Fatal Affair (and giveaway!)

Before I get into my review for today, I have to announce the winner of the book How To Be A Grown Up, because if I don't do it now, it may never happen.

YAY, Shannon!! I've emailed you already so if you haven't checked your email yet- please do! I hope you enjoy the book as much as I did! 

Now let's talk review! 

Fatal Affair - Marie Force

Walking the thin blue line…  

Detective Sergeant Sam Holland of the Washington, DC, Metro Police needs a big win to salvage her career—and her confidence—after a disastrous investigation. The perfect opportunity arises when Senator John O'Connor is found brutally murdered in his bed, and Sam is assigned to the case. Matters get complicated when Sam has to team up with Nick Cappuano, O'Connor's friend and chief of staff…and the man Sam had a memorable one-night stand with years earlier. Their sexual chemistry still sizzles, and Sam has to fight to stay focused on the case. Sleeping with a material witness is another mistake she can't afford—especially when the bodies keep piling up.

YES. I so needed a good romance novel with some crime in it, and now I'm in the mood to purchase the rest of this series because you know me- I can't quit a series. It's a mental disorder, I'm sure of it. I also have to tell you that if you are a long time reader here, you know that one of my favorite authors of all time is Linda Howard. I know, sometimes I get an eye roll and sometimes I get an appreciative nod of the head, but she is. I would fan girl in her bushes in her front lawn if I could. But I have to tell you that Marie Force? She's kind of like my new Linda Howard.

I know.

It's a big thing to say but I really liked her writing style and how she crafted the story because it was so reminiscent of what you get with a great Linda Howard book. The bonus is that Linda gives you one, maybe two stories with characters, and Marie is giving us an entire series and I have very little self control so you know these are going to be on my shopping list soon.

Anyways.

The book was SO good. Immediately it begins with the murder of Senator John O'Connor, who was found by his life long friend and assistant, Nick Cappuano. Obviously Nick calls the police and who comes along but Samantha Holland, his one night stand from six years previous that he still thinks about as the one who got away. Sam, who is fresh off of leave from duty after a child was shot under her command and the mental anguish of that, is taken aback at seeing Nick again and it's clear that whatever flame they had that one night, it didn't go away.

So throughout the book we have their simmering sexual tension but we also have this really interesting murder to solve and Marie Force keeps you on the EDGE the entire time. Was it a woman scorned? Political rivals? Jealous family member? Or did John lead a totally secret life and perhaps that's what has happened? Just as things start coming together, Sam's life is threatened by the mother of the deceased child from her previous case but are the threats really from her, or from someone trying to get Sam off the Senator's case?

I flew through this book, I loved the who Law & Order SVU feel of the book, I loved the sexual tension between Sam and Nick, and I am absolutely in love with the fact that this is the start of a SERIES, you guys. A series. You know I love a good series. I'm so excited to read the rest!

Giveaway: Yes, there is a giveaway to win a COMPLETE set of the series, and you need to go HERE to enter!

If you are feeling lucky, there is a a really great promotion if you buy the newest book, Fatal Identity, then you can enter to win one of two REALLY GREAT prizes by going HERE to register your purchased book. And this is going to sound kind of stupid, but this is the time of year I enter in every giveaway I can because you never know what you could use as Christmas gifts for someone (or yourself, let's be honest). So it's worth a shot.

In the meantime, be sure to follow Marie on her website, Facebook, and Twitter! You can also purchase your own copy of Fatal Affair on Amazon! If you want to just bite the bullet and purchase the entire series, you can also do that HERE and it's actually a really great price for how many books you're getting.

I received a copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review. All thoughts and comments are my own. 

Strand summer fun at the Minnesota Zoo

I am absolutely determined to have a fun summer for my kids (and us) despite not being able to really travel. I really enjoy being a tourist and doing fun things and we have never been to the Minnesota Zoo so that was on our list. We love zoos, mostly because we love seeing animals we know we'll likely never see in the wild but we also really like reading the signs and learning something new. 

Unfortunately, I am also ridiculously pregnant and it's summer time so I was prepared for a little bit of swelling and lots of walking. I ended up swelling up three times my normal size and paying the price for walking four hours straight the next day but it was totally worth it! 

Some of the favorite exhibits were the buffalo, which is Jackson's favorite animal. We even saw a pretty tiny one!

