Jessica

I am so glad I read this. It is written in Diary/Journal entries from different a few children/teenagers and bounces between each of their perspectives. There are drawings added that really helped to add to each of the enteries.

Some of the topics will make you laugh, cry, and really think about what it is like to live in close proximity to someone with dementia. In no way is it easy. I loved how each of these children were able to look past the bad and try to remember “good” times. 

This is split into sections and at the end of these sections is an activities section with suggestions that are intended to educate and help cope. Some of these ideas are very good and will help give a child the feeling of being involved and hopefully make it easier for them accept their situation. 

I really feel that this would help any child in a situation where Dementia has made an impact on their life. It also may help an older person (parent, grandparent, etc) understand how it effects a child, and how a child views what Dementia is. I give this my highest recommendation.

This is so cute. I love how this doesn't exceed the level of understanding of the intended age group, 6-10. So many chapter books for this reading level use words or situations that go above the level of understanding. It can be difficult to make a book enjoyable and still achieve this. Bravo to the author.

This is a fun book. Rosco is a two year old pup experiencing snow for the first time. Most children love snow and dogs so I think most will enjoy this combination. I like how the brother and sister in this are like real children so younger readers will easily relate with them.

I received a copy of this free through Choosy Bookworm in exchange for an honest review. Thank you.

I was going through Christmas gifts and realized I had gotten both of my girls a nice coloring book, and not my boy. I got ready to go to the store to try to find one for him knowing full well that all of the stores are completely sold out of them, but I was going to try. There was a delivery package on my porch. Guess what was in it! This! It's perfect! The pictures are nice, and it's Christmas themed. Perfect! I didn't even know I had won this n booklikes.

(3.5 out 5 stars)

Scheduled Release Date: March 7, 2016

The beginning of this book was great. The middle was a little flat. Then it got good again. 

The plot isn't anything new. You have a sick, dying woman who is the cream of the crop to vampires being a blood slave. Too make her blood even more delectable, she has been infused with “spice,” a vampire drug that is supposed to have no effect on humans. She is out to avenge the death of her twin sister. She is gorgious, fiesty, and out to get revenge for the death of her twin sister. She seeks out a vampire assassin with a reputation for being the best of the best.

The Vampire lead character is used to a life of booze and paid killing. Vampires are jnown for their perfect appearences, but not him. Half of his face is paralized causing it to sag. He refuses to work with humans, until a pretty blood slave walks into his life. He is attracted to her and slowly lowers the barriers he has had in place for years when this human begins to look past his appearance. All is well until her blood makes him have episodes of uncontrollable blood lust. These episodes have a “unique” trigger and makes things difficult. On top of all that he has to constantly watch his back due to a mmisunderstanding with a lycan pack hell bent on finding and eliminating the person/people responsible for slaughtering young members of their species. 

Sound familiar? It does to me. 

There were a few things that bugged me about this book. I loved the characters, but sometimes it felt like they made choices or their actions didn't quite seem to be how their character would react. I also wish that there was more action, not sex action, but fighting scenes and the like.

The sex scenes are HOT! It's a panty soaker for sure!

I did REALLY like that one of the main characters were just plain gorgious. It made the story all tht more enjoyable. The way the two characters interacted was nice too. They are really y nice pairing.

I will be sure to check out more by this author in the future.

I recieved a prerelease copy from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. 

This is great, simple too. The pictures are amazing and make you really want to get up to cook it, not just think about cooking it... lol. I especially liked a section for no-bake recipes. They are quick and tasty.

This is a lot longer than I thought it would be. I expected maybe 30 pages or so. Nope, 240ish pages of yummy.

My girls (11 and 13) are really liking this. They are going through a cooking phase and this gives them many options and ideas to create.

I recieved a copy from edelwiess in exchange for an honest review.

This is nice. I love the way this book is put together. I have other coloring books made just like this one and they are all amazing. Bright white paper that is thick, printed on both sides. The cover is cute. It has an actual dust jacket making it sturdy and giving it a nice quality look. This book is quite a bit larger than I expected, and the page count is also higher than anticipated.

The pictures themselves are nice. The are hand drawn, so don't expect crisp lines. In my opinion this makes for a great finished product because of its uniqueness. This sure to appeal to anyone who loves to color and has a love for domestic house cats.

