Crazy Book Tours

Book Review and Giveaway: Comeback Love

April 16, 2012

Synopsis: Gordon Meyers has neither seen nor spoken with Glenna Rising for thirty years. They met in 1968 and lived together for the better part of two years before breaking up. Gordon served in Vietnam and returned home to launch a successful consulting firm. In the ensuing years he has traveled the world, been married […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Lone Wolf

March 5, 2012

Synopsis: Luke Warren was driving his seventeen-year-old daughter, Cara, home from a party when he swerved to avoid striking a deer and lost control of his vehicle. Cara awakens to the smell of gasoline and realizes that she cannot use her right arm. Seeing that her father is unconscious, she manages to pull him from […]

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Book Review: Triangles

November 20, 2011

Synopsis: Three women — Holly, Andrea, and Marissa — all stand at crossroads in their lives and relationships. Holly has long been a stay-at-home wife and mother, dabbling in various hobbies that she quickly abandons. Her latest? Writing erotica. She has recently dropped sixty pounds and become obsessed with her physique and new-found ability to […]

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Book Review: Flat-Out Love

October 4, 2011

Synopsis: Julie Seagle had just arrived in Boston to begin her freshman year in college when she learned that the apartment she rented — sight unseen — via an Internet advertisement did not exist. At the address where she was supposed to unpack and settle into her new apartment, she found a seedy restaurant in […]

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Book Review: I’d Know You Anywhere

January 28, 2011

Synopsis: Eliza Benedict has found happiness in her marriage to Peter, and as a mother to daughter Isobel and son Albie. Recently, the Benedict family has returned to the U.S. after living in England for several years. Peter, a journalist, has sequed into a financial career, and the family is settling into its new home, […]

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Book Review: Happy Hour

December 31, 2010

Synopsis: As the story opens, four women are standing on the precipice. Kat McClintock, a divorced mother of two sons, is interviewing for a position as a sommelier with a new, trendy San Francisco restaurant. The interview takes a surprising turn. Alyssa Johnson teaches art in Soho. She is engaged to marry Terrell Henley, but […]

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Book Review: Leaving Rock Harbor

December 29, 2010

Synopsis: Frankie Ross is fourteen years old and World War I is about to erupt when the story opens in 1916. Her father recently attempted to take his own life, so her parents are moving from Poughkeepsie, New York in search of a new beginning in Rock Harbor, Massachusetts. There, her father begins working as […]

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Book Review: Every Last One

December 29, 2010

Synopsis: Anna Quindlen has long been one of my favorite writers. She is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of three of my all-time favorite books, Object Lessons, Black and Blue, and One True Thing. Her latest novel, Every Last One, not only matches, but exceeds the quality of her previous work. The Lathams are a typical […]

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Book Review: From the Dead

December 19, 2010

Synopsis: Things are not working out the way Jesse Barlow planned. He grew up “the son of a preacher man” — that Dusty Springfield recording was the author’s inspiration for the story — in a small Ohio town, but has been toiling in Los Angeles for eleven years since graduating from high school and coming […]

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Book Review: The Cougar Club

December 17, 2010

Synopsis: Kat Maguire is having a very bad day. She is late for work, where she is scheduled to make a presentation to an important client. It’s raining, and she has forgotten her umbrella. When she finally arrives at the office, wilted but ready to proceed, she sees that the presentation is already underway in […]

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Book Review: A War of Her Own

October 23, 2010

Synopsis: Summer, 1943. World War II has generated a population boom in Orange, Texas where its shipbuilders have been pressed into action supplying ships for the war effort. Suddenly, a town nearly desiccated by the Great Depression is so prosperous that there is not enough housing available for the families who have flocked to the […]

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Book Review and BlogFest 2010 Giveaway: If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home Now

September 11, 2010

Finding an author whose work you have never read before, and discovering that you really enjoy his/her writing style, is a great deal of fun. I had that experience recently when I read If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home Now, the new book from Claire LaZebnik. It is LaZebnik’s fourth novel, and I enjoyed […]

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