Meghan Varner

I wanted to see this movie from the first time I saw the preview.  It has such an amazing and diverse cast that I knew it would interesting and that everyone had some importance.  I watched this the other night and I am still thinking of how all the items took place.  In fact I really have no con's for the movie...except one..which I will talk about below:) Pros *The cast.  They are just amazing in general, have great careers behind and ahead of them, but in this movie they just shine!  I love the dynamic they bring, the depth to the characters and how fascinating they help this movie come across as. *The flow of the movie.  It kept me on my toes, trying to find the tricks and really understanding that the lines these characters say were very important! *The magic tricks.  They were amazing.  I am not usually captivated by magic, but wow, even seeing the explanation behind many of the tricks I was in awe of the creativity, the profe...

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General Information Genre: YA/Romance Publisher: Amazon Digital Services/Self Published: September 9, 2014 Book Summary:(Per GoodReads) Labelled a nerd for most of high school, Livi sees her first year of university as a chance to redefine herself. She can finally enter the popular crowd and maybe even land herself a super hot boyfriend. But Livi’s about to discover that the price of popularity may be more than she’s willing to pay, and that what — and who — she wants most has always been right in front of her. My Thoughts: Light-hearted and easy to feel a connection with this book!  I think most girls and maybe guys (not a man, sorry y'all!) want to re-invent themselves sometime in life.  Maybe college, high-school, new job, etc.  This book takes that idea, adds some romance, funny scenes, tender moments, issues that many young adults face and creates a story that I loved! Very effective in creating this world that Livi lives in through descripti...

I am a Pierce Brosnan fan so I was very excited to see this movie at Redbox!  I couldn't wait to watch it and figured I would love it....well I was not wrong..it was FANTASTIC! Pros *Action packed from the get go.  This is not a movie that you have to wade through a lot of back story.  It gets going and stays strong throughout. *Kept my attention.  I never knew what or who was going to what or when! *I love the little loops several characters threw us! *Pierce Brosnon...really there is no need to go further..but he is an amazing actor.  Regardless of what I watch him in I believe his roll and I don't get confused with his other rolls. *The various locations..so many were pretty or sad, but they all grabbed your focus and played perfectly into the movie. *The movie was more detailed then just a typical gun and action movie. Cons *I didn't think it would take that long for people to figure out the girls secret.  I never can tell wha...

General Information Genre:YA Publisher: Random House Published: expected February 10, 2015 Book Summary:(Per Author's website) The night Quin Kincaid takes her Oath, she will become what she has trained to be her entire life. She will become a Seeker. This is her legacy, and it is an honor. As a Seeker, Quin will fight beside her two closest companions, Shinobu and John, to protect the weak and the wronged. Together they will stand for light in a shadowy world. And she’ll be with the boy she loves–who’s also her best friend. But the night Quin takes her Oath, everything changes. Being a Seeker is not what she thought. Her family is not what she thought. Even the boy she loves is not who she thought. And now it’s too late to walk away. My Thoughts: When I first saw this book and summary I was immediately enthralled and wanted to start reading it, so I was very happy to receive a copy to review!  I have read other reviews that likened it to the Hunger Games...

  Congrats & Happy Release to Nicole Reed!  Hell’s Ink is LIVE!  Amazon US: http://amzn.to/1Exagmd Amazon UK: http://amzn.to/1CjfwdO Barnes & Noble: http://bit.ly/1t2KqFq Goodreads Link: http://bit.ly/1t2Ls4f Blurb In this Brotherhood you live or die by the three-piece patch. For Hold Dawson, Vice-President of the Hells Highwaymen Motorcycle Club, it’s not just black ink tattooed on his body, but the religion he worships, and the law that governs his life. Nothing else matters. Family by choice and not by blood. More sacred than a shared name. Bound by respect. Loyal to death. Unity.  Respect. Love.   Devotion. Forever. But there’s another side to this life. One the President, Hold’s own father, lives and regulates by. Merciless. Wrathful. Murderous.    Dishonest. Lethal. It’s blood in and blood out and only one man gets to be king. Excerpt: Meet Hold He watched her slender...

General Information Genre: YA Publisher:  Booklings Publishing Published: September 17, 2012 Book Summary: (Per GoodReads) Witches inhabit our world, organized in covens and hiding behind a shroud of secrecy—the Veil. Skye’s London coven sends her to Seattle’s Greenwood High to find the Singularity, an unusually gifted witch who may break the Veil and trigger a dangerous new era of witch-hunting. Things get complicated when Skye meets a charming new classmate, Drake. Skye’s job becomes even trickier when she clashes with Jane, an intimidating rival witch. Drake falls for the mysterious Skye, but odd accidents, potion mix-ups, and the occasional brush with death kind of get in the way of romance. Once he discovers Skye is a witch, he goes to war for her, even though his only weapons are a nice set of abs and a sharp sense of humor. Fighting off wicked Jane and the other dark forces hell-bent on seizing the Singularity's immense power, Skye and Drake will risk everything t...

