The Vigilante's Bride by Yvonne Harris

Publisher: Bethany House (August 1, 2010)

Paperback, 297 Pages

Review Copy

 

Book Synopsis

Montana Territory, 1884...Is Her Kidnapper the Only Man Who Can Keep Her Safe?

Robbing a stagecoach on Christmas Eve and abducting a woman passenger is the last thing Luke Sullivan expected to do. He just wanted to reclaim the money stolen from his pa, but instead ended up rescuing a feisty copper-haired woman who was on her way to marry Sullivan's dangerous enemy. Emily McCarthy doesn't take kindly to her so-called rescue. Still, she's hoping Providence will turn her situation for good, especially when it seems Luke Sullivan may just be the man of her dreams. But Luke has crossed a vicious man, a powerful rancher not used to losing, and Emily is the prize he's unwilling to sacrifice. (Taken from the CFBA tour site)

If you would like to read the first chapter of The Vigilante's Bride, go HERE

 

Review

Emily's lived a pretty good life, growing up in an orphanage she became a loved teacher, sister, caretaker and friend. Educated and skilled with many talents the organization believed it was time for Emily to make a life for herself. So when an ad in the newspaper for a wife seems like a hopeful solution, the orphanage jumps at the change to send Emily on her way. Emily doesn't want to go, she wants to find love herself and try and start a life without the means of a man. Regardless though of her worries she boards the train and heads off to meet the man she is to marry.

Luke is a Vigilante....hanging men for breaking the law and living by land. Luke though has grown tired of dealing out justice and just wants to head home....a home that is found at New Hope, a beautiful land and home that takes in orphan children. When news about his fathers ranch (which was stolen by a man named Axel) gets to him he finally does decide its time to leave the Vigilante's Committee......

Luke really never had any intention of robbing Axel's stage, but anger and vengeance rage strong in his heart and when he sees Axel's banker heading out to make a delivery that's just what he does...little did Luke know though that his mail order bride was riding in the back or that by taking her he would spark a long aged fight of revenge and deep secrets that would effect everyone at New Hope.

Emily is very upset in the beginning when she is kidnapped, arriving at New Hope softens her heart a bit but doesn't change her mind that she made a commitment to marry Axel. Without knowing nothing about him she decided perhaps the best thing to do is "date" him. That is...until she meets the nasty old evil man, the sight of him terrifies her and for the first time Emily's thanking God for Luke's decision to take her that night.

In the beginning Emily's "abduction" reminded me of a steer take down....I just had this mental image of a cowboy roping cattle while his other cowboy comrades yell "Get it Haus"....because we women, we want to be man handled and treated like a heifer prime for the taking. Although in Emily's situation it was for the best. If I had a choice in marrying lets see Matt Damon or Donald Trump well Id take Matt for sure............



Rating

 

The Vigilante's Bride is suitable for many readers who enjoy wholesome romance, westerns and finding hope. Contains violence, murder, shoot outs, wild bears, passionate kissing and sassy women.

 

3/5- Western Romance-Christian

Thanks to Bethany House via the CFBA for review copy

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Yvonne Harris earned a BS in Education from the University of Hartford and has taught throughout New England and the mid-Atlantic. Unofficially retired from teaching, she teaches writing at Burlington County College in southern New Jersey, where she resides. She is a winner and three-time finalist for the Golden Heart, once for The Vigilante's Bride, which is her debut novel.

BWBs Group Read

Generation Dead by Daniel Waters

May 2008 by Hyperion Book

Hardcover, 400 Pages

Borrowed-Compliments of the Public Library

Book Synopsis

Phoebe is just your typical goth girl with a crush. He's strong and silent.and dead.

All over the country, a strange phenomenon is happening. Some teenagers who die aren't staying dead. They are coming back to life, but they are no longer the same-they stutter, and their reactions to everything are slower. Termed "living impaired" or "differently biotic," they are doing their best to fit into a society that doesn't want them. Fitting in is hard enough when you don't have the look or attitude, but when almost everyone else is alive and you're not, it's close to impossible. The kids at Oakvale High don't want to take classes or eat in the cafeteria next to someone who isn't breathing. And there are no laws that exist to protect the differently biotic from the people who want them to disappear-for good. With her pale skin and Goth wardrobe, Phoebe has never run with the popular crowd. But no one can believe it when she falls for Tommy Williams, the leader of the dead kids. Not her best friend, Margi, whose fear of the differently biotic is deeply rooted in guilt over the past. And especially not her neighbor, Adam, the star of the football team. Adam has just realized his feelings for Phoebe run much deeper than just friendship. He would do anything for her, but what if protecting Tommy is the one thing that would make her happy? (Amazon)

