Bogormen

Title: To the Moon and Back
Author: Melissa Brayden
Genre: Chicklit, lgbtq
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 270
Date read: February 2020

Lauren Prescott had dreamed of being an actress since she was cast as Wendy in her middle school production of Peter Pan. Yes, her nightgown snagged and brought the set tumbling down, but she was hooked. After years of unsuccessful auditions, performing just wasn’t in the cards. Instead, Lauren established herself as a successful stage manager at the esteemed McAllister Theater. Unfortunately, the resident director has cast celebrity Carly Daniel: headstrong, entitled, and always late. So why is their chemistry turning her the hell on?

After partying her way through her twenties and ruining a successful film career, Carly Daniel has to take whatever she can get. If schlepping it onstage will raise her star again, she’ll listen to her pesky agent. Added bonus: the uptight stage manager is a sexy distraction.

When Carly’s costar is sidelined, Lauren must decide whether renewing a long-forgotten dream will jeopardize what she has percolating with Carly. Is the limelight big enough for two?


A sweet romance that charmed me even further by having most of it take place at a theater. At a lapsed thespian myself, I loved reading about all the ins and outs of theater life - even if it did make me feel just a tad homesick ;)

But the strength of the writing lay with the characters. I grew to truly love both Lauren and Carly and was happy to see them (mostly) communicate about their hopes, fears and dreams. It was a refreshing change, and even if things did progress rather quickly, it rang true in the context of the heightened emotions that always comes as part of the parcel with a theater performance.

I'm pretty sure there was more than a little wish-fulfillment in the depiction of life in LA, and Evelyn did disappear from the scene a tad too easily, but as it never claimed to be anything other than escapist literature I never minded either and was just pleased to spend time with Lauren, Carly, Trip and Rocky :-D

Title: Unbreakable (Collapsible #3)
Author: Ruth Buchanan
Genre: Christian fiction
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 228
Date read: February, 2020

With her leg finally back at full strength and her emotional life taking on a whole new shape, Rachel Cooper feels fit to handle the confluence of four major events: the end of another school year, the beginning of a new relationship, the stress of helping to plan a wedding, and Coach's insistence that Rachel overcome a mental block and master the flying teep kick.

Meanwhile, Rachel draws the focus of some strong male attention. While she isn't sure what it all means, she's determined not to write an alternate story in her head by pitting herself as the main character in yet another imagined thriller. But in her determination not to make the same mistake a third time, Rachel ignores danger signs. Will Rachel manage to separate fact from fiction before it's too late?


A lovely ending to the trilogy :-) Book two remains my favourite, but I really liked how everything was tied together for a very satisfying ending. I got really, really frustrated with Rachel at one point (as my running status updates will have shown), but she redeemed herself nicely, and I appreciated the way everything got resolved. Ruth writes extremely relateable characters... even if I do perhaps relate more to Lynn than to Rachel ;-)

I LOVED Ian's idea of "stealth-dating"... yeah, that's never going to work out as you expect!

Title: Leoniderne (Spektrum #1)
Author: Nanna Foss
Genre: YA, fantasy
Rating: 3/5
# pages: Audiobook ~14hrs
Date read: February 2020

When did it start?
When the old lady accused us to bring about the end of the world?
When I dreamt of the glowing hands?
When the compass burned out hands?
Or long before?

15-year-old Emilie draws a boy with turquoise eyes and a mysterious necklace. The next day that boy turns up in her class.
Before she knows what's going on, Emilie has triangle scars in her palms and her classmates have weird abilities... or is she just imagining it all? The lines between dream and reality are fluid, and Emilie is desperately trying to stay out of the chaos.


... I can't quite make up my mind what I thought of this. I liked the beginning and the end, but the middle was a drag. It was very obviously a set-up to the rest of the series - to the point that it felt like the main plot didn't start until we were 75% of the way through the book. Which meant that I was still considering just giving up on it until very late in the book... which suddenly everything happened at once, and now I'm slightly curious as to what will happen in the next book after all! Might just find a detailed synopsis instead.

I liked Emilie and Alban, but felt the other main characters were too 2-dimensional. They might be fleshed out more in the sequels though. I was less than impressed by the huge amount of swearing that went on, but have a feeling that might have been more blatant because I heard it as an audiobook, whereas I would have been more inclined to just skim by it and not really notice it, if I had read it myself.