True Colors - Kristin Hannah

This is an extremely dramatic book. I liked it in the sense since it is about three sisters - the Grey sisters. How they are together and how they break up because of certain circumstances. The oldest is Winona who is fat and who longs for her father's approval. She is a good lawyer in town and everyone values her advice. The second one is Aurora who married her lover but he dies leaving her a widow. She remarries again but is not happy. She is the peacemaker between Winona and the youngest one, Vivi Ann. Vivi is carefree and generous. No thoughts about the future. Everything comes easily for Vivi Ann. She falls in love with a native Indian and that's where the trials start!

The Winter Rose - Jennifer Donnelly

I loved this book :D I don't know why but I just couldn't put it down once I started reading it. It's set in London and India Jones wants to work at a clinic in the slum-sections of London. She is a aristrocrat and her fiance is set to take over London's parliament. She meets Sid Malone, the underworld don there and she is confused as to her emotions. On the other hand, we have Fiona Bristow who is a big-time tea merchant and she is the sister of Sid. No one knows about this other than her husband Joe Bristow. Interesting storyline of how India has to convince Sid to leave his ways. She tries to but in the end, the cops catch up with him. Does he survive? That's for you to read and find out!

The Godmother - Carrie Adams

It is an average book for me. I wasn't much impressed by this book. I'm still not sure how it got on my 'To-read' list :D It is the story of Tessa King who comes back from India after taking a vacation from her stalker boss. She now has to find a new job and she is the godmother of her friends' children. She sees the life of Nick and Fran who struggle bringing up their son Caspar; her friend Al and Claudia struggle through fertility treatments to have a child; Neil and Helen have twins but Helen has her own deep dark problems;Billy is a single mom to Cora and can't break it with her ex even though he treats her badly and lastly;Ben and Sasha who have no plans to have children. Tessa was in love wih Ben once and she is confused about relationships. It's confusing for her and she has to re-examine many things in her life!

A man's heart - Lori Copeland

I liked this novel. Jules broke off her engagement to Cruz twice before and she returns back from her college when her father passes away. She is not close to her sister Crystal and this story is now about Jules and how she gets back with Cruz, Crystal and also about her close friend Sophia. Jules ends up having to take care of Sophia's two little kids and also a potato farm left to her by her father. I really enjoyed reading this novel :)

The accidental virgin - Valerie Frankel

This was a chickflick novel that I had picked up. Didn't like it much. It is about Stacy Temple , a designer at an online lingerie store, who broke up with her boyfriend one year back and hasn't gone on a date since a year and how she tries to get laid with anyone before that one year is up. It was just okay for me and I didn't quite like it.

The red scarf - Kate Furnivall

This book actually captured me because of its cover and story line. It is set in Russia and is during a very brutal time during communism.


Sophia Morozova and Anna Fedorina are in a Russian labor camp. They both become friends and Sophia vows to get Anna out. Anna had told her about her beau Vasily who she had last met when she was twelve and he was fourteen. Sophia has to escape from the camp and convince Vasily to help her and on the way, there are many interesting things that happen and how she mistakes different people who ultimately all come together to help her achieve her goal.

The first time - Joy Fielding

I was having a hazy feeling when I picked this book that I had read it earlier before. I wasn't 100% sure though, so I started reading and by the first chapter, I realised I had read it before :D to my surprise I hadn't reviewed it here. It is an interesting one and brings up lots of issues. Mattie Hart is married to Jake and has a teenage daughter Kim. Jake is leaving her and is with another woman Honey Novak. Then tragedy strikes and Mattie has Lou Gehrig's disease. Jake feels guilty and comes back and starts living with Mattie and Kim again. Unresolved issues start coming back and the three of them are forced to deal with it. Nice book :)

The Choice - Nicholas Sparks

I'm a romantic at heart and loveee these kind of novels. :D

The story is about Travis Parker and Gabby Holland. Gabby already has a boyfriend and has just moved into the neighborhood. She meets Travis her next door neighbor who falls in love with her. Slowly through his charm and wit, he wins over Gabby who is confused. Here is where the crux of the story lies - I thought the book was about the "choice" has to make between Travis and her boyfriend :) That is not the choice. Read the book to find out what the "choice" is all about! I loved the book. I've read 'The Notebook' once long time back and liked that too :)

Honest Illusions - Nora Roberts

I did like this book. Max Nouvelle is a father who is a magician and has a daughter by name Roxanne. Lily is his partner and Max takes in Luke as a child when he runs away from an abused home. Roxanne falls for Luke and is unable to understand why Luke is not able to reciprocate. Luke leaves them and five years later comes back to make a deal with Roxanne.

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bront

This is supposedly a classic and I think here, everyone has read it. I was okay with the book but was not very much enchanted by it. I had read it way back in February and this was sitting in my drafts folder. It is a love story of Heathcliff and Catherine and how this love story destroys them and everyone around them. It's sort of like a love saga kinds. I was not very much impressed with the book.

