For The Love of Books

For The Love of Books is a blog that I dedicated for my love of books, my everyday journey of reading books, sharing recommendations on books to read and just share a review of what I thought of the books that I've read. And occassionally, there will be some things unrelated to books, but it will mostly be about my love of books.. Enjoy..

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Book Review: The Most Wanted

Posted by Roses - - 1 comments


Title : The Most Wanted
Author : Jacquelyn Mitchard
Ratings : *** (3 out of 5 stars)
Synopsis:
Arley Mowbray is young, smart, and lonely. Very lonely. And then she strikes up correspondence with a prison inmate -- and under the spell of his poetic, seductive letters, falls helplessly. stubbornly in love.
Annie Singer is a tough, dedicated Texas Lawyer hired to help Arley unite with her beloved. She does so, but against her own better judgment -- and soon she's caught up in this disturbing and dangerous romance.. and in her feelings for Arley, who's become the daughter she never had.
When Dillon LeGrande comes after the girl he loves. Arley finds herself both aching for his touch and fearing for her life. And Annie begins to question her own choices -- and to wonder what price she would pay for passion...
What I think of the book:
I think this book has an interesting story. This shows us the power of love. Reading this book makes me feel like watching a good drama movie aired on the Hallmark channel. In a way, I think this book is a bit controversial, as we have the main character, who's only 14 years old, start communicating with a 25 year old man, who's in prison for a crime, and ended up falling in love with him and we then have a 14 year old teenager, who's married and is having a baby. I can't help but thinking that this would be classified under an illegal relationship or something, but apparently this book shows us that love knows no boundaries. Age doesn't matter when love comes calling.
This book is told in two different point of view, of Arlington Mowbray, the 14 year old teenager and of Annie Singer, a 40 year old lawyer that Arlington hires to help unite her with her husband who's in prison. Lack of her own child, Annie starts to get real connected with this girl and is feeling particularly maternal towards her. I can definitely sympathize with Arlington's situation and feel that she could have done a lot better, if dangerous love doesn't come across her path.
The ending of this book is a little bit predictable, but I think that it would be the appropriate ending to this story.
Overall, I think this book is quite interesting and I would recommend it to those who loves reading drama stories, with a bit of romance and a touching story, more like Jodi Picoult books.

Book Review: K is for Killer

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Title : K is for Killer
Author : Sue Grafton
Ratings : ** (2 out of 5 stars)

Synopsis:
Laura Kepler was beautiful and wilful, a loner who couldn't resist flirting with danger. She had also been found dead in mysterious circumstances and her death pulls Kinsey Millhone into a netherworld of deception, betrayal and unavenged murder.

Grafton writes a series of book about a private detective, Kinsey Millhone, who's solving mysteries in each case in the book. Grafton's books are all titled with alphabet and is published alphabetically. Her first book in the Kinsey Millhone's series is A for Alibi. This is my first book by Grafton.

In the 11th book in the Kinsey Millhone series, Kinsey is approached by a mother, whose daughter is dead and is part of the unresolved murder cases. She then hired Kinsey to find out what actually happened to her daughter. In this investigation, Kinsey unveils another side of Lorna Kepler's life, which might contribute to her death.

I like Grafton's writing and the flow of the story. The only flaw in this book is the ending of the story. I didn't particularly like the ending and would have given it a higher rating had the ending been different.