Review

OH fellow readers...I tried I seriously tried but it just didn't happen for me, after reading 100 pages of Generation Dead I had to put the book down. Now don't go looking for tomatoes to throw at me because I know many of you ya lovers out there really liked this. I think perhaps I wasn't in the right frame of mind to take on the type of fantasy this story offered, or perhaps it was just finishing a very tragic memoir about a family who was terrorized by a neighbor they nicknamed "The Zombie", regardless I just couldn't get into it. I might try again later down the road but would recommend you all try for yourself.

Rating

Reading the parts that I did Generation Dead remains a bit milder than PG-13, kissing, mild language and references to slutty clothing is mentioned. Most likely suitable for teens.

DNF- YA Zombies

Setting the Scene

One of my favorite things about writing is setting a scene. I get asked quite a bit about why I chose the location and type of school that I describe in Shadow Hills. Why didn’t I just use Austin where I grew up? Or LA where I lived for several years? There are many logical reasons that I’ve explained in several interviews, but I think one reason I often neglect to mention is ambiance.

I’m half Polish and my father was raised in a large (11 kids) Roman Catholic family. He even went through seminary, though he wasn’t a priest for very long, as he wanted to get married and have children. He’s fairly liberal, considering his faith, but one thing I never got out of when I was little was going to Church on Sunday. There may be people who criticize the Roman Catholics for their elaborate rituals and grandiose churches, but that was always my favorite part. The flying buttresses, the smell of frankincense and myrrh, and the exquisite strains of a pipe organ melded together to create this astonishing experience. And that lavishness really made it all seem very otherworldly (especially to a kid with an active imagination).

Nowadays, when my mind wanders, as it does when I’m planning a story, it goes to someplace expansive, beautiful, and a bit intimidating. My mind doesn’t want to wander into fluorescent lit grocery stores and sit on metal bleachers in the gym. It wants to go someplace amazing and mysterious. The locations in Shadow Hills---like the crumbling cemetery tucked away in the woods and the campus populated with two hundred year old buildings covered in tangles of ivy---are a perfect backdrop. They add enough drama so that you can (hopefully) believe that in this fantastical place anything can happen. And while I may not remember every hymn and prayer I learned in Sunday school, I will always remember that feeling of going into a cathedral and being awed......

Thanks Anastasia that was great and if you havent read Shadow Falls yet be sure to check it out.

June 2010 by Grand Central Publishing 

Hardcover, 336 pages/ Audio Book Apx. 13 Hours 

Review Copy won from Hachette

Book Synopsis

Rose Mae Lolley is a fierce and dirty girl, long-suppressed under flowery skirts and bow-trimmed ballet flats. As "Mrs. Ro Grandee" she's trapped in a marriage that's thick with love and sick with abuse. Her true self has been bound in the chains of marital bliss in rural Texas, letting "Ro" make eggs, iron shirts, and take her punches. She seems doomed to spend the rest of her life battered outside by her husband and inside by her former self, until fate throws her in the path of an airport gypsy---one who shares her past and knows her future. The tarot cards foretell that Rose's beautiful, abusive husband is going to kill her. Unless she kills him first.

Hot-blooded Rose Mae escapes from under Ro's perky compliance and emerges with a gun and a plan to beat the hand she's been dealt. Following messages that her long-missing mother has left hidden for her in graffiti and behind paintings, Rose and her dog Gretel set out from Amarillo, TX back to her hometown of Fruiton, AL, and then on to California, unearthing a host of family secrets as she goes. Running for her life, she realizes that she must face her past in order to overcome her fate---death by marriage---and become a girl who is strong enough to save herself from the one who loves her best.............(Goodreads)

Review

Ro Grande also known as Rose Mae Lolley has known abuse all her life. Growing up with a drunken father who used his fists more than his words led Rose to become a woman who thought less of herself. She believed that inside her something was bad….something dark and something that gave men the right to hit her. After fleeing her father’s home as a young teenager, Rose sets out to break free of Alabama and gain some independence. Shortly she meets a man that will take her to the same prison she just escaped from, only this prisons warden doesn’t get drunk and pass out, he doesn’t forget that Rose leaves the house or speaks her mind, or waits for the opportune moment to smack her upside the head, kick her in the ribs or use her back as a personal punching bag. Slowly but surely Rose sheds of who she was in Alabama and becomes Ro- a meek, sunny gal who wears dresses and ballet flats. A girl who would like nothing better than to cook Thom's meals, make his home sparkle and give him long nights of pleasure.... but.... when Ro gets that itch in her skin to become Rose again she back talks, she tests the boundaries of what she can do and begins to crave the beatings also something Thom craves, something he waits for……….something he longs for.

