Hayla Marina - not a big fan!
938425
Seemed like a long, narrow shoe vs. a more rounded top shoe.  I felt the width was a bit narrow.  I also was not happy with the quality of the leather on this shoe in brown.  I thought it looked more like vinyl than the leather I have on my other Clarks shoes.  It does have a bit of shine to it.  I will not reorder this shoe in a bigger size.  I really didn't like them much when I tried them on.
1138771
I read this book based on the reviews on this site and I don't think it was as fantastic as they are making it out to be.

The storyline itself was predictable and there were few surprises. However, I did fall in love with Captain Sutherland.  I liked how he was such a brute, but took good  care of Nicole.  Nicole, on the other hand, was annoying as hell.  She was a spoiled brat and didn't have much regard for anyone's feelings accept her own.  I hated how she couldn't trust Sutherland.  Even toward the end!  It drove me bananas!

This wasn't the best romance I have ever read, but considering it only took me one day to read, I'd recommend it to the average sap. :P
914692
Not one of my fave short stories. The only redemeaning quality to this story was the 3star sizzle factor but I subtracted 1star for a stupid storyline. From the moment on Aaron's and Misty's first date on the boat, I didn't like Aaron and that feeling didn't really improve much through out the story. Good grief, he reminded me of so many other arrogant, controlling men and his whole demeanor just totally rubbed me the wrong way. Having just left one arrogant, controlling @$$hole, Misty should have stuck to her guns when the red flags started flying and all the familiar signals started showing up.
3517801
Honestly, I can understand why she made this album, even though most consider it a "bad career move". She did this because these were the songs that inspired her to become a singer. She had to "let it out". Well, this is an OK CD but but it doesn't excite me either. The music itself for these cover songs is naturally orchestral/big band. Given the limitations inherent in the original tracks, Sinead's vocal performance is A+; but, none of these songs really have the window to let her express her emotive vocal talent to the max. The only song I've ever been prone to seek out again is "Secret Love". "Scarlet Ribbons" is very very gentle and sad. This earlier version of "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" puts Madonna to shame. Sinead's version of "I Want to Be Loved By You" is amusing. I only recommend this purchase for those who want complete Sinead collections and big fans of both Sinead *and* big band.
2289392
There are a fair number of typos and grammar errors but what I find most annoying about this series (thusfar) is the h...OMG, she is such a whiny, immature, weak crybaby!  She cycles through emotions faster than Lance Armstrong!  First she's sad and worried that the H doesn't want her, then he tells her he kind of wants her and she's elated.  Then a few pages later, she thinks of another problem about their relationship or just becomes ridiculously insecure and she's moping and boohoo-ing again!  Yeesh!  Stop the emotional roller coaster...I feel sick!  Seriously...this is not really like FSOG.  Firstly, there is little to no BDSM element.  Secondly, while FSOG was not particularly well-written, the story was sufficiently complex and engaging.  Thirdly, the characters in FSOG were well-developed (especially the H in that series).  Yes, there are some basic similarities in this series (wealthy young-ish H, very young, virginal h, lots of angst, etc.) but this series is nothing more than a whiny, bland, formulaic copycat of the FSOG series.  I'm 30% into this second book and am having doubts about finishing it bc I find the h so weak and pathetic.  I wish these authors could write about a strong, confident woman who attracts a hot billionaire because of her intelligence, professional accomplishments and confident attitude!
656382
As a new-comer to the Monroe products, I was anticipating much from "Star Spirits" and the hemi-sync experience.  This recording disappoints me because (1) the water sounds are not subtle - its like listening to the bathtub overflow - far too loud and (2) the flute melodies throughout the tracks are too similar.  This lack of subtly and variety made me more alert and annoyed than rested and focused.  If the hemi-sync was in evidence, I didn't find it.
3677139
Hmmm... this one just didn't do it for me.  I see that it got pretty good reviews here on Amazon, so maybe it's just me.  It did have a few humorous scenes & the ending wasn't bad.  But - to me the heroine, Clio, was an immature BRAT!!  She sulked, she pulled stupid tricks,  & did not in any manner act like a woman of the 13th century.  Things she did that were supposed to be a result of pride really should have just embarrased her.  More than one of her stunts really put her life (& the life of others) in danger; Considering the time period they lived in, it just showed a real lack of intelligence.  I guess I just need a more intelligent heroine in my reading... Naive is ok, pulling funny stunts is fun, but showing a complete lack of intelligence just doesn't make me admire them.
The hero, Merrick, was really a hard man at first - not unjust or cruel, just very hard.  However, set as it was in the 13th century, with the life he had led, it was justified.... or if not justified, at least more realistic.  He came around or grew a lot faster than Clio did.
I suppose I've just gotten use to authors who either write a much more in-depth plot, a more in-depth love story, or at least has a spunky heroine that I can have fun reading about AND have a little respect for...
2306648
Why am I giving this 2 stars, I don't know. I guess I am being nice. I love her work, don't get me wrong. She is one of the best Erotica writers out there!!! I just did not care for this one! I thought there was to many extra people in this one. I have read several of her books, and this one just didn't get me wanting to keep reading. I was not happy with the ending of it. I was not to happy with all the orgy stuff. I think I just need to stick to her 4 or less people books. I preferred "Forbidden Heat" and "Secret Ties" so much better. )I give those two books 5 stars each!!!) I would suggest those to anyone who wants to read one of Opal Carew's books.
804558
Her debut album 'Some Hearts' fails to impress me in any way, shape or form.  She lacks any type of uniqueness in her voice.  I'm sorry but it just doesn't help.

