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Hi! I am known online as star0925. I am a Sagittarius from the South, a net surfer and an avid reader - with romance being my first choice but I will temper that will other genres. I belong to a book club in my hometown - The Sistahs of Color Reading Group. I am also part of several online bookclubs. I have learned that I have a love for... more »
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  • Trouble Follows (Kimani Tru)

    Trouble Follows (Kimani Tru)

    by Monica McKayhan
    • Rated 5 stars

    Trouble Follows is labeled an Indigo novel. It takes up where Indigo Summer ends.

    Things are looking up for Indigo. She has on the dance squad, her boyfriend is on the basketball team and is going places and her best friend Jade is moving back. But as the title says, trouble follows the good. Before long Marcus is facing trouble in court for being in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people, Jade is having problems with a teacher and Indigo is trying to stay in shape to keep her spot on the team. This book does an excellent job of handling the life and problems of today’s teen. Kimani Tru is the young adult line and because I have a teen daughter I was glad to see it come about. She reads as much as I do if not more. Kimani Tru gives her something I didn’t have at her age. This is the second Kimani Tru book that I have read. Indigo Summer was the debut book for the line. I look forward to reading more about Indigo and her friends.

    star0925 wrote this review Wednesday, January 30 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • Deal Me In (Harlequin Superromance)
    • Rated 3 stars

    Molly Davis has a score to settle with the great Brady Carrick. He killed her husband and now he owes her. She can't believe her luck when he walks into her uncle's diner and offers her a wager.

    Brady wants to gain his father’s confidence and train their new champion horse. He wagers he can teach anyone to become a poker expert. Anyone his father chooses. His father chooses Molly, their server at the diner. As Molly and Brady spend numerous hours together, Molly can’t connect the man she thinks killed her husband with the caring cowboy. Will she fall in love with the enemy?

    This is book 4 of Texas Hold Em series.

    star0925 wrote this review Wednesday, January 30 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • One Wild Wedding Night: Getaway\Runaway\Three-Way\No Way Out\All The Way (Harlequin Blaze)
    • Rated 5 stars

    Have you ever wondered how the bridesmaids spend the wedding night? Well wonder no more. One Wild Wedding Night tells the tale of 5 bridesmaids and what they did after the bride and groom escaped for the honeymoon.

    Leslie Kelly said she wanted to make each story unique. Well she managed to do it. Each story is as unique as Izzie’s bridesmaids. Bookkeeper Bridget finds herself in need of a bodyguard and lucky for her FBI agent Dean Willis has been keeping an eye on her, stripper Leah finds her wild night in the wrong limo, high power attorney Mia has to decide how much of her wildest secret fantasy does she want to come true, Rockette Vanessa discovers that sex the second time is much better as adults when she runs into the man that she gave her virginity to as a teenager and finally Gloria the matron of honor and the only married one in the group is seduced by a sexy seductive European lover and manages to spice up her marriage at the same time. These 5 encounters were hot and spicy and almost forbidden. Definitely what Blaze is all about.

    This is the first book in the Blaze Encounters miniseries. I think Leslie Kelly did an excellent job and can’t wait to see what the next author comes up with. I love series and connecting books and it seems I have discovered one that I have missed – The Santoris of Chicago. They have been added to my ever growing TBR list.

    star0925 wrote this review Wednesday, January 30 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • Yours, Mine...Or Ours? (Silhouette Special Edition)
    • Rated 4 stars

    I loved this story. Rudy was the perfect – non perfect hero.Rudy is the type of man who has thinks of others before himself. He makes his decisions based on the needs of his family. He is a single father and now that he daughter is older he is taking the steps to move away from his family's influence to do things on his own. He falls in love with a house and buys it near sight unseen. A once viable inn that needs some tender loving restoration care. His daughter hates the house and the move away from everyone and then there is Violet. The house was supposed to be hers. The single mother of two young boys desperately needs the money from the inn. Though Rudy holds no fault in her circumstances, he feels responsible and tries to right a wrong as best as he can. He offers Violet a job and a place to stay. Karen Templeton did a wonderful job with this story. The story handled some realistic heavy issues without making it a dark story. Violet was a strong heroine with insecurities not uncommon for women who have gone through what she has. The story line with the children was realistic. I love the interaction between the children. Blended families are not always easy and again Karen T did an excellent job portraying that and giving us the happy ending we know was coming with a romance novel.

    star0925 wrote this review Wednesday, January 30 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • Twin Surprise (Harlequin American Romance Series)
    • Rated 0 stars

    What do you do when your friends buy you a man for your birthday? and your best friend at that!!

