Showing posts with label 2021. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2021. Show all posts

January 16, 2022

Review: Sea Spray by John A. Heldt



Product Description:
Months after stealing two time machines from a madman who wants them back, the Lanes, a family of seven, seek peace and safety in 1927, the latest stop on a journey through time. For a while, each succeeds.

Parents Mark and Mary find housing in affluent East Hampton, New York, where a gracious elderly couple offers use of their mansion. Son Jordan and his new wife, Jessie, plan a family. Siblings Laura, Jeremy, and Ashley pursue fun and adventure. All form strong friendships with the Prices, a mysterious mirror-image family that lives next door.

Billionaire Robert Devereaux could not care less. Reeling from the theft of his million-dollar devices, he sends a hit man to the past to retrieve his property and rid the world of his former business partner and his troublesome clan.

Randy Taylor, who programs the machines, is determined to stop him. He tries to undermine his boss and save the Lanes, even as he tries to help his mother beat a deadly illness. He pines for the day he can join his fugitive friends and rekindle a promising relationship with Laura Lane.

Filled with romance, humor, and heartbreak, SEA SPRAY follows a modern family on the adventure of a lifetime as they navigate their way through the exciting and often dangerous world of Lindbergh, Gershwin, and Fitzgerald. 

My Thoughts:
Sea Spray is book #3 in the Time Box series. As usual, this book is well researched as are all of the books in Heldt's many time travel series.  You get a small peek into real historical events with a unique storyline starring a family from 2022.  In Sea Spray the Lane's have traveled to the roaring 20's. 

On the run, the family tries to blend in with the locals and become close friends with their affluent neighbors. Romance meets adventure with a dash of intrigue, you get sucked in pretty quickly. Surprises pop up at every twist and turn of the plot which kept me reading long past my bedtime. 

My Recommendation:
I recommend this book to anyone who loves romantic time travel and if you haven't read the first two, don't skip them. Sea Spray is fantastic but The Fair is extraordinary and you won't want to miss any of the action.  


January 2, 2021

Books I've Read in 2021

Books
January
  1. CyberSpace by Matthew Mather
February
  1. Sea Spray by John A. Heldt
  2. Flight by Laura Griffin
March
  1. Witch Is Where Squirrels Go Nuts by Adele Abbott
April
  1. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
  2. The Journey to New Salem by Mark Rosendorf 
May
  1. Case of the Curious Crystals by Shanna Swendson
June
  1. Witch is Where Rainbows End by Adele Abbott
July
  1. The Therapist by B. A. Paris
August
  1. The Missing Sister by Ellie Marr
September
  1. Forgetting Tomorrow by Jerry Evanoff
October
  1. Witch is Where Unicorns Cry by Adele Abbott

Audiobooks
January
  1. The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
  2. Elsewhere by Dean Koontz
  3. Golden State by Ben H. Winters
  4. Spec Ops by Craig Alanson
  5. The Lost and Found Bookshop by Susan Wiggs
February
  1. In an Instant by Suzanne Redfearn
  2. A Sense of Danger by Jennifer Estep
  3. The Salvage Crew by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
  4. Group by Christine Tape
  5. We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
March
  1. Paradise by Craig Alanson
  2. Daylight by David Baldacci
  3. The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
  4. Heaven's River by Dennis E. Taylor
  5. Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
  6. My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing
  7. City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
  8. Hidden in Plain Sight by Jeffrey Archer
  9. Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler
April
  1. One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  2. Mindless by Keith C. Blackmore
  3. The Roach by Rhett C. Bruno
  4. Playing Nice by J.P. Delany
  5. Fortune and Glory by Janet Evanovich
May
  1. Black Ops by Craig Alanson
  2. Shadows in Death by J.D. Robb
  3. The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
  4. Lost Contact by Nathan Hystad
  5. Commune: Book One by Joshua Gayou
  6. Magical Midlife Madness by K.F. Breene
  7. The Other Emily by Dean Koontz
  8. The Coldest Casey by James Patterson , Aaron Tracy , Ryan Silbert
June
  1. Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  2. Zero Hour by Craig Alanson
  3. Infinite by Jeremey Robinson
  4. The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
July
  1. Exo-Hunter by Jeremy Robinson
  2. The Dinner Guest by B.P. Walter
  3. Mother May I by Joshilyn Jackson
  4. One Perfect Lie by Lisa Scottoline
  5. Ready Player Two by Earnest Cline
  6. All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
August
  1. Mavericks by Craig Alanson
  2. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
  3. Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica
  4. The Guest List by Lucy Foley
  5. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
  6. People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
September
  1. Renegades by Craig Alanson
  2. After I do by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  3. Hogzilla by Mike Baron
  4. Every Last Secret by A. R. Torre
  5. The View Was Exhausting by Mikaella Clements, Onjuli Datta
  6. Unthinkable by Brad Parks
  7. The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
  8. A Merciful Secret by Kendra Elliot
October
  1. L.A. Weather by Maria Amparo Escandon
  2. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
  3. Caraval by Stephanie Garber
  4. Verity by Colleen Hoover
  5. The Best of Friends by Lucinda Berry
  6. Lost Time by Nathan Hystad
  7. Maybe in Another Life by Tayor Jenkins Reid
  8. The Dark by Jeremy Robinson
November
  1. Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  2. The Whistler by John Grisham
  3. The Last Strand by Jennifer Estep
  4. Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney
  5. It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
  6. Model Home by J. Courtney Sullivan
  7. An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten
December
  1. The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
  2. Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
  3. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
  4. Win by Harlan Coben
  5. Capture the Crown by Jennifer Estep
  6. The Family Tree by Steph Mullin
  7. A Gambling Man by David Baldacci
  8. Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
  9. The Judge's List by John Grisham

Grand Total: 92


Here's what I've read in previous years:
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008

Books I Didn't Finish in 2021

Below will be any books I started and didn't finish and the reason why. 
  1. How to Kill Two Presidents by Max Brower
    1. The story just didn't catch my attention. I got about 1/3 in before I gave up. 


Top 5 Books I've Read in 2021

  1. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
  2. Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  3. Win by Harlan Coben 
  4. Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
  5. Verity by Colleen Hoover