Swans Book Review

The Honeydripper Affair by Joanna Kidson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GENRE: Romantic Suspense Thriller ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BLURB: She should never have met up with Ryan, that’s for sure. You see, Lucy Nevin has got something that people are willing to kill for - she just doesn't know it....yet. Handing Ryan the notebook threw the killers off her scent for a while but as Lucy uncovers more details about the death of her father, it becomes clear that this ruthless gang of criminals will stop at nothing to get what they want from her. And then Dan shows up. Is that coincidence or by design? Either way, she’s now sucked into a deadly game between the killers, the armed forces and the government. They all think that Lucy has the code – the code that will give them control of the internet. The scary thing is; if you’ve ever used the internet, this is happening to you right now. Trouble is - time is running out for Lucy and she needs answers. What exactly is the...

Club Alpha by Marata Eros Publication date: November 19th 2015 Genres: Adult, Psychological Thriller, Romance Synopsis: “Would you pay fifty million for your soul mate?” Francisco “Paco” Castillo is a bilingual billionaire with unconventional ideas about love, sex and possession. He believes there is no other half to make him whole. Paco dreams of experimenting with a dangerous reality not of his own making. Club Alpha owner, Zaire Sebastian, can make Paco’s vision a reality—for a price. Greta Dahlem is an extreme sports executive whose ambition masks a terrible secret. When her mentor Gia Township, sponsors her as a player in Club Alpha, Greta’s unsure she can survive the inherent risk of the game Zaire weaves. But in her heart, Greta yearns for a man who will complete her, and erase the brutal tragedy of two years ago. As the fantasy progresses, Greta comes to realize she is the loose string in a plot of murder and deception that begins to unravel....

I enjoyed this book very much.  There was a secret and I seriously had no clue as to what it was until it was actually revealed.  I felt such pain to be decieved, even though I'm not the one that was wronged. Sir Richard Kenworthy is in desperate need of a bride. Nobody fully knows why, but he just does.  For this to happen, he has to engage the most desperate of all the available ladies on the market.   His quest brings him to the Smythe-Smith family, where he met his diamond in the rough.  No, he did not fall in love, he just found the the most acceptable desperate lady, he needs. With only one look at her, even with her washed out coloring, he knew that he has found the answer to his problem. Isis Smythe-Smith is more intelligent than she lets on. She is an observer and with this skill, she reads people and their intentions simply by the way they act. It helps that she has a pale complexion and a seemingly sly wit that helps her blend into the ba...

Well this book was new.  Usually I dislike know-it-all people but I made an exception for Abigail Lowery who had to bury Elizabeth Fitch in order to survive. Elizabeth Fitch has seen something that no sixteen year old should ever see. She saw two people gunned down right in front of her eyes.  To make matters worse, it is Russian mafia related and if she was caught, she knows that she'll be dead too.  All this started with the act of a rebellion of a sixteen year old girl. Twelve years later, a woman who goes by the name of Abigail Lowery is living on the outskirts of a small town in the Ozarks.  She is an oddity to the residents of Bickford and to make matters worse, she has a huge dog, and a wide range of firearms. Keeping to yourself is not the way to go in a small town and Abigail unintentionally caught the eye of the local police chief Brooks Gleason.  Just wanting to be left alone, Abigail unwittingly pulled Brooks closer to her and to her horror,...

What drives a gentle born lady to spend all her time taking care of the children of less fortunate families instead of grooming herself to find a husband as is the norm in those days? You would have to ask Lady Penelope Ashford. Lady Penelope Ashford along with her sisters had opened a home for underprivileged children so they can grow up and earn a trade for themselves.  For years the Foundling House ( as they named it ) has thrived  but of late their charges has been disappearing. It usually works like this, when someone from the West End of London is about to die, they send word to the Foundling house about their predicament and make plans for the Foundling house to take in their children/ward when they are gone. When the parent or guardian dies, neighbors send word that their client had died and they go and collect the child, except recently someone has beaten them to it. Feeling at a lost at what she must do, Penelope seeks the aid of Barna...

I was not fortunate to read the first book in the series, but I did get to read the second and now the third, but unfortunately I was declined to review the fourth, now I feel sad.  But that has nothing to do with just how fun and thrilling this book was to read.  Let me tell you my thoughts on The Beauty and the Barbarian. Merrin has been hidden away all her life, for she was born with the mark of a witch on her face.  It did not help that her mother died giving birth to her.  To save her life, a plan was erected for Merrin and her father to inhabit an islet where they lived peacefully for many years, until a Highlander washes ashore and disrupts their entire lives. Ian MacLeod thought that he had died and gone to  heaven  when he woke to see a vision of beauty that can only be bestowed on an angel (I'm getting good at this describing thing) .  When she recoils from him he thought she knew all of his evil deeds, but when he uncovers her witch'...

