Lindsey's Literary Leanings

  Engaging, Entertaining, Amusing Chicklit/Contemporary/Romantic/Family Drama Me and Mr Jones by Lucy Diamond What was to become of Mulberry House? Lillian and Eddie felt that they had served their time, quite literally, and it was time to retire and downsize. But the question of what to do with their family home and business was very much an issue. Should they sell up or were any of their offspring up for the challenge of keeping it running....three very different men, currently living their own very different lives in very different circumstances. Hugh, the eldest, is very much settled with wife Alicia and three young children. Together since university, they now lived in a large house in Lyme Regis. Both enjoyed responsible and respectable jobs. They were the very definition of domestic contentment. Alicia, however is on the cusp of a milestone birthday and feeling that changes are required to ring in her new decade, starts with her image. Nothing could have prepared her thou...

  Comprehensive, Emotional, Gripping Genre: Contemporary Fiction/Romance/Tragedy The Peack Emporium by Jojo Moyes Vivi had thought the absolute world of Douglas for as long as she could recall. He had accompanied her as her chaperone to her first and only debutant ball, during which they'd both experienced a rather extraordinary and certainly unexpected introduction to Atheen Forster. She had ridden in on horseback throught the French windows astride the majestic steed which belonged to their hosts, proceeding to knock into tables that had been laid out as part of a makeshift casino. After a handful of obtuse exchanges with the evenings hostess, during which she maintained an air that demonstrated a lack of respect nor care for neither tradition or decorum, she turned the animal around and left the way she had entered, leaving only the snow that had melted from the horses hooves. So taken was Douglas, with 'The last deb' as she had been labelled, that in a short time Atheen...

  Comprehensive, Entertaining, Intriguing Genre: Contemporary Fiction/Mystery by Bummer At Luna Beach by Lisa M. Lane, Author & Historian "The Sands Of Time Are Quick Sands"....so much can sink into them without trace'..... What would motivate a person to end the life of a tourist to the seaside town....City....of San Benno? The new Police Detective who had only recently, been assigned to the locality, had been tasked with finding out. However, it seemed that a number of the residents were also keen to carry out some investigative work of their own, and none more so than Rosie McMahon, one of the oldest residents of the area, along with her faithful sidekick Hephaestus. Meanwhile, another newcomer, making clear her intention to put down roots, has her sights set on another long term inhabitant, but just what is her intention? And who is attempting to silence Lou and Tiffany in their quest to preserve the environmental interests of the area that is so special to them...

  Engaging/Gripping/Emotional Genres: Contemporary Fiction/Family Drama/Romance/Fantasy Meet Me When My Heart Stops by Becky Hunt After an incident in her garden at the age of five, Emery Wilson is diagnosed with a very rare medical condition. As she grows older, she resents it preventing her from engaging in activities with her peers and friends. Her family are so over-the-top protective. She can see the fear in their eyes and grows tired of the daily monitoring of her well-being, a contributory factor to her mindset later in life of not wanting to put down roots, settle down with someone, therefore giving them the burden of feeling responsible for her, and see 'that look' constantly, on the faces of people she loves. However, during that first episode in her garden when she was little, she had, in another world, where she recognised her surroundings but knew it wasn't real, met a man who had told her that his purpose was to prepare people for what followed. Each time tho...

  Intriguing/Comprehensive/Powerful Genres: Contemporary Fiction/Young Adult Fiction/Romance - thene of violence and addiction Pieces: Book 4 of The Fragile Line Series by Sarah Dawson Powell- author 'Security', 'Respect', 'True Love', to be 'The One', 'Loyalty', and 'Trust',......these are all qualities that one or more of them crave, and each of them crave one or more of these qualities. The fact each of them looks to each other for these qualities, make their ensemble extremely volatile, something that they are all aware of, however none of them seem capable of breaking the chain in this dangerous game of jeopardy with their friendships and their futures. An ability at which they are all becoming adept.. Two of them care deeply that they are successful in securing the right outcome, but are powerless to make it happen, the third is predisposed, it seems to destroying anything that vaguely represents itself as a shot at love and happ...