Feels Like Home

Feels Like Home by Evelyn Adams

My rating:

2 stars—It was okay.

My thoughts:

This was an okay read. It was a very generic romance with fluffy feelings and little depth.

Description Goodreads.com:

“Tired of living under the shadow of her mother's bad choices, Autumn Maddox left home the first chance she got. But when her carefully constructed life crumbles around her, Autumn's forced to return to the small southern town that never let her forget she came from the wrong side of the tracks.

Jude Southerland, the town doctor, is used to taking care of people and with a pedigree that has the Ladies Auxiliary reaching for their fans, he’s easily the town’s most eligible bachelor – a status he has no intention of changing. That is until he almost runs down the Maddox girl he never noticed in school and suddenly finds her lush curves, dark curls and blue eyes consuming his thoughts, day and night.

Autumn would like nothing more than to live happily ever after with Jude. But with every local matron in the valley trying to marry him off to their own daughters, she knows they won’t let her forget that she's not good enough and never will be. With the chance to finally find happiness, can she overcome her family history and find the confidence she needs to believe in herself or will she let love pass her by?”

Imitation in Death

Imitation in Death by JD Robb

My rating:

3 stars—I liked it.

My Thoughts:

I still like this series, but this was the first one I was getting a bit bored with. There are  a lot of books in this series and I have lots more to go!

Description from Goodreads.com:

“A man wearing a cape and a top hat approaches a prostitute on a dark, New York City street. Minutes later, the woman is dead. Left at the scene is a letter addressed to Lieutenant Eve Dallas, inviting her to play his game and unveil his identity. He signs it, "Jack." Now Dallas is in pursuit of a murderer who knows as much about the history of serial killers as she does. He has studied the most notorious and the most vicious slayings in modern times. But he also wants to make his own mark. He has chosen his victim: Eve Dallas. And all Eve knows is that he plans to mimic the most infamous murderers of all starting with Jack the Ripper...”

Cross

Cross by James Patterson

My rating (out of 5 stars):

4 stars—I really liked it.

My Thoughts:

This is the 12^th book in the Alex Cross series and I really enjoyed it! There was a point when I thought about stopping this series…but I’m glad I decided to continue!

If you want to try this series the first book is “Along Came a Spider.”

 Description from Goodreads.com:

“Forensic psychologist Alex Cross's storied career in private practice, with the FBI and as a Washington, D.C., cop has brought him into contact with all kinds of seriously disturbed killers, but his 12th outing from bestseller Patterson (after 2005's Mary, Mary) may be the ultimate in lunatic deadliness. Beginning with a flashback to the murder of Cross's wife, Maria, Patterson quickly introduces Michael Sullivan (aka the Butcher of Sligo). What follows is a frenetically paced series of brutal rapes and killings by Sullivan, once employed by the mob as a freelancer and now at war with them. Cross juggles being a single parent and being involved in the dangerous game of tracking serial killers until he finally decides to give it up for his family. Needless to say, he's drawn back into the game when it promises a chance of finding Maria's killer. Cross's competence and vulnerability make a stark contrast with Sullivan's sadistic mutilations and psychological manipulations of his victims. Fans know that Cross will survive, but at what cost?”

Love in a Small Town

Love in a Small Town by Zoe York

My rating (out of 5 stars):

3 stars—I liked it.

My thoughts:

This was a sweet story about a divorced couple coming back together. I liked the author’s style and I liked that the characters were not 18 and starry eyed.

I recommend this one and I will try more by York.

Description from Goodreads.com:

“Police officer and army reservist Rafe Minelli knows better than to tell his wife no, particularly since they aren't married anymore. She can’t hightail it out of town, though, not when they’ve finally broken through the post-divorce cold war status quo.

Olivia Minelli needs to leave Pine Harbour. It’s just too hard to see Rafe moving on without her—even if he says he doesn’t want to. But when a new and exciting job falls into her lap, she needs to choose: protect her heart, or take the new job and risk getting emotionally entangled with her ex-husband. Again.”

Welcome to Paradise

Welcome to Paradise by Rosalind James

My rating (out of 5 stars):

2 stars—It was okay.

My Thoughts:

The plot was interesting—contestants on a reality show. But the problem, for me, was too many characters and a drawn out plot. I couldn’t really get into this one.

Description From Goodreads.com:

“Mira Walker is hoping that competing on a "living history" reality show will give her what's missing from her real life. Maybe she'll get closer to her boyfriend, who hasn't been all that nice to her lately. Get fired up about her job again. Who knows, she might even win a million dollars.

Gabe Kincaid and his brother Alec are after that million too, though. Mira and Scott are no threat at all, not when everybody involved is going to want to kill Scott after the first day. And there's no bond stronger than a twin's. What could possibly go wrong?”

The Year We Fell Down

The Year We Fell Down by Serena Bowen

My rating (out of 5 stars):

3 stars—I liked it.

Description from Goodreads.com:

“She expected to start Harkness College as a varsity ice hockey player. But a serious accident means that Corey Callahan will start school in a wheelchair instead.

Across the hall, in the other handicapped-accessible dorm room, lives the too-delicious-to-be real Adam Hartley, another would-be hockey star with his leg broken in two places. He’s way out of Corey’s league.

Also, he’s taken.

Nevertheless, an unlikely alliance blooms between Corey and Hartley in the “gimp ghetto” of McHerrin Hall. Over tequila, perilously balanced dining hall trays, and video games, the two cope with disappointments that nobody else understands.

They’re just friends, of course, until one night when things fall apart. Or fall together. All Corey knows is that she’s falling. Hard.

But will Hartley set aside his trophy girl to love someone as broken as Corey? If he won’t, she will need to find the courage to make a life for herself at Harkness — one which does not revolve around the sport she can no longer play, or the brown-eyed boy who’s afraid to love her back.”

My Thoughts:

It took too long for the connection to really happen in this book. Hartley had a girlfriend through most of the book...I almost gave up, but powered through and I ended up liking it okay.

The names were a little distracting as I felt like Corey should be the male and Hartley the female and I kept getting confused!