First To Die

I read this book a month or so ago, and for the life of me cannot think of anything to say about it. It's the first book in the Women's Murder Club series, and I'll probably read more from the series. The ending was very unsuspected. If you are a James Patterson fan, then you'll like this book. Sorry I can't say more, but I'm having writers block.

The Lost Recipe For Happiness

Despite the fact that this book ended up to be kind of predictable, it was good. The basic storyline is, Elena gets fired from her job as a chef and about 5 mins later gets hired to be the head chef at another restaurant in Aspen. Packing up her dog, she moves to Colorado to start over. Very convenient that the owner of the restaurant is cute and the two get a crush on each other. It's a pretty simple story, fast read, but I was expecting it to be a little more insightful and life changing. The thing that annoyed me was that Elena had been in a car accident that killed some of her family members and her boyfriend, and 20 years later, she's still letting it affect her life. Kinda got tired of hearing about it. I get it, something bad happened in the past, move on. Since it takes place in a restaurant, there are recipes involved. So if you like reading and cooking, it will be a good book for you to check out.

Strawberry Shortcake Murder

I've really got to learn to stop reading books in this series because the main character owns a bakery so throughout the book it talks about cookies, cakes, and other yummy goodies. Plus it has recipes, which, if I was a cook, would be very handy.

Last winter I was on the mission to read all the books in the series in order, and so did everyone else apparently because it took me forever to get this book from the library, and once I finally did, I didn't really want to read it, but did because I had waited to long. It wasn't that great. Kind of blah. A guy gets murdered and Hannah tries to find out why. And while doing so, discovers that the noisy reporter in town has been blackmailing people, so of course she decides to find out why and fix the problem. Like usual, I had no idea who did it until the end. I'm really not very good at figuring out mysteries. In other words, I've read better books by her.

Yum, strawberry shortcake sounds tasty.

Honeymoon

Since I apparently like Thrillers now, I decided to check out James Patterson. Which is weird, because every time I've read his stuff in the past, I've hated it. This particular book wasn't super exciting, but it is fast paced.

It's about a woman who leads a double life and kills all the men that she dates. Soon a detective is on her trail and creates a false identity so she wont know that he's on to her. If anything, this book shows that you can't really trust anyone. Oh goody. Just what the world needs, for people to second guess people.

Probably not his best book. The beginning was exciting, but got kind of boring toward the end.

Hold Tight

So, I apparently like Thrillers. Who knew? This book caught my attention because it seemed realistic. Two parents set up a spy program on their teenager son's computer because like most teens he is acting depressed and weird. When they do this, they start to worry that he might be responsible for the death of one of his friends. It's a good book to read if you want to learn how to spy on your kids.

My only biff with this book is that there is another story about a crazy guy who likes to murder people, which at first makes no sense as to why the author tells you about him, but in the end, every one's story ties together.

Good book. Check it out.

Married In Seattle

I like Debbie Macomber, and my mom knows this, so when she was at Costco one day, she saw this book and bought it for me. I asked her if maybe she was hinting at something. Me getting married maybe? Gotta have a boyfriend first Ma.

This book has two stories. Both about 2 women in Seattle and how they find love.

Story 1: First Comes Marriage. In this one, a woman's grandfather tells her that he wants her to marry his co-worker despite the fact that the two dislike each other. Being the predictable story that it is, you know that in the end the two get together.

Story 2: Wanted: Perfect Partner. In this one, a teenage daughter and her friend puts a personal ad in the paper for her mom, and surprise! the guy they pick to date her mom turns out to be Mr. Right. The mom is kind of annoying.

Out of these two stories, the first one is probably the best.

Something Blue

This is the sequel to Something Borrowed and it wasn't as good. In the first book the author builds up the character Darcy so that you want to hate her, then she turns around and writes a book based on Darcy's life. It picks up where the first one left off, so you get to hear Darcy's side of the story. I found her to be very annoying throughout the whole book and think that she gets what she deserves, but she does get a happy ending, because you can't write a chick book without a happy ending.