My Prismacolor colored pencils work well on these, as do my gel pen. The cheaper Crayola colored pencils actually work better than I thought they would. I haven't tried my watercolor pencils yet, but I expect good results.

I am having a blast using different colors for the cats fur then blending them together. I have had some really awesome results.

I will definitely be seeing what other products are available by the same publisher. All three that I have are very nice.

I received a copy of this coloring book in exchange for an honest review from Blogging For Books.

This has places where you can write so all of your choices are nice and tidy. The links to blogs are nice. The descriptions of actually weddings that people have had are inspirational and are full of great ideas. All in all I recommend this to anyone planning a wedding on a budget. The “under $5000” limit is more excessive than what most of the example weddings cost.

I do admit that most of the ideas in this are commonsense ideas that can be found with a Google search, but having the sites and services already listed and explained is a great time saver. A friend of mine is getting married for the second time and she isn't very internet savvy. This book has helped to point her in the right direction and saved her plenty of frustrated hours searching the internet for ideas and inspiration. She is also very organized, it is crazy how organized she is,  and the way the book is played out coincidentally matched the way she had organized her binder. This is the perfect book to push her in the right direction. The ideas she has gotten from this book have already helped to save her over $500.

The recipes and food recommendations are great.

My recommendation:

If you're are confident in your internet skills and have the extra time to research on your own, you probably will not find much use of this. If you don't have the time or the skills to do the research yourself, this will be a big help.

I received a copy of this book from blogging for books. Thank you.

Another good book by Mr. Cash. After reading his YA novel Monsterland, I was curious to see if he would be a one hit wonder, or if i would enjoy other books he wrote as well. I am very impressed and will recommend this to my friends who read. I will definitely be reading more of this author's work.

This is dark fantasy. It is no secret that I am partial to books in this genre. It is novella length and I am amazed at the amount of story the author was able to pack into that length. I in no way feel like I read a “simple story” like I often do when reading a novella.

The pictures of the little felted pups that this book instructs you on how to build are so cute. The instructing are clear and simple to understand. There are colored photos that go along with the instructions, they are a big help. The book is a nice size, not like some other instructional craft books that are bulky, and hard to hold with one hand.  

My eleven year old has a craft project of choice due in about a month, she is going to try to make a few of these. The first ine we have already started together. If the whole process is as simple as I expect, she will finish the others on her own. I would post a picture of our progress, but she took it to school to work on it during study hall. The only downfall for me is that the nearest craft/sewing store is a half hour drive from me, and wool is not something I keep on hand.

I recieved this book from Blogging for Books in exchange for an honest review.

This is okay. I liked some of it, but other parts feel like they were added in for girth.

What we have here is an alphabetical listing of advice/guide for those who are “on the spectrum:” Autism, ADHD, Aspberger's Syndrome, etc. In my opinion this isn't specifically for that though. Some of this is good advice for people in general. I do want to add that I think there are a lot more people in our society that are on the spectrum than we are aware of. They just don't get help for their tendencies. I wish some of this advice were maybe backed up by stories from people living on the spectrum.

Some of this was amusing, but felt like general ranting (which I am not saying is a bad thing):

Arranging things (see OCD) I recently saw a TV show where a forensic psychologist implied that a man was a psychopathic killer by asking him if he arranged his socks by color in a drawer. Aunt Aspie was was shocked and appalled! If arranging things were aa system of mental dysfunction, imagine hoe difficult buying groceries would be... “Excuse me, can you tell me where your pasta is?” “I don't know lady,your guess is as good as mine... somewhere.” Neatness and tidiness means there is one less thing to confuse us in our day.

Some of us take it to an extreme level. Those people make good overseers, organizers, engineers, teachers...

The entire time I was reading this I kept picturing Tyler Perry's Madea reading this book to me. To be honest, it was quite entertaining to imagine.

My main problem was the formatting of my ecopy. The ABC's were not bold, at times I found it almost difficult to decipher between one topic to the next. I reslly had to pay attention when a simple use of bold would have sufficed.

For each letter there is more than one topic, often times there are quite a few. Examples: Gender Issues, Sex, Relationships, Self-Pity...

Recommendation:

There is quite a bit of good information here. I think this would be of great help to a family member wanting some understanding without feeling overwhelmed, or someone just needing something funny to lighten a recent diagnosis.

