PD James – Unnatural Causes

A particularly gruesome murder starts a chain of events that leads to every character being brought under the spotlight in brutal detail. P. D. James dispassionately takes each character apart to show us their darkest thoughts and what drives them. She strikes a balance by making the characters full to the brim with emotions, desires and thoughts. She keeps us guessing at every turn as to the ‘who’. I dare anyone to state that they knew the ‘how’ before the author reveals it in her book. 

Salem Falls- Jodi Picoult

Jack St. Bride was once a beloved teacher and soccer coach at a girls' prep school - until a student's crush sparked a powder keg of accusation and robbed him of his career and reputation. Now, after a devastatingly public ordeal that left him with an eight-month jail sentence and no job, Jack resolves to pick up the pieces of his life. He takes a job washing dishes at Addie Peabody's diner and slowly starts to form a relationship with her in the quiet New England village of Salem Falls. But just when Jack thinks he has outrun his past, a quartet of teenage girls with a secret turn his world upside down once again, triggering a modern-day witch hunt in a town haunted by its own history…

There's Karma, love, life, what-if's in this book, which made me want to buy all Jodi Picoult books.

There's a reason why your life is a sudden downhill, you basically have to look back at what you may have done to others....

This book is pure Karma...

The Kept Women- Susan Donavan

Ratings: 5/10

A women left by her husband, he turned out to be gay when she was pregnant with her last baby. She ends up with 3 kids without a husband. Working 12 hours shifts to support her family, she ends up singing a contract with the governor to be. Paid by him to become his "Fiance'" until the next election.

Trouble is: he is a womaniser, he has a horrible mother, his ex girlfriends all want to be his wife.

The book shares with us how she overcome those problems, and how she ends up falling in love...

Confession of an Old Boy-Kam Raslan

It took me the weekend to finish this "Dato Hamid's Adventures". Brilliant, funny, somewhat slapstick, has a tint of British Humor. I love it.

He started out with stories from the past, times when he was in Uni. At a young age, how he met and lost friends, "the wife" never left out in any of the stories. He ended it as a successful politician in the millennium age. There was love, crime/murder, sex, band, lust- all in one book.

My personal ratings: 10/10

Infernal Affair by Jane Heller

This book is quite funny. Its quite far out as well. Husband left her for some other women, someone younger, prettier, blonder...etc etc. So one night, she was depressed, drunk and slightly mad. She asked for help from God. (or she thought it was God).
Then things got better for her. She did better in work (the week before, she nearly lost her job), she lost her husband, she was getting fatter etc etc. But after that speech she made to God, she woke up with a blonder hair, bigger tits, shapely body, and a dog! (Dog called Pete whom she thought was lost).

She thought she was doing well, as she met such a handsome bloke, sold the most expensive house to him (so no bye bye to work) and she scored a date with the handsome and rich bloke. The downside, she has bad breath.

So, the first night with him, after dinner, in his bedroom, she found out the worse of his traits. He has a tail. As in a tail attached to his bum.
And then she also found out that he is a Darksider. Darksider men have tails, and Darksider women have bad breath.

So shes a darksider...

The rest- well, you have just got to read it! Its well funny!

Ratings - 7/10