As a person of mixed race (White mother, Black father) who loves the blues, I thought that a book like Half-Blood Blues (featuring several mixed race characters and blues) would be right up my alley. It was not. In fact, it took me nearly a week to read the first 50 pages and I was bored to death almost the whole time. On page 54 things finally (finally!) got interesting from a story standpoint, but I still had to contend with the writing, which never […]
Halbs Reads His First Romance Novel
With the “Random Acts” series, author Julia Kent has created a Marvel Cinematic Universe of sorts for “romantic comedy with an edge”. From what I can tell, characters move in and out of the books in the series and have interconnected lives. This is a pretty neat idea for a series of romance books. (Since I am not a romance reader, I have no idea if this is normal or not.) This is a review of the first book in the Random series. In Random […]
Read It and Weep
I meant to read this young adult novel before I watched the movie but I caved and watched the movie first (which I liked by the way). If you’ve seen the previews for the movie starring Chloe Grace Moretz, you know the basic plot of this novel. A young woman, Mia, is involved in a car accident while driving on a snowy road in Oregon with her mom, dad, and younger brother, Teddy. At first she doesn’t realize the severity of what has happened because […]
“So what is right? / And what is wrong? / Gimme a sign / What is love?”
Goodreads review for the lazy (hint.. I’m the lazy): “As the lead singer of Stage Dive, Jimmy is used to getting whatever he wants, whenever he wants it, whether it’s booze, drugs, or women. However, when a PR disaster serves as a wake-up call about his life and lands him in rehab, he finds himself with Lena, a new assistant to keep him out of trouble. Lena’s not willing to take any crap from the sexy rocker and is determined to keep their relationship completely […]