Melophobia by James Morris



5 stars

 

 

 

A world without music! I can’t imagine how that would be (don’t want to either).

This story is telling us about a world where music is banned. People are not allowed to make or listen to music and if they do they will be punished!

 

 Melophobia: fear or hatred of music.

The time—now; the place—America, but in a world where the government controls all forms of art and creativity. Any music sowing the seeds of anarchy is banned—destroyed if found—its creators and listeners harshly punished.

Merrin Pierce works as an undercover Patrol officer assigned to apprehend a fugitive musician who threatens the safe fabric of society, only to confront everything she thought to be true – her values, upbringing, job, and future.

Can love survive in a world without music?

 

Merrin is a patrol officer. Her job is to arrest musicians and people who listen to Music. Her father, Tarquin Pierce is the minister of broadcast standards. Her mother ran off with a musician years ago.

She works undercover with her partner Anders to infiltrate the underground music scene and arrest musicians and listeners. While undercover she meets Val. Merrin doesn’t like Val but she becomes friends with her because Val knows the fugutive musician Merrin wants to catch.

Her father introduces her to Rowan Sol. Rowan also works at the ministry of broadcast standards, he composes muzak.

Merrin falls in love with Rowan, but not only with Rowan!

The characters are very well discribed.

I liked Merrin, She is doing her job very well but ends up asking herself if she is doing the right thing. She makes some stupid decisions (made me wanna slap her)

Her father does everything to keep his reputation high and didn’t stand behind his daughter. I don’t like him for that.

Anders and Merrin used to date. Anders is still very much in love with Merrin and also a bit jealous. Not a good combination!

Rowan is a sweet, romantic guy. I totally understand why Merrin falls in love with him!

It’s a story about love and betrayal with some unexpected twists. It started a bit slow but after a few chapters it got faster.

The last chapters I couldn’t put it down, I had to know how it would end. And it was not what I expected!

 

What lies within was the first title I read from James Morris. I gave it 5 stars.

Melophobia also gets 5 stars from me!

James Morris is a great writer. I’m definitely gonna read everything he publishes!

I highly recommend this to everyone!



The Litter by Kevin R Doyle

 

4 stars

 

I really liked this engrossing, creepy and twisted read. I love to read horror/thrillers and this one had some amazing twists.

The writing is great and I really liked the well discribed characters.

 It’s really hard to tell something about this story without giving away too much.

They kept to the shadows so no one would know they existed, and preyed on the nameless who no one would miss. Where did they come from, and who was protecting them? In a city that had seen every kind of savagery, they were something new, something more than murderous. And one woman who had thought she had lost everything there was to lose in life would soon find that nothing could possibly prepare her for what would come when she entered their world.

 

Karen works at a homeless shelter and had a great loss herself. Because of that she is stranged from her father who is chief of detectives.

Karen is trying to find a Young boy who is missing, and as she searches she stumbles upon a dead body, and it seems to be chewed on. Her father is covering up.

Karen wants to find out what is going on. With help from Jared, an investigative journalist they discover someting that is unbelievable.

 

Kevin R  Doyle is a new author for me, and I definitely want to read more from his hand.

What lies within by James Morris.

                                   5 stars                                  

 

This is what I call an amazing debut novel!

From the moment I started to read, the story had me in its grip.  This really is a rollercoaster that keeps you on the edge of your seat.

 
Shelley is living a normal teenage life. She works in her dad’s auto body shop, and really wants to go to college. But then a text message turns her life upside down. She is in great danger and her mission is now to find out who she is and why she is in danger. Her best friend Winston does everything he can to help her. But maybe he is risking his life by helping her.
 
Will she find out who is trying to kill her? And why? Is she able to get to know the truth without risking the lives of the people she loves.
 
