Scrambled Eggs at Midnight

Scrambled Eggs at Midnight by Brad Barkley and Heather Hepler was my reading fun for today. I really enjoyed it. Cal (Calliope) is constantly moving with her mother from town to town. She has recently moved to Asheville, North Caroline for the summer Reinessance Faire. She meets Eliot. Eliot's family owns and operates a camp outside of Asheville for overweight Christians. Eliot and Cal meet in town in a book shop. From then on they are connected almost immediately. Cal is finally able to establish some roots that are on the brink of being ripped out again when some major life changes are made for Cal and for Eliot. Cal and Eliot tell the stories from their point of view in alternative chapters. I thought the story was told very well. Each lead character was well developed and fleshed out. They each grow and change as the story progresses.

shadow dance

I recently finished Shadow Dance by Julie Garwood. i enjoyed it alot. I'm a fan of Julie Garwood's in particular and series/linked characters in general and this book tied a lot of things together. Jordan Buchanan who's brothers had a number of books already and Noah Clayborne who showed up in a number of previous books are the starring characters in this novel. Noah challenges Jordan to shake up her safe world. He doesn't plan for her to find dead bodies in the process. What I like about this book was that it gave insight into Noah's as well as Jordan's through "his point of view." Too often we only read the female's point of view. This book also tied together some of Julie Garwood's earlier titles, in particular Come the Spring for Noah Clayborne's character and Ransom for Jordan Buchanan's character. Until this point I never realized that the leading man from Ransom and the entire Buchanan family from the contemporary suspense novels were connected.

whoops

ok...so it's been a year since i posted and i hadn't posted very much at all before that but i'm going to try and be better about it now...so let's go