The mistress of spices - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

This was a good read. It starts out with the Tilo who is made a mistress of spices in California and how she uses spices to heal everyone. She is not allowed to touch the people she talks to. But one fine day, a guy comes in and she gets carried away with him. I did not like the love angle as such. But the description of each spice in each chapter and the way it is used to heal people, I somehow felt convinced that spices have powers heheh :) I liked it but not as much as Palace of Illusions.

The cottage - Danielle Steel

This is really material for a Hindi serial for sure. :) It starts out with Cooper Winslow an actor who was top of this field during his age. He has grace, charm and everything. But right now he's broke due to his lavish spending. He needs to sell his home of forty years or rent it out. He agrees somehow to rent it out and has two new tenants Mark and Jimmy. Mark is dealing with his divorce from his wife who has strayed and Jimmy just lost his wife due to her illness.


Amidst this chaos, something is happening. There is a scandal of Coop romancing a wealthy doctor and the news that someone is pregnant with his child. There is an unexpected guest who turns up and changes Coop's life. Quite a fun filled story.

Bungalow 2 - Danielle Steel

Tanya Harris loves her life as a mother of three and being the wife of a lawyer. She is a successful writer of short stories and soap opera scripts. Suddenly out of the blue, her agent calls with a dream offer: a major director wants her and her alone to write the script for a new high-profile film. Tanya's first reaction is distress about leaving her kids alone, but her husband convinces her that this is her big opportunity. In Hollywood, Tanya enjoys her work. But soon she realises that her husband is straying and kids are not happy with her. Interesting story :)

Going home - Danielle Steel

Here the storyline was a bit weird. I expected something and something else happened. Gillian is a divorced , single parent who moved from NY to CA for a change of career. She meets this guy and sleeps with him. The guy doesn't treat her that well and still Gillian hangs on. She gets pregnant and the guy is scared. Hence she moves back to NY to have the baby. He later comes around to the feeling of having a child and gets her back to CA. But he dies in an unfortunate accident. In the end, everything does come along but I was still wondering why she was with the guy in the first place.

Irish Mist - Andrew M. Greeley

Nuala Anne McGrail and her husband, Dermot Michael Coyne come to Ireland so that she can sing in an Irish Aid concert. On the flight over to Ireland she has visions of a young woman in a burning castle and of a man assassinated on his way to Mass.Dermot finds out that the man was Kevin O'Higgins, successor to Irish rebel leader Michael Collins. Nuala is psychic and uses this gift to uncover the people who murdered Kevin. There is also a puzzle involved in this. It's a good book but not one I would like to read again. The author assumes that the readers are either Irish or from Europe and hence can understand most of the plot. It took me sometime to figure out the book :)

My seduction - Connie Brockway

This was an interesting read. The heroine Katherine Blackburn is a widow now who had a very short marriage of six months since her husband was killed in war. Her father dies trying to rescue three young men. Kate now after few years has one chance of trying to redeem her and her two sisters situation by trying to reach her cousin sister's husband's brother and implore him to help the family out. On the way, she meets Kit Macneill ( this is one of the three men her father saves) who tries to help her to repay the debt of her father sacrificing his life. On the way to Scotland, many dangerous things happens and she learns that the death of her cousin sister and husband was a plan. It was a good read!

The Courtship - Catherine Coulter

It is a romance between Lady Helen and Spenser Heatherington, Lord Beecham. Beecham overhears a conversation between Alice and Helen and is intrigued. Helen wants Beecham as her partner but not in the way he is thinking :) She wants his help in finding a mythical golden lamp rumored to make its possessor all-powerful. It was supposedly given to King Edward when his wife was dying and she was restored back to life. Interesting story!

Mad Jack - Catherine Coulter

Lord Cliffe is happy with his lonely existence when tow of his great aunts come to his home with a valet "Jack". Jack tries to steal Lord Cliffe's horse and is caught by him. That is when he realises that Jack is a lady actually in hiding from her stepfather. He needs to save her and her sister from the step father without alerting the step father to her presence! Does he save the day ? :)

The aristocrat - Catherine Coulter

Brant Asher is a famous football player in New York. He comes into an inheritance and goes to England to see what it is. He learns that he has to marry Daphne Asherwood if he wants to get the inheritance. It's very confusing for Brant with aunt Chloe who transforms Daphne and the vamp Lucilla who wants the inheritance. Eventaully Daphne and Brant get married but do they stand the test of love? :)

Patience - Lori Copeland

Oh I liked this novel. It is about Patience Smith who gets kidnapped by a man who thinks she is another woman. She escapes and stumbles upon an abandoned mine with a lonely orphan Wilson. Wilson tells her that there is gold in the mine and that the old prospector who died told him that. She goes and tries to get help in mining the land but no one comes because they have heard the mine is haunted. Jay is the Sheriff from the town she was kidnapped. He comes to search for Patience and finds her and tries to take her back. But Patience is trying to convince him to help her mine the mine. Nice story :)