A chance encounter with a strange but familiar gypsy changes everything in Rose’s life. A pivotal moment is pressed upon her and deep down she knows that ether her or Thom is going to die, one by each other’s hands and it’s her decision to decide who. Armed with her grandfather’s gun and hiding in the bushes, Rose takes aim at Thom during his morning run, what happens on that trail sets fate in motion and leads to Rose escaping with her three legged dog Fat Gretel and will literally become a journey to save her life.

Absolutely one of the best novels Ive read this year and I would highly recommend this to anyone, but would warn those who do not like explicit sex scenes and violence to read with caution. Rose's character was so defined and well drawn out that I as the reader had very mixed feelings over her. I wanted Rose to escape and stop subjecting herself to the abuse, I wanted her to have strength but I also wanted her to give up the whole Rose attitude. Ro was a charming and sweet girl but also fake, but Rose was the real deal and it was hard to understand why in the world she craved beatings. Ive never been in that type of relationship so I'm sure this may hit close to home for a battered woman and I'm sure as Ro states, its easier for a woman to say Id never go back until your that woman........regardless though a very tremendous and gripping read.

**I very seldom listen to audio books, but love having one on hand to listen to in the car. Ill tell you, once I stared Saints there was no turning it off, through a random series of needing to take a drive and nighttime listening on the ipod, Joshilyn's thick southern voice and tantalizing writing hooked me till the end and had me listening until wee hours of the night.....

Rating

Backseat Saints is recommended to adults only and contains: Explicit graphic sexuality, graphic physical abuse including parental and spousal, violence (mostly domestic) graphic language, alcohol use and mild references to occult themes such as tarot cards and religious themes including catholic saints.

5/5- Southern Fiction- Domestic Abuse

A Huge thanks to Hachette for Audio Copy   

2. Generation Dead by Daniel Waters

3. The Vigilante's Bride by Yvonne Harris

4. When Blood Calls by J.K Beck

5. The Unwritten Rule by Elizabeth Scott

Extra bonus titles:

6. Always the Baker never the Bride by Sandra Bricker

7. Glimmerglass by Jenna Black

8. A Spy in the House by Y.S Lee

Are you joining...if so whats on your top five to read?? Have fun and goodluck.......

March 8th 2011 by HarperTeen (first published March 2011)

Hardcover, 368 pages

Book Synopsis

The fourth book in this electrifying vampire series has all the romance, suspense, and page-turning drama that have made Claudia Gray’s Evernight bo...more The fourth book in this electrifying vampire series has all the romance, suspense, and page-turning drama that have made Claudia Gray’s Evernight books runaway successes. Having become what they feared most, Bianca and Lucas face a terrifying new reality. They must return to Evernight Academy, Lucas as a vampire and Bianca as a wraith. But Lucas is haunted by demons, both personal and supernatural. Bianca must help him fight the evil inside him, combat the forces determined to drive them apart—and find the power to claim her destiny at last.

Readers have fallen in love with Bianca and Lucas, and they will be thrilled to read this exciting conclusion to their romantic adventure.............(Goodreads)

I know...I know its way early to post this WOW...but I cant help it, I'm a drool fest girl over Ms. Gray and I cannot wait until Afterlife to see what the heck happens with our star-crossed lovers..................and not to mention I think this one has the prettiest cover out of the four.

