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Book: Living With Vampires

Author: Belinda Topan

Language: English

Available On: Amazon

Rating: 4.5/5

I love paranormal stories. Living With Vampires is based on a quite unique and interesting concept where the main character Valeria shares an apartment with three vampires – Neil, Brooklyn and Nathaniel. After seeing an ad in newspaper, Valeria went to see Neel’s apartment. She made the deal with vampires that she will pay for her food and part of all the bills. Valeria is a woman living among the vampires. She has an old writing desk in her room where she writes blogs about living with vampires. Grab a copy of this book and read it yourself to unveil the suspense.

Language of the book is easy and comfortable. Writing style of the author is remarkable and seems mature. Plot is intriguing. Characterization was stunning. Pace of the story was fine. If you love vampire stories, then this book is strongly recommended to you. This book took me down the memory lane and reminded me of those days when I searched for a cheap apartment to live in sharing with strangers as my flatmates.

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Book: After The Outbreak

Author: Karri Kadin

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Language: English

Rating: 4.5/5

After The Outbreak by the author Karri Kadin is the first book in the N87 Virus Book series. This is the debut novel of the author Karri. There is an outbreak in the world that infected millions of people. Most of the people who were infected from this disease died but Allison survived it. Allison was in the semester party when people started eating people.

A wild woman gaze fell on her and Allison ran into the forest. But lastly, the wild woman left a mark in Allison’s body and Allison fainted. She woke up after 3 years and found her in the middle of the forest. After meeting a couple, she got to know that three years had passed and she don’t even remembered what had happened with her. Grab a copy of this book and read the story yourself to unveil the suspense.

Language of the book is easy and comfortable. Narration style of the author is remarkable and seems mature. Plot is intriguing. Characterization is stunning. Pace of the story was fine.

Overall, I enjoyed this book and strongly recommend it to my fellow readers.

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Book: The Pisces Folly

Author: Bryan Beckinsale

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Language: English

Rating: 4.5/5

This book will give you sneak peek into gay relationships. Readers will get to know about the feelings and challenges of being in a homosexual relationship. The story starts from the year 2007 in United States when gay relationship was prohibited. Bryan started his love life at the age of twenty six when his neighbor David sent him to a gay nightclub for the first time in West Michigan.

Bryan’s encounter with a Puerto Rican Jose at the night club made the story interesting. After three months of being in relationship, Jose moved in with Bryan who lived in a townhouse. Their relationship went through some good and bad experiences, betrayal, struggles, etc. What will happen ultimately?

Story is narrated from the viewpoint of Bryan and is written in first person. Cover page of the book is simple and title is unique. If you are comfortable reading about the gay relationship and dating life, then it is a nice book for weekend reading.

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Book: Prophecy

Author: Sheryl Steines

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Language: English

Rating: 4.5/5

After reading the past three book in the wizard hall chronicles series by Sheryl Steines, I just could not wait more to move to the Fourth one. I’m totally fascinated by the character of Annie. The new phase starts when Annie returned from France and had to face a Prophecy that would change her entire life.

Annie faces such difficult situations and demons, stronger so much that she never thought of and were so stronger that she’s ever encountered before. The story takes us back to ninth-century on a time-travelling quest of her finding answers to some questions that she never thought off. If she strives, her life will take her to a ultimate reward that would get her magic very very powerful .

Coming to the end it was really tensed but amusing experience as a reader, She could speak to her father can see her mother and we all were able to experience the time when she was five. What really happened, was she able to get her ultimate reward? Read this really amazing part where you all would definitely experience the prophecy that would definitely change her life. I was wiping my eyes occasionally and laughing aloud and screaming at everything that was happening.

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Book: Sunset, Sunrise

Author: Dave Mayer

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Language: English

Rating: 4.5/5

Recently I read the third part of the Franklin Boys Story trilogy. This trilogy has highlighted the racism faced by the main characters Julio and Jermey that made their life tough when they moved to Franklin. Jamie, Jeremy’s girlfriend also faced the same racism and when she couldn’t fight it anymore, she gave up her life. Jeremy who was her boyfriend miss her very much.

Julio is in San Francisco and he often communicates with his brother Jeremy through texting. One thing that I have noticed in this trilogy that is constant is the death. Grab a copy of this book and read the story yourself to unveil the suspense.

Language of the book is easy and comfortable. Writing style of the author is remarkable and seems mature. Plot is intriguing. Characterization was stunning throughout the book even though there were so many characters. Pace of the story was fine. If you love baseball, then this series is strongly recommended to you.

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Book: Unlucky

Author: Weston King

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Language: English

Rating: 4.5/5

Unlucky by Weston King is an intriguing story. Story highlights magical creatures who eats flesh. Story starts with a six years old little girl Kelsey in the local park. She met a strange creature who attracted her by his magic and made her to follow him.

