The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

Source:  Purchased
Genre:  Contemporary Romance, Chick Lit
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Date Published: October 1, 2013

Number of Pages: 295

An international sensation, this hilarious, feel-good novel is narrated by an oddly charming and socially challenged genetics professor on an unusual quest: to find out if he is capable of true love.

Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. He is a man who can count all his friends on the fingers of one hand, whose lifelong difficulty with social rituals has convinced him that he is simply not wired for romance. So when an acquaintance informs him that he would make a “wonderful” husband, his first reaction is shock. Yet he must concede to the statistical probability that there is someone for everyone, and he embarks upon The Wife Project. In the orderly, evidence-based manner with which he approaches all things, Don sets out to find the perfect partner. She will be punctual and logical—most definitely not a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker, or a late-arriver.

Yet Rosie Jarman is all these things. She is also beguiling, fiery, intelligent—and on a quest of her own. She is looking for her biological father, a search that a certain DNA expert might be able to help her with. Don's Wife Project takes a back burner to the Father Project and an unlikely relationship blooms, forcing the scientifically minded geneticist to confront the spontaneous whirlwind that is Rosie—and the realization that love is not always what looks good on paper.

The Rosie Project is a moving and hilarious novel for anyone who has ever tenaciously gone after life or love in the face of overwhelming challenges.  (from Goodreads)

Shattered by Tracy Wolff

Source: Purchased 
Genre:  New Adult
Publisher: Flirt

Date Published: April 22, 2014

Number of Pages: 299

 Ash Lewis has poured every last ounce of his blood, sweat, and tears into reaching the very top of the professional snowboarding world—until the unthinkable happens. After the biggest competition win of his career, Ash’s mother and father are killed in a tragic accident. Unable to handle the idea of going back out on the snow to pursue the dream his parents shared with him, Ash feels that he has no choice but to walk away from snowboarding forever. Then he meets Tansy Hampton.

Wild, fun, and impulsive, Tansy has a different look and a new passion every week. As a cancer survivor who spent the past several years waiting to die, Tansy has a fresh perspective on life—even if she doesn’t have a clue about what she actually wants to do with it. But she’s determined to find out, and that means making the most of her time while she still can.

From the very beginning, their chemistry is intense. But while Ash can’t stop chasing the ghosts of what can never be, Tansy stays firmly focused on the possibilities the world holds for her—and for them. She’s already picked up the pieces of one shattered life. Now she’s determined to help Ash do the same.  (from  Goodreads)

Making Faces by Amy Harmon

Source:  Purchased
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Smashwords

Date Published: October 12, 2013
Number of Pages: 405

Ambrose Young was beautiful. He was tall and muscular, with hair that touched his shoulders and eyes that burned right through you. The kind of beautiful that graced the covers of romance novels, and Fern Taylor would know. She'd been reading them since she was thirteen. But maybe because he was so beautiful he was never someone Fern thought she could have...until he wasn't beautiful anymore.
Making Faces is the story of a small town where five young men go off to war, and only one comes back. It is the story of loss. Collective loss, individual loss, loss of beauty, loss of life, loss of identity. It is the tale of one girl's love for a broken boy, and a wounded warrior's love for an unremarkable girl. This is a story of friendship that overcomes heartache, heroism that defies the common definitions, and a modern tale of Beauty and the Beast, where we discover that there is a little beauty and a little beast in all of us.

Rule by Jay Crownover

Source:  Purchased
Genre:  New Adult
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks

Date Published: May 7, 2013

Number of Pages: 432

Opposites in every way . . . except the one that matters 

Shaw Landon loved Rule Archer from the moment she laid eyes on him. Rule is everything a straight--A pre-med student like Shaw shouldn’t want--and the only person she’s never tried to please. She isn’t afraid of his scary piercings and tattoos or his wild attitude. Though she knows that Rule is wrong for her, her heart just won’t listen.

To a rebel like Rule Archer, Shaw Landon is a stuck-up, perfect princess-and his dead twin brother’s girl. She lives by other people’s rules; he makes his own. He doesn’t have time for a good girl like Shaw-even if she’s the only one who can see the person he truly is.

But a short skirt, too many birthday cocktails, and spilled secrets lead to a night neither can forget. Now, Shaw and Rule have to figure out how a girl like her and a guy like him are supposed to be together without destroying their love . . . or each other. (from Goodreads)

Best Kind of Broken by Chelsea Fine

This is a novel I'm not entirely sure how to explain or review.  

Publisher:  Forever
Date Published:  March 4, 2014
Number of Pages:  285




Pixie and Levi haven't spoken in nearly a year when they find themselves working―and living―at the same inn in the middle of nowhere. Once upon a time, they were childhood friends. But that was before everything went to hell. And now things are... awkward.

All they want to do is avoid each other, and their past, for as long as possible. But now that they're forced to share a bathroom, and therefore a shower, keeping their distance from one another becomes less difficult than keeping their hands off each other. Welcome to the hallway of awkward tension and sexual frustration, folks. Get comfy. It’s going to be a long summer.  (from Goodreads)

Opal by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Source:  Purchased
Genre: YA-Paranormal Romance
Publisher: Entangled Teen
Genre: Young Adult Paranormal Romance
Date Published: December 11, 2012


After everything, I’m no longer the same Katy. I’m different... And I’m not sure what that will mean in the end. When each step we take in discovering the truth puts us in the path of the secret organization responsible for torturing and testing hybrids, the more I realize there is no end to what I’m capable of. The death of someone close still lingers, help comes from the most unlikely source, and friends will become the deadliest of enemies, but we won’t turn back. Even if the outcome will shatter our worlds forever.  (from Goodreads)

I'm Back with a Brand New Look!!!

So...I decided to make the blog look more professional.  Completely redo it.  So when we got back from my parents' on Sunday (they live 4 hours away), I made it my mission to redo the blog on Monday.  

I failed.

Hard.

I broke the blog.  BROKE IT.  It looked awful.  Nothing worked.  I almost broke the laptop.  I cried.  I gave up.

So on Tuesday, I decided to just keep looking at templates and find something that spoke to me.  In the span of time it took me to open 2 websites, we completely lost internet.  A large part of the state lost internet (a cut fiber, or something?) and we didn't get it back until 9pm.  So that wasn't happening either.

Then this morning, amiss doctors appointments and running to the grocery store, I found a template I love (and is now a part of this blog!  Yay!) only to be forced to have my husband install it, cause I couldn't figure it out.  

Everything is finally resolved (almost! The Book Reviews tab is not working, but that will be resolved soon!) and I feel confident in saying...Welcome to the new Happy Cloud Reviews, guys!!   Thanks for all the support!!

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I will resume posting reviews, which I am VERY behind in, tomorrow!!