en-US Thu, 28 Aug 2014 10:52:18 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 2973660 398 Noel Hynd 0310278716 JS 0 personal-notes, suspense 3.58 2008
author: Noel Hynd
name: JS
average rating: 3.58
book published: 2008
rating: 0
read at: 2009/05/01
date added: 2014/08/28
shelves: personal-notes, suspense
review:
While this book was not for me, I thought it was a pretty good example of writing about faith in a nonobnoxious format.
]]> 17280547 The scar is the reason she is being hunted.

If only she knew that she was.

If only she had known that the cursed stone her estranged father sent for her 16th birthday would trigger a change in her. Now, she is being stalked by a tall blonde man, and is miraculously throwing her high school bully ten feet in the air.

Joclyn attempts to find some answers and the courage to follow her heart. When Ryland finds her scar; only he knows what it means, and who will kill her because of it.]]> 354 Rebecca Ethington JS 0 4.10 2012
author: Rebecca Ethington
name: JS
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2012
rating: 0
read at: 2013/07/01
date added: 2013/08/22
shelves: fantasy, ya, personal-notes, indie
review:

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Prince Alexander has been turned into a werewolf and has one year to find someone to love the beast and break the spell, or he will be a wolf forever. He has nearly given up achieving the impossible, knowing no girl would ever fall in love with such a monster.

Just when he is about to abdicate the throne to his cousin, he meets Cecelia Hammerstein-Smythe, while a wolf, and begins to hope for the first time in months. Can he balance both worlds as a human and beast, gaining the love and trust of a girl who has every reason to despise him?

Cecelia detests the prince. She only knows Alexander as the arrogant monarch—the tyrant who has made her life miserable—though perhaps he's changed right before her eyes. He's not as full of himself as he once was. The prince is gentle now... but then again, so is the beast.]]> 142 Jenni James JS 0
I didn't love how the characters were portrayed in a lot of scenes. Also (and I don't blame the author for this so much as the publisher), as the book progressed, there were increasing numbers of typos and grammatical issues. The first half was far more clean (speaking grammatically, not morally--morally it was all clean).]]> 3.68 2012
author: Jenni James
name: JS
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2012
rating: 0
read at: 2013/07/01
date added: 2013/08/22
shelves: beauty-and-the-beast, fairy-tales, romance, personal-notes
review:
Well, I wrote my own version of the story, so I am not an unbiased judge here, am I? But I do love B&theB retellings overall. I loved the concept of this rewrite. It was a fun and different twist, and I liked the way James took the basics of the story and fiddled with them a lot. Truly, I was behind the concept the whole way.

I didn't love how the characters were portrayed in a lot of scenes. Also (and I don't blame the author for this so much as the publisher), as the book progressed, there were increasing numbers of typos and grammatical issues. The first half was far more clean (speaking grammatically, not morally--morally it was all clean).
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But something changes between Elliott and Talia as they close in on the man selling out his country. Professional and personal lines blur and Elliott has to choose—his fiancée or his best friend.]]> 80 Jordan McCollum JS 0 indie, own-it, personal-notes 3.57 2013
author: Jordan McCollum
name: JS
average rating: 3.57
book published: 2013
rating: 0
read at: 2013/07/01
date added: 2013/08/22
shelves: indie, own-it, personal-notes
review:

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