Obviously the best exhibit were the GOATS. I would have walked from one end of the zoo to the other to see these. (Which is exactly what I did!) I was over the top excited to find out that we could go into their little area and commune with the goats. I could have stayed there all day but after 15 minutes Matt was giving me The Look like he wanted to go.

But not before we got photos! Even Penelope got to hang out with the goats. This one put it's hoof on her tray and they had a great time.

She clearly wanted to pet it and take it home. Dad said no because he is a fun killer.

I absolutely had to take a goat selfie, because that's what you do when you are in a goat corral.

The kids (and some random kid who totally photo bombed us) loved this goat. He looked super sad and came right over to us wanting love.

Olivia found these two smaller ones, next to their mama (not pictured) so she wanted to love them. You'll notice the goat behind her tried to climb on her and that's when she decided she wasn't going to sit down anymore. 

Jackson absolutely LOVED this one. He kept hugging it and the goat was totally enjoying itself. 

Olivia said this is the one she wanted to take home. Dad said no. People laughed at us. Little did they know we were totally serious. 

Jackson agreed, this mellow one was probably our best fit. But again, Dad said no.  

So after Matt made us walk away from the goats, and I cannot emphasize how sad we were about that, we found a new area of the zoo to explore. Penelope was missing nap time and I kept telling Matt she'd stop crying and whining if you just let her out of the stroller to walk around. So we went to the jungle area where it's a little more contained and let her roam with us holding her hand.

CLEARLY, I was right because look at how happy that girl is! She thought the zoo was pretty fun and kept doing her version of pointing at things, then running to the next exhibit, touching new things, it was so fun to watch her.

Olivia found flamingos! I call her my flamingo because of her skinny legs and knobby knees so I took her picture, of course.

 Jackson didn't want to be excluded, so there he is.

Overall? The zoo was amazing. It's not as great as the Omaha Zoo that we visited, but that zoo is so special I think it'll be hard to find one that compares. But the Minnesota Zoo is a little over two hours from our home, a pretty decent drive, and it was a fun afternoon. I think there were parts we didn't see but I was really hurting, I was starting to contract and I was swelling so quickly despite a LOT of water having been consumed, so we left after four hours. We easily could have spent far more time. I also recommend visiting the zoo when it isn't quite so warm, it was about 85 that day and despite the slight breeze.

So on the way out I kept telling my family to slow down, that I really couldn't walk very fast. When I say I was hurting? I was hurting. Fetus Four was sitting so low and I was trying to walk through the contractions and just get to the damn van but man....

... you see those tiny people? Yeah, that's my family. That's their version of "wait up for mom". They were all buckled and ready to go by the time I got there and then annoyed that I had to take a minute to climb into my seat. Totally ridiculous, folks. 

Anyways. It was SUCH a great day. We all agreed we would be back, perhaps in the spring or in the fall so it's a bit cooler. The food amenities at the zoo were pretty diverse, but they only accept Visa or Mastercard, so that's something to take into consideration before you go. But the entire zoo complex is very clean and we saw so many employees around cleaning surfaces, picking up garbage, and generally keeping the place looking nice so big compliments for that. If you are in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area and looking for a fun thing to do, I highly recommend this zoo- super fun! 

LitCube: Roaring 20's Mystery

I've gotten behind in blog posts so a lot of what you'll read this week is stuff that is a week or two old. Sorry, lambs. You'll survive though, so there's that.

But let's talk about my June Litcube!

The theme this month was "Roaring 20's Mystery" and I'm not a big roaring 20's fan so I was going to cancel and then missed the deadline so here we are. The good news is that we got some pretty fun stuff this month!

The large item is an 18x18 pillow cover! Guess what is ridiculously difficult to find in a store? An 18x18 pillow! I can find 20x20, but no 18x18. Sigh. I hate, hate, hate having to order something off of Amazon when it's just one thing, you know? But it's a beautiful pillow cover nonetheless and it'll end up on my couch eventually. Or maybe it'll be in my room. Who knows.

Some other goodies is a magnet with a quote from The Great Gatsby and an art deco headband. It's so pretty, though I don't know when I'd really wear it, BUT! These headbands never stay on my head. I have decided I must have a weird shaped head or something.

