All Around The Circle

Wind Chime Point by Sherryl Woods

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This is the second book in the Ocean Breeze seeries. For some reason I enjoyed this book more than the first.

The focus is on Gabriela, where as the first book focused on Emily.
Gabi finds herself unemployed, broken up with her boyfriend and pregnant. She returns to Sand Castle Bay to figure out her next steps and finds herself becoming friends with the local cabinetmaker, Wade Johnson. Their friendship grows and she resists the fact that she may be falling for him. Of course her grandmother, Cora Jane, is right there trying to nudge their relationship along.

The story also continues with the planning of Gabi and Samantha's sister Emily's wedding. Samantha is still feeling down in the dumps because she's not landing any acting jobs and Gabi steps up to try to help her with public realtions. The last book in this series will be Samantha's story and I'm hoping that book is even better than this one.

This series is a very relaxed and mellow. It's not heavy on the romance, but more so focused on the mentality of falling in love and making life choices.

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Posted at 3:02 PM | by Elle

Book Review: Sand Castle Bay by Sherryl Woods

Sand Castle Bay by Sherryl Woods

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This is the first book in the Ocean Breeze series by Sheerryl Woods. The Castle family consists of Emily, Gabi, Samantha and their meddling grandmother, Cora Jane. The women have returned to the small North Carolina town due to a hurricane that has torn apart their grandmother's restaurant and they're all there to help her.

The story focuses on Emily who hasn't returned to Sand Castle Bay since breaking up with her high school sweetheart, Boone Dorsett. Emily decided to leave behind her boyfriend and the place she grew up in order to pursue a career elsewhere as an interior designer. Boone does not wait for Emily and marries, has a son and then becomes a widow after his wife passes away from an illness. So when Emily returns ten years later both Emily and Boone are a little worried about old feelings being stirred up.

For some reason this book took me longer to read than normal. It seemed slow, a bit predictable and the wishy-washiness of Boone and Emily was a bit annoying. That said I will read the next two books in this series to see what's in store for Gabi and Samantha.

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Posted at 2:59 PM | by Elle

Speed Of Reading Test

The average person could read Game of Thrones in 484 days.

Click the image to find out if you could read it faster. (via BlinkBox Books).

This quiz said I read 325 words per minute and if I read for 40 minutes each day, I could get through 48 books per year. That sounds about right, but I usually don't get 40 minutes a day in of reading a book (I try though.) It also revealed that I'd read 286 days faster than the average person.

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Posted at 1:43 PM | by Elle