Who trumps whom, F.B.I or I.R.S?  If I have to go up against either of these two, I'd choose the F.B.I all the time.  Sweet talk was a fun, action packed book for the whole family, (18+ of course.) Olivia Mackenzie did not expect that when she went for an interview, that her dress would be torn by her potential new boss, that his meat head of a body guard would pull a gun on her and that she got into the middle of an F.B.I investigation.  I bet she wished she never left home. To make matters worse one of the F.B.I agents comes screaming at her for ruining his investigation and got all up in her face, but Olivia enraged by his attack pulled put her trump card simply by saying that she is I.R.S.  You know you don't want to mess with the I.R.S. On this unfortunate meeting with the F.B.I, Olivia meets Special Agent Grayson Kincaid who pushed all of her buttons, both good and bad, and left her wanting things that she is better off not wanting. Grayson Kinc...

I have to say this woman you either have to admire her bravery or call her completely stupid to jeopardize everything she worked so hard to do. Let’s say you find out that the man you married is a ruthless killer and might kill you at any point in time in the future do you accept your fate or escape.  You escape of course and run, far, far away and then you run even further than that; because it is really difficult to convict your husband seeing as he is a corrupt cop and his own boss is afraid of him. Now being free of this maniac would you risk your new lifestyle to save the life of someone who is on death row for crimes he did not commit?  If it was me logically it would be to keep my mouth shut and lay low but I might surprise myself as how Jeanine A.K.A Nina surprised herself. I have to say that this book was nicely naively good, because that was how Nina thought.  She thought that the good guys always win and that the bad guys always lose.  She...

What are you suppose to do when someone is trying to kill you over your ceramic bowl.  Do you give it over without any complaints or do you hide it and let thousands of people be murdered. Well Summer Hawthorne chose to hide the urn, not knowing the ramifications of her actions, which has her placed in numerous dangerous situations. Where she is rescued time and time again from an unlikely candidate Takasji O'Brien. Takasji "Taka" O'Brien was sent on an assignment to retrieve the Hayashi Urn and to get rid of any liability, and that included Summer, but for some reason he finds himself unable to do so. Now it is up to this unlikely "couple" to keep the urn out of the evil clutches ( delusional cult ) of those who are set out to "cleanse the world". This book is not really what I usually read but I ran out of the type of books I read at the Library and I'm glad I picked up this book.   Ice Blue had loss, betrayal, murder and buddi...

Eve Dallas is the main character in J.D Robb's in death series and I totally love her kick ass attitude as well as her love for her job and her extremely sexy husband Roake. I love the in death series ( as I like to call it) , even though I haven't read the first book in the series (I access book mostly from the Library) I am hooked. Newly promoted Captain and his wife return a day early to find their daughter murdered in her own bed.  Cause of death was being smoldered after being repeatedly raped and strangled for hours. The killer, being the sick son of a gun he is, courted her for months before brutally killing her in that specific way.   He had months of opportunities and easier ways to kill her, but why in this way? The captain must now push aside his grief, at least for the time being, to focus and think about what he did in his past that could have resulted in the murder of his daughter. Meanwhile, her ki...

Alex Cross, one of my favorite hero series that I know, I will always enjoy to read. In this book, the president, of the United States of America, children have been kidnapped, which is suppose to be impossible, but someone manage to beat the odds and they did it awesomely and right under the secret services's noses. An act of rebellion has led the children right into the arms of danger and torture and it is now up to Detective Cross to help find these poor children before it's to late. Already with too much on his plate, the water supply has been tampered with.  It seems like it was an act of terrorism but is it related to the kidnapping?  You have to read to find out! Even though the book is called "Kill Alex Cross", there seem to be a lack of attempts to actually do so hmmm! I quickly picked up the book from the self because I thought that someone was actually foolish enough to even try, but even with the lack of killing Alex ...

NYPD Detective Jacob Kanon is a depressed father who is hunting down the murderers of his daughter and her boyfriend. The killers seem to target couples on vacation and his daughter was the first of a chain of victims. Sleeping with his gun close by, he repeatedly thinks about ending it all, but finding the one's responsible for his daughter's death keeps him from actually pulling the trigger. The killers want to be recognized for their "hard work", so they send postcards to a reporter in the country that they are visiting as well as a picture of the crime scene, with the bodies posed in certain positions. Teaming up with the latest reporter to be chosen, Dessie Larsson from Stockholm, Sweden; they must try to stop the killers before they can kill again. This book proves that love can blossom in the weirdest of situations and that some love is destructive and unhealthy. James Patterson a choose wisely in teaming up wit...