Book Review: Premiere: a Love Story by Tracy Ewens

I received an e-arc of this book via NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.

Publication date: 27 October 2014

Pages: 272

Rating: 4/5 

Summary (from Amazon.com)

Samantha "Sam" Cathner gave up needing Peter years ago, but now her theatre needs his play. She knows how fairytales end once the house lights are up, so she steadies herself to work with the brilliant playwright who once broke her heart. Peter Everoad is back in Pasadena, the hometown he traded for the bright lights of New York as soon as he graduated. The Pasadena Playhouse, where his oldest friend and one time lover Sam works, is in financial trouble, and they need him and his new play Looking In.

Sam is flustered to reencounter this new version of Peter - as always, witty and smart, and now handsome and successful. But he's still the jerk who crushed her happily-ever-after. She's not going to let him waltz in and unsettle her carefully ordered life. But she's drawn to him and intrigued by the autobiographical undertones of Looking In - is the Pasadena debutante "Sally" supposed to be her? Can Sam ever really trust Peter again, or will the demons that drove them apart the first time tear them apart again?

The Friday 56 #2

The Friday 56 is a weekly blog meme hosted by Freda's Voice. The rules are simple:

*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56, or 56% in your eReader.
*Find any sentence (or a few, just don't spoil it) that grab you.
*Post it.

*Add your (url) post here in Linky. Add the post url, not your blog url.

It's that simple!

Teaser Tuesdays (Nov 25)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away. You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My teaser for this week comes from Premiere: a Love Story by Tracy Ewens:

Her skin knew he was there before her mind had a chance to catch up. Even after all this time, all these years, he could still change the air she lived in.

If you like this teaser, be sure to check out my full review of this book. 

Book Review: 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

I received an advance reader copy of this book from Story Cartel in exchange for an honest review.

Publisher: Story Cartel Classics

Pages: 256

Rating: 4/5

Goodreads Page

Amazon.com

Summary (from Goodreads)

This is the true story of Solomon Northup, who was born and raised as a freeman in New York. He lived the American dream, with a house and a loving family - a wife and two kids. Then one day he was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in the deep south. These are the true accounts of his twelve hard years as a slave.