June 1st 2010 by Sourcebooks Fire

Paperback, 324 pages

Purchased

Book Synopsis

Sometimes I still wake up shivering in the early hours of the morning, drowning in dreams of being out there in the ocean that summer, of looking up at the moon and feeling as invisible and free as a fish. But I'm jumping ahead, and to tell the story right I have to go back to the very beginning. To a place called Indigo Beach. To a boy with pale skin that glowed against the dark waves. To the start of something neither of us could have predicted, and which would mark us forever, making everything that came after and before seem like it belonged to another life. My name is Mia Gordon: I was sixteen years old, and I remember everything.... (Goodreads)

Review

Mia begins the summer with a heavy heart, broken hearted over being dumped by the guy she spoke the L word too and having a mother who constantly speaks of her weight...getting a break never seemed better. Looking forward to the family's annual trip to the Hampton's, Mia cannot wait to see her cousins(Corrine and Beth) and her favorite aunt. Since she was young Mia has always adored her aunt and beautiful cousins, for the life they live and the happiness that seems to encompass the family. Everything Corrine has seems glamorous to Mia, her mom, her dancing and her beauty. She values their friendship the most and when her excitement leads to awkwardness by Corrine and Beth's high society attitudes and less than excited treatment over Mia's arrival. The once close bond the girls shared is now gone and Mia feels left out and alone. Things are not as they seem in the Hampton house and soon Mia realizes that the green grass she always longed for is a weeded nightmare. In the midst of loneliness and confusion over her family, Mia meets Simon- an adventurous boy who loves art, nighttime and skinny dipping. The two begin a lovely friendship that quickly turns into romance and Mia's summer once again gets turned upside down by true love and loves awakenings.

I really loved this story.....I thought Howells writing was fabulous and Mia's character was so spot on I couldn't help but fall in love with her and Simon. Mia could of been me easily or any other girl out there, that's what I think made Mia so relatable is that her story (up until the end) could have been any one's story. All the coming of age themes are so relatable it takes you back to a specific place in your life....first love, first times, that moment when you realize the person you idolized is not perfect or that inevitable moment when childhood slips away..........A lovely, fun, haunting and beautiful summer story. 

Rating

The Summer of Skinny Dipping is recommended to the mature teen (10th Grade and up) and contains: mild to graphic sexuality, language, drug and alcohol use, mild violence and illegal activities.

4.5/5- YA-Coming of Age, Romance

St. Martin's Press; July 6, 2010

Hard Cover, 352 pages

Borrowed- Compliment's of Library-

Book Synopsis

On the day she was abducted, Annie O’Sullivan, a thirty-two year old Realtor, had three goals—sell a house, forget about a recent argument with her mother, and be on time for dinner with her ever- patient boyfriend. The open house is slow, but when her last visitor of the day pulls up in a van as she's about to leave, Annie thinks it just might be her lucky day after all. Interwoven with the story of the year Annie spent captive of a sadistic psychopath in a remote mountain cabin, which unfolds through sessions with her psychiatrist, is a second narrative recounting events following her escape—her struggle to piece her shattered spirit back together and the ongoing police investigation into the identity of her captor.....(Goodreads)

When I wonder how I became the zombie I am now, how I could have gotten so lost, it always traces back to that moment-the moment I put my soul on the shelf to make room for the devil.........pg.53

Review

Annie O’Sullivan is a missing person- missing from life, stripped of her soul, dignity and psyche. After a tortuous year living with “The Freak” Annie is back home trying to piece together her life. Hiding in closets, hiding her body behind frumpy clothes and jumping at every noise drives her to be a cynical pissed off woman and Who wouldn’t after the ordeal she lived through!

The novel takes us through Annie’s journey during a one way conversation with her therapist. She talks about the day she was abducted and the horrendous days that follow. She talks about the imprisonment, the rapes and most frightening... the attachment. But Annie also talks about her life after and although she is out of the freaks prison she is still a prisoner to his rules-peeing, eating, drinking, bathing, everything is on his twisted schedule. She wants to heal, she wants to break free, but finding that free spirited girl is next to impossible.

The reader never hears Annie’s Doctor speak or even named for that matter, we read about other characters including the freak through only Annie’s interpretations… I think this approach was important to hear Annie and only Annie as she controls the story and the dialog- having been utterly ripped of her control by the freak, I thought the significance of the narrative was brilliant.

As hard as it was to read Annie’s story at the same time its a book that you can’t put down. The subject matter was not beautiful but Stevens writing was. The development of Annie’s character before, during and after and the shocking heartbreaking end will make for an unforgettable, amazing read.

Rating

Still Missing is equal parts disturbing and powerful- recommended to adults only and contains explicit graphic details on rape, sexuality, perversion, murder and abduction. also contains graphic violence, language, psychological issues, PTSD and family issues. 

