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Sunday 21 August 2011

Review

My Darling Caroline by Adele Ashworth  5 stars



Well Brent is a hero you lust after, then you love him, then you hate him, then you want to kick him in the nut sack, repeatedly, then you love him and want to do anything for him.... "Oh, Brent, please take me now!!!"

Caroline is a Botanist, she is some what of a Genius at breeding flowers, and mathematics. But alas, she is a woman and it's not acceptable to have breasts and brains back then. Caroline is one of five blonde delicate daughters, and she's the only brunette and the only un-married one, who dreams of leaving to New York to study further in her field. But Dad has different plans, and more or less sells her to Brent, so they get married, and the sexual tensions starts to build.
Brent is very intense, with his shocking honesty and blatant desires pushing Caroline to rise up and verbally spar with him, proves she is certainly not push over. This intensity only makes it juicier and only adds to the tension between them as she is not just going to lie down and take it. (pardon the pun)

I didn't connect as much with Brent and Caroline as I have with previous couples, but that doesn't mean they weren't great. The chemistry was great and the sex was hot, but I think Brent repeated telling Caroline that he will never love her, kind of made me raise my armour around him, and so I never quite warmed..

I will say that when Brent discovers what Caroline had planned to do, which was leave him, the serve he gives her, is without a doubt the most heart wrenching, hurtful and cold I have read, it was fantastic!! Oh he is such a bastard to her, stomping all over her heart with his big muddy boots. When she is realistically 90% innocent and only 10% guilty, but he won't even let her get a word in.
I think this made it difficult for me to actually forgive Brent, to be honest I was actually reading it thinking "I would tell him to go and f*#@ himself!!"...  I guess I was a little more hurt by Brent, than Caroline was.

Anyway, personal feelings aside, Caroline remains a strong heroine despite being married off to a complete stranger, her life plans and ambitions thrown away and then inevitably falling in love with him.

The ending was great though, and Brent definitely earns his points back, but I can't help but feel that Caroline should have kicked Brent in the nut sack, at least once..!! he deserved it, trust me!

Sunday 14 August 2011

July & August Purchase

Wow, how time flies.. I am so far behind..

I have a pile of books beside me that I still haven't reviewed and its getting harder to put off..

This one is going to be big cause it's a little of June, July and August. It will take me so long to load the pictures I am just going to put the names. Also, a lot of these were pre-orders and were received in this month, but bought sometime ago.. BigW, Kmart, Target and of course Bookdepository.com


GraveMinder by Melissa Marr - $18.18
Where She Went by Gayle Forman - $16.88
If I Stay by Gayle Forman - $
Forgotten by Cat Patrick - $14.94
Hereafter by Tara Hudson - $12.93
Spellbound by Cara Lynn Schultz - $11.98
Alpha by Rachel Vincent - $13.78
Outside In by Maria V Snyder - $11.98
The Vampire Voss by Colleen Gleason - $13.78
A Hunger Like No Other by Kresley Cole - $12.98
Demon From the Dark by Kresley Cole - $12.98
Dark Needs at Night's Edge by Kresley Cole - $12.98
No Rest For Wicked by Kresley Cole - $12.98
Kiss of a Demon King by Kresley Cole - $12.98
Dark Desires After Dusk by Kresley Cole - $12.98
Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night by Kresley Cole - $12.98
Dreams of Dark Warrior by Kresley Cole - $12.98
The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter - $
Changing the Game by Jaci Burton - $11.11
Eternal by Gillian Sheilds - $12.59
Wildefire by Karsten Knight - $12.59
Forever by Maggie Steifvater - $13.33
Corsets and Clockwork - $8.84
My Darling Caroline - $7.47

Janet Evanovich - $6.72 ea
One for the Money
Two for the Dough
Three to Get Deadly
Four to Score
High Five
Hot Six
Seven Up
Hard Eight
To the Nines
Ten Big Ones
Eleven on Top
Twelve Sharp
Lean Mean Thirteen
Fearless Fourteen

That's alot.. hmm..
I think my pocket money should be revoked!!