General Information Genre: Humor Pages: 176 Publisher: Abbott Press Published: August 15, 2014 Book Summary (Per GoodReads): When David, a self-proclaimed anxiety-ridden introvert, convinces himself he's dying of cancer, he invites his delightfully unpredictable, Xanax-popping, chardonnay-swilling mother on a series of international good-bye vacations. By doing so, he unwittingly opens a Pandora's Box of hilarious and humiliating events that will test just how far they are willing to go to get a laugh. David knows the trips will be anything but boring because he and his mom have been causing a scene for as long as he can remember. He describes her as a cross between Bea Arthur and Karen Walker from Will and Grace, and she is notorious for bending the rules. But nothing can prepare him for escapades that include digging his mom out of a rain gutter in Costa Rica and being dragged across the Arabian Desert by a psychotic camel named Forrest Hump. As the vacat...

General Information Genre: YA/Thriller/Spy Pages 300 Publisher: November 28, 2014 Published: Penelope Pipp Publishing Book Summary: (Per Goodreads) To find the truth, she must first uncover the lie …. Orphaned as an infant, Sam is raised by a pharmaceutical research mission in the rain forests of Torundi. She wields a mean machete, makes soap from candlenuts and is a fairly astute amateur entomologist. You know, the normal stuff. But a month before her seventeenth birthday, she is exiled to an American boarding school in Malaysia. Armed with little more than her unusual upbringing and church-lady clothes, Sam must contend with her new existence as the world's most socially unprepared high school senior. Well that’s just fine. Because she is determined to solve the mystery behind her banishment and return home tout de suite. But when she discovers the unthinkable – that her banishment is tied to an enigmatic corporation with illicit designs on Torundi – she realizes th...

General Information Genre: Middle School/ Children Pages:98 Publisher: CarryUsOff Books Published: April 8, 2014 Book Summary: (Per Amazon) "If we take a special one from the sea, the sea will take a special one from us."  Or maybe, Little Orchid thinks, a not-so-special one.  It begins with a desperate wish to prove to Ma that she isn't sprouting nonsense about the Giant Cuttlefish. Yet when Little Orchid encounters the sea monster face-to-face, she can only stand by and watch helplessly as it gets killed for dinner. Horror and guilt wash over her. That night, Little Orchid wakes up and finds boils all over her body, her nose and mouth stretched, and her fingers transforming into creature-like arms.  With an unexpected storm approaching, and without a proper goodbye to her family, Little Orchid must now leave home and start a new life as a sea monster.  ...  LITTLE ORCHID'S SEA MONSTER TROUBLE is a middle-grade story about the frail trus...

General Information Genre: Thriller/Swedish Gothic Pages:376 Publisher:  Weinstein Books Published: January 27, 2015 Book Summary:(Per NetGalley) Wolf winter,’ she said, her voice small. I wanted to ask about it. You know, what it is.’ He was silent for a long time. It’s the kind of winter that will remind us we are mortal,’ he said. Mortal and alone.’  Swedish Lapland, 1717. Maija, her husband Paavo and her daughters Frederika and Dorotea arrive from their native Finland, hoping to forget the traumas of their past and put down new roots in this harsh but beautiful land. Above them looms Blackåsen, a mountain whose foreboding presence looms over the valley and whose dark history seems to haunt the lives of those who live in its shadow. While herding the family’s goats on the mountain, Frederika happens upon the mutilated body of one of their neighbors, Eriksson. The death is dismissed as a wolf attack, but Maija feels certain that the wounds could only have be...

Afterlife Of Alanna Miller Book Three in the Nightmares Trilogy Demelza Carlton Genre: Mystery Thriller Synopsis: Five years ago, Nathan's world came crashing down. The witness protection program stole the woman he loved and now he's lost everything - including hope that she's still alive. His security job is a daily reminder of the girl he failed to protect, dragging him deeper into despair. Forced to assume the identity of a dead girl, Caitlin struggles to rise from the ruins of the life she lost. A career change summons her home, but Perth isn't the safe haven it seems. Someone is hunting her - one of her kidnappers, a long-lost relative or another terrorist with an axe to grind? When nightmares from their past threaten to engulf Nathan and Caitlin, can a broken hero and a girl living another woman's afterlife finally fight their way free? Purchase Link: *PRE-ORDER LINK: http://www.amazon.com/Afterlife-Alanna-Miller-Nightmares-Tril...