"The Maid of Honors"

Now these two beauties are my girls along with my dawg Mulu. Known them for a long time as sisters in the hood of church and the circle of friendship! They were the Maids of Honor for our friend Mulu Vega. I love these girls and we all have our own different relationships with one another.

Theresa "TITA" - love this girl, funny, understanding, loves Starbucks, I love to go dipping with her, able to talk to her about anything and one thing we both have in common, we love to sing..preferably Soprano ha!

Rowena "WENA" - love this girl, book smart..literally loves to read and thanks to her I've become one of her book geeks and just can't stop reading..love, love, love it..thank you for broadening my horizons, funny, charming, able to email and talk about anything..one thing we both have in common we love, love, love us some PALAGIZ for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Dessert..no problema..ha!

As with Mulu, even though we don't hang out every week or go out together we all have that understanding of who and what we are with each other. I've grown to get to know these fine young ladies and hope for nothing but the best for all of them including me haha!

Just wanted to give a shout out to the girls..Much alofaz amigas por vida!

"Nothing But Trouble"

This was my very first time reading a Rachel Gibson Romance Novel and I loved it! I'm looking forward to reading other books by this author. Her book reminded me of Julie James' books, although Mrs. James books are centered around the characters in the line of duty of LAW, which is great!

"Nothing But Trouble" was a joy to read! This book really had me on my toes and anxious to see how it was going to play out and end. Of course, my favorite endings are "happily ever after", but for some reason towards the ending of the book, I was beginning to think that things weren't going to be as happy as I imagined. Hence, the reading went by even quicker for me ha!

Characters:
Chelsea Ross- actress, Personal Assistant to Mark Bressler
Mark Bressler- professional hockey player for Chinook, injured in car accident and ended his career
Bo- Chelsea's twin, PR for Chinooks Hockey Team
Jules-Assistant to Chinooks Owner, Bo's man

Chelsea is the main character and I loved her bubbley personality and outgoing whit. She wore bright colored clothes, mostly loose blouses due to her bustline and mini-skirts; she is a short girl 5"1". She is an aspiring actress from L.A. and moves in with her sister in Washington to look for employment while she waits for gigs in acting. Her sister Bo tells her there is an opening to be a Home Health Aide for Mark Bressler, famous but injured Professional Hockey player. Chelsea is no nurse, but she has been a personal assistant for years in Hollywood, so she's accustomed to working for celebrities. She sets off to Marks house the day before she actually is hired to start to meet him and when she introduces herself to him, he is very short with her, rude and tries to persuade her to leave that he doesn't need a nurse..Prior to her meeting Mark, the Chinooks organization tells Chelsea that there is a $10,000 BONUS if she can stay with him for at least 3 months as his track record with Home care nurses is less than a week. She was determined needing and wanting that money badly. They start off bad, but because Chelsea has a peppy attitude and really needs the bonus money she is determined to stay even if he is a jerk-face with alot of money, handsome, an awesome body and angry attitude always; just a mad at the world guy!

Mark is a very unpleasant client and in a sense I don't blame him for feeling the way that he does. I mean come on, the guy was the top hockey player and got into a bad car accident and was lucky to be alive! He understands he survived the accident, but what was worse, surviving the accident, or surviving and not being able to play hockey for the rest of his life? He was divorced, his wife wanted more money and social status, so she married an old man with more money to get her things and get into country clubs, what a joke, but unfortunately there are women like that, so sad! Mark wasn't a nice guy due to one day having everything in the world, to one day waking up and everything is gone from him, everything he loved the game of hockey and his never satisfied wife which he was divorced from for over a year and was over her, no hurt there!

Chelsea begins to work with him, setting up appointments, and not taking no for an answer, she stands up to him and makes him do things that he usually wouldn't do like get up out of bed at times. In a short period of time like a week, he's already having fantasies of Chelsea which is something he hasn't had in a long time. They both start noticing each other and are easily attracted to one another although each one tries to deny and fight the feelings.

She falls in love with Mark Bressler and they have a great time together, but in the back of her mind she knows she needs to tell him about the $10,000 Bonus they offered her at the beginning of her assignment. The day she was planning to tell Mark that she wasn't really interested in the money because she wanted to stay of her own will because well she fell in love with him it was too late! Mark had an appointment with the Chinook Organization and they told him about Chelsea's Bonus! He was furios filled with anger and couldn't wait to get home to let her have it. They argued and she tried to explain to him that yes at first she was doing the job for the $10,000 Bonus but after working for him everything changed because she loved him, actually fell in love with him which she was trying to stop but couldn't help herself,. In her whole career as a personal assistant she never mixed her professional life with her social life and with Mark it was different. She had it bad and told him she loved him! He laughed in her face and told her she was lying and stop acting. She told him "you made me love you even when I knew it was a really bad idea. You made me love everything about you. You made me love you more than I've ever loved anyone in my whole life." That was no act! She really loved Mark and he was standing before her making a mockery of her sincere feelings towards him! Man, I hated Mark at that point in the book UGH! She never pleaded with any other man and said, "I love you." "Mark looked into her eyes and pounded the last nail into her heart, " I don't love you." Aww. man was that good stuff or what...I was crying during that part in the book. I mean BLIMEY, the woman is pouring her heart out to him and he just sits there and doesn't even care! I don't know if I would go to the extreme as Chelsea did, but he was roughten. Granted he was hurt, but he should have known that she was not acting, it was the real deal..
I lost hope in the relationship at that point. She was miserable for days...The story gets even better but lets just say you have to read it to find out how it ends.

