Hello 2013!

With a goal of 52 books this year - Im off to a pretty good start.  I am four books into my new Kindle Fire - which I am LOVING!  Nook who? 

* All reviews for books listed below are copied and pasted from Amazon.com*

1. MESSAGE FROM NAM by Danielle Steel

As a journalist, Paxton Andrews would experience Vietnam firsthand. We follow her from high school in Savannah to college in Berkeley and then to work in Saigon.

For the soldiers she knew and met there, Viet Nam would change their lives in ways they could never have imagined. For the men in her life, Viet Nam would change their lives in ways hey could not escape or deny. Peter Wilson, fresh from law school, was a new recruit who would confont his fate in Da Nang. Ralph Johnson, a seasoned AP correspondent, had been in Saigon since the beginning. He knew Vietnam and the war inside out. Bill Quinn, captain of the Cu Chi tunnel rats, was on his fourth tour of duty and it seemed nothing could touch him. Sergeant Tony Campobello had come to Vietnam from the streets of New York to vent a rage that had followed him all the way to Saigon.

For seven years Paxton Andrews would write an acclaimed newspaper column from the front before finally returning to the States and then attending the Paris peace talks. But for her and the men who fought in Viet Nam, life would never be the same again.

 

This book was beyond emotional.  There was a lot of death for a young girl.  Some of it more emotional than grusome.  I really disliked the ending.  I felt like I had suffered through the whole book and Wham, there was the end - no climax up to it besides the fall of Siagon.  The way the ending came about with Paxton and her love just annoyed me.  It left me thinking there should have been so much more.  Other then the ending, I loved the book.

2. BETRAYL by Danielle Steel

At thirty-nine, Tallie Jones is a Hollywood legend. Her work as a film director is her passion and the center of her life; one after another, her award-winning productions achieve the rare combination of critical and commercial success. With no interest in the perks of her profession or the glitz and glamour of Los Angeles, Tallie maintains close and loving relationships with her college-age daughter and her aging father, and has a happy collaboration with Hunter Lloyd, her respected producing partner, confidant, and live-in lover. Rounding out the circle and making it all work is Brigitte Parker, Tallie’s devoted personal assistant. Friends since film school, they are a study in contrasts, with Brigitte’s polished glamour balancing Tallie’s artless natural beauty, and her hard-driving, highly organized style a protective shield for Tallie’s casual, down-to-earth approach.

As Tallie is in the midst of directing the most ambitious film she has yet undertaken, small disturbances begin to ripple through her well-ordered world. An outside audit reveals troubling discrepancies in the financial records maintained by Victor Carson, Tallie’s longtime, trusted accountant. Mysterious receipts hint at activities of which she has no knowledge. Soon it becomes clear that someone close to Tallie has been steadily funneling away enormous amounts of her money. In the wake of an escalating series of shattering revelations, Tallie will find herself playing the most dangerous game of all—to trap a predator stalking her in plain sight.

In this riveting novel, Danielle Steel reveals the dark side of fame and fortune. At the same time, she brilliantly captures a woman’s will to navigate a minefield of hurt and loss—toward a new beginning.

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I loved to hate a few of the characters in the book.  Other then the predictability it was a quick read, flowed from person to person well and I always like when the scorned nice girl gets a happy ending!

3. FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC by VC Andrews

 'Beautifully written, macabre and thoroughly nasty! it is evocative of the nasty fairy tales like Little Red Riding Hood and The Babes in the Wood, with a bit of Victorian Gothic thrown in. ! What does shine through is her ability to see the world through a child's eyes' Daily Express 'Makes horror irresistible' Glasgow Sunday Mail 'A gruesome saga! the storyline is compelling, many millions have no wish to put this down' Ms London 'There is strength in her books -- the bizarre plots matched with the pathos of the entrapped' The Times --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
 

Wow!  When I stole this book from my mom as a young teenager - I can tell you for sure I had no idea what the heck I was reading.  I thought my mom was just sensoring me... Not the case.  I am glad to have read this book as an adult to fully understand exactly how sick and twisted it really is!  Absolutely crazy.

4. PETALS ON THE WIND by VC Andrews

For Carrie, Chris and Cathy the attic was a dark horror that would not leave their minds. Of course mother had to pretend they didn't exist and grandmother was convinced they had the devil in them. But that wasn't their fault. Was it? Cathy knew what to do. She knew it was time to show her mother and grandmother that the pain and terror of the attic could not be forgotten...Show them. Show them -- once and for all.

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Well continuing on with reliving a book from my childhood that never should have been there... The next book was just as dark and twisted as the first.  I really am so skeeved by the ease of the incest in the book.  Its pretty disgusting.  I am not sure I will enjoy the remaining books, but I will eventually give them a go.

 

 

 

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