In The Mood Again

Title: In The Mood Again  Author: Genie James M.M.SC. and C.W. Randolph Jr. M.D.  Pages: 241  Genre: Self Help

Very Informative information about rebooting your sex life. This is for older generations she is discussing about 30 or older. She breaks down what is going on with your body and why and ways to help you fix this. 

I found this  very hard to follow due to all the doctor jargon. I feel like I read a book meant for the medically knowledge inclined instead of something for basic knowledge. It felt like a textbook for a high schooler that a Jr. High student is trying to comprehend. 

Dark Places

Title: Dark Places  Author: Gillian Flynn  Pages: 538  Genre: Suspense/Thriller

Libby is a young girl that is home when her whole family is killed. Her brother is blamed and sent to prison. 25 years pass since that day and she gets a letter from "The Kill Club" to come and be involved. This is where people start planting seeds that her brother Ben is innocent. They pay her some money to go back and talk about the past with some key people. She unveils the truth and her life is in danger again. Barely escaping she gets to tell the truth of what happened that night and maybe save her brother. 

I enjoyed this book more then I thought I would. I think Libby was written like a real person. We all want to feel like when we are hit with tragedy that we will rise above, but do we really? Sometimes even getting out of bed is a feat on its own. The story progressed well as you got flashbacks on how that day unfolded and how it all happened from Ben, Patty (the Mom) and of course Libby. 

Fable 2

Title: Fable 2  Game System: Xbox One  Game type: Fantasy

You pick if you want to be male or female and you start your story. Some of the story line can not be changed at all however you can pick how you react to things and it puts you closer to being angelic or evil. You can change your clothes but there is no armor with it. The clothes are for looks or to help you be evil, aggressive, attractive and much more. You go through and the main objective is to seek revenge on the man that kills your sister when you are just a child. You will go from being a child to a full grown adult with kids of your own if you so choose. After you defeat Lucian you have a choice to make out of three that effects the whole of Albion not just you. You can continue to play and maintain your character after you have beat Lucian. 

I really enjoyed this game. I have for many years from when it came out. The graphics when it came out were amazing and very lifelike, over the years the graphics don't seem as good but for the time it was made it was fantastic! There are a lot of side quests to help you along on becoming good or evil. There is also a lot of ways to make money to help you buy the best of the best. It is obvious there was a lot of time and effort put into the game and I enjoy playing it over and over. I hope you enjoy it as well if you play. Happy Gaming!!

Stoneweaver: A Clash of Sword and Stone

Title: StoneWeaver: A Clash of Sword and Stone  Author: Cabe Valion  Pages: 204  Genre: Fantasy

~Review request from the author~

De Mauriac is running an errand for his master to get a "package" he gets a group of thieves to go with him. After a long travel with not much going on they get to the package and get it with little effort. On the way back though this package is taking out the thieves one by one. Along the way there is also bog men, dragons, a quicksilver river and other nasty things that could get the best of them. De Mauriac however gets the package to his master with little time before his blood rage will take hold from being away from the vine for too long. At the last second De Mauriac has a change of heart and wants to keep this package...this boy safe from harm and away from his master. 

The imagery is wonderful and really takes you to another world. At some points it is hard to follow on whose head you are in whether it be the boys or De Mauriac. It is very well thought out and is a fast read due to how much you want to know what happens next. I applaud Cabe with his wonderful piece of work and look forward to reading the next book in his saga! 

Miitopia Demo

Title: Miitopia  Game System: 3DS/2DS  Game type: Casual Dungeon Crawler

You start by picking or creating your mii, you go along and instantly meet the bad guy. The villian takes faces of innocent villagers and puts them on beasts. You must defeat the beasts and monsters and the faces go back to the owner. The big faces that you see him take you have to talk to them to let them have their faces back. You upgrade armor to yourself and your party and feed them and sleep at Inns. The characters in your party interact with each other on their own and its a funny comic relief from the fighting. The closer your party gets with each other the more they will help each other in battle. Your objective is to go through and save everyone and their faces and defeat the boss. 

Now keep in mind this was just the demo so I haven't been able to play it all. However I am hooked and totally need to buy it now. The demo was a load of fun. Also a cool aspect is the progress you make with the demo can transfer to your actual game if you play like I did. I beat the demo in a matter of a couple hours. I was sad to see it end. This game was well thought out and super cute and fun. Great for all ages!!

