Well, I’m not going to lie, it’s been a bit of a slower start than I imagined. I have managed to get the book cover design started, and I wrote a grand total of 2,470 words on the first day. For those of you who are even a little bit good at maths, you’ll realise this was nowhere even close to enough words to make the deadline I currently have going.
To make things more complicated, I woke up on day 2 feeling unwell, so I already have lost any sort of momentum that I might have had from yesterday. While two thousand is quite a ways off 10,000 that I really need to aim towards each day, I will say that any progress is progress (of a sort).
Today, I managed to feel better in the afternoon, so we got a chunk of writing done then. Grand total of words written now is…
I am truly hoping that tomorrow I wake up feeling energized and ready to go, because I have hours of writing ahead of me if I want to get even a little bit close to my goal of getting this book done in a week.
In the meantime, here are some hints at what the story is going to be:
Some books just hit you in face and never stop reminding you that they are amazing stories, characters, or really anything else that you recall on a regular.
These are those stories. This is a list of books I will never stop recommending, because they were so impactful, that I wish everyone could enjoy them too.
The outcast daughter of one of the most powerful Bedouin sheikhs in Arabia, Maviah is called on to protect the very people who rejected her. When their enemies launch a sudden attack with devastating consequences, Maviah escapes with the help of two of her father’s warriors–Saba who speaks more with is sword than his voice and Judah, a Jew who comes from a tribe that can read the stars. Their journey will be fraught with terrible danger. If they can survive the vast forbidding sands of a desert that is deadly to most, they will reach a brutal world subjugated by kings and emperors. There Maviah must secure an unlikely alliance with King Herod of the Jews.
But Maviah’s path leads her unexpectedly to another man. An enigmatic teacher who speaks of a way in this life which offers greater power than any kingdom. His name is Yeshua, and his words turn everything known on its head. Though following him may present even greater danger, his may be the only way for Maviah to save her people–and herself.
Like all citizens since the Ruining, Carrington Hale knows the importance of this day. But she never expected the moment she’d spent a lifetime preparing for—her Choosing ceremony—would end in disaster. Ripped from her family, she’ll spend her days serving as a Lint, the lowest level of society. She knows it’s her duty to follow the true way of the Authority.
But as Carrington begins this nightmare, rumors of rebellion rattle her beliefs. The whispers contradict everything she’s been told; yet they resonate deep within. Then Carrington is offered an unprecedented chance at the life she’s always dreamed of, but she can’t shake the feeling that it may be an illusion. With a killer targeting Lints and corruption threatening the highest levels of the Authority, Carrington must uncover the truth before it destroys her.
Christian missionary Abigail Caldwell emerges from the jungle for the first time in her thirty-four years, the sole survivor of a mysterious disease that killed her village. A curious message from her grandfather leads Abby to America, only to discover a nation where Christianity has completely died out.
But a larger threat looms. The world’s leading artificial intelligence industrialist has perfected a technique for downloading the human brain into a silicon form. Brain transplants have begun, and with them comes the potential of eliminating physical death altogether.
As Abby navigates a society grown more addicted to stimulating the body than nurturing the soul, she and Creighton Daniels, a historian troubled by his father’s unexpected death, become unwitting targets of powerful men who will stop at nothing to further their nefarious goals. Hanging in the balance—the spiritual future of all humanity.
Becoming a Christian is the best and worst thing that has ever happened to Sarah Hollenbeck. Best because, well, that’s obvious. Worst because, up to this point, she’s made her very comfortable living as a well-known, bestselling author of steamy romance novels that would leave the members of her new church blushing. Now Sarah is trying to reconcile her past with the future she’s chosen. She’s still under contract with her publisher and on the hook with her enormous fan base for the kind of book she’s not sure she can write anymore. She’s beginning to think that the church might frown on her tithing on royalties from a “scandalous” book. And the fact that she’s falling in love with her pastor doesn’t make things any easier.
Jack Carlson is dreading a class presentation when he suddenly finds himself transported to the Hadley Academy, a secret institution that tracks teens with unlikely gifts and trains them to protect the world from an unseen squad of killers. But Jack isn’t the only one who doesn’t know what he’s doing at Hadley. Despite indications that he is the one prophesied to end the ancient Reaper War, Jack appears to have no extraordinary abilities.
So when dark, mysterious forces grow, Hadley is in a confused panic. Much to everyone’s dismay, humanity seems to depend on Jack and his new teammates. Can Hadley’s rawest recruits push past personal struggles and enormous doubts, develop their dormant powers, and stop the spreading evil? And are they willing to commit to Hadley’s motto, “One Life for Many,” and make the ultimate sacrifice? The Hadley Academy for the Improbably Gifted might be just the place for Jack after all.
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone. Or does he?
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders.
But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it’s too late
Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I’m not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate.
I’m Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I’d killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it’s a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let’s get started.
Snapshot is a Science Fiction detective story following Anthony Davis, a cop assigned to Snapshot Duty. In this vivid world that author Brandon Sanderson has built, society can create a snapshot of a specific day in time. The experiences people have, the paths they follow—all of them are real again for a one day in the snapshot. All for the purposes of investigation by the court.
