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What I Read Last Week

Posted December 27, 2011 by Tracy in Features | 6 Comments

As I said yesterday…Merry Christmas.  I hope you all had a great day and got everything your little hearts desired.  I had a loud yet wonderful day with my family and we ate and played Fact or Crap and ate some more and opened gifts and laughed and it just showed me how much I love them. The girls were quite happy with their day as my oldest got the iPod nano she wanted and my youngest got a trampoline – both from Santa of course…among other things.

I was off today and thank heavens I was because it’s taken me all freakin day to recover from Saturday and Sunday. lol  Between getting everything ready and cleaning the house for guests I was exhausted! lol  

I didn’t read much last week and mostly shorter books which I think is pretty normal for me for the week before Christmas but this is what I read:

Unshakeable Faith by Lisa Worrall was first.  I reviewed this last week.  It was the story of a bartender and the amnesiac he takes into his life and his heart then loses when the man recovers his memory.  The book was very good and I really liked it.  You can read my review here. 4 out of 5

Next up was One Wicked Night by Kelly Jamieson that I read for The Book Binge.  This had Tyler and his best friend and fuck buddy, Nick, returning to their home town for Tyler’s sister’s wedding.  They run into Kaelin who is considered a “very good girl” a moniker that Kaelin despises.  She initiates a threesome and falls for the men.  It was a good menage story but had some odd aspects to it as well.  I’ll let you know when my review posts. 3.75 out of 5

Apparently I was into reading books that began with One and ended with Night because my next read was One Perfect Night by Rachael Johns.  This was about a woman who ends up playing the part of a girlfriend to her bosses family so that they’ll stop bugging him about dating since he’s a widower.  The pair end up in bed but then their casual affair turns into so much more.  I really liked the book but the hero really bugged me at first.  It was the story of discovery for the man but it took so long it was a bit frustrating.  I really liked the heroine and wanted her to be happy so in the end it all worked out for me. lol 3.5 out of 5

The Cross of Love by Barbara Cartland was a free download from All Romance eBooks last year (I think) so I picked it up.  The story was about the vicar’s daughter who becomes the housekeeper for the local Earl after her father dies.  They fall in love but must defeat the evil man who is determined to marry his daughter to the Earl.  It was a cute, kind of cheesy read with a lot of melodrama but a short and quick. 3 out of 5

My Book Binge reviews that posted last week:
Holiday Kisses by Jaci Burton, Shannon Stacey, HelenKay Dimon and Alison Kent

Happy Reading and Happy Holidays!! 


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Review: Unshakeable Faith by Lisa Worrall

Posted December 22, 2011 by Tracy in Reviews | 5 Comments

Of all the bars in all the towns in all the world, the stranger walks into Brody Tyler’s. With no memory and a name he chose from a newspaper, Nash is a gamble—one Brody is willing to take. It isn’t long before Brody and Nash fall in love, but then a tragic accident shatters their cozy world, resetting Nash’s memory once again.

The “new” Nash Walker is a businessman with a bottom line, and he doesn’t care what or who gets stomped on. Waking up in a hospital bed after a hit-and-run with no idea where he’s been for the past six months is bad enough, but someone trying to kill him is even worse. Enter Brody Tyler, accidental bodyguard.

Brody’s determined to help Nash remember and bring back the man he loves. Nash thinks Brody’s a drop-dead gorgeous pain in the ass. If only he could remember….

What do you do when a gorgeous man walks into your bar? Well, if you’re a bartender, as Brody is, you sit down and listen to him. Brody hears a story that tears at his heartstrings. The man was attacked and had spent the last 3 months in the hospital recovering but he has no idea who he is. He has no memory of the attack or his life before that. When he overheard the doctor saying that they were going to send him off to what amounted to a loony bin, he hightailed it out of there. After a couple of nights on the street he ended up in Brody’s bar.

Brody is the type of man who tries to help everyone and after hearing the man’s story he offers him not only a job but the spare room in his apartment above the bar. Yes, it’s taking a huge chance but his instincts are telling him that he can trust the guy. The amnesiac takes the first step and picks out a name for himself from the newspaper then he learns how to be a bartender. Brody and Nash, as he now calls himself, spend all of their time together and after about a month become more intimate and then inseparable, falling madly in love.

One day though Nash is struck by a car and again sent to the hospital. When he awakens he knows exactly who he is but he has no memory of the last 3 months. He’s back to being Nash Walker, businessman and asshole extraordinaire. He heads back to his home and wants to continue with his life but when the police tell him they think that someone is trying to kill him (stabbing, hit and run, yeah, it sounds that way) his mother decides to get him a bodyguard.

Brody can’t find Nash and it’s driving him crazy. When he sees Nash on the news he’s extremely relieved until the police tell him that it’s better for Nash if Brody doesn’t see him. Brody takes the bodyguard position thinking that Nash will recognize him but instead Nash just wants his body – with no recollection of what they had together and it breaks Brody’s heart to know that he may never have his sweet Nash back.

I have a thing for amnesia stories. What it is about them that draws me I can’t say but if it involves amnesia, I’m there. Now some are done well and others not so much. This story definitely falls into the done well category.

I loved the first part of the book with Nash and Brody falling in love. They were so good together and just seemed like they were perfect for each other. It broke my heart to see Brody so broken up over Nash’s disappearance but seeing what a complete and total jerkwad that Nash turned into I was kind of glad that Brody didn’t have to see that. But Brody wasn’t going to sit by and wait for someone to finally say that he could see Nash – he took matters into his own hands and I had to admire him for that.

Nash and Brody together when Nash was the businessman was a sight, lemme tell ya. Nash seriously made me want to deck him on several occasions and I wanted nothing more than to see him get his. He finally did remember it all and when he did it was a good thing. (You never know how that’s gonna go). The end seemed a bit rushed but I liked it just the same.

The suspense part of the story – with someone trying to kill Nash was very secondary to the relationship in this book and I’m glad it was. Nash and Brody were so good together that I was happy that only a small portion of the book was taken up by the suspense plot.

This is my first read by this author and it most certainly won’t be my last. A very good book that I definitely recommend.

Rating: 4 out of 5


Lisa Worrall
Dreamspinner Press


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