Swans Book Review

I was reading this book the same time I was reading the Girls of Mischief Bay by  +Susan Mallery  and I wondered why I chose two boring books back to back.  I was so wrong on both of these books. Polly Waterford's life is falling apart.  The business she and her partner had, has gone bankrupt.  They must now give everything to the bank in order to satisfy their loans. Left with barely anything to live on, the only place that she found that she can afford to rent is someplace far away in the sleepy seaside resort of Polbearne. The place is barely livable but something about the place draws her.  Maybe it has something to do with the kitchen she found that called to her inner baker. Bread is her specialty, and when Polly kneads dough for the first time in her new place, it felt as if she was kneading all her troubles away. The scent of her bread carries outside where some fishermen take notice and invite themselves to some bread. Soon Polly wa...

Meet the Girls of Mischief Bay.  This book centers around the lives of three women, who happen to be friends and the problems that are facing them in this part of their lives. This book was boring until it wasn't.  Let me tell you what I mean. Nicole Lord wants to be a good wife, but there's a difference between being supportive and supporting her husband, who quit his job to write a screenplay she's never seen. He won't even help take care of their son, leaving Nicole to run the house and work full-time at her Mischief Bay Pilates studio. Can she say enough is enough without losing the man she loves? Sacrificing a personal life for her career is how Shannon Rigg rose to become vice president in her firm, but she wonders now whether she made the right choice. An exciting new relationship with a great guy convinces her that it might not be too late—until he drops a bombshell that has her questioning whether she can have it all. And if she can, does she want it?...

Okay this is my second book from Robyn Carr and I cannot deny it anymore, this author is not for me.  I liked both of her books, but with both of them I was interested then bored and then interested again.  This book was like a yo-yo for me.  Grace Dillon moved to thunder Point to get away from the craziness of being a champion figure skater.  Grace loved skating for the pure joy of it and not the cut-throat competition and decided to quit the life at the peak of her career, much to the displeasure of her mother. Now Grace owns her own flower shop, in a place where no one knows her past life and she likes it that way.  Not wanting others to judge her like they did in her competing days, Grace decided to tell no one about her past. She finally has the chance of a normal life and does not want to give that up.  And one of her goals of being normal is having a hot romance and luckily, Troy Headly is there to help.  High school teacher...

Lillian Bowman is one of the Wallflowers and boy did she take us for a ride. Lillian Bowman  has come to England from America, in order to catch a husband. This is really her parents wish. They have made a fortune in the soap business, but even with all their money, they also want a title.  Wanting the money and the title, Lillian's parents decided to try their hand at finding someone in England with at title for their daughters to marry. It was a good idea, but unfortunately not much people are willing to marry Americans, especially when they are as strong willed as Lillian.  Lillian does not mean to repel men with her personality, is just that she can't help herself. Things seem to changed when she and her sister joined the Wallflowers, a group of woman dedicated to finding a husband for each other.  Since it was a success to the oldest one in the group, it seems that now its Lillian's turn. Anther stroke of luck ( or bad luck ) is when Lillia...

I had a fun time reading this book.  It kind of reminded me of Rapunzel. Not the book but the make over that Disney did, minus the really long hair. Marlowe is one of the best pick pockets in the west end.  She is the only female among the gang of the Covent Garden Cubs, a gang of thieves living in the slums of London's Seven Dials. It's a hard life, one where she was to hide that she is a girl most of the time.  It was easier when she was a little girl, but now that she has turned into a young woman, it has become harder to hide her figure.  Men has began to see her beauty but Marlowe only saw her body as an inconvenience. Working for one of the most violent men in Slug Row named Satin ( clever isn't it ), Marlowe must bring back something every night or face the consequences. When the day is done, and Marlowe curls herself up in her corner on the cold, hard floor, she thinks of a day where she was not known as Marlowe, but as Elizabeth. Maxwell, ...

I was always reading about how great Elizabeth Hoyt's Maiden Lane Series was awesome so just I had to go out and buy the first book in the series and now I crave much, much more. Temperance Dews has dedicated her life to the foundling home her family has founded.  She risk her life many times, delving deep into the dangerous streets of St. Giles in order to save children before they can be taken for a much horrible fate. It was on one of these outings to save a child with her lady maid,  when she happened to come across a dead body, and if that was not frightening enough, standing over the body was the person who killed it. Fleeing, but not before she got a got a good look of the murderer.  Later, in the safety of the foundling house, her maid told her the identity of the man.  He is known as Lord Clare with a very black reputation, and she was warned to stay away. Temperance meant to stay away from him, but he made her an offer she cannot refuse...