Moral Lines: Because Who Doesn't Love a Juicy Prostitute Escort Novel?
First Sentence:My husband had this little patch of soft, slightly reddish hair Moral Lines: Because Who Doesn't Love a Juicy Prostitute Escort Novel?
First Sentence:My husband had this little patch of soft, slightly reddish hair right above his tailbone.
Excuse me while pictures of wolf man dance in my head.
*shudders*
At first I was thinking, tail bone. Where the heck is that? Then I realized where it was and I literally wanted to throw up. Tail bone, was this guy the second picture on the evolution chart? After picturing the Caveman Geico insurance man in my bed I read on.Okay, guys I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I was to review this copy. My mind danced from vampires, to urban romance because of the black, white and red cover. In Moral Lines by Vanessa Bogenholm we are given the pleasure of meeting Alexandria , the women who tried Botox to keep her husband and misses hr husband. We are suddenly invited to join her downward freaky spiral of god knows what. It slapped me in the face like a glove to the cheek, one day this women wakes up one day and is like damn, I am an escort.
The question is, how did she get there!
Who is the Main Character? Alexandria is witty, sarcastic caterer and bold recent divorcee who had the whole "god, my life sucks, I know it, I hate it. Now shut up and let me complain" thing going on. But do not worry my friends she is not complaining in the whole stupid unique "I am Bella Swan. My life reeks like hell , woe is I" sort of way. Alexandria is sarcastic character who has lived in Beverly Hills but never rarely fit in or afford it.
Plots Galore: In the book we meet the horrible husband of Alexandria and experience the cold rejection that leaves her and you shattered. We feel her pain and her destructive. Ever had a husband , girlfriend or boyfriend lose interest in you? Then you can relate to this book. Bogenholm has nailed the turmoil that shoots through your mind when being rejected by a mate.It's so clear and crackling with emotion like popcorn over a hot stove.
I almost teared up.
This story is like the demise to rebound story, a recent divorcee women suddenly in need of money starts doing tasks to pay small things like her rent. We watch Alexandria fall and we watch her rise while being offered the most ravishing erotic lovemaking scenes that can make any gal melt. Those scenes are delish I must tell you! Let me stop drooling! Alexandria goes deeper and deeper into the escort world and she begins to do things that may be against her morals or so she thinks. You will find yourself living through her and clapping through the novel.
Settings: Hotels, apartments, Beverly Hills , Hallways. Oh yes and beds , what girl does not love that! We meet lots of beds in this novel.
Who Will You Meet? All types of men.
DISCLAIMER: I am a huge historical fiction fan but Alexandria's voice was so freaking compelling, I was reading this narrative like candy.
Content: Cursing, lots of descriptive sex. Drinking and smoking. This is an adult novel and a darn fun one. So get out your wine and start to read Moral Lines.
The ending was abrupt and rushed and confusing to say the least bit. She just changed her ways, I wish it wasn't that easy. The ending was abrupt and confusing and I got lost. George's character was random and not threaded through the story so he threw me off a bit. If you love escorts and alter egos you will love this novel. This is no literary novel, just a quick read if you aren't looking for substance....more
A historical romance with tantalizing scenes. I finished the whole book in one evening. I'll keep this review short and sweet. The Proposal # 1 is basA historical romance with tantalizing scenes. I finished the whole book in one evening. I'll keep this review short and sweet. The Proposal # 1 is basically a romance in a Victorian time period.
Oh darn, I love the romances :D haha. So anyway, Gwendoline, Lady Muir is widowed in lives in a very quiet life with her friends. She has no want for a relationship and still mourns her husband. Hugo, Lord Trentham the ex-soilder suddenly walks into her life - he is drawn to kiss her and he does. Boom! It's like magic and now he can't keep her out of his mind. Who is Hugo, well Hugo is a brutally honest man who doesn't like pretenses and finds Lady Muir pretentious or so he thought. After overcoming the compelling need to kiss her (keep in mind, she is a stranger) the two are suddenly questioning their view on relationships. After a steamy afternoon at the beach the two strangers are suddenly in a whirlwind of pining for each other.
In this book you will fall in love with both characters and anticipate their romance.
I liked the book to be honest, it was a sweet gushy read and I was rooting for their marriage and yes there is love making in the book so don't shy away from it. And it's not the they went into the bedroom and nine months later there is a baby with a "few asterisks sort of love making". That happened in older books, lol. So pick up this novel. It's a light read and you'll fall in love with Lord Trentham as well ;). Who wouldn't?
