Title : All She Ever Wanted
Author : Patrick Redmond
Genre : Thriller
Date read : December 2008
" Only the weak fall in love. The strong survive on their own."
It's about an unsecured girl who being abandoned by her mother. Her father left them without saying goodbye just a note saying he's sorry. At school, the boys and girls were bullying her and call her names, saying that her father was in jail. She didn't have anyone to turn to. Even though her aunt and cousin always protected her, she still felt left out. Her mother hated her and blamed her for her father's missing in action. She always let her classmates taunting her, telling how ugly she was, how freaking she was until finally she had had enough. She transformed into a gorgeous lady whom everybody envied and desired. She controlled everybody around her with her new bold, self-reliant personality. Until a man came a stole her heart. She was afraid to let the love done its things but it kept her new personality in a turmoil and nothing can ever be allowed to do that. Control must be maintained and love must be on her terms. No matter how dreadful those terms might be.
The first 1/3 of the book was so touchy. It's begin with Christina Ryan's childhood life where she lost her father, bullied by her friends, lost her mother's love and earned her hatred. Then, the stories entwined into Chrissie's (That's Christina after she's changed into a new person) life as a 25 year old gorgeous. She's not the one who made the killing, but a man that was so in love with her did it. But the the court will convict her as a co-conspirator. Alexander love Chrissie, Chrissie love Jack but Jack love Ali. Alex killed Ali and Jack thought Chrissie was behind all this madness. Mmm..i like to know what happen to Chrissie coz the story end there..
Title : The Cupid Effect & My Best Friend's GirlAuthor : Dorothy KomsoonGenre : FictionI've read two of her books, "The Cupid Effect" & "My Best friend's Girl". The novel were so inspiring and touche. When you read her, you are seeing the reality out there. It's always about love but the love were interjected with such words that it seems ... honest.
The Cupid Effect is about a black woman, Ceri D'Altroy, that left her job to be a psychology lecturer in Leeds. Even though she blamed Oprah Winfrey for the change she made in her life, she's just following her heart. While she's struggling with her love life, she seems to inspire other people around her to change their life. She's just like a cupid but the modern version of it. Everybody she knew will pour out their heart out and waiting for her words of wisdom. Until at one point, she's making a decision not to be a "cupid" but in despair to learn that its a gift that she can't avoid. Apart from that, she's looking for the right man in her life, (even though she always thought that Angel from Buffy The Vampire Slayer her man! Even i can't resist Angel with his black outfit, nice & yummy *wink*). At last, she's able to overcome all obstacle & find her Angel right in front of her nose!
My Best Friend's Girl. Just reading the first two pages of the book, makes me crying. Maybe it's because of the mother-daughter "thingy" which Komsoon wrote that makes me sensitive. How do you (Kamryn Matika) feel when your best friend (that is Adele Brannon in this book) was having a "thing" with your fiance (Nate) and they have a child from it? Then, your best friend is dying and she makes you promise her that you'll look after her daughter? At first, i'm reading this book teary-eyed all the way through. Then, the paces were going much stronger with a new character (Luke Wiseman) which at first you'll hate but then you'll love it at the end. Some of the prologue for you......" anyway, on this particular day i sat at the station and a woman came and stood beside me. She got her mobile out of her bag and made a call. When the person on the other end picked up she said, 'Hello, it's Felicity Halliday's mother here. I'm calling because she's not very well and she won't be coming to school today'. I fell apart. Just broke down in tears. It hit me then, right then, that i would never get the chance to make a call like that. I would not get to do the simple mum thing like call my daughter's school. The were a million things i would never get to do again and that was one of them. ... then this man, this angel, came to me, sat down, put his arm around me and held me while i cried. The train came, the train left. As did the next one and the next one. But this man stayed with me. Stayed with me as i cried and cried. i totally soaked and snotted up the shoulder of his nice suit jacket but he didn't seem to mind, he waited and held me until i stopped wailing. Then he gently asked me what was wrong. Through my sobs, all i could say was, "i've got to tell my little girl i'm going to die.""
