Sidney Sheldon, If Tomorrow Comes.

A carefully constructed plot, an unimaginable height of con, cheating and revenge make this novel from the master of the unexpected, Sidney Sheldon, a popular and famous book.
Tracey Whitney, the daughter of a woman who was cheated, sets out to take revenge against the people who put her mother into such circumstances that she is forced to pull the trigger on herself. In the course of her revenge, Tracey serves an unjust prison sentence, framed by the same people who stripped her mother's company of its assets, making her commit suicide.
After her serving her prison sentence, she skillfully destroys the mafia group which harmed her mother and her. She uses her vast knowledge in banking and acting to do so and fulfills her vow of revenge.
Because her prison sentence makes it virtually impossible for her to ever find a job again, she learns the art of conning people and caries off a jewel theft successfully, meeting her future husband, Jeff, another con artist.
Jeff and Tracey fall in love after conning each other multiple times. They promise to leave their life as con artists. But, on board the plane to Brazil, where they wanted to spend the rest of their lives, Tracey runs into another ruthless person who she wants to destroy.
The story ends here and leaves the readers thinking about Tracey and Jeff's future like a typical Sidney Sheldon novel.
A thriller full of suspense and intrigue, the master of the unexpected, Sidney Sheldon lives up to his title and provides a book so intricately fine in details yet so mind boggling, that it has become a triumphant best seller.

Alexander's Rating: 9/10

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Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

The concept of immortality, living forever and never ending life, is something that everyone of us, at some points in our life, desired. It is this very concept that Natalie Babbitt explores in her book, Tuck Everlasting.
This book revolves around the charachter of Winnie Foster who lives in an overprotective family that owns the forest near where their house is situated.
Once, when Winnie gets bored of sitting around, she sneaks out of the home and stumbles upon a boy, calling himself Jesse Tuck, aged 104, who is drinking out of a pond hidden by trees. Winnie, belonging from the family who owns the forest, wants to drink the water and when she is not allowed to, threatens to tell her father of his pond. When Winnie gets to know that this is a pond l, the water of which brings immortality to the drinker, she wants to drink the water all the more.
Soon, Mae Tuck and her other son appear and whisk her off to their home where she explores how being immortal has been more of a curse to the Tucks than a blessing.
Complexities follow where Mae is imprisoned for the killing of a man who wants to disclose the secret of the immortal pond.
At the end, Winnie is given a bottle of the magic water by Jesse who wants her to drink it when she turns seventeen so that they can live together for the rest of the eternity. At this point, the readers are forced to think of whether immortality IS really a thing they would like to be associated with?
A really excellent, classic, elegant book that explores all the concepts of  immortality and changes our view of it.

Alexander's Rating: 8/10

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Danielle Steel, Mixed Blessings.

A classic Steel book, Mixed Blessings is the thirtieth novel of the great story teller. In this book, Danielle Steel takes us through the lives of three couples who suffer from a problem most common nowadays: infertility, the inability to have children.
Diana and Andrew, a young, just married couple, find out that they can not have children due to a blocked Fallopian tube in Diana.
Charlie, a young man, marries a wild, party loving girl, Barbie and finds out that he is sterile and can't have children, a discovery that tears him up.
Brad and Pilar, an old couple, find out that fertility drugs are not going to help them conceive a child and that they are going to have to go through more than that if they want children.
                                 In there grief, the couples break apart, drift off and then learn to love life for what it has given to them. On an individual basis, they learn to live with what they have and to count their blessings to attain pure happiness.
A must read book with a gripping story line and plot that not only gives you strength to face whatever life throws in your way but to learn to count your blessings.



Alexander's Rating: 9/10.

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