Bout of Books Day 3, The Boat Builder's Bed - Kris Pearson

The Boat Builders Bed - Amazon UK - FREE!!


With the title of this book I was wondering if I was hormonal when I bought it...turns out its FREE!! I will give anything a go, especially if its free

So we have Sophie who is another interior designer, starting her own business she's trying to make a life for her and her daughter. Rafe meets her when her shop sign hits his car, he ends up hiring her to do some designs on his house.

I sort of liked the story, it was sweet and there are actual problems rather than just jealousy (I wouldn't say it was good...but also no bad), so in that way there is more to it.
Sometimes it was confusing I think some things were mixed up and I had to re-read some parts over as I didn't really know what they were talking about.
I didn't really feel the love between the characters, I wasn't into either of them...I wasn't wishing them harm or anything, but just felt a bit blah.
Give it props for trying I guess. It was a quick read, I will wake up tomorrow and forget I ever read it nothing worth your time really, very predictable.

Bout Of Books - Finished book 1

This Man - Amazon UK

I do have notes on this longgg book but I don't think I will need them.

Ava is an interior designer Jesse hires her....Urm....They meet can't breath they both die and that's it.

I wish....they meet have that instant love going on. He stalks her, she tries to stay away but the man clearly has a mental disorder. He pounding on door scaring her, smashing things, punching things. Even though she doesn't know this lunatic she keeps saying he's scary but I know he wouldn't hurt me physically. I have no idea how she would know that the way he acts I would of called the police (I don't even think that would stop him) this could be a horror/thriller. A few times I did think you go girl run from that insane dude but she ends up back with him.

As for the characters Ava is fine until she just gives up having a normal life with her awesome roommate and ends up with this control freak (Jesse), who is old enough to know better he sometimes acts like a little kid (well a lot of the time)

They meet
He chases
She says no
He gets all crazy
She decides she can't resist him
They have sex
Fall out
Crazy Stuff
Have sex
Fall out
Crazy stuff
She cries, He cries
Sex

Trying to think of the plot ( I have just finished this book) there is a lot of sex which I thought was awesome at first then it happens so often it became boring and I was skimming over it. If you have a few really steamy sex scenes is better than lots of okish ones.

Oh all men love Ava all girls love Jesse, you know how is it. Lots of jealousy.

Urm....I've read worse. Things get repeated too much. He asks her to "make friends" eurgh!!! childish.

I would love a story about Kate she seems so awesome a lot more fun and seems to have her head screwed on right.

Borrow this book, don't buy it.

I would give it 1 out of 5

There has to be a sexy book out there with a good story.....

I might of given half a star more if it wasn't so padded with sex (I know, can't believe I'm saying that)

First Last Kiss - Ali Harris

Think that about sums it up....

The First Last Kiss - Amazon UK

Good Reads

This Book follows Molly, she is in the middle of moving house and finding things along the way that remind her of the past, and this is how the story of Molly and Ryan is told.
Molly never wanted love and wanted to concentrate on her career, she wants to see the world and doesn't want to be tied down to anyone, things are going to plan but she keeps bumping into Ryan. Ryan is fun, bubbly and loved by everyone.

Anyway....I like how the book was broken up, kept going to the past/present and I followed it without a problem. Molly's voice seemed different I could really feel her mature from teen to adult which I thought was fantastic and must of been hard to do. The book is a slow burner and while I could put the book down I spent any spare minute I could reading it. It always left me wanting more.

As for the characters I loved them all, I really did and because you get to know them so well they are like friends. I could relate to them all and I have friends/family who they reminded me of, they just felt so real.

The ending was great although I found it difficult to find it uplifting as I was still devastated...DEVASTATED.

I loved this book, I would highly suggest you don't read this in public there will be real ugly tears. The only tiny problem I had was when her teenage self would pop up in her head telling her off, this happened a bit too much for my liking.

Its gets the full 5 stars and I was entertained, in love, and so emotionally attached.

