Louise Cusack

MARRIAGE & THE MERMAID by author Louise Cusack is a September 2012 release by Flirt Press.

Balthazar Wilson came home to look after his senile father. He came across a naked girl washed up on the beach, who immediately upon regaining conscious demanded that he have sex with her to make her pregnant.

Baz was astounded by her demand. Yet he took her home and pretended to his father as well as the authorities that she was their new housekeeper. Who is she? Is she a mermaid or some other sea creature?

Then Baz's colleague, who has the hots for him arrived. Now he had to keep his dad away from the mystery girl as well as his colleague. Bedlam ensues.

MARRIAGE & THE MERMAID is a fast paced, fun story. Get it, you will not regret it for the entertainment value alone!… (mehr)

GODDESS & THE GEEK by author Louise Cusack is a Flirt Press release for September 2012. It is part of a Hapless Heros series.

Julian is a computer nerd and goes with his colleague to spend time alone at his Island home. What he doesn't realise is that the home, which he expected to be empty and isolated, already has a sitting tenant.

Tall, gorgeous and hot stranger turns out to be the cousin of his collegue. Natasha Barri has moved in her cousins home after having a bit of problem at hers. But she excpected to be alone as she has not lived with another human since the last five years. Could Julian and Natasha co exist peacefully in the same house?

Living together, Julian feels attracted to Natasha but does she reciprocate? Julian tries a bit of online voodoo. Would Julian's voodoo work?

GODDESS & THE GEEK is fresh and fun. It is filled with amusing dialogue and witty comebacks. Author Louise Cusack has brought a refreshing story filled with hilarious and unusual characters.

A very enjoyable read and highly recommended!… (mehr)

GODDESS & THE GEEK by author Louise Cusack is a Flirt Press release for September 2012. It is part of a Hapless Heros series.

Julian is a computer nerd and goes with his colleague to spend time alone at his Island home. What he doesn't realise is that the home, which he expected to be empty and isolated, already has a sitting tenant.

Tall, gorgeous and hot stranger turns out to be the cousin of his collegue. Natasha Barri has moved in her cousins home after having a bit of problem at hers. But she excpected to be alone as she has not lived with another human since the last five years. Could Julian and Natasha co exist peacefully in the same house?

Living together, Julian feels attracted to Natasha but does she reciprocate? Julian tries a bit of online voodoo. Would Julian's voodoo work?

GODDESS & THE GEEK is fresh and fun. It is filled with amusing dialogue and witty comebacks. Author Louise Cusack has brought a refreshing story filled with hilarious and unusual characters.

A very enjoyable read and highly recommended!… (mehr)

Originally reviewed here: http://tsanasreads.tumblr.com/post/21323706199/destiny-of-the-light-by-louise-cu...

After her brother’s apparent suicide ten years previously Catherine was left alone to care for her mother during her lingering death from cancer. When she starts hearing a voice in her head, she assumes she’s crazy but the voice insists its her destiny to follow her brother to another world. Crazy or not, who can fight destiny?

And so the long lost White Princess finds her way back from an exile spent in our world to the brown, faunaless world of Ennae. Except while she was gone for three years in Ennae, she lived through fifteen years in our world. And to compound things, Khatrene, the Princess, has no memories of her childhood in Ennae. Luckily, her Guardian Champion was the one who facilitated her transition between worlds and he will do anything to protect her and get her to her brother, now the king.

However, destiny and the voice in her head don’t leave her alone once she’s back in the world she belongs in.

Destiny of the Light is full of interesting characters. There are a lot of them and it took me a few chapters to get them all sorted out in my head, with the exception of the main (-est) character, Khatrene, who stands out by being from our world. While there wasn’t much moral ambiguity among who is on the side of good and who is on the side of evil, there was ambiguity in the sense of “oh, turns out that person is evil/good” as we learn more about them. A lot of what drives the action is characters making assumptions (or listening to lies) about other characters and acting accordingly while, as the reader, we are left shaking our fists at the page screaming, “No, don’t listen to that person!” And it doesn’t tend to be stupidity or silly miscommunications which lead to problems, which is nice. (Books where everything could be solved if the characters just had a proper conversation annoy me.)

Every time I thought the plot was slowing down, something new and unexpected would happen to keep me turning the page.

The supporting characters were integral to the story. I don’t want to say too much about various enemies for spoilery reasons, but I will say the daughter of the spiritual leader and the young, brash apprentice Guardian were particularly entertaining, especially when they were in the same room. The daughter’s growth as a character between start and end was well done and definitely added depth.

The ending isn’t quite a cliff hanger, but many things are left in the air (eg almost everyone’s fates). This is the sort of trilogy where one long story is divided into three parts, rather than three self-contained stories with an overarching theme.

There is a lot in this book, and I’ve found it difficult to review. Hopefully my review encourages you to give it a shot, especially if you like big fat fantasy.… (mehr)