Hello Kitty A Collection for Early Readers

Title: Hello Kitty: A Collection of Early Readers  Author: Abrams Brooks  Pages: 191  Genre: Kids

It has 7 stories of adventures for Hello Kitty and her friends and family. One of my daughters Zoe read most of this book to me over a course of a few days. The stories are a tad lengthy but most of the words are short and simple but pose a challenge to help them learn to sound it out. It has reading levels 1 & 2.
The stories were cute and my daughter loved reading a story to me and learning new words. I'm sure it will be read to me many more times. It is a great starter book though for your first graders :)

The Debt: Catch The Zolt

Title: The Debt: Catch The Zolt  Author: Phillip Gwynne  Pages:  275  Genre: Young Adult

At 15 you look forward to all the new gadgets for your birthday. Not a long standing debt your family has. However dear Dominic gets the debt passed down to him on his 15th birthday from his Dad. If he doesn't pay his part of the debt they will take his leg and for a runner that isn't a great thing. In order to save his leg unlike his grandpa he has to do his tasks. First task? Only catching the most notorious online criminal "The Zolt" Now he has to team up with people he doesn't like to keep his leg...great birthday right?

I have a love hate relationship with this book. I enjoyed it to the fact I want to read the rest of the installments however, there isn't as much depth as I would like. There were parts it was hard to continue and not want to throw the book across the room and call it quits. The voices of the characters are great but there is not a lot of depth to Dom and I am hoping there is more depth to come for him. I can see a ton of room for improvement on him.  However it was a quick and fast read and I hope you guys enjoy it as well. 

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Stray

Title: Stray   Author:  Andrea K. Höst   Pages:  273  Genre: Sci-Fi

Cassandra was walking home from school like any other day but when she looks up she notices she is not in Australia anymore. She starts a diary documenting her time in this weird place from when she gets there to when a strange guy comes to her and tells her he can take her home. She makes some great friends while learning a new language that is implanted in her brain.
I enjoyed this book for the most part but there were parts I couldn't follow. I liked that she had a way to learn the language but still had difficulties with it. Cassandra was very relate able and was a joy to read through her eyes from her diary.

A Huge Thank You

Many of you will remember these titles from before in my blog and you would be correct. These are two books from Marcus and Ashley Kusi, they asked me to do book reviews for them and on top of the free books they gave me via kindle they thanked me by sending signed copies of two of their books to me. I am humbled and honored by this and I wanted to thank them for their very generous gift to me.

Emotional and Sexual Intimacy in Marriage: How to Connect or Reconnect With Your Spouse, Grow Together, and Strengthen Your Marriage

Title: Emotional and Sexual Intimacy in Marriage  Author: Marcus and Ashley Kusi  Pages:  162  Genre: Self Help

~I was asked to review this book~

Marcus and Ashley have made another book about how to strengthen your relationship. There is so much in this book. It talks about the finer details on how to expand and grow as yourself and with your spouse and some tips on how to do so! The fact that Marcus opens up and tell us the readers that he had to learn about "being a man" and that it doesn't mean that guys never cry, quite the opposite. A man that is in-tune with his feelings can typically get the girls easier since we women can connect deeper with them. It is nice to read a book about how to repair or just make your marriage better from people that have been there and its not just from one point of view it is from both of them and I think that makes this valuable! There isn't just great insite in the book there are links to their site www.ourpeacefulfamily.com to help you with steps along the way to help you become the couple you want to be. There are also questions in the book you can answer with your spouse so it isn't just a sit down and read there are questions you can answer and get to know each other and your goals as a couple more thoroughly.
Although it is packed with a ton of information that we know sometimes we forget its the simple day to day things that make our marriage and our relationships in general work. You want to tell your best friend everything so why not do the same with the spouse. Even if they are two separate people.
One of my favorite chapters was the one about spiritual intimacy. I think its one of the things my husband and I struggle with the most and I have never thought that there are ways around not sharing the same beliefs and sharing with your kids. It's about the core learning and feelings not all the extra stuff. One of the things that makes the books from Marcus and Ashley unique is that they add their own personal stories to it as well so its not just "this is how you fix it" they add their own personal touch that they have gone through it and they want others to not have to. Although it is apart of being a couple.

