Tome Thursday: Last Call

Hello everyone!

Whew, I'm finally bringing another series to a close!

Not that I won't be reading them again. Actually, I'm definitely feeling up for some Simon and Caroline cheerfulness, if you know what I mean, because the weather here turned into an absolute downpour and it's been raining since yesterday evening. Which does in fact mean I'm too lazy to do anything else but curl up and read.

Mostly.

Anyway, to get back on track, the book I will be talking about in tonight's blog is the last in the Cocktails series by Alice Clayton, which began with the infamous Wallbanger.

This is actually more a novella than a full-length book, it's mostly a summary and a nice epilogue to the couples that we've grown to love over the course of the entire series, and I have to admit that this has to be one of my favourites, for the simple reason that the characters are believable, real, and face the challenges life throws at them like you and I would.

So, let's get right into Last Call!

Tome Thursday: Mai Tai'd Up

Hello everyone!

I'm beginning to run out of books to review on here which is kind of a mystery since I do believe I haven't ever stopped reading from the last time I reviewed one! But I think the problem might be that I keep forgetting to note down my thoughts about what, exactly, I'm reading or what I've finished reading at this time, I suppose. 

I'll have to remedy that.

So between battling some bouts of insomnia that have come on me from Lord knows where, becoming addicted to Air Crash Investigation and just generally working, I needed to figure out what I was going to write today.

Turns out, at least I still have a couple of series in the works and that means that I get to pick some of the books in there to talk about.

Worse comes to worse, I can always fall back on the Black Dagger Brotherhood series (but I just started the Fallen Angels one though and it might be JUST as good; seriously, who knew Angels have this kind of warped sense of humour?).

For tonight's book, I'm going to talk about Mai Tai'd Up.

Tome Thursday: Rusty Nailed

Hello everyone!

My head is debating whether or not it should take a trip down into pain-ville, but at the same time I decided earlier this morning to do a blog post, so a blog post I shall do!

And to my utter miserable shame, I promised to do this one back in October 2015.

Has it bee six months yet?

Yeahhhhh ... it has.

Oops.

ANYWAY.

Browsing through my little booklet of reviews where I note down everything and anything worth remembering, I found the rest of Alice Clayton's books, all neatly wrapped together and finished, and realized I never got back to Rusty Nailed even if I did promise the review. So here we are tonight, and I swear I'm going to be better with finishing this series! You won't have to wait until December for number three.

Tome Thursday: Wallbanger

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Okay, so I will admit - I may be just a tiny bit embarrassed by the title of this blog, and the book, but I will also say right off the bat that it's not as bad as it sounds. I mean, I've obviously heard of worse (Fifty Shades, anyone?) and never read them, but I ran into this particular book on Goodreads when a friend of mine added it to her want-to-read list, so I went and snooped around a little.

It can't hurt, right?

Well, after  finishing off The Fiery Cross (which, for those of you who don't know, is the fifth book in Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series, and as with each of her books, a chunk to chew on), I needed something that wouldn't make me want to do history math of who threw who overboard and where bags of tea ended up at the bottom of a bay, not to mention, I didn't need to worry about a rapist coming back to haunt me in subsequent books.

So.

To sum up, I needed a book where I wouldn't have to think along with it, which excluded mystery and thrillers, and I needed something that wasn't historical, and also, fantasy was a no go (I'm stuck at around 55% of The Elfstones of Shannara at the moment, poking myself to continue).

That was how I ended up with Alice Clayton's Wallbanger.