Why three stars to be honest? Insta-love. Lol
(Received Copy from GR) Thanks so much and this does no influence my opinion in any shape or form!...more
Don't expect literary value, because oh honey there ain't none. You've got to read this for pure fluffy fun. So I thought Jacqueline Susann's wrote thDon't expect literary value, because oh honey there ain't none. You've got to read this for pure fluffy fun. So I thought Jacqueline Susann's wrote this book, apparently she didn't. This novel is parading to be a sequel under the original author (which I simply adored) this book begins in a time of botox and designer drugs of 1987. False advertising. Neely O' Hara and the rest of the woman are 30 years old again in 1987 because the Valley Girl just couldn't have them in the 60s.
Who wouldn't want to read about the a 60s cast dropped in the 80s defying age.
How did they do it, it must be black magic!?
Take the cast of Lucy and slam them into the I don't know...70s with a different writer parading as I Love Lucy.
This is Trash Fiction. Susann would be shocked at what happened to her characters. They lost their pep and their cattiness. It should have been a different book all together. I suggest this novel to read if you haven't read the first....more
Like Valley of the Dolls without the Pills and Hollywood. Just throw in some teens and hypocritical housewives and slam them right in preppy New EnglaLike Valley of the Dolls without the Pills and Hollywood. Just throw in some teens and hypocritical housewives and slam them right in preppy New England! Another "vintage" read review. I love vintage novels. I'll keep this review short and sweet. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious is a hefty read with tiny print that prides its self on being a shock value book. It involves a whole cast of characters around a ranging from the 40s to the 60s. The book was written in third person omnipresent and switches from everyone's hypocritical "straight lace" lives as they grow of age and try our relationships.We've got drunks, abused daughters , friends, teenage boys in the story. Everyone says one thing and does another! It was so compelling all funny they are especially the coldhearted mother of Alison. And yes sex is a big subject in this, everyone is having it, the teachers , the parents, the teens and it all revolved around pretenses of the golden "innocent" fifties. I didn't like the book as much as I loved the Valley of the Dolls. During 90% into the novel. The book skipped ahead a few years which left my head spinning. They kids went from teenagers to working adults. I read the book because I was curious about Selena and her father's predicament and I liked Alison and Norman (I loved Norman's character) but other than that I was disappointed. Maybe because lots of books these days are grittier but I can imagine housewives giggling over the book. This book was amusing. This does blow the veil right off the "innocent" times!The author was very modern, the photo of her in her shoes , jeans and a shirt in the 50s. I was impressed.
Oh and Trash Fiction is what I consider fluffy fun reads. In the fifties they titled them as trash/pulp/tacky though they became bestsellers and movies like They Drive By Night, The Grifters , nior or vintage books!...more
I'm picky about chick lit. Something about heroines tumbling into the arms of taunt body men makes me want to gorge my eyes out with a butter knife...I'm picky about chick lit. Something about heroines tumbling into the arms of taunt body men makes me want to gorge my eyes out with a butter knife.... But I found this book to be very readable from the beginning to ending.Note I said readable not compelling! This book claimed to be erotic but it's a romance with a few sex scenes, nothing erotic about it. The characters are a little stock character to me. Laura Dixon the protagonist of Palm Springs Heat, gets into the Rotation in an unrealistic finger snap of a second. I expected it to be much more difficult to win the eyes of a millionaire "sex pot" but I guess not! What's the Rotation? The Rotation is a group of pretty girls (very much like Playgirls) that all live under a famous Playboy and just walk around to be seen. Laura Dixon falls in love with M.Famous guy, a bit to quickly for my taste. She actually was sucked into love faster than dust bunnies up a vacuum cleaner.
Insta-Love! Just add water?
Yeah, not feeling that. So they fell in love faster than a pig off a ledge , almost unrealistically. Because we all know that was infatuation but whatever....
The characters were as shallow as puddle and very stock character. Like the Asian woman who didn't feel pretty because she wasn't blonde like Laura Dixon and didn't "compare". God, that irritated me. The "Mean Abrasive African American Lesbian". Let's just kill two birds with one stone, shall we? The Playboy with the heart of gold.... Hell, let's just make it three birds!