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The Chosen Ones

So in my last post I said I would have to think about what books I would read for Bout of Books, while I was walking the dog I had the most amazing idea (not really that amazing) there are 41 unread books on my kindle, so I'm going to use a random number generator to choose my 3 books. I know I'm totally amazing :p

So here we go:

24, 1, 6

1: This Man - Jodi Ellen Malpas
6: Dead Broken - Gerard Gray
24: The Boat Builders Bed - Kris Pearson

So looks like i have 2 Sexy books and one Psychological Thriller, This man looks likes its going to be one long read. Going to random one last number just in case i do finish these books (really not going to happen)

28: The Half Life Of Hannah - Nick Alexander

At the moment I'm reading The First Last Kiss by Ali Harris, I've only read the first chapter hopefully I will read it before Monday.

Even though these books are not ones I was planning on reading anytime soon, I'm excited...

Bout of Books

So I'm joining bout of books, which is a read-a-thon and is running for a week starting May 13th. The main goal is to read more than you normally would.

The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, May 13th and runs through Sunday, May 19th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure, and the only reading competition is between you and your usual number of books read in a week. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 7.0 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

I think I average about 1 book a week so my plan is to read 3 books...I might be pushing it a bit but I think I can manage if i read at every opportunity.

Now what do I read.....Going to have a think about this as the books I have to read are huge, so I'm thinking about heading into my kindles unread folder.

So will update tomorrow with my list of books which is going to be the smallest list ever, but hey ho.

 

Love Gone Mad - Mark Rubinstein

Amazon UK
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This book follows the story of Adrian Douglas and Magan Haggarty. Adrian is a surgeon he is very good at what he does and is recently divorced, Megan works in the same hospital in the ICU. They meet at lunch one afternoon in the hospital cafeteria, they hit it off straight away. Megan has something going on in her past that might be catching up to her putting them both in danger.

I do like the idea of the story, but I find it over describes and goes in to too much detail about things I think aren't necessary, in some places I find it works but in others I found it boring and interrupted the flow of the book.

Here is a part when he meets Megan and sits with her for lunch

"Settling into the chair, Adrian realizes he's been on his feet since six thirty. Maybe he's a candidate for orthotic inserts. No wonder most surgeons retire by age sixty. So...at forty, he's got twenty more years of cracking chests and mending hearts. Plenty can happen in twenty years, he thinks. Twenty years...I can't think that far ahead...and I don't want to think of the past. Steam rises from his soup in a vaporous cloud. It's too hot to slurp. The bowl, the soup's aroma, and the plastic tray remind him of the dorm food at Cornell; they bring back the verdant rolling hills of the Finger Lakes, rowing on Cayuga Lake and playing centre fields on the varsity baseball team. It's amazing-Ithaca, New York-merely a whiff away."

To me a lot of this is nothing to do with anything, I don't really want to know what's going on in his head constantly. Its really draining, its not to say I didn't like the story I did.
I liked Conrad I thought he was an ace character I think everything about him was done really well, every time he was in the story I could feel the tension. While I did like Adrian and Megan I found them a bit boring...I liked the relationship I thought they were sweet and I did care about them and wanted things to go well for them, but just something felt a bit bla about them. They do have the instant love thing going on which normally I hate but I felt this was done fairly well.
The twist I did figure out before it was revealed I think it was a good idea but unbelievable at the same time.
The story is general is fine I just feel it could be tweaked and this would make it loads better, it has a really slow pace, and while I was interested in the story I didn't really want to pick up the book again.
I can see why people like the book but the over describing thing is really a deal breaker for me, its slowed everything down far too much I think I would of enjoyed the story a lot more if this was toned down.

Slump

Well I started reading a book maybe a week ago and I'm just finding it so difficult to read, I'm around 80% of the way through so I might as well finish it (hopefully review up Sunday at the latest)

But what do you do? will you stick with a book till the end or give up if it just isn't floating your boat.

And also can you read more than one book? I want to start reading another book but find it so difficult to bring myself to do it while I'm in the middle of a book.

I just hope my next book is amazing, don't want to end up in a reading slump.