Sunday Book Review: Destiny On The Tracks

This week I would like to write up a quick review of Destiny On The Tracks by Drake Braxton. This is only the second book that he has written, but I find that this book has cemented him as one of my favorite authors, who is a must read. I can honestly say that I can't wait to see what his next book is going to be, let alone wait for it to come to press. For now though we will content our self with this amazing read.

Wheeler Reynolds is on business staying at a bed and breakfast outside of Chicago, where after thinking he has heard a voice, and seen and heard a train on tracks near the house. tracks that after he mentions the train sounds he finds out have not been used in over 90 years, not since the tragic night when a circus train jumped the tracks killing every one before.

That nigh he once again hears a voice calling his name in the wind as well as the sound off in the distance of a calliope music box (that is supposed to reside in the living room of the bed and breakfast) after fallowing the sounds next think he know he wakes up in 1918.

There he meets Nicola Tenaglie, an aerialist for the circus. After the sparks fly from their first meeting and a relationship quickly flourishes, he thinks that he has been called there to prevent the train wreck. But outside forces intervene and Wheeler and Nicola get separated from each other when their growing relationship is discovered. In the face of Wheeler's disappearance Nicola winds up back on the train, and it is pulling out of the station, towards the wreck of the train.

Although this story is not one of your typical riding off into the sunset type romances, it is still very good. Some people might be wary of the "time travel" in this story but it is worked in seamlessly, and in a way that seems absolutely natural and dose not at all come across as a gimmick at all. It is written extremely well, you get a feeling for both characters and quickly develop an emotional attachment to both of them and their story. It takes you on a very emotional ride that will have you from the heights of joy to tears. This is honestly one of those books that once I picked it up I could not put it down. I highly recommended this book, even if you are not that into romances it is that good.

Until next time dear readers I hope that you enjoy this book as much as I have.

Mental Health Awareness

As some of you may or may not know May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and as such I thought I would write a blog post to try and help do my part to help raise awareness, and end the stigma of mental illness. I also hope to show provide some hope in the process. As many of you already know I have a mental illness, and that is Bipolar Disorder, which I was diagnosed with only relatively recently, about a year ago, although I have had it for a nice chunk of my life. It is something that while I am still just in the beginning stages of starting to understand and control, I don't feel that it is something that I should have to be ashamed of or have to worry about others finding out about it. unfortunately though there is quite a large amount of stigma that surrounds mental illness especially "serious mental illness", which they are for those that suffer from them (and those close to them as well) unfortunately though it also makes it sound scarier t...

Smothering

Nothingness sneaks in first filling in the hidden corners of one’s being, then slowly spreading like a black mass, smothering all the lies in its path, draining the life out of life itself. Yet its familiarity in a very twisted way brings some level of comfort, as if a treasured blanket on a cold dark evening. http://anothwestview.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-storm-clouds-gather.html

Tick Tock by Dean Koontz, A Review.

So it is time for another book review, after a long hiatus from reading, where I did not make time in my day to do so, I have started up again. And the first book in that list was Ticktock by Dean Koontz. I picked it up at the book store mid day, and by that evening I had read the book cover to cover. I absolutely not put the book down, to the point that I would get irritated when other people would interrupt and make me put it down. The book grabs you from the start and never lets go, never leaving you a spot that you would even think of being able to put it down and pick it up latter.

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