We also got champagne bubble scented foaming sugar scrub, which I will most definitely be using these last few weeks of pregnancy!

The book this month is EVERGREEN FALLS by Kimberly Freeman. If you look at the reviews for it on Goodreads they are kind of bizarre. The ones written in English either say it's terrible or it's mediocre. The ones in a foreign language I assume gush about it because those ones are all 5 stars. So who knows. My reading list is pretty long so it might be awhile until I get to this one.

Overall? Not a bad box. The theme for July is "I'd Rather Be A Mermaid" and I am pretty excited about that. I bet the goodies are going to be pretty fun, so I'm excited!

A Reckless Promise (and GIVEAWAY)

Let's start your week with a book review, shall we?

WE SHALL!

But first, don't forget that today is the last day to win your own copy of How To Be A Grown Up! Go HERE and enter! It's a signed copy and very low entries, your chances of winning are pretty huge, lambs!

A Reckless Promise - Kasey Michaels

It's the kind of vow often made on the battlefield. Darby Travers, Viscount Nailbourne, never imagines he'll have to honor it. Yet here she is on his doorstep—his late comrade's young daughter, and Darby's new ward. Worse, she comes with the most overprotective, mistrustful, bothersome chaperone—the child's aunt, Sadie Grace Boxer. Darby is quite sure that behind her lovely facade, the woman is guarding a secret.

Sadie Grace faced many trials working in her brother's surgery, but none prepared her for the world she's thrust into with his passing. Navigating the ton, with its endless ball gowns and parade of parties, is difficult enough, but hiding the truth about her niece while the sophisticated viscount watches her every move proves nearly impossible—particularly when his searing gaze tempts her to bare all. But when her family's past catches up with her, she'll have to trust in Darby…no matter the cost to her heart. 

I always tell you that I'm not a huge fan of historical romances, then I find myself jumping on them anytime I see them offered for review because I do love romances and there just aren't a whole bunch offered always. And then, oddly, I find myself liking them and I question if my "I'm not a fan of historical romances" is even true or if I'm actually being a brat. 

But I liked this one! The book starts off during the Napoleonic War where Darby (among others) are pretty severely injured. He's lost his eye but he would have lost his life if not for the work of surgeon John Hamilton. There are plans for the men to go back and Darby tries to convince John to come with them but he refuses to leave his patients, so Darby tells him if there was anything he could ever do to repay him for saving his life, he'd do it. 

Which is how Darby ends up the guardian of Marley, a young girl. But Marley doesn't come alone, she comes with John's sister, Sadie, who is an adult. It's clear from the beginning something isn't quite right about the entire situation and Darby feels it too, but he's torn between honoring the wishes of his now deceased friend and following his gut. The problem is that you don't just take in a seemingly widowed woman into your home without the risk of ruining her reputation, so after much thought Darby decides he needs to marry her. Just as sparks start to fly between the two of them, Sadie's past comes full force into their relationship. The really great part about this book is that we really have two books in one. First, we have Sadie and Darby's relationship and their interactions (which are kind of great), and trying to confirm to the societal norms of the time. But we also have a subplot where Marley and her safety is the primary focus. Sadie knows about Marley's real family and how she became part of John Hamilton's family and then it all comes full circle because you know from the very beginning of the book that Darby is a man of integrity who would stop at nothing to keep someone safe. John, knowing this, set the wheels in motion for Darby to eventually be the caretaker of Marley to ensure her safety, and Sadie (who truly doesn't KNOW Darby) will have to trust that her brother knew what he was doing. 

Overall? Good book! I really enjoyed it and I would really recommend it if you are a fan of historical romances for sure. Luckily for you it's available on Amazon, but I also suggest checking out the author's website and her Facebook page because she has quite a few books you may also be interested in if this one piques your interest. Also, please go HERE to enter for a $25 Amazon gift card! Who couldn't use one of those?! 

I received a copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review. All thoughts and comments are my own. 

How To Be A Grown-Up and GIVEAWAY!

I am so, so excited to be able to not only read this book but offer a giveaway to one of my readers! I've been eyeing this one up for awhile because I've heard good things about it and then on Facebook, one of the authors, Nicola Kraus, asked if there were any bloggers who wanted to review and I'm like YES, ABSOLUTELY, PICK ME RIGHT NOW BECAUSE I AM POOR.

