Alix Chamberlain is used to getting what she wants. She has built her entire empire on using her confidence to ask for things and showing other women how to do the same. She is shocked when she finds out her babysitter, Emira Tucker, was confronted while watching her daughter, Briar, one night at a high end supermarket. The security guard was approached by another customer who is worried that a child is out late with someone who doesn't look like her mother. The situation becomes escalated and Emira is accused of kidnapping Briar. The commotion causes a small crowd to gather and a bystander films everything. Emira is furious and embarrassed by the situation and Alix resolves to remedied the situation.
I was looking forward to reading this book since it got a lot of positive reviews and as a person of color. However, I can't say I was a fan of this book. I found the book to be boring. I couldn't relate to any of the characters and could care less what happened to them. I thought the whole entire book was rather pointless.
Ally Mowak is the most unconventional woman Tag James has ever met. She is a former army medic with a training and a belief in using alternative medicine when possible. Tag James is a handsome transport pilot who is running for Senator with big goals to protect his city. However, the duo has conflicting ideas about medicine and love. Will Ally and Tag be able to put their differences aside?
I enjoyed the fact that this book had a character of Native American descent. However, I found myself rolling my eyes towards the end of the book. At first, I enjoyed that Ally was a confident, independent, and ambitious woman but with a gentle heart but I felt like the story made it seem that she could do no wrong and that she was always right. For example, she was acting forward with Tag during a portion of the book but that was acceptable but her rude behavior was quickly dismissed. I also didn't enjoy the fact that Tag had an issue about her age and her alternative medicine. Their fights seemed petty and didn't make much sense to me. At the end, I didn't like that Tag basically said nothing matters more than being with Ally. She mattered more than his friends and family or his ambitions even though Ally had taken a back seat to his life before. I feel that when a person gives up their entire self and only devotes themselves to one person is setting themselves up for disaster; regardless of how romantic it may sound to have someone be completely devoted to you. I did enjoy Carol's writing style and look forward to reading other books by her.
**Disclosure - I received a free copy of this book in exchanged for an honest opinion**
Bachelor Remedy
(Seasons of Alaska #5)
by Carol Ross
Contemporary Romance
Paperback & ebook,
384 pages
April 1st 2018 by
Harlequin Superromance
She’s the most
unconventional woman he’ll ever meet…
and the cure for a
perennial bachelor?
Raised by her healer
grandfather, former army medic Ally Mowak knows her alternative approach to
traditional medicine puts her at odds with most of her Alaskan town. That
includes Tag James, the rugged transport pilot with the sprawling family and
political ambitions. Ally couldn’t be more wrong for the aspiring senator. Then
why does everything feel so right when they’re together?
USA Today bestselling author Carol Ross grew
up in small town America right between the Pacific Ocean and the Cascade
Mountains, in a place where you can go deep sea fishing in the morning and then
hit the ski slopes the same afternoon. The daughter of what is now known as
free range parents, she developed a love of the outdoors at a very early age.
As a writer, Carol loves to breathe the life she has lived into the characters
she creates, grateful for the “research material” that every questionable
decision, adrenaline-charged misstep, and near-death experience has provided.
Genevieve Flannery
is used to her mother, Delia's sudden outbursts and when she starts
talking to herself. Geni is also accustomed to the circus life that she
and her mother are apart of along with daily workouts of acrobatics. On
a day that seems to be like any other performance, something goes
horribly wrong and Delia dies during her performance. While still
reeling from the tragedy, Geni receives
a package from her mother that is filled with more mystery than
answers. Suddenly, Geni is also able to see visions into a time that
isn't her own. Are the package and Geni's visions related? What was behind Delia's death?
I
always loved stories about the circus and this one didn't disappoint. I
found all the characters to be interesting and relatable but my
favorite character was the baby elephant, Houdini. Houdini was
definitely a treat to read about and enjoyed every single scene he was
in. I am a little disappointed he didn't have more scenes but honestly,
it probably wouldn't have added much to the story. I found the novel to
be interesting and it had a few surprises. There were a few things I
didn't like was that there wasn't much detail about the circus life and
the bad guy's identity was outed after a few characters in without much
fanfare along with why didn't Delia seek help sooner from same people who help Geni. It was a fun read and would definitely read the second book if the author decided to make this a sequel.
Something slams into her. The lyra whirls like a half-dollar spinning on its edge.
My mother is thrown backward.
And she falls.
Growing up in the Cinzio Traveling Players Company, Genevieve Flannery is accustomed to a life most teenagers could never imagine: daily workouts of extravagant acrobatics; an extended family of clowns; wild animals for pets; and her mother, Delia, whose mind has always been tortured by visions—but whose love Geni never questions. In a world of performers who astonish and amaze on a daily basis, Delia’s ghostly hallucinations never seemed all that strange . . . until the evening Geni and her mother are performing an aerial routine they’ve done hundreds of times, and Delia falls to her death.
That night, a dark curtain in Geni’s life opens. Everything has changed.
Still reeling from the tragedy, the Cinzio Traveling Players are also adjusting to the circus’s new owner: a generous, mysterious man whose connection to the circus—Geni suspects—has a dark and dangerous history. And suddenly Geni is stumbling into a new reality of her own, her life interrupted daily by the terrors only Delia used to be able to see.
As the visions around her grow stronger, Geni isn’t sure who she can trust. Even worse, she’s starting to question whether she can trust her own mind.
About Jennifer:
I am a writer, copy/line editor, bibliophile, and mom of four living in the Great White North.
Represented by Victoria Doherty Munro at Writers House.
