Review: Stealing Parker by Miranda Kenneally

Publication Date: 1st October 2012

Genre(s): Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance and Chick-Lit

Blurb:

Red-hot author Miranda Kenneally hits one out of the park in this return to Catching Jordan's Hundred Oaks High.

Parker Shelton pretty much has the perfect life. She's on her way to becoming valedictorian at Hundred Oaks High, she's made the all-star softball team, and she has plenty of friends. Then her mother's scandal rocks their small town and suddenly no one will talk to her.

Now Parker wants a new life.

So she quits softball. Drops twenty pounds. And she figures why kiss one guy when she can kiss three? or four. Why limit herself to high school boys when the majorly cute new baseball coach seems especially flirty?

But how far is too far before she loses herself completely?

Review:

Parker Shelton has the perfect life, a life every young teenage could want. She is making her way to becoming the new valedictorian for Hundred Oaks High School, she has made the all-star softball team her junior and sophomore years and she has a lot of friends that you could ever ask for. But then her mother is involved in a scandal that rocks the whole town they live and the consequences of the scandal fall on parker and her family’s shoulders, with her mother nowhere to be seen.

Parker now has this new life, she quit the softball team, she dropped about twenty pounds in muscle and is a nice petit teenager with a flawless figurer, with the way she looks now she figures she can have her pick at guys, why have one when she can have at three or more. But when the new baseball coach is introduced to her, why would she go for high school boys when she can have her turn at a mature adult who is flirty. 

 This novel was an enjoyable read, it was a sort of quick read but didn’t happen in one sitting. Fans of contemporary novels will like this one. And if you are looking for another character to connect with or another sports-oriented novel to pluck from the shelves at your local book store or Library then Stealing Parker is right up your ally.

Review: Always The Baker, Never The Bride by Sandra D. Bricker

Publication Date: 1st September 2010

Genre(s): Adult, Romance, Chick-Lit, and Contemporary

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Blurb:

Thirty-six year old Emma Rae Travis has been baking specialty cakes and melt in you mouth pastries at The Backstreet Bakery in historic Roswell, just outside of Atlanta, for the last six years. But here's the rub about her job as a baker...Emma is diabetic. When she tastes her creations, it can only be in the most minute portions. Emma is considered an artisan for the stunning Creme brulee wedding cake that won her the Passionate Palette Award last year, but she's never even had one full slice of it.

When Jackson Drake hears about this local baker who has won a prestigious award for her wedding cake artistry, he tells his assistant to be sure and include her in the pastry tastings scheduled at his new wedding destination hotel the following week. And for Jakson, that particular day has started out badly with two workmen trapped in a broken elevator and a delivery of several dozen 300-thread count bed linens in the wrong size abandoned in the lobby. But when the arrogant baker he met a week prior in Roswell stumbles into the dining room with a platter of pastries and a buckerful of orders, he knows for certain: it's going to be a really rotten day.

Can these two ill-suited players master the high-wire act and make a go of their new business venture? Or will they take each other crashing downward, without a net? And will the surprise wedding at The Tanglewood be theirs?

Review:

Emma Rae is 34 years old and she has this fantastic talent at baking specialty cakes and pastries that just melt in your mouth kind of talent at The Backstreet Bakery in the historic Roswell, which is just outside of Atlanta for the past 6 years. But here is the kicker about her doing her job, she is a type 1 dieobetic, she is also the winner of the Passionate Palette Award last year.

Jackson Drake is a through and through business men, when he hears about his local baker who won a prestigious award for her fantastic artistry wedding cake he tells his assistant to include her in the pastry tasting schedule at his new wedding destination hotel that following week. But as for Jackson his day started out really badly.

Our 2 main charters become friends or something more in their new business venture or will everything just come tumbling down without a net to catch there fall.

Review: Taking Chances by Molly McAdams

Publication Date: 16th October 2016

Genre(s): New Adult, Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary and Chick-Lit

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Blurb:

Her first year away is turning out to be nearly perfect, but one weekend of giving in to heated passion will change everything.

Eighteen-year-old Harper has grown up under the thumb of her career marine father. Ready to live life her own way and to experience things she's only ever heard of from the jarheads in her father's unit, she's on her way to college at San Diego State University.

Thanks to her new roommate, Harper is introduced to a world of parties, gorgeous guys, family, and emotions. She finds herself being torn in two as she quickly falls in love with both her new boyfriend, Brandon, and her roommate's brother, Chase. Despite their dangerous looks and histories, both men adore Harper and would do anything for her, including taking a step back if it would mean she'd be happy.

Review:

Eighteen year old Harper has grown up home schooled and raised on an army base under the watchful eye of her father the jar head marine, she is read, waiting and wanting to live life her way by her rules and make her own life experiences, life experiences have only come by word of mouth through the men at base in her father's unit, she is excited to make her way to college at San Diego State University. It is her first time being away from base, the unit and her father but just that one weekend some how has changed everything in the blink of an eye.

Her new roommate introduces her to wild college parties and hot, sexy, handsome guys, to family and also a lot of emotions. Harper has fallen in-love with not one guy but two guys, and to think all of this is a first time experience. One of the guys is her new boyfriend, Brandon, the other is her roommates older brother, Chase. the two guys have a history but one thing is for sure they would would do down right anything for Harper, you hurt her they hurt you it is just the way it is..