It's OK, I didn't embarrass you all and actually say that but I was super eager and yay it came and then I read it in a night because IT'S SO GOOD.

How To Be A Grown-Up- Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus

From bestselling authors Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus comes a timely novel about a forty-something wife and mother thrust back into the workforce, where she finds herself at the mercy of a boss half her age.

Rory McGovern is entering the ostensible prime of her life when her husband, Blake, loses his dream job and announces he feels like taking a break from being a husband and father. Rory was already spread thin and now, without warning, she is single-parenting two kids, juggling their science projects, flu season, and pajama days, while coming to terms with her disintegrating marriage. And without Blake, her only hope is to accept a full-time position working for two full-time twenty-somethings.

A day out of b-school, these girls think they know it all and have been given the millions from venture capitalists to back up their delusion that the future of digital media is a high-end lifestyle site for kids! (Not that anyone who works there has any, or knows the first thing about actual children.) Can Rory learn to decipher her bosses lingo, texts that read like license plates, and arbitrary mandates? And is there any hope of saving her marriage? With her family hanging by a thread, Rory must adapt to this hyper-digitized, over-glamorized, narcissistic world of millennials whatever it takes.

Since their diabolically funny (The New York Times, on The Nanny Diaries) debut, Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus have proven their ability to illuminate provocative issues with wry wit and heartfelt emotion. How to Be a Grown-up is an entertaining and insightful story sure to resonate with all those readers who first fell in love with The Nanny Diaries.

First, I have to tell you how much I related to this book. I feel like I am the super un-cool version of Rory. Rory is a mom to two kids, she's married, she's working, and she's in a bit of a rut. When her husband, Blake, finds himself unemployed it throws the family into a spin. Well, mostly just Rory because as with so many moms, she's basically the one holding the ship together all of the time and while Blake is focusing on what this means for HIM, it's Rory and her practical mind wondering how bills will get paid, what their financial future in general holds, and she needs him to sit down and figure this out with her. 

Except that he won't. In fact, his solution is for them to separate, leaving Rory holding the bills, house, children, and now her full time job at Jeunebug, a children's lifestyle website, all on her own. The problem with her new job is that it's almost immediately glaringly obvious that Rory is old. She's not the cool, hip mom. She's not the cool, hip twenty-something and her bosses are literally teenagers with a vision who speak a foreign language of lingo that Rory finds herself looking up on Wikipedia because she literally has no idea what they are talking about. 

So while her marriage is imploding, she's struggling with adapting to single mom status, and her job is a total challenge... she meets Josh. And Josh is everything that Blake is not, which is not at all the type Rory would have gone for back in the day when she was looking for a husband, but given the state of her marriage, she isn't sure she even knows what's best for herself anymore. 

Now, after I finished the book I had already ordered one for my friend who I know would absolutely, 100% get it and relate to it like I did. Then I read reviews and people are... people are dumb. I'm not the naive 20something I once was who freaked out over the first sign of trouble in my marriage because I've since learned that we ALL have these moments, it's just some of us are in denial and some pretend it doesn't happen because you're really something if you can pull off the perfect marriage. There is a part, fairly early on in the book, where Blake and Rory decide to give marriage counseling a try. She's looking at it like a very practical next step and he's looking at it like he's not sure if it can help but honestly how much worse can things be? 

Well. 

They pick easily the WORST counselor ever who says, "Couples therapy is traditionally a gateway drug to divorce. Why? Because people pay hundreds of dollars to have these polite useless conversations. Then they go home where I can't help them and tear each other apart. So in my process we dive into the blame." And that's when Rory finds out what Blake really thinks of her, she's judgmental and controlling. She gets rightfully upset, but for Blake's defense, Rory really isn't listening to what Blake needs, and neither one of them are able to understand and accept their shortcomings in the marriage. 

And holy moly can I absolutely, 100% relate. It's really rough to sit in that chair and listen to the person who said they love you rattle off a list of reasons why you aren't doing it for them anymore. And then you are supposed to take that criticism constructively and figure out how to turn the ship around without being angry and resentful. 

I'm just saying the real badass marriages you should be looking up to are the ones who have come out of marriage counseling and made it. Just saying. 

Anyways. 

