Sometimes all I need are my Comfort reads

Yes – I have been having one of those weeks, you know one of those weeks when you just can’t settle and nothing holds your attention for any length of time. So in true E.H spirit  I do what I normally do, I reach for the comfort reads.

These are the books that make me smile, the books that I know which page has all the good stuff  and they are the books that makes me sit at the edge of my seat despite the fact that I have read some of them at least three times.

Here are some of my comfort reads plus what I said about them. Do you have any “go to books” that just hits all the spot when you need it to? 

Like Coffee and Doughnuts

Elle Parker

My first book by this author, and i like what i have read. Not only were the characters likeable, but enough of my fantasies were all rolled up in Dino to really enjoy his style. Seth with his bouncy personality and attitude is that adrenal rush that makes  the book a page turner. I will be adding Ms.Parker as one to watch – I like her style. © E.H>

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Feathers on the Floor

Gene Valleau

Feathers on the Floor brings together two protagonists that are at a phase in their lives where they are ready for a change. Mitch has bottled up his feeling of loss, hopelessness and regret over the loss of his wife for so many years, he is now scared witless to make the first move when he becomes attracted to Julia. Since the loss of his wife, he has not had anything to hope for and nothing he wished for as much as he wished Julia would accept him as apart of her life.

Julia on the other hand, a psychiatrist, has closed her eyes and her mind to what was happening right in front of her eyes during her marriage, always making compromises and thinking things would get better. When the chance of a new start presents itself, she is bogged down with self doubt and worry for her children. When she decides to get her feet wet, the results are explosive. © E.H>

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Car Wash

Shawn Lane

I love this book – not for the fact that it has a great plot or even a wonderful setting, but simply for the fact that Ms. Lane really does know how to add that little bit of magic to her books and her protags are not people who you can simply hate or even love for that matter. I really identified with them, I felt for them and more over I was pissed off right along with them for any wrong done.

The other thing about this book was just the name had the Rose Royce song Car Wash – going through my head for days on end. This was a feel good book through and through and I am feeling so good. © E.H>

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Heart’s Blood

Juliet Marillier

The storylines were suited to the time, there was no big drama – it was treachery, unfair play, power play and some neat scenes of rolling back the years to give me a look at the past, to see how it stacked up against the present and made me dig deep down for that hope for the future.

If you like books that will stand the test of time, about characters that refuse to die, gothic in it’s feel – dark and  malevolent in it’s evil but with a pace that suits the time, creeping, crawling and then in the clear light of day you can’t look away – this is the book for you. © E.H>

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Surviving With Love

Rebecca J. Vickery

SURVIVING WITH LOVE is one of those reads where everyone in the story –yes even the baddies – got show time. It was nicely done, I thought it made everything more personalised – more real somehow.

I was also constantly amazed that the author gave me everything I could have hoped for, for the two protags, made them jump through as much loop as I would have and literally burst my pessimistic bubble about how they could not be all that and more.

I was dragged through a whole range of emotional highs and lows, but I also have the most fantastic laugh as well with some of the not only comical situation, but the author gave little bits of humour here and there that really broke up the angsty tension of the book.

There was a level of honesty to this book that was frighteningly direct, rude at times and sometimes downright scary – all in all, there was no coyness to any aspect of these people. I love it. © E.H>

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