    Hit and run Sergeant Derek Reed and Marta Lawson share a friendship that they both cherish though Marta is in love with him. When her friends “purchase” Derek for her at a charity auction as a birthday gift, a dream date leads to an unexpected and incredible night that leads to not one but two babies on the way. Now will the self proclaimed bachelor for life change his ways and become the man Marta needs – and Derek has an even bigger secret that may make it all impossible.

    star0925 wrote this review Wednesday, January 30 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Ultimate Bite (Harlequin Blaze)
    • Rated 4 stars

    Vampires in a Blaze book ….. it sure intrigued me enough to buy it.

    Kim Wright was once bitten but definitely not twice shy. Kim has sought the stranger that bit her and changed her forever. Once shy and inexperienced, Kim was transformed to sexy siren who craved one thing – another bite. When Kim finds her mystery man, she is disappointed that he doesn’t remember her. Stephen is no ordinary man. He has gone through a transformation of his own centuries ago. He has bitten many women out of necessity and is surprised that Kim remembers the “bite”. Kim is determined to get that second bite and maybe even a third and now Stephen finds himself craving something from Kim that contradicts his way of life and begins to question whether Kim only wants him for the rush of the bite.

    This story was true Blaze. There is a sex on the hood of the car scene that puts me in mind of Janelle Denison’s Heat Wave - one of the first Blaze books.

    star0925 wrote this review Wednesday, January 30 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • Forbidden (Harlequin Blaze)
    • Rated 4 stars

    Leah Dubois and JT West have the kind of attraction that won’t be denied. Though JT is running from a past that it bound to catch up with him, he can’t seem to stay away from Leah – a woman he had loved since childhood. Leah has tried to move past the undeniable attraction between them. She married another man and still couldn’t stay away. After engaging in an affair with JT and leaving her husband, JT disappears without a word. Now on the verge on reconciling with her husband, Leah is faced with the one thing she can’t resist – JT is back and he seems to be courting her. What will he do when he is forced to leave her again?

    Sleeping with Secrets Book 1

    I can't believe I have had this book and haven't read it. What a shame!!

    star0925 wrote this review Wednesday, January 30 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • Single Mama Drama

    Single Mama Drama

    by Kayla Perrin
    • Rated 5 stars

    Captivating from page one, single mother Vanessa Cain thinks her life is on track until the day her fiancée is killed by his unknown to her girlfriend's husband when he catches them in a compromising position. Not only did Eli have a girlfriend, he had a WIFE!!! - turning Vanessa from the beloved fiancée into the unthinkable – the mistress. Eli’s widow is hostile and vindictive and she wants Vanessa out of the South Beach condo that she shared with Eli. Her only solution is to buy her out and to do that she needs money. She has a dead beat baby daddy and an ex-boyfriend that thinks she is a booty call – no help there. Her plan? Land Chaz Anderson, the biggest name in life coaching, as a client for her boss’s agency and collect on the signing bonus. With that mind, Vanessa head to the Bahamas where Chaz is conducting a seminar and convince him he needs an agent. Now the real drama begins.

    Page turner from beginning to the end literally. When I got to the last page I was flipping looking for more and all I found was those pesky ads for other books. I never minded them so much until now. I knew there had to be more. I looked on Kayla Perrin's website and there is a sequel - Single Mama's Got More Drama.

    star0925 wrote this review Wednesday, January 30 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • A Little Bit Wicked
    • Rated 4 stars

    Who will be the last unmarried man standing?

    I really enjoyed this book. The chemistry between Judith and Gideon was great. Both hurt by love & matrimony in the past are determined never to get married again, but when the Le coup de foudre strikes you have no choice. If you don't know what le coup de foudre is, read the book to find out.

    I will look forward to see who wins the bet.

    star0925 wrote this review Friday, November 30 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Heat Waves (Sexy City Nights) (Blaze, 12)
    • Rated 5 stars

    This was the book that got me hooked on the Blaze line when it was introduced. Turned Janelle Denison into one of my favorite authors too. The book lives up to its name there are some scenes that practically singe the pages with heat waves.

    star0925 wrote this review Wednesday, November 28 2007. ( reply | permalink )
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