The Seven Year Bitch

The Seven Year Bitch by Jennifer Belle
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

As always, I thoroughly enjoyed another book by Jennifer Belle. In this book she looks at life from the perspective of a New York woman who has lost her job and is now 'supposed' to be staying home with her son and husband. It goes through her journey of looking for a nanny and then becoming friends and bonding with the nanny by trying to solve her (the nanny's) infertility problems. The best part is when Isolde (the main character) takes on the job of judging mail in contests. She gets to read about various peoples thoughts, lives and opinions in 100 words or less. I would like to say that if wisely put, almost anything can be described in 100 words or less. After doing the contests for quite some time Isolde finds herself tired of her marriage to her whiny husband, who is really all about himself. Her journey of finding herself is one that probably many unhappy women go on and have to muddle through. In the end, Isolde finds true happiness in the simplest of things and begins to enjoy her family, and new son, after being a 7 year bitch!

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City of Dark Magic

City of Dark Magic by Magnus Flyte
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I enjoyed this novel. It was a fairly easy read and there was a lot of mystery, magic and history. I found that Nico was very much like the character of Tyrion Lanaster from Game of Thrones (the dwarf character). He was very witty and smart as well as peculiar, which draws the reader into his character. This was my first book that I have read with the setting as Prague and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I can only imagine what it is really like there, with all the castles and old relics. The one character that I was always unsure about was Max. I never really could decide if he was on the good side of things or the bad side, but towards the end it became quite clear. The chemistry between him and Sarah Weston was a electric and there were some racy scenes that were written quite well. I didn't care much for the Beethoven story line but it did add a interesting twist to the already bizarre mystery. I liked the book and am definitely going to read the next one when it comes out. It reminded me very much of a Dan Brown (with Robert Langdon) book.

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