Riley Angelica is moving forward with her life, so she's made herself a promise: no romantic entanglements with police officers. Thanks to her late husband, she and her twins have been down that road before. So what does she do with Scott Emerson? She's known her husband's partner for years. But never like this. He's at her house, in her kitchen, with her kids…with her. In fact, it seems her self-appointed guardian is a part of her daily existence. She's starting to see him in a new light a very appealing, good-looking light.
A few special humans are endowed with paranormal abilities, and it is Caleb O'Hara's gift of precognition that saves his family from certain death when the aliens attack Earth, nearly obliterating the human race. Having moved his brothers and wife to a remote cabin, they make a new home for themselves. But the lack of female companionship sees Caleb's brothers growing restless and frustrated, and Caleb knows that life as they know it must change if the family is to stay together - something that must happen if they are to live through the next challenge from the Alvian invaders.
Davin's Quest is an intense and raw read. Emotion makes up a big part of Davin's Quest and Bianca D'Arc manages to pull that emotion out of a race with none. Ms. D'Arc made her characters come alive for me. I could feel Davin's intense need for emotion in his life. When he first met Callie, I could feel his hope. Callie is the backbone and heart of the story. She gave me hope that all was not lost with the world. These three characters were wonderfully written by Ms. D'Arc. Davin's Quest is the second book in the Resonance Mates series, but it can be read as a stand alone.
Added by: annabelle_lee | Karma: 428.14 | Fiction literature | 19 May 2010
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This Charming Man
We’ve come to expect a few things from Marian Keyes. She’ll make you laugh, she’ll make you cry and she’ll give you a good happy ending.
But frothy shallow chick lit she isn’t. She doesn’t conform to the ‘girl meets guy, girl falls for guy, something bad happens so they can’t be together’ industry standard.
This Charming Man deals with domestic violence, alcoholism, cross dressing and much more. What is really heartwarming about Keyes is she tackles these difficult subjects and still manages to put a smile on your face.
A resolute yet naïve Chinese girl confronts poverty and culture shock with equal zeal when she and her mother immigrate to Brooklyn. Ah-Kim Chang, or Kimberly as she is known in the U.S., had been a promising student in Hong Kong when her father died. Now she and her mother are indebted to Kimberly's Aunt Paula, who funded their trip from Hong Kong, so they dutifully work for her in a Chinatown clothing factory where they earn barely enough to keep them alive.
