Erin Zak
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- Erin Zak grew up on the Western Slope of Colorado in a town with a population of 2,500, a solitary Subway, and one stoplight. She started writing at a young age and has always had a very active imagination. Erin later transplanted to Indiana where she attended college, started writing a book, and had dreams of one day actually finding the courage to try to get it published.
Erin now resides in Florida, away from the snow and cold, near the Gulf Coast with her family. She enjoys the sun, sand, writing, and spoiling her cocker spaniel, Hanna. When she’s not writing, she’s obsessively collecting Star Wars memorabilia, planning the next trip to Disney World, or whipping up something delicious to eat in the kitchen.
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Gwendolyn is an up and coming actress whose career in Hollywood has just hit a bit of a wall and she lost out on a part she really wanted. So. She goes home for her father's birthday. But, her Mom, with whom she has had almost no relationship over the past decade or so (for what I consider very valid reasons), Carol, is the one who has the surprise for her.
Lila is a Volleyball coach at the local high school's volleyball team, and the assistant coach to Carol. Lila has also become like a daughter to Carol and David, Gwendolyn's parents. Or, as Gwendolyn puts it, a replacement daughter (and yes, Lila's young life before Carol and David took her in wasn't perfect.
From my one star it's probably obvious that I didn't love this book. Somehow I stumbled into another story where there is an 'evil' and always wrong character who has to get repeatedly fucked over and not listened to ever by anyone for the 'saint' character to deign to be okay with the evil one (even though they're wrong so wrong). Gah.
The whole 'It's okay that you're wrong, I love you anyway'.Whatever.
And then there was Carol's secret, which, changes none of the underlying crap, but, forces the 'wrong' one to swallow whatever lies the saint wants to keep telling the 'wrong' one over and over and over. Oh, and don't get me started on the Carol character, or the David one for that matter.
I guess based on all the other reviews, this one will be lost in the screams of five stars. Who knows, maybe I read an entirely different book than everyone else, but, there was no balance in Gwen and Lila's relationship, and, that bugs me to no end. There should be some push and pull in the narrative, but, one shouldn't always be pulling and pulling and pulling.
I was given this ARC by Netgalley on behalf of Bold Strokes Books.… (mehr)
Lila is a Volleyball coach at the local high school's volleyball team, and the assistant coach to Carol. Lila has also become like a daughter to Carol and David, Gwendolyn's parents. Or, as Gwendolyn puts it, a replacement daughter (and yes, Lila's young life before Carol and David took her in wasn't perfect.
From my one star it's probably obvious that I didn't love this book. Somehow I stumbled into another story where there is an 'evil' and always wrong character who has to get repeatedly fucked over and not listened to ever by anyone for the 'saint' character to deign to be okay with the evil one (even though they're wrong so wrong). Gah.
The whole 'It's okay that you're wrong, I love you anyway'.Whatever.
And then there was Carol's secret, which, changes none of the underlying crap, but, forces the 'wrong' one to swallow whatever lies the saint wants to keep telling the 'wrong' one over and over and over. Oh, and don't get me started on the Carol character, or the David one for that matter.
I guess based on all the other reviews, this one will be lost in the screams of five stars. Who knows, maybe I read an entirely different book than everyone else, but, there was no balance in Gwen and Lila's relationship, and, that bugs me to no end. There should be some push and pull in the narrative, but, one shouldn't always be pulling and pulling and pulling.
I was given this ARC by Netgalley on behalf of Bold Strokes Books.… (mehr)
There seemed to be quite a bit going on in this novel.
At its core it's the story of Stevie and Bernadette. They meet when Stevie gets pulled into a psychic reading by her improv castmates.
Bernadette is Constance's (the psychic) best friend as well as working for her as an interpreter of ASL. Bernadette is hearing, but, both Constance as well as Bernadette's Mom are deaf.
After the reading, Bernadette and Stevie keep bumping into each other and even though Constance has a rule against relationships with clients that she believes that Bernadette should abide by too. Still, Bernadette and Stevie find themselves falling in love, which brings up a ton of issues for both of them, especially since Bernadette thinks she has to stay in Chicago, and Stevie wants to continue her career by maybe joining SNL.
I liked the two main characters, but, for the most part I couldn't stand most of the secondary characters (except for Bernadette's Mom and Stevie's Grandmother. Bernadette's Mom especially was awesome, she was so awesome that I'm not sure I have the words for just how awesome she was and so I'm using awesome too much).