Wasted - 0/10

DFTRM - 1/10

Some hearts - 1/10

JTTW - -5/10

Night Before - 0/10

Starts with Goodbye - 2/10

I Just can't live a lie - 1/10
1243880
Very sorry to any fan, but i just could not stand her voice ..  lol.. im sorry!!!
I really wanted to watch this as i wanted to know about how she began her career as a medium.
I had to turn it off after 20 mins of the first episode, as it just seemed to be off topic to me, i understand people want to get a feel of her life and personality, i guess i was just wanting her to get straight to the point lol..
But her voice was loud and obnoxious,  i couldn't handle it, but thats only my opinion.
I do know,  i admire what she does and how many people she has helped in her life,  so maybe reading one of her books would better suite me,
3858212
I was prepared to love this, but ended up disliking it for several reasons.

Her voice is gruff and sounded good at first, but the pacing and reading started grating on my nerves by the end of the second CD. Like most cases, it would have been better to hire a professional reader.

More importantly, I felt Dr. Nielson is an extremely emotionally immature person. She rails against her ungrateful children who "abandoned" her and her sociopathic ex-husband (who supposedly stranged a dog in front of her, and used to drive against traffic to intimidate her). At the same time, she paints herself as an innocent, noting only briefly she had an affair because she basically emotionally had to....of course, this sounds a bit crazy. Even assuming what she says about her husband is true, any time someone is hooked up with psychos for decades, something is a little wrong with them, too. I felt her complaints about her ex and children made her look worse and made me question her own emotional stability.

At the same time, she describes her adventures at the Pole the same way I think a teenager would. She struck me as self absorbed, narcissistic and dramatic. There appears to be an enormous amount of socializing there, with all sorts of stupid parties all the time, movie nights, coffee clatches, etc.  Also, I kid you not when I say that every single person and almost every single room, city, area, and numerous objects, etc. at the Pole has an annoying nickname.  Another example? She develops an overt crush on someone married and doesn't hide it.

Finally, I had thought she actually did the lumpectomy herself. All she does is a needle biopsy!!! I have experienced a breast needle biopsy and while I certainly had the benefit of a topical anesthetic (which I don't think she did), it was not a big deal. After that, she is air dropped chemo, and then does IVs of chemo, with assistance via satellite each time, and a friend to help do it. Then, she is airlifted out.

