eBook review - Facing the Music

My good friend sue_holston just had her new eBook published, called Facing the Music. I read it over the weekend and really enjoyed it, and wanted to give her some well-deserved advertising.

Sex, drugs and rock and roll - this book has them all.

Graham thought he'd landed his dream job as a reporter that would take him to the big time - spend a month on the road with the hottest band out there, the Texas Madmen, giving a behind the scenes look.

But Graham quickly learns that his reporter instincts clash with his personal ethics as the Texas Madmen take him into their fold. Especially Ethan, with his own secret, who Graham is instantly attracted to.

There are a lot of characters in this book - Graham, Ethan, Nate, Lars, Casey and Aiden. And they all have personal demons. I was impressed with the author's juggling ability to tie all of these personal stories together in a way that affected each and every character in some way. But at the same time making sure to keep Ethan and Graham's relationship front and center.

And that's what this book is all about - Ethan and Graham. I enjoyed watching their relationship go from antagonist to passionate lovers and all of the trials and hardships in-between and afterward. My favorite stories are the ones where love doesn't come easy, but triumphs in the end and this one delivers. (And bonus points for the many steamy love scenes!)

Facing the Music gets two thumbs up from this reader!

Buy Facing the Music at Amazon HERE

The weekend wrap-up

Busy, busy day on Saturday. But productive! This new, gigantic Fashion Outlet Mall opened up here in Chicago last Thursday, only about 45 minutes from where I live. If I remember the news stories correctly, it's the first indoor mall built in the Chicagoland area in TWENTY YEARS. So naturally, this was a big event. All of the local news stations were there on Thursday and the crowds were massive. There was an eight mile back up to get into the parking lot. They turned off the toll booth on the highway so as to not back it up even further.

Chaos, right? So what does my husband say? "Let's go there on Saturday!" I'm like, "Have you lost your mind??"

But he was not to be dissuaded, so off we went bright and early Saturday morning. They open the doors at 8 am but the stores don't open until 10 am. We got there at about 9 am and the parking garage (which is seven levels high) was already filling up. Yikes.

But you know what? It actually turned out to be a really good day. We timed it perfectly. We took the next hour to basically window shop and narrow down what stores we actually wanted to go into. By about 9:30 people were lining up outside the stores (Tory Burch, Gucci and Coach would have up to two hour waits to get in!). We picked the Nike outlet and got in line, and it was good timing, as a huge line formed shortly afterwards. When the doors opened they gave the first couple dozen people these really nice water bottles and inside was a $10 coupon!

Needless to say, I put it to good use. Check out my new kicks! Pretty sharp, aren't they? :-)

And the deals continued for the rest of the day. Not only was everything on sale because the mall was new, but for opening weekend the discounts were even better. Got a $90 backpack at Samsonite for only $30.00. Got a $80.00 purse at Kipling for $35.00. John got some kitchen stuff and I got a shirt as well, both with extra discounts.

We had lunch at the mall then braved the crowds leaving the parking garage and then went to see The Wolverine. We both liked it! Gotta love me some buff Hugh Jackman. Heh. Then we went out to dinner and then collapsed at home. :-)

Sunday was the complete opposite, a slug day. Watched TV, read an eBook, did some laundry, made caramel brownies and made a LuthorCorp t-shirt for my photo with Michael Rosenbaum next weekend.

And now here we are, Monday again. Blech. And it's going to rain all day it looks like. Double blech.

What about YOU guys? Have a good weekend?