This book is SO great. I absolutely loved it because I can relate to it and for everyone who says this is just a lame attempt at being funny, I beg to differ. I've been through it and my girl Rory and I? Twinsies. It's like I could have written this myself, except my story has a different ending than hers. 

Lucky for you, I have one copy of How To Be A Grown-Up to giveaway to one lucky reader! (US/Canada only). You should absolutely enter because my giveaways are almost always low entries so you have a huge chance of winning! If you are a total grump and don't want to enter, you can head over to Amazon and buy your own copy and get it right away. Good luck, lambs! 

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33-35 weeks. There she blows?

Well lambs, I am officially 35 weeks pregnant with Fetus Four, still unnamed. My due date is officially August 8, but I don't think anyone in their right mind thinks I'm going to make it to that point. I certainly don't. I feel like I'm not updating you as much this time as I did with Penelope and it's certainly not because there hasn't been anything to report, but more of I'm just too damn tired to do it. I already feel like this baby will get the shaft on a lot of the things because the other three are exhausting me. My grandpa said one in four people end up being a serial killer, so maybe this is the one of mine that goes on to be one? Just out of childhood neglect or something. Matt says this might be our Joe Dirt baby, the one we forget places. Which actually might happen because anyone who has been around me lately knows my memory is absolutely shot. This baby has killed any remaining brain cell I had left after Penelope.

 33 weeks

Almost everyone asks me how I'm doing and I say, meh. And it's really meh. There are some great days where I feel like I could literally climb a mountain and have no issues. Then there are other days where I feel absolutely horrific. I've got a headache, I'm swelling, my back hurts, I've got ligament pain like never before, I'm contracting on and off all day despite every effort not to, my vagina hurts like someone has literally hit me repeatedly with a hammer, and I generally feel like my bones are going to basically give up and collapse. Some days I'm hungry all day and others I can barely eat. The only reason I do is so that my headache doesn't get any worse. I can't possibly ingest any more water yet here I am, forever peeing. 

Oh! But fun thing- at 33 weeks I played the "Did I pee on the floor or did my water break?" game a few times. As it turns out, I just peed on the floor. Twinky, our dog, was not pleased and the whole thing was very confusing to him. I'm sending the poor animals mixed messages about going to the bathroom in the house. 

At 34 weeks I decided we were going to drive to the Minnesota Zoo, approximately two hours away, and see that because we've never been. I have a whole post on that next week for you, but in hindsight, I really wish I would have had Matt take pictures of me throughout the four hours we were there because I ended up swelling up three times my normal size. Even the kids were freaked out. I couldn't bend my fingers and not a chance in your life I was taking off my sneakers because they weren't going back on. The day after was absolutely brutal- I thought for sure I was going to go into labor. Needless to say, the fun summer trips far from home are basically done. I feel like I'm going to explode. 

My 32 week appointment my doctor checked me because I had been saying the contractions all day every day are really becoming a problem. I wasn't dilated or anything, but things were softening up and she felt the head really low, which made me happy to know I wasn't losing my mind because there have been a few times where it feels like her head is coming right on out. At the 34 week appointment I saw a nurse practitioner who is really quite lovely, and she said instead of coming back at 36 weeks, I need to come back this week (I go on Thursday) and they are going to do my Group B Strep test and check me again because things sound like they might happen sooner than August. Which, I kind of hope they do?  

35 weeks

But this is me on the Fourth of July. We didn't go do our traditional stuff because I just wasn't feeling well and I really didn't think I'd be able to stay awake, honestly. I feel so huge. 

But this is me 35 weeks pregnant with Penelope. I felt MUCH better there than I do currently. 

Me at 36 weeks with Jackson. He was just a peanut, though. I honestly never even really felt pregnant with him and for the most part, that's how this pregnancy has been. I keep saying this pregnancy is SO MUCH like the one with Jackson that I really hope this isn't an actual boy instead of a girl. I will have an anxiety attack like no other if this is really a boy.

And then me at 36 weeks with Olivia. So you can see how I've just gotten bigger and bigger with each pregnancy. I might actually explode this time, you guys. For reals. 

So yeah. That's where I'm at. I'm so tired each and every day. I'm starting to really worry that Penelope is going to not adjust well to a baby, she's basically my mini-me, best friend, all day next to me buddy. It's going to be really hard once Olivia and Jackson go back to school and it's just me with two kids under two. I mean, people do that and survive, right? 

