Swans Book Review

Don’t Make Me Beautiful by Elle Casey Publication date: September 9th 2013 Genres: New Adult, Romance, Suspense A message from Elle about Don’t Make Me Beautiful:  A really long time ago, I read an article in a newspaper or a magazine (I haven’t been able to locate the original) about a woman who was so badly beaten over a long period of time, she couldn’t leave her house.  I thought about that woman a lot over the years and about what her thoughts might have been, her fears, her reality … and this book was my attempt to both exorcise those thoughts from my brain and also shed some light on a subject —domestic violence— that I feel should never be left in darkness. (October is Domestic Violence Awareness month.) Synopsis: **This story was inspired by true events. If you liked the movie “Sleeping With the Enemy”, then you might like this story too. CONTENT WARNING: Violence, foul language, and adult situations. Not meant for younger readers...

DESPERATE is how I describe little miss Savannah McKinney.  To use someone’s own torment to get them to do whatever you want them to do, especially when that someone is a good man and is already dealing with a lot stress. With the pressure from the board members of his church and from his crazy shenanigans that his aunts keep putting him through is what helped pushed Terrance into the arms of Savannah in the first place.  But when her real self came out to play and Terrance got to see her for what she really is and got out of there quick, fast and in a hurry. Armed with dark secrets of the past, Savannah uses this information to get Terrance to do WHATEVER it is she wants him to and that is how I got to realize that you shouldn’t give Savannah the benefit of the doubt because if she could pull this stunt then she is a bitch and that she has to go. These decisions that Savannah has made is affecting everyone involved and then some, will Terrance let Savannah ha...

Simon Jackson sure knows how to preach the word of the Lord but never learned how to practice what he preached.  Three children and not one of them came out the way he wanted them too, too much talking at them and not a lot of talking to them.   His wife Loretta thought it was noble of him to preach for the Lord so she never really protested about his negligence to his family.    When tragedy strikes and Simon has to stand on his own two feet against those who wish him harm without the help of his family, he had to fight his own battles, but is he fighting for the right thing, you've got to read to find out. If Simon was my husband this would not have happened and our children would not have been acting the way these kids were acting.  And what kind of father sees his son with a needle in his arm on the verse of an over dose and just leaves him like that, what kind of pastor does that make him, a fraud that’s what. 

There are many ways a parent can get rid of their new born baby with their umbilical cord still attached. Stuffing the baby in a sleeping bag and resting them in the middle of the woods in the dead of winter is just one way of doing it. This story tells us how a brief encounter with something tragic that turns into something miraculous can change the lives of a father/daughter team who are running from the past. I did not think I would have liked this book, it sounded so simple and uneventful, but I was wrong, even though it was simple it had me wanting to keep reading to find out what was going to happen next and to know the story of the baby that changed their lives for the better. Nicky Dillon, the Heroine in this story.  She is only 12 years old and have already gone through so much. Losing her mother in a car crash was hard enough, it seems like she is slowly losing her dad as well. How can Nicky make everything right again when her fathe...

It seems that I have been choosing many church theme books from my local Library lately and this is one of the good ones. Lady Jasmine has become first lady of City of Lights at the expense of her father-in-law being shot into a coma, but she's not complaining. Now that Jasmine have reached where she wanted to, the members of City of Lights who still hold her in contempt for her many past crimes, would now have to listen and respect her. Her triumph is short lived however when lo and behold, someone begins to blackmail her into convincing her husband to step down as minister, or else. Now it is up to Jasmine to find incriminating evidence of all the likely suspects that are out to get her husband to turn the tables by blackmailing her blackmailer, whoever that may be, before her past brings great shame and pain to her future. I like this book very much, at first I did not like how the author revealed Jasmine's secret so early in the book, but as I read on I saw h...