5/5- Suspense-Thriller-Abduction

Immortal by Cate Tiernan

September 7th 2010 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Hardcover, 416 pages

Book Synopsis

New name, new town, new life. Nastasya has done it too often to count. And there’s no end in sight. Nothing ever really ends... when you’re immortal. But this time is different: Nastasya knows that this new town must hold her salvation—or her death. Nastasya was born into darkness, and has embraced it her whole life. Four hundred years ago, a tragedy robbed her of her birthright, and she’s been living a lie ever since. Now, four centuries of exploring the depths and limits of dark power has left Nastasya feeling sickened unto death. If she continues down this road, she will end up as a very dark, twisted, evil thing—with unthinkable power. Or she can begin the long, painful road toward light, and reclaim the destiny that others tried to destroy. They’re rare. You may have never met one, never sat next to one on a plane, never eaten in the same restaurant at the same time. But the Immortals are there. Have always been there. Will always be there. Moving among humans, playing out their own cursed fate. Sometimes subtly, sometimes with huge, sweeping implications for mankind. But no one will ever know. Except you.................(Goodreads)

So whats the deal with not being able to resist a story about a new girl in a new town.....??? Well sign me up for this one, dark twisted evil things...I'm all over it!!!!

Blood Law by Jeannie Holmes

July 6th 2010 by Dell (first published June 2010)

Mass Market Paperback, 371 pages

Purchased

Book Synopsis

A provocative and savvy vampire, Alexandra Sabian moves to the sleepy hamlet of Jefferson, Mississippi—population 6,000, half vampires—to escape the demons lurking in her past. As an enforcer for the Federal Bureau of Preternatural Investigations (FBPI), Alex must maintain the uneasy peace between her kind and humans, including Jefferson’s bigoted sheriff, who’d be happy to see all vampires banished from town. Then really dead vamps start turning up—beheaded, crucified, and defanged, the same gruesome manner in which Alex’s father was murdered decades ago. For Alex, the professional has become way too personal.Things get even more complicated when the FBPI sends in some unnervingly sexy backup: Alex’s onetime mentor, lover, and fiancé, Varik Baudelaire..........(Goodreads)

Review

Alex spends her time working as an Enforcer for the FBPI (Federal Bureau of Preternatural Investigations) in small but vampire loved Mississippi town. Alex deals with vampire laws and being one herself shes accustomed to the stereotyping and prejudice from most of the humans in the community,especially from Harvey, the towns local sheriff. Regardless of the frustration of bigotries and noncooperation from local police, making sure vampires stay under control and humans remain safe are her top priority's.

Currently Alex is under a lot of pressure from the human law enforcement and from the vampire law enforcement to solve a case dealing with a serial killer beheading vampires. When Alex starts to wear thin from the stress and become physically and emotionally attached to the case, the director of FBPI sends in a new lead investigator. Things would great if that investigator wasn't her mentor and long ago lover Varik..........Oh Varik how I loved to hate you. Sexy, smoldering and mysterious encompass the man of Alex's past and when these two get going the pages fly by like lightning. The world building Holmes created was fantastic and highly believable. The dialog and sexual tension keep the reader so involved in the story that you cant help but absorb every word off the page. Alex can only take so much, between Varik, her mother coming to town and her dead father haunting her dreams...lies will come out, betrayals will be revealed and someone will pay.

Blood Law was a huge surprise for me...thinking I was going to read yet again another PNR of the snarky tough chic who doesn't need a man in her life....Ms. Holmes for sure knocked my socks off with this one. I absolutely loved it and enjoyed visiting Alex and her twisty world. I cant wait for the sequel!!!

Rating

Blood Law is recommended to adults only. Content includes: graphic violence with scenes of murder, gore and blood. Serial killers, graphic language, explicit sexuality, prejudice and racial commentary's. Messed up romances and dark betrayals.

5/5- PNR/Urban- Vampires

                                

BWB Discussion Questions

1. What are your thoughts on the relationship between Alex and Varik? Should she give him another chance? What do you think the future might hold for them?

I think the couple has some twisted major issues to work out....but I think they belong together. They have a bond to deep to ignore and deep down Alex wants Varik. I think the future will hold some obstacles but the sexual tension with these two is irresistable.

2. Lets talk about Harvey......did you understand why Harvey thought and acted the way he did? In any circumstance do you agree with prejudice thinking or profiling? Have you experienced discrimination whether it be racial, political, religious or class?

I think Harvey was first motivated by power and status...but more importantly I think he was controlled by fear. When people are scared of the unknown or change sometimes prejudice thinking can consume them. I think stereotyping and prejudice behavior is wrong in all circumstances....profiling however is used by police and FBI today, I agree in some cases like murder, serial killing, terrorists that profiling is an effective tool. Haven't we all experienced some type of discrimination, my worst- one incident of religious affiliation.

