Review: Musical Chairs

Musical Chairs

By Sheila Levin

book rate: ★★★★★ (5/5) 

Publisher: First Edition Design Publishing

Date of Publication:  December 4th 2014

Genre: Adult Romance, Politics, Drama
Page Count: 262

Source: I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Synopsis provided (adapted):

Politics - Sex - Scandal - Secrets - Money

In a high-stakes game of musical chairs, there can be only one winner. Roberta Palmer, newly widowed supermodel and Marcia Baker, New York congresswoman are getting ready for the fight of their lives: both are running against each other in the primary for the democratic candidate of the NY senate race. Marcia’s ex-lover, Jake Rubin and Roberta’s step-daughter, Joan Palmer both hold secrets that could mean political suicide for both women. As the secrets threaten to surface which woman will be left standing when the music draws to a close?

Review:

Wow, what a surprise!

I tried to keep an  open mind when starting this book but I had this feeling I would be bored to the bones with all the politics talk and so on... I was dead wrong.

Musical Chairs brings us excellent characters, they are incredily realistic, flawed in the right way and with good sense and rational thoughts but they are also giving very moving life stories and, some of them, even inspiring personalities. (I had a few favourite characters but in an effort to not spoil your reading I will keep to myself. If you're interested anyway leave a comment down below and I will discuss it with you!)

Additionaly the storyline  is very consistente and interesting, it's a book that keeps you wanting to reach the final page and unveil all the secrets. Musical Chairs explores politics yes, but not in a boring way, it keeps you interested and also gives you some knowledge on the subject in case, like myself, you didn't have. It also explores the marital life - good and bad sides - and how these relationships can evolve - flourishing or dying.

Musical Chairs was a very different read but very good nonetheless. Reccomend if you would like to try a different reading subject!

ARC Review: Good Intentions

Good Intentions

By Pembroke Sinclair

book rate: ★★★☆☆ (3/5)

Series: The Road to Salvation

Publisher: Booktrope Editions

Release Date: July 28th 2015

Genre: Young Adult; Paranormal Romace
Page Count: 190

Source: We received a copy of this ARC from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Synopsis:

Katie has been through Hell—literally—and discovered that it wasn’t as bad as she thought it would be. In fact, she kind of enjoyed it. She got to be with Josh, found out about her past, and discovered who she wanted to be as a person. Katie didn’t care that her actions went against social norms. She was happy.

But things are changing—again. Wes has come back into her life, and that can only mean trouble. His presence threatens to unravel her new-found happiness. She can’t allow that. She won’t let him back in. Yet, Katie can’t push him away. 

Thrown back into a state of confusion and uncertainty, Katie is once again forced to pick sides, and in the process, she may lose herself.

Review:

Reading a book is an individual experience and therefore two people reading the same book will always have different reading experiences (and the derived feelings and opinions regarding the book). This happened very clearly to me and Isabel while reading Good Itentions.

Isabel points out her discomfort with the writting style, as we have referred in our review of book two, Dealing With Devils, the main character Katie keeps asking questions to herself in her head in a way we didn't consider very natural...

Secondly Isabel was enjoying this series mainly because the main characters weren't the typical type, the female protagonist wasn't a heroine and the male protagonist was a demon capable of loving and worthy of being trusted. Good Intentions disappointed Isabel because in this book Katie choses "the good side" and the demon betrays her showing therefore that he is a typical demon.

I personally only disliked two aspects about this book. Firstly it was slow-paced, there wasn't as much action as I would expect for the conclusion of a triology. Second and lastly, there were a lot of "repetitive thoughts" - as in the characters keeps thinking the same thing and the reader keeps being told that she/he is thinking that - which isn't necessarily bad because it's an excellent way for the reader to accompany the character's development and changes of mind more closely, but I would suggest formulating the thoughts differently so as not to sound so repetitive.

To wrap up we will leave the messages each of us took from reading Good Intentions and also what made us warm up to this story. Isabel enjoyed the "Be careful with who you trust" message and I loved the "You always have a choive; no matter how far you've gone, you can always change paths" message.

Congratulations Pembroke Sinclair on writing this triology, thank you for giving us the opportunity to review it and good luck with future projects!

Rebeca's July Wrap Up

Hahaha jokes on me, I read XXX books this book but only XXX are from my 6-book July TBR list...

From said list I read:

• Musical Chairs by Sheila Levin
• City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare
• Fresh Meat by B. Bentley Summer
• Maybe Someday by Colleen Hoover
• Caroline Starts Over by Randi M. Sherman
• Shadow Kiss by Richelle Mead

(if you click the book's title you'll be able to read my review on each of them)

And the little pricks that unfairly (to my tbr books) called my attention were:

• Good Intentions by Pembroke Sinclair
• ...
• ...

(same thing if you want to read the review)

Anyway I can't complain, it was a good reading month considering I had all my finals happening all over me.. and well, all the other students too.. but I'm the focus here!!! (jk I'm glad we are all on vacations finally :) )

One Sentence Wednesdays #4

One Sentence Wednesdays is a weekly meme hosted by Rebeca of "Liberamans". Anyone can join, you just have to do the following:

• Pick up the book you're currently reading (or read last)
• Think about what it made you feel so far
• Describe it in one sentence
• Share your sentence, book title and author with the book community :)

Note: Please refer the host of the meme (this blog/this post) in your own post and leave a comment down below with a link to your 1SW so all the participant can have a look and share their thoughts too :)

My Sentence:

"It got my eyes all watery and my mind completely captured."

- about Frostbite by Richelle Mead

Musing Mondays #17

MUSING MONDAYS is a weekly meme created and hosted by Jess from A Daily Rhythm.

Thank you so much Jess!

My Musing:
My finals are almost almost over and I'm hoping to be back on track here on Liberamans starting this week :D

Musing Mondays #16

MUSING MONDAYS is a weekly meme created and hosted by Jess from A Daily Rhythm.

Thank you so much Jess!

My Musing:
I'm sorry guys but I won't be giving as much time and attention to my posts for the enxt two weeks as I used to. I have so many exams to do for college and I really want to do good so Liberamans will come back in full on the 16th of July. Promise!! :)

Rebeca's July TBR

I still have... well.. all my exams really, this month but I want to get some reading done anyway. So here goes my TBR for this month:

• Musical Chairs by Sheila Levin
• City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare
• Fresh Meat by B. Bentley Summer
• Maybe Someday by Colleen Hoover
• Caroline Starts Over by Randi M. Sherman
• Shadow Kiss by Richelle Mead

Tell me about your TBR in the comment section below! :)