Debbie de La Fontaine is unhappy with her sex life, so when she meets a witch who can spice up her sex life for her she reluctantly agrees to do what the witch wants her to do - give her her African Violet. The only problem is that she wanted this to work with her boyfriend. Now Debbie is destined to have amazing sex in a place called Sex Hell - a place where she can act out her fantasies no matter how absurd they are, with a "sleazy" man who is not her boyfriend. The only way she can escape Sex Hell is to keep returning there again and again until she can gather enough clues from Carl the demon - a floating head who shows up after the deed is done - to break the spell. This was original and funny. The writing was really good. I found it did drag on a bit towards the end though. I loved Debbie's sarcastic comments. This is the kind of book I wouldn't normally read but I decided to try it anyway and I'm happy I did!

Sixteen-year-old Maya and seventeen-year-old Lochan have to look after their three younger siblings and share household responsibilities while still going to school and doing their homework. Their father left them five years ago and now has a new family and when they do see their mother she's drunk. She usually stays over at her boyfriend's house pretending she doesn't have five children. At school Lochan is socially inept. The one person he considers his best friend is Maya. When Maya goes out on her first date, she doesn't want the guy to kiss her because she's in love with someone else. Lochan and Maya are in love with each other. The author did a good job of taking a taboo subject and creating this story. It wasn't like the brother and sister went at it the whole book. They were in denial, they knew it was wrong and thought of their family and the consequences, they followed their heart. They needed to feel like they were loved and wanted since their parents

Mira, Isabelle and Kimmy have been friends since college. And remained friends through some pretty awful times. When Mira was drinking and doing drugs, she ruined her best friends' lives. For whatever reason they have both forgiven her and staged an intervention. A year into her sobriety, Mira and her friends are running a 50K wilderness race together, a race that Mira hopes will bring them closer. As the race progresses, strange things start happening, things that seem to be related to Mira's past. With no cell phone reception Mira wonders if they will make it out alive. The chapters alternate between the past and present. I liked the idea of running a race and weird things happening. But I did not like the ending. At all. And there were quite a few spelling/editing errors which became distracting. But overall it was an enjoyable, easy read.

Maggie Sparkes arrives in New York City to pack up her best friend's belongings. Celine Gonzales has committed suicide which has left everyone stunned. Celine was a beautiful young woman who had an acceptance letter to the prestigious Hollingsworth Institute of Art. She worked so hard to achieve her dreams and they were finally becoming a reality. It doesn't make sense that she'd kill herself. But the police have conclusive evidence - too many pills combined with too much alcohol. The more Maggie goes through Celine's belongings the more she is convinced it wasn't suicide. On her search for evidence that will make the police reopen the case, Maggie puts herself in the killer's path - a killer who has no problem getting her out of the way too. It started off good, but after I put it down I struggled to get back into it. It became boring and long. I felt detached from the characters. It was nothing special.

Sal and Charlie are married. And Sal can never leave Charlie, no matter what. Everyone says to go into this book without knowing a whole lot about it. I did just that. It was disappointing and boring. The writing was too simple and it made the story fall flat. It was too repetitious. I did like the twist. Kudos to the author for creating a character I absolutely HATED! There were a few times I almost stopped reading because of Charlie.

It's Memorial Day and New York socialite Lily Dane has come back to Seaview, Rhode Island, where her family stays for the summer. Unfortunately for Lily it's not going to be quite what she expected - the Greenwald's have decided to spend their summer in Seaview as well. Budgie is Lily's former best friend who has recently married Lily's former fiancé, Nick Greenwald. She inserts herself back into Lily's life as if she didn't steal the love of her life. But secrets and lies will eventually come out and turn everyone's lives upside down.  I love, love, love the author's writing. It's descriptive, flows smoothly, and is easy to get lost in. The book has great characters and alternating chapters of past and present - how Lily and Nick met, fell madly in love and how their engagement ended, and now, almost seven years later, how they react to seeing each other for the first time since it ended and how Nick came to marry Lily's best friend.

Daniel and Laura are going on the trip of a lifetime - travelling through Europe - before returning back to London to settle down and hopefully start a family. But their trip ends suddenly when they are thrown off a night train in the middle of nowhere after their passports and tickets are stolen. To get help they need to hike along the tracks, through a forest. Back in London the couple will not talk to anyone about that night in the forest. And their nightmare isn't over yet. I am extremely disappointed in this book. I imagined much worse than what really took place. Of course what happened was bad, but other people had it worse. Every time the author would build things up it turned out to be anticlimactic. In the beginning there was too much about their lives back in London, telling everyone "I want to tell you what happened, but I can't" and not enough snippets of their time after being thrown off the train. I hated the epilogue. Really? You can live with that but

Tanya Dubois finds her husband's dead body at the bottom of the stairs and flees. She cashes in her credit cards, dyes her hair, demands a new name from a shady person over the phone and leaves her life behind.. for the second time. She meets Blue along the way, a bartender she happens to have a thing or two in common with. Blue offers her a place to stay and a new life. Amelia-now-Debra-now-somebody else changes names, appearances and places like crazy, but can she run forever? Despite some things being far-fetched, it's still five stars. It was a compelling read that made me stay up until early morning because I had to know what was going to happen next.