I read the whole book, it's on my shelf. Probably won't read it again but I can see why some people would love it. I'm just not a fan of Insta-Love with Bachelors without even trying. If it was a little more Complex, maybe.... Overall, Fast Lane was a fast paced read that can pass time. Not my style but I'm sure some people found it to be a great summer novel. Which edition is this pro book cover because my cover was horrendous!?I didn't even recognize this book! Lol if "ya'll" saw my cover. You'd pass out... But the new cover is a relief!...more
Disclaimer: Let me say I hate romance novels but strangely something possessed me to like this novel. And I'm not the kind of girl who lies about on Disclaimer: Let me say I hate romance novels but strangely something possessed me to like this novel. And I'm not the kind of girl who lies about on her sofa eating Bon-Bons, relishing over sex scenes and gooey male characters with taunt bodies until my copy is worn. I'm a romance cynic, I usually want to shred this genre to bits, with that being said...
One Word....
Plot.
I liked it. A lot.The whole plot kept me reading to be honest or I would have lit my copy to flames. I was pouring over the book during the second chapter saying, "I'm so ready to hate this", but it never happened. That little spot of darkness in me never got to blossom into a beautiful mimosa crafted from shadows..... Ugh, Kleypas, good for you.
So, let me tell you about the plot: The bitchy sister Alice steals Kevin and they move in together resulting Lucy has to leave the place where Kevin and she lived together for two years. Are you still following, good, I'll go on....Kevin tries to set up Lucy with his friend Sam so he can marry her bitchy sister Alice but Sam (who doesn't believe in love) and Lucy really start to fall in love. Wait what? Repeat that again? Anyone following me here....Sounds like Days of our Lives right?
The dialogue was snarky and quick but I wasn't feeling the whole magic aspect, it seemed stuffed into the book. I think this book would have benefited without the magic scenes because they came in, like what? 75% of the freaking novel. I hear this isn't her best work but I'm actually impressed because I'm a romance cynic (ask my poor boyfriend). I also wanted to hear more about Zoe, when she met Alex, it seemed like a set up for something but it never happened. No other confrontation, so I'm like, why the heck is that even doing in the novel? I wanted more Zoe with her buttermilk colored hair and vivacious Marylin Monroe figure! But I didn't get that, so I'll give this book four stars.I found to be a delicious little novel with some very tantalizing scenes. Like vaporize your socks off tantalizing. I loved Lucy's character, she was spunky, cynical even though she was going through a break up with her cruel slightly insane ex Kevin.
Ew, I sound like a Soap Fanatic... Oh well....
(Thanks Goodreads and St.Martins Press for allowing me to review this novel) ...more
This was Sex in the City before Sex in the City. Valley of the Dolls before Valley of the Dolls. Old right? Not entirely. Another Vintage Book Review.This was Sex in the City before Sex in the City. Valley of the Dolls before Valley of the Dolls. Old right? Not entirely. Another Vintage Book Review. I'll keep it short and sweet.
First Sentence:You see them in the morning at quarter to nine, rushing out of the maw of the subway tunnel, filing out Grand Central Station.
This book is published in 1958 about working girls everywhere and even girls these days can relate. Another vintage novel that wipes the innocence of the fifties away. Yay! I love these. If you enjoyed Mad Men and chick lit. This is the two combined in a book! Caroline from the Ivy League who wants to be an editor. The Colorado Girl April who makes herself into a vixen. Alison the girl who is obsessed with a man years older than she and is always dating. Gregg the hot mess of an actress who is in a hopeless relationship with an actor. Then we've got Barbara who was divorced left with a child to live with her mother and has her cynical eyes on a married man! Gasp! Oh dear let me raise a gloved hand to my red lips in shock! This book is down right wonderful if you love the Valley of the Dolls. It gives Peyton Place something to think about. Very fun book. They were so melodramatic back then!You will certainly want to read this book. This book has it all to lipstick, sexual escapades, office men in suits, Mr.Touchy Hands the boss and a few broken but well dressed girls. This book is hefty like all of these novels from this time period with the same tiny font so get ready to read.
1. I liked how melodramatic this horrible written novel was. 2. I could feeA trashy treasure of a chick lit novel.
I'm so guilty..... For three things.
1. I liked how melodramatic this horrible written novel was. 2. I could feel my brain cells dwindling as I read it. 3. I stayed up for nights reading this book.