Soda Dungeon

Title: Soda Dungeon  Game System: Computer  Game Type: Casual Dungeon Crawler

In this game you are you. The tavern keeper and everyone else talks to you and you upgrade the tavern from your winnings from running the dungeon. It is very simple. You can turn on auto and let it play for you. You pick up to 5 people to fight in this dungeon. With each new soda type you buy in the tavern you can get a new type of fighter. There are different type of monsters in the dungeon that you will have to fight, you can warp to other parts and can be caught in sleeping or poison traps. 

This game is very simple and very entertaining to watch and to play. Although it isn't very complicated or interactive you do buy things to help make the dungeon trips easier on you and to get more loot. It's fun to have going on in the background as you are doing other work or playing another game. 

Tomodachi Life

Title: Tomodachi Life  Game System: Nintendo 3ds  Game Type: Simulation

In this game you will be the look a like, You will create people and put them in their own apartment, due to the interaction between them they will develop relationships and friendships and they can even move into a house while keeping their apartments and have a kid. The kid you have two choices, you can send them off to explore other players lands. You also interact with the people you create by playing mini games with them and you can watch them do things. There is a fun interaction they will do if they catch you watching them when they are flirting with each other. 

I have enjoyed this game over the time I have had it. It reminds me of Sims in a lot of ways. There are still a lot of things I get to discover and enjoy about it and I hope you will all consider getting it as well. 

Mia and the Too Big Tutu

Title: Mia and the Too  Big Tutu  Author: Robin Farley  Pages: 31  Genre: Children

Mia wants to be just like her big sister and dance, her Mom helps her see her dreams come true with a dance class. When Mia is getting ready she realizes she grabbed her sister's tutu instead of hers, she is so embarrassed to be tripping over it. With the help of a friend she dances with all her heart on the stage for the class and forgets her fears.

It's a good moral story for beginner readers. My daughter read it to me and I couldn't be more proud. This is a great beginner book to start that confidence and to start learning a bit more complex words. I did have to help my kindergartner with the harder words but she sounded out most of it. 

Pure Romance Between the Sheets

Title: Pure Romance Between the Sheets  Author: Patty Brisben  Pages: 229  Genre: self-help

Patty Brisben is a consultant for Pure Romance and has a lot of concern for the woman of today that have no clue about their sexual health and how much it means that we know about ourselves. Whether you know it all or you want to learn it all this is a great book to pick up from your Pure Romance consultant (Like I did mine). It's not just to be more intimate with your partner but yourself as well. Learn about yourself before you try to explore more uncharted territory. 

I enjoyed reading this book and all it had for me to take into my daily life. There is a lot of smart tidbits I am excited to put into my relationship along with to discover more about myself. I am thankful to Patty for taking the time to write this and get it out to the masses!

WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT

Cinder & Ella

Title: Cinder & Ella  By: Kelly Oram  Pages: 254  Genre: Young Adult

Ella was your typical teenager, she was raised by just her Mom and on her birthday the worst happens...a car accident that leaves her damanged; emotionally and phyically along with her Mom dead. She has to go out to L.A. to live with her Dad who abandonded her years before and his picture perfect family. Alone in the world she is lost, until she reaches out to an old internet friend that starts fixing her life bit by bit. What  happens when that amazing best friend turns into the world's latest bad boy heart throb?

I don't have the chance to just sit and read. If I do I last 15 minutes before something happens. I started this and read this all in one sitting and I adored it! I was so sad when this book ended. There is such depth and understanding from Ella and from "Cinder". The divided family, the not knowing the whole story, the friends we can be real with, bullying, self-esteem issues along with confessing your real feelings for someone and how utterly terrifying that is, its all crammed into this book. I recommend this book to EVERYONE!!

Shifters Forever: Protection

Title: Shifters Forever Protection  By: Elle Thorne  Pages: 186  Genre: Erotica

Chelsea is trying to keep her nose clean and her head down in this small sleepy town, but its hard to do with two guys pining over you. One is a big name in the town for real estate and has the ego to go with it, the other is whom Chelsea is pining over. She has set up dates with both but Jeff (real estate agent) goes first and drugs her, but Chelsea is strong and fights off the drug long enough to get out of the situation alone...but ends up in the forest, at night..in the snow. Her knight on his white horse comes along (although he's just in bear form) and safes the day and learns more secrets along the way about the girl of his dreams. They have a steamy start once she realizes she isn't stepping on anyone's toes. 

I enjoyed this book it was a quick read once I was able to actually sit down and read it. I am looking forward to reading the rest of the series. The character progress wasn't really there but it only happens in a short time for the most part so its hard to develop too much on them.

WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT!!!