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Romantic
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Stories of love and dating.
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Angels Fall
By Nora Roberts
Reviewed by: B.A., 11th Grade
***** Great! I would recommend it to my friends.
The author Nora Roberts successfully creates a novel that is thought-provoking and enjoyable to read. This novel can be classified as romantic suspense and it successfully balances the two genres. This novel combines love and murder. Reece starts to fall in love with the town residents of Angel's Fist, including Brody, an exasperatingly stubborn yet compassionate writer. Reece begins to believe that for the first time in an extremely long time, she may have found a place she might actually desire to call home. However her hard-won happiness and sense of security is endangered when she becomes not only the lone witness to a murder but also the next target of the killer. This killer is determined to drive her back to the psychiatric hospital to cast doubt on her claims. Nora Roberts nimbly instills a subtle sense of menace into a frightening and exhilarating plot, thus creating a gratifying novel of romantic suspense. This book can be easily enjoyable to a wide variety of people.
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Midnight
Bayou
By Nora Roberts
Reviewed by: B.A., 10th Grade
*****
Great! I would recommend it to my friends.
Declan Fitzgerald,
a Harvard-educated Boston lawyer, has longed to possess
Manet Hall, a broken down mansion in New Orleans. On the
eve of his wedding, Declan leaves Boston, the law and his
fiance and buys the decrepit hall and embarks on a mission
to restore it with his own sweat, blood and money. But Manet
Hall comes with a dark history, and restoring it means uncovering
its past, which includes rape, murder and betrayal. Declan
encounters an additional challenge in the person of Cajun
beauty and bar owner Lena Simone, who has her own dark history
and a surprising connection to Manet Hall. As Declan digs
deeper at the Hall, he often hears a baby crying. The cries
are followed by voices, particularly that of Abigail Manet,
the baby's mother. Abigail's story, which unfolds in 1900,
is woven so tightly with Declan's that he finds it difficult
to escape her grasp. In the end, only Lena can bring him
back from the tragic past that threatens to engulf him.
It sounds kind of wierd but the author makes it sound VERY
believable. It's great! |
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Pride
and Prejudice
By Jane Austen
Reviewed by: A.W., 11th Grade
**** I am glad I read it.
The book is Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. I guess its
a romance novel. Pretty old book. Excellent book. I happened
to see the movie first and while most books make the movie
look bad, for this one, the movie was pretty good. Anyway,
the language can be somewhat difficult at times, but there
are some really poignant scenes and some of the irony and
humor in it is really good. I know Valentine's Day is over
but this is a really nice classic. By the way, you can get
this book and other classics for a really good deal at Barnes
and Nobles. I think the deal is 3 hardback classics for $10---for
the die hard readers. =) |
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Birthright
By
Nora Roberts
Reviewed by: B.A., 10th grade
***** Great! I would recommend it to my friends.
This books is awesome and I'm not
just saying that because Nora Roberts is my favorite author.
It's set in and around rural Woodsboro, Md. A Neanderthal
settlement is discovered on the site of an unwanted housing
development, prompting archeologist Callie Dunbrook to race
to Woodsboro to take charge of the dig. When the owner of
the Antietam Creek development turns up murdered on the site,
Callie is thrown into a murder case with her hot ex-husband,
Jacob Greystone, who also happens to be the anthropologist
sharing responsibility for the dig. Meanwhile, Suzanne Cullen
tracks down the archeologist after seeing her on the evening
news. Callie, the woman claims, is the baby daughter who was
snatched from her stroller when she was just a few months
old. Callie hires a lawyer, Lana Campbell, who happens to
be involved with Doug Cullen, Callie's long-lost brother.
It's great seeing the different relationships going on. It's
not just a romance but a family drama, with all the love and
angst families carry. And it's just FUN seeing Callie and
Jake react with each other. |
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Stravaganza:
City of Stars
By Mary Hoffman
Reviewed by: Mrs. Christman, Staff
**** I am glad I read it.
Stravaganza: City of Stars by Mary Hoffman is a story of an
imaginary place with duchesses, dukes, fortune tellers, magic,
mystery and intrigue. This story is a sequel to the 2005-06
Black-Eyed Susan nominated book, Stravaganza: City of Masks.
In this story, Georgia is living between contemporary London
with her conniving step-brother, Russell and 16th century
Talia, where she is reunited with a former crush, Lucien (and
she thought he was dead!) Although the story drags in places,
I was captivated enough with the plot to forge on 'till the
end. Hoffman does a good job of showing the reader that things
are not always as we presume--sometimes bad people are not
always inherently evil & sometimes good deeds do not always
have happy endings. |
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Birds
of a Feather
By Jacqueline Winspear
Reviewed by: Mrs. Christman, Staff
***** Great! I would recommend it to my friends.
Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear is the thrilling
sequel to the award-winning Maisie Dobbs. Although the story
is set in post WWI England, private-eye Maisie is just the
kind of person that you would like to call your friend. She
is spunky, independent, resourceful and full of intuitive
good sense! When this story opens, Maisie is hired to find
an heiress, but she is quickly thrust into a murder investigation
when 3 of the heiress' friends turn up dead. I fell in love
with Maisie as Winspear unpeeled through the layers of her
personality with every turn of the page. Without even realizing
it, the reader also learns a tremendous amount about the English
country side and people's ambiguous feelings after the end
of the "Great War." Additionally, the reader learns
the effects of the war on veterans and aide workers and the
impact it had on the families they left behind to fight for
the "cause" in Europe. The reader discovers the
food lines & soup kitchens, the desparate search for jobs
and the unwavering divide between those that had money and
those who served them without it being thrust in your face
like lines in a textbook. I highly recommend this book for
both the intriguing murder mystery as well as the interesting
details about and era soon to be forgotten. |
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The
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
By Ann Brashares
Reviewed by: S.H., 9th Grade
***** Great! I would recommend it to my friends.
This book was awesome! I loved every part of from being
sad about Carmen's situation to hoping that Lena falls in
love with Kostos to Tibby and Bailey making a movie to Bridget
falling for her camp coach. I was a little disappointed
at the end, but overall it was a very nice book. And I am
saying all this without watching the movie yet, although
i plan on watching it this weekend.
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Pride
and Prejudice
By Jane Austen
Reviewed by: E.K., 10th Grade
**** I am glad I read it.
This book was very well writen. Although I did not understand
some of the old english language used, I enjoyed the love/hate
realtionship between Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth.
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