eBook Reviews

Me and my dad's forehead holding Max.

Call Me Irresistible Susan Elizabeth Phillips Meg Koran is left stranded in a tiny Texas town after she is accused of 'breaking up' her best friend's wedding to Ted Beaudine, the town's beloved mayor. Her family has cut her off. She's got no money and the daughter of celebrity parents is forced to clean toilets and live in her car. Ted makes her life difficult. They are forced to team up when Ted is courting an investor for his golf course resort project and the investor takes an extreme liking to Meg. This book breaks away from the SEP romance novel formula. There's no secondary love story. The dialogue isn't at all that witty. The sex is pretty boring. And I liked it better because of it.

The Lincoln Lawyer Michael Connelly. Mickey Haller, a defense lawyer who works out of his Lincoln car, unintentionally gets involved in some crazy shit when he defends his new 'franchise' client Louis Roulet from assault and attempted rape. I'd tell you more but it would ruin the electric ride that is the book's plot. And because I have impulse control issues and all of my Netflix DVDs are taken up with True Blood Season 3, I rented the movie from Verizon and it was equally as good plus it had Matthew Mcconaughey, though the ending was 7,000 times more nail bitting in the book.

The Book Thief Markus Zusak This is one of the most interesting books I've read in a long time. First, you don't read a lot of books narrated by Death. Second, there are little side notes all throughout the book about the different characters. Leisel Meminger is an orphan on her way to her foster parents' house when her brother dies on the train and where she steals her first book. She is plagued by nightmares and her foster father uses reading to help her through the night. Then they hide a Jew in the basement who ends up writing her stories. Throughout the novel she steals books each time she is feeling particularly stressed. The book is well-written and refreshing for the portrayal of Nazi Germany where not everyone is a Nazi.