Driftwood Point

Are you guys in the mood for another summer read? I've got you, boo.

Driftwood Point (Chesapeake Diaries #10) - Mariah Stewart

New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart returns to her Chesapeake Diaries series and to the cherished Maryland shores of St. Dennis with DRIFTWOOD POINT(Pocket Books; June 21, 2016; $7.99), the romantic tale of a man who takes a second chance on love with the high school crush who broke his heart.

Up-and-coming artist Lisbeth Parker finally has a chance to show the folks back home what it means to leave Cannonball Island and make something of yourself. As a native whose stubborn father forbade her from befriending townies, Lis always felt like an outsider in St. Dennis. While her work is on display in the local art gallery, she records her centenarian great-grandmother’s stories of the island’s rich history and falls in love with its unspoiled beauty.

Lis was Alec Jansen’s secret dream girl growing up, and now that she’s back with plans to turn her family's ramshackle cottage into an art studio, the handsome environmental engineer sees a second chance to win her heart. But when he’s hired by a builder who wants to develop the island, Alec is caught between the change he knows is coming and Lis’s desire to preserve the island and its way of life. Can Alex convince Lis that in the right hands change can be good, or will she see only betrayal? 

A few weeks ago I did a review for the latest Dorothea Benton Frank book and I said she was one of my absolute go-to authors for a really solid, beachy read. I have to be honest and tell you Mariah Stewart is my other. I don't feel like I've really started summer until I have read the latest from either and this one is possibly my favorite of the Chesapeake Diaries series by Mariah. The really great thing is that these are all stand alone novels but you get little visits from characters in previous books, which is always fun because it really does feel like bumping into old friends.

In this book we have Lisbeth, who has come back to Cannonball Island for a respite from her city life. She's staying with her great grandmother, who at a 100 years old is sharper than ever. Lis doesn't know how to feel about the changes to her great grandmother's store and living area, or the changes coming to St. Dennis and Cannonball Island, but it's clear that though she's visited over the years, there is a lot about the area that she knows nothing about. Which only confirms her lifelong feeling that she doesn't really belong, partly because her father held a grudge and raised her with prejudice against the people in the area.

Alec, who once was madly in love with Lis though she never gave him the time of day, still resides there and does his best to do right by the area. As a land developer, and local handyman, he knows just about everything going on and while it's in his best interest to develop the land, he knows that the charm of the area needs to remain intact. He rides the delicate line making both sides happy and often questions if he's doing the right thing.

And then of course, Lis and Alec come together in the romance part of the book and it's just really, really sweet. Lis isn't sure, and Alec doesn't know what's up her bottom but he thinks he can be the one to help her unwind and really appreciate what's around her. But of course, with the future of the island's development at stake, they find themselves on opposing sides of the issue just as things are heating up between them.

Overall? I really enjoyed it. I have really liked all of the books in this series so far but this one was such a fun read, it makes you think about land preservation but also the reality that things change with time. The other theme in it that I think was pretty subtle but done well was connecting with family. Lisbeth visits her great grandmother but she really doesn't know her routine, who she talks to, what her life is really like at her age. And I think that's something we can all say we're guilty of. We all have relatives that we visit or maybe we call on a holiday, send a birthday card, but we don't really know what their day to day is like. It's a real shame too, because as Lisbeth learns, these are the people who can tell you where you come from, this is where family traditions and stories are passed down and without those close connections, those are all lost eventually.

If you are in the market for a great summer read, pick up a copy of Driftwood Point on Amazon now! Other cool news, look for Mariah Stewart’s all-new trade original women's fiction series, The Hudson Sisters, following a trio of reluctant sisters as they set out to fulfill their father's dying wish—and discover themselves in the process. Book 1, Last Chance Matinee, will publish March 2017! Mariah Stewart is the award-winning New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of numerous novels and several novellas and short stories.  A native of Hightstown, New Jersey, she lives with her husband and two rambunctious rescue dogs amid the rolling hills of Chester County, Pennsylvania, where she savors country life and tends her gardens.  Visit her website at mariahstewart.com, and like her on Facebook at AuthorMariahStewart. 

I received a copy of this from Simon & Schuster for a fair and honest review.