"Something About You"

This is another one of Julie James Romance Novels and just like the other ones I've read totally loved it! I love that she writes about lawyers and attorneys the field of the LAW which Mrs. James is totally accustomed to being that she was a law practicing person.

Characters:
Cameron Lynde- U.S. Attorney
Jack Pallas-FBI Agent

The story line is wonderful and so is the love-hate relationship. Camerons father died in the line of duty on a small routine call which ended up being his fatal and last call. When her father died, she vowed to put away the bad guys, thus determined to do her best at her job. Jack Pallas an excellent agent worked for 2 years to put away the Martino gang and his affiliates as they worked the streets with illegal everything. Jack worked undercover for 2 years and even managed to escape Martino's men when his cover was blown. His case under the direction of his boss Silas was closed. Silas made Cameron go in and tell Jack that the case was closed before she could even explain to Jack he was already furious and yelling and told the press that "he thinks the U.S. Attorney has her head up her as*." And that was the last thing Cameron remembered from Jack. He was then transferred to another state to work, but he didn't know that Silas his boss wanted him thrown out of the force, but it was Cameron who went behind Silas' back and had Jack transferred and not out of a career. All this time Jack thought Cameron was the one who had him transferred for 3 years but if it weren't for her he would have been out of the force.

After 3 years Jack is able to come back home and work. Cameron and Jack before he left had a little attraction for each other but both didn't pursue, instead they became enemies. Cameron decideds to get soem ME time and rents a room at a hotel, but little did she know she was sleeping next door to the room where a murder has taken place, so she is now a key witness, not seeing the murderers face but seeing him from the back. And who shows up to work on the case and has to protect her none othe than Jack Pallas her enemy from 3 years ago...gotta love it.

As time goes on, Pallas has to spend alot of time with Cameron to protect her as she is the main witness, he finds himself staring at her and watching her every move, noticing little things she does and falling for her. At the same rate, Cameron being around Pallas all the time is falling for his rugid, tough guy, excellent agent tactics herself. They are both into each other but won't allow themselves to get caugh up in each other. I love that part of the book where they know they want each other but still yet play it cool and try to resist each other.

I enjoyed this book because of the way they both were trying to do their job yet at the same time they were trying to resist each other. Does Jack Pallas solve the murder case, are they able to defeat all odds and be together? These questions and more can be answered when you read the book. I love Cameron and Jack Pallas as a couple so lets hope they get together..Find out in the book.

Thank you Julie James for another wonderful Romance Novel..

"Sonny with a Chance"

July 18, 2010 finally came and I was waiting to watch the new series of "Sonny with a Chance", from Disney. I really like this Disney show and I like Demi Lovato and Sterling Knight . They are so cute together. From the beginning episodes they were on rival TV Shows, Sonny on "So Random" and Chad on "McKenzie Falls", so cutey and probably because I'm such a fan of the whole "Love-Hate" Relationships.

This episode someone is trying to set up and sabotage Sonny to make her out to be a criminal, character thief, a gold coin thief, an untrustworthy girlfriend and a phony. Someone has cleverly turned Sonny's friends against her and the only one who really believes her is the girl who loves attention and claims she doesn't like Sonny, but she really does, and decides to help Sonny get to Wisconsin in time for her to shoot the cheeseball cannon (an honorable school event), the person is none other than Tawny, Sonnys dressing roommate.

Everything unfolds and we find out that there was a person who has been jealous of Sonny all along and how she loves Chad and will stop at nothing to get him. This person was with Sonny when she went shopping and was arrested for shoplifting, she was with Sonny and heard Chad tell Sonny his secret about fortune cookies, she cleverly took the coin from Nikos shirt pocket and slid it into Sonnys jacket, she left all evidence on Tawny's dresser of all the bad things she did to try and turn everyone against Sonny even the blue print of the Cheeseball Bomb..we find out that this person is none other than Penelope...the actress who plays in sketches with Chad..she hijacks AIR CHAD's plane with the cast of "So Random" with Chad on the plane and tells Chad to go away with her and they can live together forever and that she loves Chad, but Chad chooses Sonny..Penelope leaves the plane with the only 2 parachutes and jumps off.

Ne-ways, long story short, Sonny gets to the school event in time to shoot the cheeseball through the canon, but the crew from "So Random" realizes that Sonny will be setting off the real cheeseball bomb..they rush over and Sonny has already lit the canon, Chad runs on the stage to push Sonny away from the canon and Zora stops the lite from igniting the bomb. Tawny gets in front of Sicky Vicky (the character that Sonny made up, but was accused of stealing) and rips the mask off of her face and we see Penelope underneath the disguise..Tawny knew it was Penelope because of her comfortable Pilot shoes haha too funny!

So in the end, they catch Penelope, Chad saves Sonny, the crew told Sonny she's back on the "So Random" show because she was kicked off due to all the drama Penelope raised trying to sabotage Sonny, the media was involved. Tawny gets her 3 minutes on camera, NIko and Grady realize Sonny is not a thief and Zora realizes she is not a good Sherlock Holmes haha! So that was that until the next new episode.
Gotta love me some "Sonny with a Chance"

"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!