Novel Nerd Blog - Book Reviews by Smitha

MY THOUGHTS AND BOOK REVIEW Alexis Taylor who loved her work all the time, owner of Taylor Investments, the top financial firm in the country had everything but is lonely and certainly stressed around the Christmas holidays. She had given up falling in love a long time ago, all her boyfriends she dated had a relationship with her as more of a business partnership. She always put work first. When it's Christmas Eve, it's only Alexis who is working. She had employees working which made her proud. Instead of bringing excitement and the holiday feel to her office as a boss, she was grieving her parents and totally disconnected from the lights and decorations that brought magical moments. As she started to hallucinate, she had to be in charge of her emotions. Because of her work, she never celebrated Christmas.  That's when Justin drives her around as her employee wants to reveal his feelings for her. Her driver, Justin admired Alexis's strength, dedication, and fearlessness...

  MY THOUGHTS AND BOOK REVIEW This novel by Diane Hanks is a very interesting and gripping narrative of connected events that happened in 1941  during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.  Annie Fox  returned from her transfer from the country Philippines in 1940 and was sent to Honolulu, Hawaii. She was transferred to Hickam Air Field Station Hospital, a small ward-bed facility with six nurses, after passing the exam to become Chief Nurse there.  Assuming the job of Chief Nurse, Annie Fox, or 1st Lieutenant Fox as she was known in the Army, arrived at Station Hospital on Hickam Field in November 1941.  The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, causing widespread destruction and devastation to hospitals across the island. Annie, in charge of Hickam, faced deafening noise, bombs, and enemy aircraft, while staff tried to save wounded patients. In Honolulu, Hawaii, Hickam Field served as the Army's main airfield and bomber facility. It was close to Pearl Harbor, the...

MY THOUGHTS AND BOOK REVIEW   Manchester 1987: Rosanna Hawkins is a masterful artist from the Victorian modern era who knew her paintings were "Nice" and "little."  From the original paintings, they were intolerant.  Rosanna was an upstanding woman of unimpeachable character with a family peopled with uprightness.  Her employer Anton Greystone was astonished and delighted by her reproduced masterworks which reflected each stroke, each layer, and moreover, she was quick. Her speed and artistic style could match any style, be it modern, like Cole, or classical. Among the wealthy clients who either loved art or wished to understand it, her Renaissance work was highly in demand. She was not a creator, she reproduced with a great deal of skill, simplicity, and clarity. The masterworks Rosanna made were referred to as "Parlor versions" to sell to the emerging upper middle class of Manchester, as well as to some of the higher classes who preferred their painting ...

MY THOUGHTS AND BOOK REVIEW France 1935: Madeleine Grant, a Londoner girl meets a communist young man Giles Martin at the end of her French literature study at the Sorbonne University in Paris. Making the most time in Paris being torn between wanting to be the dutiful student and the attraction she felt to Giles had ended up dating him at various Parisian cafes. Madeleine's mother died in the war and her father marries a war widow - Eleanor. Soon caught between Paris and excitement and Giles. They fell head over heels in love with each other and then they get married, out of their wedlock they have a son - Oliver Louis Martin. Giles starts after that and goes to work as a Journalist reporter at a newspaper in France as a rising star of the left wing as communism is what it represented. And then the inevitable happens in 1939 Britain and France declared war on Germany. There was a fear that Germany would invade France soon and be worse than the Great War. Worried about Madeleine and...

 MY THOUGHTS AND BOOK REVIEW River Ryland and Tony St. Clair were best of friends at the same time were behavioral analysts for the FBI. River had been diagnosed with PTSD making her not able to face a job. Also Tony had temporary memory loss. River moves to Virginia leaving her parents to start a new life. And she starts Watson's investigations as a private investigator along with Tony. The novel gets interesting as River is asked by Chief Martin with the St Louis Department to investigate a missing rebellious teenage boy Chris for almost four years. Amy Stover mother of Chris approaches River and Tony and opens the case to find out about Chris's disappearance who had gone out with some friends to a concert and never came home. River and Tony move forward with the case when they get clues that help them along their way. They find Chris's best friends Jason and Kyle had been with Chris. The novel is all about finding missing Chris and figuring out whether any chance Kyle or...