One perfect Summer- Paige Toon

Paige Toon is one hell of an author. This book is no turn down, Alice is like every girl, we have all been there. Maybe not as spectacular as Alice manages to pull off first love but its a story we've all lived through.
  Alice meets dishy Joe as he works for his nutcase parents. The pair fall in love quickly and Joe tells her secrets he would never tell anyone else. When Joe's brother is released from prison for Rape, things turn bad for Joe, he is once again used as a punch bag. He manages to escape but his suffering doesn't end there, Joe demands that Alice and her family leave Dorset before his family hurt them in some way. While Alice goes to pack, Joe leaves without a word.
 Alice is heart broken, she goes to university her life is at odds and she misses out on bonding with her peers. One day she meets Jessie,he punts tourists around Cambridge, he lifts her spirits and she gains a job punting also.  While punting she meets Lukas a good looking physicist, who turns out to be a control freak who likes none of Alice's friends.   Alice is practically forced into marrying Lukas, with his mind tricks and games.  On the morning of her wedding, her best friend Lizzy shows her a film called strike, with its hunky lead actor Joseph Strike. Alice can't believe she has found Joe, but now Joe is a super famous actor. She marries Lukas all the same and goes back to the UK. Joe is every where when she returns home and to work, the kids love him and it appears so do her work mates. Lizzy encourages her to contact his agent. She does but fails to get through to him as she won't leave her number.
   Over the next few months, Lukas' control freak behaviour seems to sign his own death warrant. Alice goes to London to stay with Lizzy for a few days, where Lizzy allows her to watch 3 of Joe's films, things change for Alice she knows she has to see him. As the girls come back from the cinema, Lukas is waiting to take Alice home he forces her to leave early, once in the car he throws a paper at her, where on the front page is news that Joe's brother is a rapist.
  Alice keeps tabs on the news following the news a new story seems to break each day. The turning point seems to be when Lukas gets a job promotion and accepts the job without even asking Alice. She goes home for Christmas before hand Lizzy tells her Joe will be in London for his premier of his new film. She manages to get through the girls and calls his name, he looks up and sees her but is pulled away. Later that night she watches TV and Joe is on a chat show, as per usual Lukas has to ruin her Joe time by calling to speak to her, she misses his whole interview. As she searches the internet for the show, Lizzy rings and tells her she recorded it. Alice runs round to Lizzy's and watches in shock as Joe tells the chat show host he is still in love with his first love. Lizzy admits she called the show and gave them Alice's number. her phone rings its Joe. She arranges to meet him finally she is going to get the answers she needs.
  When those answers come everything is different, its no longer closure but the start of something new, they run off back to Dorset and as thing progress they stay longer than they should, Lukas turns up once again and thankfullly finally gets his marching orders.  Alice as to resolves a few things so she returns to Cambridge to do just that, its a happy ending and its one with out Lukas.
  There is way to much Lukas in this book for me, I was a Joe fan from the start and I really hope that Paige writes a follow up to this book, it would be nice to have a Alice and Joe book.
  I loved one perfect Summer well worth the wait and I can't wait for the next. If you only read one book this summer make sure its this one!

Black Dawn- Rachel Cain

I have to admit right off I am a Rachel Cain fan. This one however was one that I found a little boring, it seems to be a thing for book 12 at the moment.  This has been the second book dedicated to the Draug being baddies. I think this why its been a bit dull.  I got confused when Shane was engulfed by the draug and he went into the 'dream' state. He had visions of things that where written to start with as though they were real. When he was saved I spent the rest of the book wondering if he was still 'dreaming' it.  It was endless but in the end as always the good guys win, and even though a good character was killed off at least another was saved, but the damage to that character is unknown.  Book 13 is out in November, I assume that it will see sisters Amelie and Naomi going up against each other for power.  At least the Draug are dead and Michael and eve are happy, surely things can be happy in Morganville can't it?