Frankly, the pilots who air dropped the chemo and then airlifted her out (at the earliest, coldest time the pole had ever been flown to) are the real heroes here.

If you want to read about self medical procedures, I would suggest the kid who cut his right arm off while hiking in Utah. I haven't read it but I saw the Tom Brokaw special about it, and it was very solid. It's interesting how the parents ultimately found the kid....
2169994
I really don't know how to review this book.  I initially borrowed it because I was intrigued by the premise - heroine is a daughter of a Fallen Angel and a Guardian Angel and falls in love with a son of a Fallen Angel.  Sadly, I was wrong.  Let me start by enumerating the things that I didn't like about this book.

  1.  Anna Whit was sickeningly sweet.  Okay, so just because you were a daughter of a Guardian Angel doesn't mean that you have to be a goody-two-shoes and one really really sweet that it borders on annoyance?!  Heck, she was also a daughter of a Fallen Angel so that should negated some of her goodness, right?  Anyway, I just saw her as too perfect to be a real person and a teenager at that.
  2.  Step mom, Patti is very concerned about daughter but then allows said daughter to go on a road trip with certified bad boy.  I mean, Patti is a stickler for propriety BUT she allowed her daughter to go on a road trip WITHOUT chaperone with her underage daughter and she warns the boy to keep her virtue intact?  There is definitely something wrong with that.
  3.  Anna was just annoying as hell.  Yes, she really was.  When she was playing bad, I didn't see her as bad.  Her antics were just cringe worthy.
  4.  Kaidan Rowe.  Yes, I admit he is described as a hunk and is very dreamy. But please, he goes out and gets laid every freaking night with a different girl just because he has to do his job as the son of the Lord of Seduction (or Lord of Sex or something) while he is falling for Anna?!  I find that really offensive.  There were quite a few times where Anna caught him with another girl and despite being hurt she just shrugs it off.
  5.  Kaidan is an emancipated minor.  Riiiight.

All in all, I had a hard time finishing the book but because I was listening to it, I was able to tune out the boring stuff.

THE AUDIOBOOK

Narrated by Erin Mallon, I found the book uninteresting.  The Southern accent that she used for Anna was annoying as hell.  But then again, Anna was annoying as hell, so I really can't blame the narrator for that, right?  Unfortunately, I wasn't hooked, her reading, apart from Anna's accent was okay.  I was able to finish the audiobook, though so that is a plus.

Audiobook borrowed from the Library.
2840205
ROYAL GAMES is the third book in The Royals Of Monterra series and after meeting Genesis in the previous book, I was really looking forward to reading her story because she was so nice and sweet.  Sadly, I did not enjoy her story and it was all because of her.

I understand that she was embarrassed at being tricked by Rafe on Marry Me, but I felt she was too fixated on how Rafe deceived and lied to her during the filming, especially when she knows he was under contract to keep his real identity a secret.  She flat out refused to hear his apology and spent almost the entire book treating him like crap.  I also felt, and I hate to say this, that she was just too stupid to live.  Her life was being threatened, but she refused Rafes protection and security because she had pepper spray and had taken self-defence classes.  But then she had a panic attack when a stranger sat down for a meal at her diner, which kind of threw her whole I can protect myself claim out the window.  When she was kidnapped and learnt that Rafe was only able to save her life because of a secret tracking device he had planted on her, she got angry.  When he left after she got in a fit and told him to leave, she got angry. When she found out that he paid for her hospital bills, she got angry.  Seriously, there was absolutely no pleasing this woman.  I was frustrated with her by the 30% mark, and her constant whining, complaining and stupid choices did nothing to win me over.

I liked Rafe, who did so many things trying to earn Genesis forgiveness and win her heart, but to be honest, I lost a little respect for him because of how much crap he was willing to put up with.  Her behaviour showed that she didn't deserve him and I wouldnt have shed a tear if he had just said screw it and walked away.

