Blood Games by Faye Kellerman

Excellent crime thriller with a gritty and brutal plot line, This is worth a read. 

Detective Peter Decker opens a case after the mother of apparent suicide victim, fifteen year old Gregory Hesse, tells him she doesn't believe her son would take his own life. Although dubious and assuming it is denial after such an unforeseen loss, Decker agree's to take a look at the case file and poke around. He soon discovers that there are some dirty little secrets to uncover, and this intensifies when the body of another suicide victim is discovered - a teenage girl from the same school. Soon the detectives are grasping at straws for evidence while Decker is oblivious to his foster son's connection with the school and his prime suspects. 

Breaking Dawn Part 2

I hope everyone is as excited as I am about the latest movie. I read the books of course, and although not particularly impressed with Stephanie Meyers style I was hooked on the plot. Unlike her writing for Host, the Twilight Saga was terribly written and very childish - It's a rarity, but I actually think the film adaptations have a much more adult and realistic format, from their speech to the the way they think and their actions. The movie's have been very well put together and modified, when usually the opposite is true. They have of course made plot changes for the movie adaptations that I was disappointed with, for instance, the birth scene for Part 1, I much preferred the book,  where Carlisle was present and not off out hunting like the movie portrayed, I feel they made the movie a little too graphic compared to the book in the sense of Edward biting Bella open and all the unnecessary sound effects that accompanied it. I felt the book was much more tasteful but far more powerful and I thought more disturbing. 

I am really looking forward to Breaking Dawn Part 2 and am saddened that I cannot attend the Thursday  midnight  showing or experience the movie marathon back to back of the previous 4 installments. Unfortunately I cannot take the Friday off of work, and I start at 5.30am, so don't really fancy surviving an 8 hour day on 3 hours sleep. I have instead arranged to do a back to back movie marathon at my house with my friends on the Friday eve and go to the Cinema Saturday for Part 2. Bring on Bella The Vampire. 

Dead Lovely by Helen Fitzgerald

This book is so wildly unexpected it's amazing. The plot twists and mayhem are just fabulous, but most of all the humor in this really makes it something special. It is outrageously funny! It's also extremely well written, shocking and punchy. Most highly recommended! 

Krissie is the wild, unruly, social worker best friend of Sarah, the married to a doctor, settled down, starting a family type of woman. When Krissie discovers she is pregnant after a steamy encounter in a Tenerife bathroom while on holiday, their friendship begins to show cracks. Sarah has been trying to conceive for years and Krissie's unexpected announcement after a casual fling is an earth shattering blow. Things deteriorate quickly during a walking holiday in the Highland's with Sarah's husband Kyle - Krissie's friend from college. Soon things unravel and become a nightmare of guilt, murder and forgotten secrets with catastrophic consequence. 

The Quickie by James Patterson

We follow Lauren's story through this book after she see's her husband with another woman and decides to get even, however, what was supposed to be a way for her to even the score goes pear shaped when things take an unexpected turn and Lauren is thrown into a whirlwind of hurt, lies and deceit after witnessing the most unbelievable crime. Now Lauren is trying to cover her tracks and find out the truth, to save her life and career in a bid not to lose everything. 

This has a sharp plot, it's got great twists and turns and is a bit of a roller coaster ride with an epic ending! It's totally unpredictable and keeps you surprised the whole way through. One of the best Patterson books I've read to date. 

Not For Sale by Sandra Marton

This little book takes on a romantic, heartbreaking journey through the plot of Caroline Hamilton. After she is hired by the elusive and most sought after bachelor in New York - Lucas Vieira. He needs a translator and someone to pose as his girlfriend to close an important business deal with a Russian client who's not so subtle wife keeps making advances. Caroline hears of the job through a friend and jumps at the chance to earn some extra cash, but when wires get crossed and emotions get involved the plan goes a little bit awry. 

This is a little gem, as short stories go this is a beauty. It has everything! Romance, laughter, suspense... Worth getting your hands on for a quick read. 

Scandalous by Tilly Bagshawe

Jumping from past to present the plot unfolds the story of Sasha, a student with an ambition, but after she falls for her sexy but married Professor Theo Dexter at Cambridge. she is forced to depart in a scandal and with a lost dream, Sasha is a woman scorned. 

Theo meanwhile, becomes an international TV sensation, the world adores him and he is worth millions, however his wife Theresa begins to learn he is not all she thought he was and soon finds herself alone, divorced and heartbroken. 

Years later Sasha and Theresa reunite and hatch a plan to make Theo regret the day he entered both their lives. 

This is brilliant story, it covers both the UK, LA and New York, it has a great depth and plot, and the characters are ones you can believe in. It's full of action romance and heart stopping suspense. It's most definitely one to pick up!

Breaking Point by Pamela Clare

Book 5
This is yet another excellent installment from the I-Team series. It gets strait to the point within the first chapter, throwing us into an action packed thrill of a ride. It's a brilliant page turner.

It's set with Natalie and Joaquin, on a tour bus for a journalism conference and tour when the bus gets hijacked in Juarez Mexico. All the Mexican journalists are slaughtered on the bus, while American journalists hide and pray. Natalie is kidnapped after throwing herself in front of Joaquin trying to save him, finding herself the prisoner of a powerful and vicious cartel in the middle of Mexico. Believing Joaquin was killed on the bus and now fearing the worst for her own safety, Natalie must fight her past demons to save herself in the present. 

After suffering days of torture, Zach is horrified to realize that he is no longer the cartels only prisoner, and  finds that he now has more worth saving than his own life, and in order to protect her he is forced to deceive her and risk not earning her trust and co-operation, but together, he and Natalie must join forces and attempt an escape.