I really enjoyed this book. I was really emotional and I could see how Chelsea was so distraught as Mark Bressler tore her heart apart! Then I sit back and think, are these relationships worth it? Does having your heart ripped and torn to pieces really make the next relationship better or have you learn something from it? I felt for Chelsea and shed some tears of sisterhood with her..

Thank you for the great Romance NovelRachel Gibson. I will definitelty read your other ones...A real roller coaster of emotions, gotta love it!

"An Offer You Can't Refuse"

Another great book from Jill Mansell, a chick lit that I enjoyed thoroughly! The beginning caught my attention right away with the offer that was not to be refused. The author wasted no time in the beginning getting right down to the nitty gritty.


Lola and Doug are from two totally different upbringing and lifestyles, opposites attract would fit their situation very well. Lola and Doug are young and in love. Dougs mother does not want Lola in her sons way of accomplishing his dreams of an (Ivy League School) as we would say in CALI. They spend the whole summer together just doing what couples do having fun , enjoying their young teen lives together. Lola and Doug are inseperable. Doug gets ready to take a tour of the school he will be atteding and Lola is at home working in town. They have plans to spend their weekends together since Dougs school is a ways from town and if that doesn't work then Lola would move up with Doug so they can be together. Perfect plans!

Things change over night and Lola takes off with her friend hundeds of miles away from their little town and doesn't give Doug any explanation just a letter that she's leaving and things are moving too fast for her. It a very sad parting indeed. Really felt bad for Doug. He was so in love with Lola and doesn't understand what happened. Things were going so good for them and when he returned home from his visit to his new school in Dublin Lola is gone with no good byes, no nothing.

10 years later, Lola returns home and Doug and his family are still there. Her father has since passed away leaving her a good amount of money to live off of. She was an avid reader and gets a job at a bookstore. Her co-workers have bright personalities and in time, Lola becomes the manager. As the story progresses, she eventually bumps into Doug and all those feelings she felt for him 10 years ago jump right back into her as if she were a young teenager agan. She still loves Doug, but does he love her? Is he married, is he with someone else, how and what is he doing with his life? So many questions Lola has in her mind, will she be able to get the answers? Does Doug hate her for breaking his heart on the day she left him and why did she leave, he still doesn't know. What is the "Offer that can't be refused", who amde the offer?"

There were times in the book where Lola got on my royal nerves with her " I gotta keep on tryng attitude" so determined to get what she wanted, but sometimes I wanted to say girlfriend give it a rest, you did all you could do and leave it at that.

Gabe, Lola's best guy friend, was a nice character to follow in the book. He was there for Lola thru thick and thin, in her time of need, etc. His lifestyle was interesting and his lifes experiences were very different to follow. I enjoyed his character!

Doug got on my bad side too at times by trying to put up this I don' care attitude because he never got over the break up. He was cruel at times, but deep inside I knew he was just acting out of anger, understandable!

Doug's sister, Sally, was a joy. A bit spoiled but had a great " I'm gonna do what I wanna do" attitude which is what kept her going in life. She became good friends with Lola and in the story she was able to do things different in her life for the better!

I too asked these same questions mentioed above and they are all answered in the book. I enjoyed this book for the suspense and for the other characters in the book that made the book so fun, and a beautiful love story!

Jill Mansell does a great job of developing her heros and heroines in the story. I aso love the way the other characters have their own drama and storyline to tackle which along side the main characters just makes the story that much more interesting and captivating!

"MULU AND PEDRO VEGA"

CONGRATULATIONS TO MULU AND PEDRO VEGA SEALED FOR ALL TIME AND ETERNITY!!
JULY 24, 2010 - I'M SO HAPPY FOR YOU DAWG! I'LL MISS YOU BUT ITS TIME FOR YOU
TO START YOUR NEW JOURNEY IN LIFE!!

Mulu Lokeni now Mulu Vega is happily married to Pedro Vega. I've been friends with Mulu for awhile now and even though we dont hang out everyday or communicate everyday we still know how we are without words. She deserves the best! Faithful to her testimony and values in the gospel, good friend, very funny, good dancer and loyal and trustworthy amiga por vida! I wish her the best with her husband and pray that they will through thick and thin have a happy relationship centered upon the Love of God First..Aighty Mulu dawg, have a good one and keep in touch. Much alofaz!

Love ya muchisimo!