ROYAL GAMES is told only in Genesis POV and while its part of a series, it can be read as a stand-alone.  As with the previous two books in this series, there is no s3x, not even the behind-the-closed-door stuff.  It includes the occasional flashback to their alone time on Marry Mewhich was sweetand it comes with a HEA.
332543
Only half of the songs are any good. She's done better. The picture in the album tells me that she is trying to hard. There was no need for the picture of herself touching herself :( So as to appeal to the [...] community. Not necessary. If people like her they like her for who she is and she doesn't have to try this very different marketing technique. She should just be herself...and this is coming from a Thalia fan.
4125510
For me this book was okay I enjoyed it but it really isn't as good as her new speices series...

This is the story of Dusti and Drantos. It starts with Dusit and Batina (must say hate her name... like hate hate her name. Bat they call her which kind of annoyed me) hearing that the pilots know their plane is about to crash...

Uh-oh, not so good and in steps two bothers who decide to shield them with their bodies... ummm okay even I know this is a little far fetched but I suppose knowing they are vamp/lycans and heal faster and can take more damage than a human could make this work... Maybe... okay that part I kind of found silly and a bit out of my ability to believe.

So any who you have Dusti getting crushed by this giant guy she thinks might be trying to rape her which I also found a bit unbelievable as well because he flat out tells her is shielding her with his body but I suppose that could have worked too but it bugged me a little... And why in the middle of a plane crash would your brain go to that? Sothey crash and survive along with a dozen other people... then there is the whole by the way the grandfather you where on the plane headed to is a vamp/lycan too and so are you only your half human... and he's trying to kill you.

I was okay with that part and the whole running for your lives part but I wasn't okay with the way she didn't seem to stand up for herself once they were together and has the whole other woman reaction to a bitch she thinks was his girlfriend...even when he tells her she isn't.

I get it but her unwillingness to listen to him about the woman bothered me and then she gets taken and he goes after her and suddenly everything is going good... yay liked the book from then on but hated that she was a doormat to anyone until the end when she was pretending to be her bitchy sister (who's book I read and found her a little annoying which I will explain when I review her book...)

So what I liked was the way Drantos didn't let anything hold him back from loving her and the way she was willing to give up everything for him to be happy. And I liked the way she dealt with the guy from out of town it was smart and a really interesting spin on the whole thing...

All in all this book was a decent read but it isn't like her other two series which I read over and over again because I love them so much even with the strange vocabulary she uses at times....

So for me this was a SEPE or a solid 4-star read...
3067017
We were disappointed. Such beauty and talent! But her nimrod producers thought it a good idea to make her sound like other pop/r&b singers that we're already bored with! We already have a Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani, Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige, Beyonce, etc. and boring etc.! We wanted to hear Katharine McPhee, not a drum machine, not the same old loud back ground singers! Katherine, honey, dump the jerks who think they know how to sell you! SPREAD YOUR WINGS AND FLY!!!
3572966
Please understand, I have nothing against boating ... great pastime! However, I find this book assumes I know a good bit about boats and spending time on them - which I do not. For me, that made the book begin on a sour note.

Here you have Jane Bunker, a former member of the police force in Miami (Florida) who is now transplanted to Maine where she is the assistant deputy for the county as well as an insurance investigator. To my mind, that sounds like an interesting character! Big city cop goes small town and all the challenges that follow. Sadly, it does not turn out that way.

Her attitude when meeting a handsome new man was absolutely pitiful and quite embarrassing for all women! Good lord, she sees the captain and wonders if he might want her to be his new love interest! This continues ad nauseum. She needs to get a life, but then, she might have to spend some money to do so. Her angst over spending money is driven home to the reader ... over, and over, and over!

There are many characters in this book who could have been further developed which might have saved Fishermen's Bend from a one star rating (I liked the Old Maids, Cal, and Audrey). Unfortunately, only Cal was developed a bit, the others remained too far in the background to be rescued.

To me, the best part of the book was the period at the end of the last sentence of the book - the time I could close it and write a review.