Errrr.........I'm very embarrassed but I'll give this a five, for enjoying it 100% percent , all the way to the sleazy cliche oversexed men to the dull cliche girls. I like it! Not for the literary stand -point of the novel because we all know there isn't any in this book. Just for a good time, this novel is like the boyfriend with the hot face who can't hold a conversation to save his life. I think that this might have been one of the most racy novels of the 60s, which is just a pure laugh! I felt myself giggling at the book. "Oh my gosh sex to get ahead , pretty faces and pills! - how taboo for it's time". I have a thing for "vintage" novels with female characters and I couldn't keep my hands off this novel when I saw it perched on the shelf. Hollywood secrets, actresses, catty women, perfumes and lipsticks - if that sounds interesting to you, I would advise you to check out this book....more
Okay yes I know two stars. That doesn't mean I want to take it into the woods in shoot it. It was a fun read! I was confused on whether give this fun Okay yes I know two stars. That doesn't mean I want to take it into the woods in shoot it. It was a fun read! I was confused on whether give this fun book three or two stars. I'd give it a two point five.
The good: I found the story to be rather silly, cute and doused in pink glitter. I loved the descriptions of the dresses, the hair the food. I loved the little circle of ladies playing cards. For a redeeming point, I liked blonde Sugar Ditch bred Celia and Handsome Mister Johnny. I loved meany evil Ms.Hilly. I liked the revenge with the pie.
The Bad: Stereotypical characters , awful narration from the African American Characters and painted with cotton candy fluff.Kathryn, put her ideas and needs into the book. It was how a black maid should think. I know it's hard to write from a different point of view but it was lacking for me. The reactions in the heat of the Civil Right's Movement wouldn't have been so cutesie and glittered over. I get it, it's a novel but it was unrealistic.
Just imagine yourself in the maid's feet. The author seemed to forget that mothering someone else's child was a JOB not a HOBBY, that many woman who went through the tedious work of this had their own children. African American woman didn't have many job choices so they were practically forced to become Help if they wanted to survive in life. Raising someone else's child but never seeing your own! Wouldn't it be as if it were teasing you? Something in the back of your mind, wanting to raise your kids, see their first steps, hold YOUR child instead of another child who will be taught to hate you in a few years?
The Ugly:I wished Stockett didn't use stock "Mammy" characters. Yes, "Mammy" characters - they were predictable in their behavior and looks. This women were the epitome of the "Mammy". I was expecting a bit of diversity throughout the women but I didn't get that. I got a rack of stereotypes.
Stockett's narration: :(. God, that terrible narration. It was practically illegible - bad chopped dialect slowed down every sentence. I understand giving the dialogue, a bit of personality but Stockett turned it into a joke. Another question, I have for the author is how was Aibileen supposedly great in school but she can barely speak a proper sentence? It doesn't make sense. Why do all of the black maids speak a like, aren't they different people?The author should have studied African American voices and stories from that era.
"I know how to get them babies to sleep, stop crying, and go on the toilet before they mamas even get out a bed in the morning.(p.1)"
If this was just once sentence to give me a picture of the character, I wouldn't care but ALL of the African American narrators spoke this way which I found pretty bias. If you interchanged the characters, and scratched out the names, you would have no idea which maid was speaking. They had the same thoughts, seem speech patterns.It was a relief to get to Skeeters section. I was very disappointed in the stereotyping by this author. She could have at least picked diverse characters with diverse personalities. Every African American female in that book spoke downright terribly except for Yule May and Gretchen (The "uppity" African Americans).
Skeeter had something to say which I found quite interesting.
"She [Gretchen, the African American Maid] was trim in her uniform dress. she wore lipstick , the same color me and my friends wore. She was young .She spoke evenly 'with care, like a white person'. I don't know why, but that made it worse. (p.305)"
Oh dear Skeeter.... Aren't you supposed to be the "stereotypical liberal" here? How should Gretchen speak to make you feel at ease? Maybe like the rest of the stereotypical maids - like a "Mammy." I thought Skeeter was the helpful open-minded liberal female.
Guess not.
To much of "Stereotypical Mary Sue" Skeeter and the maids didn't get to shine. This book was called "The Help" might I say not "The Skeeter". I was looking forward to hearing the maids perspective , all of them just - not 3 or 4.
Overall. I did not hate the book. I thought it was fun and cute. And I'll read it time to time. I have read it from time to time. For pure entertainment purposes it's nice but any other aspect, not really.
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