3. What was your favorite scene in the book and why?

After the "event" between Varik and Alex, Ms. Alex winds up in the hospital...in walks her brother Stephen and sees Varik there. After putting two and two together Stephen spaz's and attacks Varik, they fight.....Alex wakes up figures things out and then she joins the fight chasing Varik around the room throwing medical equipment at him........ (of course not the best scene but my favorite due to the visuals)

June 22nd 2010 by Simon & Schuster

Hardcover, 496 pages

Review Copy

Short Synopsis

Hope's life is turned upside down when her older sister Lizzie is institutionalized after trying to kill herself. Alone and trapped in a world that only makes sense through pain and loss, Hope struggles to find the reasons why Lizzie gave up. Scared of the awful truth that surrounds her, Hope will fight to save her sister and fight to flee the evil that traps her. With only one friend and a mother who turns tricks for a living life is about to change from worse to nightmarish.

Haunting Quote

I am old with living.
So much older than almost thirteen.

Pg. 38 Ch. 18 

Review

Its always tricky with verse writing, sometimes the story works, sometimes its brilliant (Chasing Brooklyn) and sometimes it doesn't connect to the reader. In the beginning of Glimpse I was wondering if I could connect to the story because the verse prose was so detached. Basically each page is a chapter told through the young voice of Hope and not until chapter 24 did Glimpse hit me like a ton of bricks and then slowly break my heart. I lost all knowledge of the verse setting and fell into Hope's story diving deep.

Hope is a twelve year old girl living with her mother and older sister. On the morning of Lizzie's attempted suicide everything in Hope's life changes. Left alone with her mother and slowly piecing together the events in Lizzie's past, Hope walks us through her own past. As readers we see the environment she's being raised in and slowly the pages leak out just what type of person her mother really is. For me as the reader this was the hardest part, as a parent myself I could not understand the hateful things she would say to her daughters. In the beginning I thought she was truly desperate, a woman so lost by the death of her husband, a woman so tormented by grief and trapped by her sadness, that she would trade her brokenness for evil.Unfortunately this is not a woman who has been tainted by grief, but a woman who is the lowest of the low, the kind of parent who makes your skin crawl and your stomach turn because you want to hate her and you want to see justice come for her.

Glimpse is a very beautifully written yet haunting book, although marketed to teens, I think the more mature teen will be able to handle the content and depth of the story. A very difficult subject to read about but not overly graphic in details to the reader who may find this uncomfortable. 

Rating

Glimpse contains mature content including drinking, prostitution, suicide and child abuse. A very hard reality to look into and may disturb some readers. Suitable for older teens and adults.

3.5/5 -YA, Coming of Age, Abuse
Copy provided by Around theWorld Tours

August 1st 2010 by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Paperback, 384 pages

Review Copy

Book Synopsis  

PJ Sugar receives shocking news that she’s inherited the Kellogg family mansion. Though she has no idea why, the timing is perfect—PJ has clearly worn out her welcome at her sister’s house. Unfortunately, the mansion is in shambles, and PJ is short on cash. Rescue comes in the form of Max Smith, a mysterious handyman willing to trade his services for PJ’s investigative skills. But PJ already has a full docket with cramming for her PI license and nurturing a growing romance with her boss, Jeremy Kane. Can she take on Max’s case without dropping the ball................(Goodreads)

Review

Rating

Licensed for Trouble is a wonderful and fun novel for readers who love romance, mystery and lots of laughs. Wholesome throughout PJ's story is suitable for most readers including mature teens. Contains violence, murder, illegal activity, romance with some passionate kisses, people in ridiculous costumes and lots of references to pizza.....

5/5- Christian Fiction- Romance, Mystery

A huge thanks to Litfuse Group for review copy.

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September 28th 2010 by MTV (first published 2010)

Paperback, 320 pages

Book Synopsis......(Goodreads) 

An enchanting tale by Christoper Golden about a teenager who wakes from a coma and slowly comes to realize that she is Sleeping Beauty of fairy tales.

Ok....well the cover is very pretty and I absolutely love fairy tales revolving around Sleeping Beauty or Beauty and the Beast so I'm looking forward to Golden's spin....but for me its always a gamble with MTV, I'm hoping its not Sleeping Beauty wakes up and gets skanky...I guess we'll see in September..........