Book Review: Personal Empowerment for Women: Simple Steps to Creating Success, Love, and the Life You’ve Always Wanted by Olivia Dunkley

  

 

Personal Empowerment for Women: Simple Steps to Creating Success, Love, and the Life You’ve Always Wanted by Olivia Dunkley

The book is about affirmation, inspiration and empowerment. She tells of her struggles through the years and how reaching out to others helped her achieve her goals. Scary parts about the meeting place and sounds like father threw her under the bus as the trouble maker of the family.  Love that she succeeded beyond her belief. Steps you can take to achieve your goals are included in depth.

Great read.

 

Nov 11 Book Review: Cowboy's Christmas: Ten Book Cowboy Holiday Romance... by Mary Sue Jackson

  

Cowboy's Christmas: Ten Book Cowboy Holiday Romance... by Mary Sue Jackson

 

Cowboy’s Christmas Rodeo

Like having a bundle of books to read because they are so cherished and realistic.

Story starts with Axel and he's thinking of buying back the family ranch and hanging up doing rodeos. he's one step from blowing the whole thing when he runs into Ford, a competitor that irks him to no means, at a bar and by what he's saying Axel is ready to punch him out. Belle, there with her friends is on the way to get drinks for their table when she slides up to him and he feels her touch on his arm. He immediately calms down. They later talk and he wants her by his side so he won't blow the whole thing on  a punch...  She agrees but she needs him for things also.

Hate how her mom is always trying to find her a spouse. They couple date in public but the mother continues to do things, setting her up with other men.

Love how it goes with each helping the other out til he finds out info on a report she had written for her college class.

The whole thing has gone sideways and you wonder if he will be leaving town, if they can can get back together and if she explains it all...

Received this review copy from Tule Publishing via Booksprout and this is my honest opinion.

 

Nov 11 A Love For a Lifetime by Lara Van Hulzen

  

 

A Love For a Lifetime by Lara Van Hulzen

This story starts out with  Charlie and she's ignoring her mothers phone calls. She does get a call from her daughter who's getting married but the grandparents are taking over and inviting their friends, argh. She also learns from her spouse Davis that their house is being sold. THe parents had given it to them, but now they've changed their minds after raising the whole family there.

She is a real estate broker and is given a job of a new one to put on the market. She canvases the house and area and learns it was a family similar to hers as there were marks on the side of the door with height measurements. She contacts one relative and learns so much more about the house while Mike was growing up during the depression years.

With all the pressure she has to deal with I can't even imagine  the stress Charlie has.

Love hearing how the town comes together to form the big event, from food to other family friendly Founder's Day celebration. Charlie also knows of other plans the town is faced with...

With the medical emergency Davis knows what he has to do...

Beautiful realistic story. Can't wait for more in this series.

 

Nov 10 Promise Me This Christmas Book 4 of Bramble House Chronicles by C.J. Carmichael

  

 

Promise Me This Christmas Book 4 of Bramble House Chronicles by C.J. Carmichael

Back to Bramble House and the last of the year holiday guests have arrived.  One seems to be a grumpy guest and finds everything wrong.

another is a granddaughter and her grandmother. They are having a great time, even Larkin gets a job to write a story, and her grandmothers house is being renovated after the stroke to accommodate her.

Amy's long lost brother is also there, and he knows Larkin and they've had a relationship in the past.

Another couple want to help out.

With the new hire things are still going wrong with how things work at the inn.

So much is going wrong with everybody's plans but things do work out, maybe not the best. Love holiday cheer and everything there is to do during the holiday.

Great holiday read.

Received this review copy from Tule Publishing via Booksprout and this is my honest opinion.

 

Book Review: The Dog Walker: Stolen by D L Maddox

   

 

The Dog Walker: Stolen by D L Maddox

Story follows Jane and she's a dog walker. It suits her and is safe where she lives. It's only a stepping stone. She then meets up with Margot from her past and persuades her to attend a showing of a painting. Jane was heavily into the art scene til she got jailed. We find out all about that and the mistakes she made over the years.  There are meetings and Jane decides that she'd do the job. She works with R and they each get a cut of the job. She has gotten a taste of what she had before and wants more of it. But why not take a few people out of the equation so she would get more money?

Super love the breath by breath move she makes during the heist. After hearing about the big heist in Paris a few weeks ago it's interesting to note the things Jane sees and hears and knows what to do with laser beams. During the scenes I could feel my heart rate rising as it did with her. So scary and yet so close to getting caught again.

After first heist she returns to her normal dog walking days to blend into the scenery.

So many twists and turns and never saw it coming out as it did , whew.

Super descriptive and I would read more works from this author. Can't wait 

 

Book Review: Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum by Sara Pascoe

  

 

Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum by Sara Pascoe 

This story follows Joey a boy of ten and he loves the wild animals and even allows them into his house. His mother does NOT like them at all. He's not got many human friends and he blames his mother for sending the father away and for sending the animals away. He has a school project where he was going to show all the animals tails and talk about how they each use them. Problem is animal control relocates the opossum but he uses his MPS and finds his way back to Joey. Joey has also gotten the chance to visit an animal sanctuary where he learns so much more about animals and their lives. 

School project and all the animals parade into the school building and everybody is asking hwo Joey knows everything about them.

How love educational this story is and how it is so realistic. Love what the animals teach him.

Great story to read with grand children. 

Nov 8 The Montana Cowboy's Code of Honor by Sinclair Jayne

  

 

The Montana Cowboy's Code of Honor by Sinclair Jayne

In this story we find Remy and he's on a mission. To finish a task his buddy that died in the war had not gotten around to. He's to find Arlo and make sure they are set for life. He meets the bar tender and he has to get the watch back that she has also.

Shane and Remy tangle a bit and get some things figured out. They locate Arlo and are surprised by her.

The group of guys on a mission are to meet after a years worth of time and see how everyone is doing with their missions.

Lots of grit and truths in this one!

Adult situations.

Received this review copy from Tule Publishing via Booksprout and this is my honest opinion.