Imagination is a very powerful thing!
The mind can make or break whole worlds, travel from one end of the known universe to the other within the span of a heartbeat and turn queens to slave girls or the reverse. It’s also why the pen is mightier than the sword. With the pen, words can paint pictures of futures that hold heavens with endless desire, pleasure and enjoyment or create the imagery of hells with torture, pain and suffering.
Between desire and fear and between pleasure and pain there lies a narrow realm of possibilities where I like to let my imagination roam. If you care to you may join me on my journeys...

Saturday, 25 August 2012

The Baumgartners Plus One

The Baumgartners Plus One (Baumgartners, #0.5)The Baumgartners Plus One by Selena Kitt
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I liked the book, but it failed to woo me in the way Babysitting the Baumgartners did.
The book takes on the tough subject of an unsuccessful marriage and domestic abuse, but in my opinion doesn't make it dark enough to allow me to sympathise enough with Danielle.
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This despite that the author adds that they had a stillborn child.
When Dani drifts astray and ends up cheating on her husband (that has moved out of their home) I can't feel for her enough not to see her as an adulteress and subsequently the Baumgartners as home-wreckers.
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I acknowledge that Selena set up a very tough challenge to try and convince the readers that Dani's involvement with the Baumgartner was acceptable, but in my opinion failed to pull it off.

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