The Girl In The Forest by Carmen Weiz

The Girl In The Forest

by Carmen Weiz

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*Author Requested Review*

Rating (1-5) 📘📘📘📘
Genre - Romantic Suspense, Suspense
Format - Paperback
Pages - 336

*Amazon Blurb*

From the pine tree forests of Switzerland, a thriller-romance which will take your sleep away…

A sad twist of the destiny catapults Anna, young Brazilian woman, into a reality greater than her.
Driven by desire to help and make the good, she’ll find herself slave of human trafficking gangs, in the hands of merciless torturers ready to sell her to the richest bidder.
Only using her cunning she’ll be able to escape, helped by the Swiss officer Thomas Graff, a man with an icy heart and past he can’t leave behind. The crash between two different cultures that will make sparks fly!
This is Anna’s story, undeservedly a victim like many other women. Among intrigues, betrayal, crimes and games of fate, the young lady will fight for freedom and love.

My Review* 

I was unsure of this book when I first started. I thought it was going to be more about Anna and what had happened to her and less of Anna and Thomas. Either way, I ended up enjoying it.

Anna finds herself rescued and her life basically saved, by Thomas, who just happened to be in the right place at the right time (let me not fail to mention that it was actually the do who saved her). I never understood how people can have such a strong connection to someone they have never met before, but I guess that's where the saying "love at first sight" comes from. And although they don't know it, that's exactly what has happened to Thomas and Anna. The question is, will Thomas be able to realize it in time? Will Anna have wasted time on him?

I found Thomas a hard character to like. He has a very rough exterior due to a previous relationship, but it was years prior. I wanted to smack him in the face and yell at him to man up and get over it.

Bad Blood by E.A. Owen

Bad Blood

by E.A. Owen

Author Requested Review

 

Rating (1-5) - 📘📘
Genre - Mystery, Romantic Suspense
Format -Paperback
Pages -176

There's not much that can be better than an author asking you to review their book. It's a huge compliment to me and makes writing a poor review that much harder.

*Blurb*
Mary calls her life a nightmare, but the pain has only begun... And Mary will not be the only victim. Mary was born into an idyllic family, her mother and father a storybook couple, but her parents were killed by a drunk driver when she was 12. She grows up to marry a man who betrays her, and her teen daughter, victimized by a family friend, gives birth to twins.

And that is only the beginning of an entire family's descent into a series of catastrophes that amount to more than can be blamed on just the ill-winds of fate, including the greatest sin imaginable, committed unwittingly and born of nothing less than true love.

Mary wonders how life can be so cruel early in the story, but when she is old she discovers both the complexity of the web of which she is a part and the terrible truth. The many characters relationships are revealed as fate brings the survivors together, some bound by blood and love and all of them bound by a curse.

This is a tale that will horrify you and pull at your heartstrings by turns. The main characters suffer in the extreme for reasons beyond their control, but they never fail to love one another.


*Review*
Although it's not on Amazon as a Young Adult book I would definitely say it is. I thought this book was going to be suspenseful with ups and downs. It was anything but that.

The book starts off good, telling you about the life of Mary and what happens to her poor daughter. That takes place during the first few chapters. The rest of the book is about a teenage boy and girl that meet, an accident and this love at first sight type of relationship they have. Nothing suspenseful or even interesting happens until your reach the end of the book.

Then ending has quite a nice twist that I didn't expect but the curse was fixed way to easily.  There needed to be more than just the kids falling in love and the accident to make this book better. If the author added some kind of weird situations, made the ending longer and the curse removal have some kind of suspense, I think this could have been really good.