Review: Goodnight Tweetheart, Teresa Medeiros

Title: Goodnight Tweetheart

Author: Teresa Medeiros

Paperback: 240 Pages
Publisher: Gallery
Release Date: 12/14/10
ISBN: 978-1439188156

Description:

@WhtTheHeckHappenedToMyLife

 

Abigail Donovan has a lot of stuff she should be doing. Namely writing her next novel. A bestselling author who is still recovering from a near Pulitzer Prize win and the heady success that follows Oprah’s stamp of approval, she is stuck at Chapter Five and losing confidence daily. But when her publicist signs her up for a Twitter account, she’s intrigued. What’s all the fuss?

Trending Topic: True Love

Taken under the wing of one of her Twitter followers, “MarkBaynard"—a quick witted, quick-typing professor on sabbatical—Abby finds it easy to put words out into the world 140 characters at a time. And once she gets a handle on tweets, retweets, direct messages, hashtags, and trends, she starts to feel unblocked in writing and in life. After all, why should she be spending hours in her apartment staring at her TweetDeck and fretting about her stalled career when Mark is out there traveling the world and living?

Or is he?

Told almost entirely in tweets and DMs, Goodnight Tweetheart is a truly modern take on a classic tale of love and loss—a Griffin and Sabine for the Twitter generation.

My Review:

I must admit that when I picked up Goodnight Tweetheart that I was uncertain how could a book be written with tweets of a 140 characters or less.  Let me say that Goodnight Tweetheart was everything I was not expecting.  It was cute and adoring.  It also proved what kind of conversations you could have with very few words.

As a novelist Abigail had the dreaded writers block on chapter five.  That is when her publicist signs her up for a Twitter account.  Not knowing a thing about Twitter MarkBaynard takes Abigail under his wing and teaches her the finer points of Twitter.

Eventually, they had online dates somewhere different each time, learning about each other, discovering similarities.  Never meeting in person Abigail finds herself drawn to MarkBaynard.  Was he for real or was he hiding something from her.

MarkBaynard has his own secret and he refuses to tell Abigail about it.  He enjoys the conversations and dates as Abigail discovers Twitter.  At the end, will their Twitter romance turn into something more?  Or will MarkBaynard's secret be too much for her to handle?

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Review: The Devil Wears Plaid, Teresa Medeiros

Title: The Devil Wears Plaid 

Author: Teresa Medeiros 

Mass Market Paperback: 384 Pages

Publisher: Pocket

Release Date: 8/24/2010

ISBN: 978-1439157886

Description:

Emmaline Marlow is about to wed the extremely powerful laird of the Hepburn clan to save her father from debtor's prison when ruffian Jamie Sinclair bursts into the abbey on a magnificent black horse and abducts her in one strong swoop. Though he is Hepburn's sworn enemy, Emma's mysterious captor is everything her bridegroom is not--handsome, virile, dangerous...and a perilous temptation for her yearning heart.

Jamie expects Emma to be some milksop English miss, not a fiery, defiant beauty whose irresistible charms will tempt him at every turn. But he cannot allow either one of them to forget he is her enemy and she his pawn in the deadly Highland feud between the clans. Stealing his enemy's bride was simple, but can he claim her innocence without losing his heart?

My Review:

Emma has to wed the ancient earl to save her family and her home that has been in her mother’s side of the family for two hundred years. She is strong willed not one of these weaklings of society already disgracing her family once by breaking off an engagement for a man who she loved only to find out he did not love her. Which in returns she feels drives her father to drinking, spending every penny they had the Earl had a solution and her father accepted. Emma stands up to her responsibility to be the new countess when at the alter she had a gun pointed at her heart and kidnapped.

Jamie the steamy Highlander kidnaps Emma to end a feud that has been going on for 5 generations between the two clans. What was supposed to be a simple request in return for the earls new bride turned into something more. You learn more about Jamie, even some things that I was surprised to find out. Drawn to Emma you can feel the sexual tension and cut it with a knife. A tease here and a tease there was enough to drive you mad.

Both Emma and Jamie grow within the book. They learn about each other and the secrets that they hold. At the end, I for one was glad how the book ended. Jamie and Emma both tugged at my heart wanting what they both wanted and yet denied. I, for one, could not put down The Devil Wears Plaid I was hooked from the very first line to the very last. If you have yet to read any of Teresa Medeiros books, I suggest you do.

My Rating:

The Devil Wears Plaid