Review: Recession Proof

Sometimes going after what you want is the hardest thing you will ever do…

Meet Helen. Smart, successful and obliviously trapped. For the past six years, Helen has given her life and her heart to her cushy corporate finance job and to Mark without question. However as the Recession sweeps the Nation, she is one of many left unemployed and with the burning question of what does she really want in life.

Recession Proof is a debut novel for anyone that has settled in their career and relationship but has discovered that what really matters in life is living it.

Review: Blank Slate Kate

Waking up with a strange man is scary. Realizing you lost fifteen years of your life overnight? That’s terrifying. With her memories from seventeen to thirty-two gone, Kate has no idea who she is and where she belongs. As she begins to fall for the man who found her, she wonders if she forgot those years for a reason. Should she keep trying to retrieve her original self, or start a new life? (Heather Wardell)

I have to admit that it has been a couple of months since reading Blank Slate Kate. But now that life is evening out a little bit, here is my review. This is one of two Wardell novels that I devoured over my first term break, staying up late into the night because I could not put it down! Wardell included the first chapter of Kate at the end of Live Out Loud (review to come) and I was hooked.

“Pay No Mind to the Greener Grass” – High-Heels & Slippers! Review

Ella Slayne’s High-Heels & Slippers is a delightful, heartfelt story about a woman with a good head on her shoulders but who just hasnt’ figured everything out yet. Josie is a 30-something Customer Service Manager and Brit living in the States. Feeling like a fish out of water, Josie finds herself floundering between daydreams about her coworker, the gorgeous Callum or avoiding her recent ex-boyfriend and boss, Bob. If her work and love life drama was not enough an old flame from across the pond sends Josie a mysterious Facebook message that draws her back home.

Campaign Promises

Comedy writer and award-winning novelist Laurel Osterkamp has written a funny and moving novella about life, love, and politics as seen through the unique lens of Lucy Jones, a quintessential girl-next-door who is obsessed with political campaigns. Liberal, idealistic, and struggling to find her way, Lucy has an easier time believing in causes than she does in herself. But in the midst of analyzing the mistakes made by past political candidates, Lucy attempts to figure out her own choices when it comes to both her private and public life. There’s her high school sweetheart Jack, Monty, Jack’s magnetic older brother, and her politician boyfriend, Drew. Can any of these men offer Lucy a campaign promise to believe in? (Amazon.com)

“The Em-Girl Goes for Another Rocker” – ‘Rock Star’s Girl’ Review

Emily Watts is a work-a-holic, chained to her computer maintaining her popular fashion website, freelance writing, and seeking out advertisers to keep her head above water during these tough economic times. So, when she is invited out to old friend Jesse Cinder’s gig for his trying-to-make-it-big band, Ashes of Brooklyn, Emily jumps at the chance for a much needed break. That night she meets Cory Sampson, lead singer for the chart-topping rock band, Blistering Twilight, and hits its off with the sexy rock star. Little does Emily know that she is about to become tabloid fodder and rise to the status of celebrity overnight when celebrity gossip blog, Wally Hood goes Hollywood dubs her The Em-Girl.

Emily quickly learns that celebrity isn’t all it’s cracked up to be as the gossip sites follow her every move and invent stories about her actions and personal motivations. Emily must deal with being caught in a fabricated, tabloid fueled love triangle, the ups and downs of public opinion, while navigating love and friendship with fame hungry rock stars who don’t seem to care that she is reaping all the negatives of fame while they gain the benefits.