Review copy via Edelweiss.

This is romantic comedy. By comedy, I mean in your face, laugh outloud. The romance is not the sweet, sentimental kind. It's more like shitty relationships, with shitty choices thrown.

Two of the main characters are having slumps in their sex life and make a deal a witch. They land themselves in Sex Hell. A place of great sex, but without all the feels. They desperately want out of their agreement with the witch, but how?


This is full of hilarius, ackward situations. If you aren't a fan of books containing graphic sex, this isn't for you. Don't go into this hoping for a sappy love story. 

I recieved a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. 

I liked the idea behind this, but it felt like a first draft that still needs to be tweaked and expanded.

This was a very fun read. I really like the characters, they actually acted like kids! The story was interesting, and really held my child's attention. This is a middle grade novel. I really feel the need to comment that the author stayed true to the recommended age group very well. Word difficulty, the amount of suspense, and the content were all spot on. This is a hard thing to accomplish, and I can honestly say that I have not found too many that actually do. Either the content is too old or young, the wording too simple/difficult, etc.

This is a story of fantasy that follows a group of kids who are charged with keeping the town safe from veggie stealing goblins. Pretty unique. My son went to bed with visions of himself slaying goblins with his wooden sword, he also acted some of the scenes out. The author has a way of transitioning from action scenes to calmer ones that kept these acted out sword fights to a resonance amount of excitement.

I really recommend this to children looking for a fantasy book, but not wanting to commit to a very lengthy one.

I recieved a copy of this book from the author in exchange for an honest review.

This is really nice. The reason I didn't give this 5 stars is that I really wish that the pages were nly printed in one side. Other than that, I really love this coloring adventure in Wonderland. The story is nicely depicted, and I if I were to see just the coloring parts, I would instantly know that this is abut Alice's adventures. I have two other coloring books featuring Alice, this one stands out, and is the nicest.

 

The pictures are very detailed, and are in the same fashion as the cover. There are nine chapters in this, and it totals just under eighty pages. This is put together very well, and is of a higher quality than most adult coloring books. 

This book is full of information about China. It is written so that the information is told by a girl who lives there. I really like this better than other books I have seen similar to this because it is not written like a reference book, but ultimately children still gain the same knowledge.

I am donated my copy to my seven year old son's classroom. The teacher was so impressed by this that she is going to ask for the money to by all of the books in this series for the school library.

The copy I have was a bit hard to read. What I did read was interesting. I decided to check the samples on amazon to see if the final copy also suffered from the problems I encountered tered. I a happy to report that it doesn't seem to.

This would make a good book for anyone with an interest for history, especially the American Revolution.

I really wanted to enjoy this. The problem was that for me it felt like it needed one more tweaking and polishing before being published. Words ran into each other making it distracting and easy t lose my train of thought. I thought word choices culdnt have different. The dialogue felt flat. And the character developement was just so-so. I didn't connect with anyone from  the book and didn't really care what happened to them. 

 

You know those freebie shifter romance books you can get on Amazon for free that are mediocre at best? That is what this reminded me of.

 

I recieved a copy of this through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. 

This is a fictional take on the history and life of Santa's life to becoming the big man with gifts. I really think children will love the story, it is really imaginative. This author must have an amazing imagination. The detail in this is amazingly well thought out.

My eight year old was transfixed on story I was reading to him. He was beginning to question whether Santa was truth or myth. Not anymore.

There are illustrations on just about every other page and they help to keep a child interested while reading.

This isn't the type of book you hand to an eight year old to read on his own, it would be way too due to how many words there are. It is a rather long story. It took several reading sessions for us to read this.

Recommendation:

This is a perfect book for this time of year. I love how it made Santa more “believable” and helped to save the magic for my seven year old little man. I wasn't ready for him to stop believing. For that I thank the author for providing a review copy in exchange for an honest review.

I stayed up way too late reading this. I was up until 3am and it is now 6:30 am and I am leaving for work in am hour.

I wish this book was required reading for parents, staff, and honestly people in general. It gives a glimpse of what just a small portion of living with someone and caring for someone with not only autism, but other delelopemental disabilities can be like. A lot of behaviors and characteristics of autism are not unique to only that singular diagnosis. Not all individuals will be like the author's son “B.”

The author who wrote this has chosen to keep his and the people included in this book anonymous. I understand why he would do this.