When Kelsey slide down one tunnel with that creature, she noticed little bones around her. These were bones of children and she got scared. This creature eats children’s flesh. What will happen to Kelsey? Will she ever be able to make it back to her family? Who is this creature? Grab a copy of this book to unveil the suspense and know the story yourself.

Writing style of author is superb. From the first page itself, story intrigued me. I read it in two sittings. The storyline is unique and it was something new to me. I enjoyed the story a lot. Cover page of the book looks so decent. Title is short and sweet. Looking forward to read more books by the author.

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Book: Stop

Author: Colleen Williams

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Language: English

Rating: 4.5/5

Stop by the author Colleen Williams is the first book that I have read by her. This book contains stories and poems about the domestic violence and sexual abuse that author has gone through. I really loved below lines from the poem:

Why are you putting your hands on me?
This is not how I imagined my life to be.
How did I end up with you?
I’m tired of my skin turning black and blue.
I walked away because I know I deserve
better; in a perfect world
I will get love and happiness.
If I stay with you
it will only be sadness and bitterness.
I’m tired of fighting for my life. I never
planned to be an abused wife.
I started to make excuses for you. I started to cover the scars and the bruises, started to blame myself for your sickness.
Then I stopped.

In the letter to her exes, instead of being mad at those guys, Colleen is thankful to them as she is happy and strong today because of whatever happened to her. The world has become so harsh that even neighbor’s can’t be trusted with a girl child security.
Title of the book is short, sweet and really apt. Cover page is nice. This book motivates the one who is suffering due to domestic violence to come out of such a relationship. I really appreciate Colleen for sharing her life experiences with us in the form of a book. Looking forward to read more books by the author Colleen Williams.

It’s a promising read that I strongly recommend to my fellow readers.

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Book: Salep and Ginger

Author: Jane Gundogan

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Language: English

Rating: 4.5/5

Salep and Ginger by the author Jane Gundogan is an intriguing read. I love romcom stories and movies. It’s my favorite genre. This story is in the style of Notting Hill and Sleepless in Seattle. Story starts with Ginger at home and she wanted to spend a New Year Eve by lying in her sofa and munching on pizza. When her best friend Tash invited her to party where there will be famous Sydney fireworks and all the fun, she couldn’t say no to her friend.

So, Ginger went for the party. Her eyes fell on Chris Hemsworth clone, a gorgeous looking guy with chiseled jawline. After being in relationship with Henry for few months, she discovered that she is being cheated by him. Henry was in bed with a blonde Charlotte Poppleton. What Ginger will do after witnessing everything from her eyes? Grab a copy of this book to unveil the story further.

Cover photo is really eye catchy. Language of the book is lucid. Narration is smooth and clear. Since book contains strong language and mature content, so it is recommended for adult readers. This story is so intriguing that once I started it, I couldn’t put it down. I like to recommend it to all my fellow readers especially those who like romcom.

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Book: Here’s Waldo

Author: Nick Olson

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Language: English

Rating: 4.5/5

Here’s Waldo by the author Nick Olson is his debut novel. This is the story of Waldo Collins who was born in Illinois. This story is about the family bonding that a child shares with his parents. It shows the mother son bonding over a movie night. He gets moral support from his mother at all the scary parts. A night outing for a father son bonding was amazing. The story further covers the journey of Waldo as he keeps growing up to eleventh birthday and then so on. Waldo wanted to be a writer. Grab a copy of this book and read about his journey.

Language of the book was simple. Narration is smooth. Cover page of the book is interesting. I really enjoyed this story. It is divided into multiple parts with each chapter 2-4 pages long. Story is intriguing and I was able to finish it in two days. Pick this book, I am sure it will not fail to impress you. Great work by the author in his debut novel.

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Book: The Natural High

Author: Melissa K. Hiemann

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Language: English

Rating: 4.5/5

The Natural High by the author Melissa K Hiemann is a self help book. As the title of the book suggests, this book will make readers aware about “The Natural High” and what is in the way of it. Clearing The Blocks is my favourite chapter from the book. I could very well relate to the main excuse or deep internal blocks. Whatever the root cause are mentioned in the list were exactly on my mind. I agree with the author when she says that to clear the blocks in our mind, we should continuously improve ourselves in different areas of life.

Journal Exercise given at the last was interesting. Language of the book is simple to understand and full of motivation. Cover page of the book is really nice.

I really liked this quote from the book. I liked the way author has included one relatable quote below each chapter headings.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that
work has been put in every heart .- Rumi

If you are not even into self-help inspiring books, then just pick this one and I am sure that it will not fail to impress you.

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