anything about it.

    If she had a chance until then, she really lost it at that.

    Alina B wrote this review Saturday, September 19 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • Mercenary's Woman
    • Rated 2 stars

    Just returned from a disaster inAfrica , mercenary soldier Ebenezer Scott went too far in discouraging
    teenager Sally Johnson's crush. Now, six years later, Eb has left his active service and wants to woo
    Sally, but first he must protect her, her blind aunt and young cousin from returning enemies.

    Not really successful, too many side characters that get in the way of the primary love story. I suppose they are meant to keep us hooked for further issues in the series but they really just mess up the main story line.Good suspense though!

    Alina B wrote this review Wednesday, September 16 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • Beloved
    • Rated 3 stars

    A very nice story involving Simon and Tira. It's intersting to know they have to come to terms with their respective pasts and preconceived ideas about each other - Tira's real marriage as well as Simon's.
    It's a liitle more detailed than the others in the series and we get to see the seeds of the next ones, Callaghan's, for instance as well as glipses of past ones, the Ballangers.

    Alina B wrote this review Thursday, September 10 2009. ( reply | permalink )
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