Recommendation:

Read this. It is free on Amazon. A lot of understanding and compassion can gained. This may be a great book for parents just beginning their adventure with a child with needs such as autism. The main reason I like this is that it is told first hand and not full of terms that will overwhelm or confuse. This could help others realize that they are not alone in the struggles they are facing.

This is an anthology of short, humorous, science fiction stories. It reads like a middle grade novel, but has a lot of foul language. You know, immature adult sort of thing. I have to admit that I laughed quite a bit once I figured out what the hell I was reading.

This is told in first person. It alternates between Frankie and Gunner's view point. It was easy to follow and the switch between characters was changed as new chapters began.

This had so much potential to be a great book, but it felt rushed. I love the grittiness of the way it was written. I plowed through the first couple of chapters, then it started to feel uncompleted. I felt it was lacking. There was not enough character developement, the setting needed to be better described. The way some parts were worded left me having to reread what I had already read in order to understand what it was meant to say.

I have read unpolished stories before they were finished. That is what this felt like. I feel that if this did go through another rewrite that it has the potential to be a four star read for me. There were parts of this book that were amazing. I want to give those parts a better rating, but the parts that felt lacking were too frequent to ignore.

Summary of my thoughts:

Needs more, and I will check out more by this author only because of those glimpses of amazingness (I made that word up!). I wish I could rate this in sections.

The entire time I was reading I kept thinking that the story was very familiar to me. Turns out that this was originally published in 1994 and that I read it about 10 or so years ago.

You have a vampire not wanting to be a vampire anymore. He seeks out the help of a doc and falls in love with the doc's daughter. The daughter doesn't now that her new man is a vampire and doesn't listen to her father's protests against their coupling.

This is paranormal romance, if you like the genre you will most likely like this.

I recieved a copy of this through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

I had a couple of problems with this story. First, I get that the character's knew each other a long time ago. I get that they were in love. What I don't get is the love. Maybe there should have bee flashbacks to when they were just first a budding love. Better character development would have helped to. These character's are obsessively focused on each other, it got annoying rather quick, but you would think with as much focus as there is on the relationship, I would understand how they a good for each other. TOO MUCH ANGST!

This could also use some editing. Parts need shortened, others need a more in depth explanation. The dialog has moments where the author really shines, other times it seemed to really sway from what I had how the characters had responded and acting during previous parts of the book.

In a nutshell: MEH! Needs work, but has potential.

I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This is nice. I really love the quality of paper that this is on. It is smooth, thick, and very bright white. My Prismatic Color colored pencils paired very nicely with this. This truly does look like a kaleidoscope of shape and pictures. The pictures remindnd me of wallpaper and fabric patterns. That aspect really appeals to my youngest daughter, she loves to design things. We had a great time coming up with color schemes. Each picture/drawing covers two pages and front and back of each page is covered. This has a lot more pictures than I expexted it to have. I will definitely be ordering more of these, not necessarily this particular scheme, coloring books. They will make great Christmas gifts. 

The pictures are hand drawn, do not expect perfect angles, and artistry. This is unique, I have yet to see another coloring book drawn this way.

The first few sentence of this grabbed my attention immediately:
It was three o'clock in the morning in downtown Los Angeles when the officers got a glimpse of outstretched legs protruding from the shadows. Naked Legs. If it weren't for the buzzing, blinking street lamp catching their attention, the patrol cops would have driven right by.

This follows Dr. David Edminson, an unconventional “street psychologist” who keeps night shift hours, and works from the back of a van in an attempt to help individuals who otherwise wouldn't seek the mental help they need. His clientele ranges from poverty stricken drug addicts to the upper crust, wealthy. The author is a Doctor of Psychology and the book greatly benefits from this, there are none of those overdone “seeing the shrink” scenes that I have often encountered in other books.

David ends up searching for a serial killer who is targeting prostitutes and strippers. His own life is jolted by some of the things he discovers.

This is well written, and kept my attention throughout. I do feel it important to add that after a month between reading parts of this that the story stayed fresh in my head and I was able to continue where I left off without having to backtrack. The author does an especially amazing job of conveying the setting of the story. There is an obvious familiarity there. I love the gritty feel that this story has. If my life hadn't gotten in the way I could have very easily finished this in a couple of hours, but I read fast.