 
You’re going to die
 
Shelley Marano is an ordinary, unexceptional high school senior…until the day she receives a cryptic text message, and her world tilts sideways. Now she’s in real danger, although she doesn’t know who would want her dead, or why. As she starts to unravel the mystery, the truth about who she really is proves to be more frightening than she ever imagined. With the lives of her and her friends hanging in the balance, one thing is certain:
Nothing will ever be the same.
 
I loved the main characters. Shelley is an ordinary teenager. She made me angry at her some times!
Her sweet dad who just doesn’t know how to read her. He loves her so much!
Winston, her best friend is such a sweet boy. He likes Shelley very much and he would do anything to protect her.

 

The end was not what I expected and left me hoping for a sequel!

 

I highly recommend this novel to mysterie and thriller readers

 

I never heard of James Morris before. But I sure want to read more from his hand.

 

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to read this great novel. I totally loved it!

Ivy's Envy by Latashia Figueroa

                                       5 stars                                       

 

Wait…. What?????

This was just awesome! What an incredible read. There’s no way you can see this coming! My husband had a lot of fun because of my facial expressions during this read, I’m sure that anyone who reads this book recognises this.

I have never heard of Latashia Figueroa, but I’m a big fan already!
 
Ivy James, you’re going to learn you can’t have your way all the time, girl.
 
Ivy James has had a history of violence with the men she falls for. Her grandmother and parents know what Ivy is capable of when things don’t go her way.

Now Ivy has become obsessed with Thomas Miles, a man who works at her office. She is certain that Thomas loves her too. But there are people who stand in the way of Ivy and Thomas finally being together, like his wife, Deana. Determined to have the love that is their destiny, Ivy will go down a very dark and twisted road to make Thomas hers, and hers alone. But Ivy is not the only one who has dark secrets, and everyone involved will soon learn that pursuing love and passion to the extreme can lead to terrifying consequences.

 

Ivy  will do ANYTHING to have things her way, and several people already got hurt because of that. Now she’s in love with a new colleague Thomas Miles, but Thomas is married….

Seriously…..read it, because you want to know what happens next!

 
Latasha, I’m desperatly waiting for Want & Decay Trilogy part 2

Baby please don't go by Frank Freudberg

5 stars

 

WOW what an amazing read this is!

Everytime I thought I knew where the story was going it totally turned out different.

It made me scream out loud: NOOOOO Don’t listen!, OMG Don’t do it! Why are you so easy manipulated? Or are you not?

I just could’t put it down.

 

All Lock Gilkenney wants is a family, but he’ll have to cross the line to get one.

Lock Gilkenney is one of the best investigator his boss/friend/tutor Abner (Abby) has working at child protective service agency.

Abby is like a father to Lock. Lock’s biological father was an abusive alcoholist. Lock is also familiar with alchohol but he is sober for quite some time and still goes to AA meetings.

When a report against the Mannheim family comes in, Lock responds and finds out that the kids are just fine. Natalie Mannheim tell’s Lock that the report came from her husband and his lawyer because he doesn’t want her to get any money after the divorce. Lock , who can’t get the goodlooking and very nice Natalie out of his head, wants to help her and comes up with a plan.

Will it work out ok? And will Lock finally have the family he always wanted?

I liked Lock, but I also found him naïve some times (made me wanna slap him). Abby is the kind of man that always gives you good advice. And first I liked Natalie, then hated her, then had sympathy for her and ended up hating her again.

Drinking, drunk driving, accident with a child involved are some of the keywords here.

Frank Freudberg did an amazing job in getting my head messed up, it makes me want to read more from his hand.

I highly reccomend it to psychological thriller readers.

Magic Times by Harvey Click

4 stars

 

This is an unusual, very funny read.

At first i was told that this book was very hard to put into one genre, and i was like: right… how can that be hard. Well now i understand!

A good looking but not very smart boy is hitchhiking to find the girl he loves, and soon finds himself in bizarre situations.
Dark magic, magic potions and extremely beautiful women are some of the ingredients for this funny story.
I really enjoyed it!