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  Review: Reluctant to Love - Book #1 Written in the Stars Series - Rebecca Gallo - January 2020 I wasn't sure what Reluctant to Love was about but was drawn to it from the words the "Written in the Stars" and how each book was based on an Astrology sign. As though I don't fully believe in that side of things myself, I have always found things like horoscopes and tarot cards fascinating - this was why I loved New Orleans as they had this in all forms. Reluctant to Love starts with our female character Eleanor aka Ellie heading to a hotel for a book conference as she is ready for her dream to come true and meeting with an agent as she will finally have her name on the cover of a book, no more ghostwriting for Ellie. At the hotel, Ellie is faced though with her worst nightmare - author Roderick Payne. He was the one who got away and broke her heart into tiny pieces. Ellie was employed as his ghostwriter on the first two of his books and had an affair with him - she fel...

Review: Say Something - Book #1.5 - Hate List Series - Jennifer Brown - January 2014 Readers of The Phantom Paragrapher will know that a topic that I find fascinating and I like to read about is school shootings, as someone who was bullied I can feel for the loners and the outliers as often I feel like an outcast myself - yet I know I wouldn't go to the acts of extreme that these people committed. One of the very first schools shooting novels that I read was The Hate List by Jennifer Brown. This novella was released in 2014 and is a book that I have had sitting on my kindle for years. Say Something is set the beginning of the senior year and going through the aftermath of the incident and the school trying to return back to some sort of normalcy. Say Something is told from the perspective of David Judy who was good friends with Nick - he was the shooter.  During this book, David starts to flashback to memories before the shooting and realizes that he knew Nick was going to do some...