Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married: Marian Keyes

Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married by Marian Keyes

My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I really enjoy Marian Keyes' different style of writing. She is quick witted, humorous and yet at the same time she is deep and complex. She has a way of keeping things engaging. I was entranced in the first two chapters. This book has both good and bad reviews but I have to say you need to accept it for what it is and not what you want it to be. If you do any reading or thinking at all in your life you figure out in the first couple of chapters who the mystery man is going to be but allow yourself to find out how he comes to be.

I respect the fact that you can see Lucy grow throughout this novel. She begins to change her self image, how she treats herself, and how others treat her. There's a turning point I love in a snooty restaurant where you know there's no going back. I love how she falls in love and the process of it that is outlined in the book. It's friendship before love and love before lust. It's a great book if you really just read it for what it is.

Maybe I too a am hopeless romantic, but I enjoyed this book.

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Forget About It - Cherie Crane

Forget About It by Caprice Crane

My review

rating: 3 of 5 stars
I'm not going to lie it took me almost a year to read this, not because I didn't want to but because I kept losing interest and getting side tracked on another book. But I read it and it's done. I enjoyed the book all in all just took a while to get into it. It has a good plot and story line, I just wish it would have read a little faster. Jordan (main character) has a horrible life; mom that doesn't like her, sister that isn't anything like her, boyfriend that cheats, co-workers that steal her 'thunder' - she gets in an accident and decides she is going to fake amnesia (I know everyone has thought of it at some point). It has some good twists and turns, but not one of my favorites.

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Mirror Image - Clair Poulson

This was a good thrilling read. It had some really great twists to it, I think it could've had a little more depth.

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Last Man Standing - David Baldacci

This book took a little bit of time before I began to really grasp the story line, it is an excellent story, but written in a very scattered way. Webb London is a tough but tender-hearted hero who through difficult times of learning of his own life has to deal with the dirty dealings in the nation's bureaucracy. It truly is what I would call a roller-coaster plot. Webb London, a member of the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team (HRT), froze up on a drug raid and thus became the sole survivor of a remote-controlled ambush that killed six of his compatriots. Now the only witness has disappeared and the inside man on the botched raid has gone underground.

As a pretty psychiatrist puzzles over the corners of Web's brain that kept him alive, Web himself stays on the move. He's certain that the ambush is connected to the prison escape of a neofascist leader, Ernest B. Free, whom he helped arrest five years earlier, and a series of new murders leads him to a Virginia horse farm and the driving force behind all the carnage.

I wasn't a fan of most of the character base in this book, but it does offer a thrilling read and keeps you going until the end.

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