Deadlock- Charlaine Harris

I was really excited about this book, the last book 'Dead Reckoning' was excited and I hopped that would carry over. Although it was a good and enjoyable read, it failed to catch- The passion and heat of the other 11 books. Sookie Stackhouse, is never safe and dating a highly powerful vampire makes you're life even more fragile. King Felipe returns to Shreveport as he tries to piece together the disappearance of his second Victor. Eric throws a party for Felipe and his gang, he expects Sookie to be there by his side as his wife. But Eric's day man calls Sookie and arranges for her to arrive at 10, later than she should have. When she does arrive the party is in full swing, she finds Eric feeding from a girl who seems to have a death wish. A half breed were wolf with a aroma of a fairy, true death for anyone around a vampire. The half breed is told to leave. Moments later though she is found dead on Eric's front lawn and the police are investigating. This is the main issue through out the book, who is after framing Eric and who has kidnapped Warren, Eric's second day man? All figures point to Eric at the death of the girl. But as weird things start to happen to Sookie; mainly the amount of fairy that seem to be lingering around her house- she feels it may not be so clear cut. Once it is realised who was invovled in the kidnaps and the murder and that surprise for those plans, laid mainly at Sookie door and right under her nose. She then has to deal with the fact Eric's maker has promised his hand to another vampire. A vampire Queen. Eric doesn't want to marry the queen but if Sookie doesn't stop it with her magic, then he has no choice but to marry Fredya. Once those who conspired against Eric, the long tooth pack and Sookie are brought to justice, Jannalynn the not quite so normal second in command, decides she will try to take control of the long tooth pack, before they kill her. She takes a strike at Alcide, missing him but hits Sam instead. With powerful fairy magic that can only be used once, Sookie saves Sam's life. Eric leaves without a word knowing that now he has to marry Fredya. It finishes pretty much at that if you are a trueblood fan, then you have to read this book. I feel all authors specially those who write lots of books in the same series such as this, face a book once in a while that is pointless. This one is such but the TV shows start again soon and this is a nice refresher of the characters. Book 13 is scheduled from May 2013 but is as yet untitled.

Dark Flame by Alyson Noel

I loved this story, it was so much better than her last one. Loads more happens and the spell that was said to have gone wrong in the last book, shows how wrong it did go. Roman seems to hold all the cards in his hands, especially now he has made Ever turn Hevan to an immortal. The pair don't manage to last long as firends once Roman stands between them and as the magic takes it grasp.  Thankfully Ever gets the spell under control after almost completely loosing it all together. Ever then learns that the only way she will ever get the antidote to the antidote is by saying to Roman, that she no longer plays by his mind games. She makes head way with her plan and takes Roman to the place where the only love of his life will be for the rest of forever, the place where all immortals go when they die for good, Shadowlands. The only problem is that Roman shows Ever the antidote and puts it in his pocket. Half way through Ever showing Roman the shadowlands,  Jude bursts in thinking Ever is in danger and kills Roman, smashing the antidote as he goes. Ever is beyond upset, more so as Hevan arrives and promises all kind of hell on both of them for killing Roman. Where will the next immortals book Night Star take us?

Getting over Mr Right by Chrissie Manby

This book is a difficult one to discribe, it was entertaining, and annoying and at time you just wanted to scream at the main Character Ashleigh to get a life. Its about one woman's desprate way at trying to get back her looser ex, to be fair its a bit extreme and i would really hope that in real life no one would go that far, but fiction is drawn from life, so i guess there are people out there who stalk there ex's, beg for forgiveness, stalk there ex's new girlfriend, pay a thousand pounds to some witch to make a spell, spend £500 on new make up, loose your job after your insulting power point gets shown ti people it shouldn't and so on.

Its not a bad book but i can't really say i enjoyed it but then again i can't say that i didn't enjoy it either, maybe its down to the readers empathy for the main character, i had none for as i am pull yourself together kind of person.  Its worth a read, see what you think.

chasing daisy by Paige Toon

Oh my god i love this book! Actually I love Paige Toon to be fair, you know what your going to get with a book by Paige and you are never ever let down. This book as it all the romance, the heart ache, tears and then the love! Its brillaint and to start with you really dislike Luis racing driver and man about town, you love Will also a racing driver for the same team as Luis, but is Will all he seems?
  Daisy is a bun tart, and relutant daughter of an evil billionaire, Daisy has had a turbulant life she felt unloved as she grew up, then she left home and went to work for Jonny Jefferson, falling in love with him and then had to watch him break her heart, now sworn off men, Daisy works in F1 and falls for Will who is dating his child hood sweet heart, heart break has to happen and it surely does. This story is written so well you'll laugh, cry and aww your way through it, its addictive and you just can't put it down once you start reading it. I really couldn't tell you enough time to read this book its amazing.

guitar girl by Sara Manning

this book is pretty old now and its the third time i've read it but i still love it, it has everything to keep you entertained if you love a good romance with a good amount of punky music with odd lyrics then this will be right up your street!  It might be classed as a young adult book, but to be fair i tend to enjoy those books better than adult books.
  If you love a story that has energy, powerful women, decentful music industry types and possesives parents then this should be the book for you.