THE HORSE WHISPERER by Nicholas Evans

Do you like horses?  I have only ridden a few times in my life.  I think they are beautiful animals.

This story will take you into the horse world of ranching and whisperers.  Also, what happens when a horse and his rider a young girl are in a horrible accident.  As well as her friend, she and her horse were killed.  Grace loses half of one leg and her horse has such severe injuries the vet felt like he should have been put down.  To make matters worse once he recovers he is so frightened he is aggressive and is abused by the stable owners sons.  Will Grace recover, will her horse?

AMAZON - The Horse Whisperer

SANDY SAYS 3/3 STARS

ONLY YOURS-a Fool's Gold Romance by Susan Mallery

A fun and easy story.  Simon is a surgeon who works with burn patients.  He has come to Fool's Gold for a few months to help treat patients.  Montana lives there and is pressured by the mayor to get to know and try to convince him to stay there.  Montana works with therapy dogs and her first meeting with the Dr is literally a run in, where Fluffy got away from her and knocked the Dr down.  He is very serious and Montana is happy and fun.

AMAZON - Only Yours

SANDY SAYS 3/3 STARS

TEXAS HEAT by Fern Michaels

A very fast and enjoyable book.  Travel from Texas to New York to Hawaii and more.  Near Austin, Texas the Coleman's have a ranch-Sunbridge.  Maggie has inherited it and invites the family to spend the 4th of July with her. Which includes her estranged daughter, her son, her nephew, aunts and sisters.  The boys are the same age and Cole, Maggie's son takes a dislike to his cousin.  Maggie's daughter and her boyfriend, break up.  Just your everyday run of the meal problems, except they are rich.

AMAZON - Texas Heat

SANDY SAYS 3/3 STARS

FIRST IMPRESSIONS by Jude Deveraux

Eden found herself as a teenage girl expecting a baby.  She was raped and then her parents threw her out.  She gets on a bus and leaves ending up in a small town in North Carolina.  There she ends up working for an older woman who is quite wealthy and she finally has someone that loves her.  Years later she finds out she is the sole heir of that woman.  Going down to take possession of the home leads her into an FBI investigation.
I found it hard staying with this story


AMAZON - First Impressions

SANDY SAYS 2/3 STARS

THE SUMMERHOUSE by Jude Deveraux

Are you looking for a fun quick read?  This is it.

Three girls, all pretty, all with the same birthday arrive in New York City to follow their dreams.  They meet at the DMV.  They don't see each other for 19 years and decide to spend their 40th birthday together.  They have all changed.  Did anyone of them realize their dream?  They meet up at a summer house that was loaned to them for the occasion.  Where they begin to tell each other what has happened to them in those years.  They come across a psychic who claims she can send them back in time to whatever time they want.  They will only be gone a few seconds, but will be back in time for three weeks.  When they come back they can choose the old or new life.  What will they choose?

AMAZON - The Summerhouse

SANDY SAYS 3/3 STARS

SUGAR DADDY by Lisa Kleypas

A very quick and enjoyable story.
Liberty Jones father has passed away and she and her mother move to a new trailer in Welcome, Texas.  A small town.  Liberty's father was Mexican.  Liberty meets Hardy and in turn he introduces her to his sister and family and others in the trailer park.  She gets a crush on Hardy but he is older and won't go further than being there as a friend.  Libertys mother has a baby.  Liberty takes on the responsibility of raising her after her mother dies.  Its a hand to mouth existence.  Then she meets a rich oil man who takes her under his wing.
Will things get easier for Liberty and her sister Carrington?  Will she ever see Hardy again, after his leaving for a job?

AMAZON - Sugar Daddy

SANDY SAYS 3/3 STARS

EARTH UNAWARE-the First Formic War by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston

This is a prequel to the Enders Game.  We go back to when the Formica first show up in space.   Each chapter jumps between three groups, the soldiers on Earth a free mining family and a corporate ship.
The free mining family are working an asteroid when the corporate ship decides to claim jump it.  In the process killing one of the miners.  While the eye, the system that constantly scans the surrounding space; spots something out of the ordinary.  Something coming faster than humanly possible.  They also come across debris from three mining ships that have been attacked.  They soon discover a pod ship like they have never seen.
What is it?   Can they warn everyone in time?
It took some for me to get into this book.  I enjoyed the chapters about the ships in space, however the chapters on the soldiers on Earth slowed me down.


AMAZON - Earth Unaware-the First Formic War

SANDY SAYS 2/3 STARS