Most of the other characters just rubbed me the wrong way, especially Constance. But, other than those characters, I quite enjoyed the book.
I received this book via Netgalley thanks to Bold Strokes Books.… (mehr)
At its core it's the story of Stevie and Bernadette. They meet when Stevie gets pulled into a psychic reading by her improv castmates.
Bernadette is Constance's (the psychic) best friend as well as working for her as an interpreter of ASL. Bernadette is hearing, but, both Constance as well as Bernadette's Mom are deaf.
After the reading, Bernadette and Stevie keep bumping into each other and even though Constance has a rule against relationships with clients that she believes that Bernadette should abide by too. Still, Bernadette and Stevie find themselves falling in love, which brings up a ton of issues for both of them, especially since Bernadette thinks she has to stay in Chicago, and Stevie wants to continue her career by maybe joining SNL.
I liked the two main characters, but, for the most part I couldn't stand most of the secondary characters (except for Bernadette's Mom and Stevie's Grandmother. Bernadette's Mom especially was awesome, she was so awesome that I'm not sure I have the words for just how awesome she was and so I'm using awesome too much).
Most of the other characters just rubbed me the wrong way, especially Constance. But, other than those characters, I quite enjoyed the book.
I received this book via Netgalley thanks to Bold Strokes Books.… (mehr)
Okay, yep, it's confirmed, I'm definitely on a random love in lesfic romances streak right now.
In this one Jackie is just having a regular sort of day, when a sixteen year old named Beth appears at her door in Florida. Beth is Jackie's birth daughter.
Jackie takes Beth home to Savannah (a la Emma and Henry) and meet's Beth's adoptive mother, Susan, and then Jackie goes home and thinks that's it.
It's not it. Susan and Beth wind up needing a place to stay urgently, and they go to Jackie.
And so she and Beth get to get closer, and, then Susan finds herself falling in love with Jackie too.
I liked the Susan/Jackie story enough, but, it was Beth's story in all its glory (and teenage angst) that I really connected with more. It reminded me of the crazy stuff that is running through teens heads at all times, or, at least the stuff that ran through my head on occasion. (Although, I'd like to point out that if Beth is 16 and this takes place in 2018 or 2019 then she is Generation Z not a Millennial (we used to be called Gen Y)).
Overall it was a helluva fun book, although the beginning of the end was a little flat I thought, but, all the journey before that was quite amazing.
I received this book via Netgalley thanks to Bold Strokes Books.… (mehr)
In this one Jackie is just having a regular sort of day, when a sixteen year old named Beth appears at her door in Florida. Beth is Jackie's birth daughter.
Jackie takes Beth home to Savannah (a la Emma and Henry) and meet's Beth's adoptive mother, Susan, and then Jackie goes home and thinks that's it.
It's not it. Susan and Beth wind up needing a place to stay urgently, and they go to Jackie.
And so she and Beth get to get closer, and, then Susan finds herself falling in love with Jackie too.
I liked the Susan/Jackie story enough, but, it was Beth's story in all its glory (and teenage angst) that I really connected with more. It reminded me of the crazy stuff that is running through teens heads at all times, or, at least the stuff that ran through my head on occasion. (Although, I'd like to point out that if Beth is 16 and this takes place in 2018 or 2019 then she is Generation Z not a Millennial (we used to be called Gen Y)).
Overall it was a helluva fun book, although the beginning of the end was a little flat I thought, but, all the journey before that was quite amazing.
I received this book via Netgalley thanks to Bold Strokes Books.… (mehr)
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Caroline Stevens quit her nursing job in Chicago and moved to Sedona to start over. She’s a summer session away from getting her teaching certificate. During the second of her three classes she meets Atlanta Morris. Of course, their lust for one another can’t go to the next step because Atlanta is her professor, and her career was almost derailed by an episode with a student long before she became a successful professor. Caroline is flawed and suffers from PTSD from having been shot at her work, but functions well.
This novella represents some of Zak’s best writing. She created two strong likable characters and the story is interesting and complex. The only thing wrong with this novella is that the story was cut short by the too-sudden ending.
Fans of stories about starting-over stories and a large age-gap will love this novella, and Erin Zak’s fans probably read this story when it first came out, but they might want to return to it and read again.
My thanks to Bold Strokes Books for an eARC.… (mehr)