Christine's Book Corner

Fight for the one you love in The Hardest Fight , a romance novel by Amy Vastine where the characters fight for the one they truly love. Summary: Lucy Everhart isn't about to let anyone take away the women's shelter that she runs.  Not on her watch.  When Dylan Hunt walks into her office proposing the offer to buy shelter, he is the last person Lucy ever expected to see.  He is not the man she knew 5 years ago, the man who let her go when she broke up with him.  This Dylan is a different man and she refuses to give into his offer.  She will fight all she can to keep her shelter, while Dylan is determined to fight and win Lucy's love once again. Review: What I liked:   Vastine gets the reader engaged into the story immediately.  We are introduced to Lucy and see she is a strong-willed person.  You know right away this is going to be a problem in the story as we see she uses that character trait to fight for the opposition of the story, Dylan's law firm try

Get lost in the many lives of Greta in The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells,  a Science Fiction by Andrew Sean Greer where one woman lives three different lives in three different eras. It's 1985 and Greta Wells just lived through the death of her twin brother, Felix, due to AIDS, the epidemic of the time.  Depression from her brother's death and breaking up with her longtime boyfriend, Greta finds herself getting treatment from a psychiatrist.  The side effects of the treatment are strange and Greta soon finds herself living in 1918, 1941, and present day of the book, 1985.  In each era, she is living how she would had she been alive during that time.  In each time that Greta travels to, she finds each event paralleling to each other, experiencing losses each time.  As the ending of her treatments come near, Greta must choose which period to stay in.  Does she really want to return to 1985, the only time when her brother is gone for good? What I liked:  Greer immediately