Davis’s job as a cop on Snapshot Duty is straight forward. Sometimes he is tasked with finding where a criminal dumped a weapon. Sometimes he is tasked with documenting domestic disputes. Simple. Mundane. One day, in between two snapshot assignments, Davis decides to investigate the memory of a call that was mysteriously never logged at the precinct, and he makes a horrifying discovery.
Sold into slavery by her father and forsaken by the man she was supposed to marry, young Egyptian Kiya must serve a mistress who takes pleasure in her humiliation. When terrifying plagues strike Egypt, Kiya is in the middle of it all.
Choosing to flee with the Hebrews, Kiya finds herself reliant on a strange God and drawn to a man who despises her people. With everything she’s ever known swept away and now facing the trials of the desert, will she turn back toward Egypt or surrender her life and her future to Yahweh?
I loved these books enough to recommend them over and over to people (depending on what that person likes to read, of course), and I am so glad that I found them.
What books have you read that absolutely shattered you, never leave you, or are the first ones that come to mind when you need to recommend something to people?
Okay, sometimes I admit that I am not good at reading series in order. For the most part even when a book is AMAZING it can be difficult for me to jump back into the character’s world and continued plot.
So, I decided to rapid fire (kind of) sequels to some of the series that I had started… let’s go!
A lot darker than the first. Little to no hope throughout was a theme. Dark emotions, dark choices, refusal to let go and revenge and darkness the guiding force in pretty much all characters. Powers are interesting, and it makes the fighting great. Just wish the characters were a little more likeable and a little less of a combined whine and bloodthirsty mess.
No overarching plot, mostly mini stories of characters who have a slow burn style relationship over mostly letters on multiple deployments. I think I got it all in that sentence.
While I didn’t mind the characters and the mini stories were pretty interesting, I am a plot person and there wasn’t one. The blurb made it seem to be something we could latch onto but it took most of the book to get there and it was really anti climactic.
While I could appreciate the military stuff for a while, without a plot to anchor it, I lost interest fast. There are definitely things to like in here, but it just wasn’t my pacing or style enough to enjoy it.
Fear is the real enemy to freedom.. that’s what this book focussed on. After the first book, this one was disappointing. The danger didn’t feel as extreme, I don’t like time gaps, and I wasn’t as connected to Remko as I was with Carrington in the first book. The ending was…. Conflicting. I know why it was written that way, but I don’t quite buy it. I also hate that the next book has a HUGE time jump (two decades). The lessons were great, and deep understanding was good. For me, it just wasn’t enough to raise my rating like the first book did.
11 months after reading the first (Raiders From The Sea)
Boring. I was so bored. First book we had some action pushing things forward, but this was just a few different POVs of running through the forest and avoiding the people chasing you. I was bored. Not a huge historical fiction person and this period with Vikings and stuff is not my fav either. I lied these books as a kid, but I can’t really remember why. A little sad that I didn’t enjoy it but it was quick and the first book was better.
DNF halfway with a skip to the end. HUGE and very serious trigger warnings: Suicide (graphic), pedophelia, child abuse, murder/death, injury detail, violence. I jumped to the end curious to know the solution before planning to continue but had already slugged through a graphic suicide description, so was already on edge. When I read some of the ending I didn’t even finish, and put it aside disgusted. Honestly, good job by the author for making me so uncomfortable and icky feeling that I couldn’t even read it, but I was officially done at this point.
The first book was really a regular kid figuring out he was a guardian angel in training, and what such a different life and calling really looked like. Exploring all the amazing spiritual things he had no idea had been around him the whole time. This second one continues his “training” (even though the teachers he encounters don’t actually teach them anything and basically leave him and his fellow trainees flapping in the wind) but it didn’t have the same feel. There was still a fascinating story, filled with amazing beings that you only read about in pages of scripture, but there was also a lack of growth for me. These angels were left to basically figure everything out themselves, a massive hurdle is placed in front of our main character and yet, there is almost no support that we see in most of the pages. The draw to these stories is the same as book 1, but the follow through felt weaker. Like we aren’t given as much information as we should have been. I still enjoyed the ride, don’t get me wrong, but some of this was so frustrating that I got pulled out of the story.
3.5 years after reading the first (Defier:The Girl Who Stood)
Ummmm, how do I say all the things I want to..? I’m just going to info dump it all in this review I suppose.
I still maintain that this story had so much potential! It was a while since I’d read the first so it took me a while to remember everyone, but once I did… oh boy.
I like the character of Lennox, her journey at the Sparrow compound learning everything would have easily fit into the first book. I don’t know what exactly our third book climax is leading towards, except for one very obvious plot point.
Our villain didn’t feel deserved. I don’t understand how this one guy is the “big bad” at all. He’s basically a bully with money.. how is that a superior villain? It’s not.
The writing, I finally realised, is a big problem for me. There are VERY well written sequences – particularly within the action that goes on – but most of this book reads like it was written by an absolute novice writer. Phrases that are amateur at best are littered throughout this book. I’ve read great writers and not so great, and I’m sad to say this one falls in the category of writing that just isn’t good. It needed severe work before it was published in my opinion. It’s not even writing style that I’m objecting to, it just reads like a first draft, which is not what you want.
The parts where we all of a sudden talk very seriously about God were so out of place, I didn’t know what to do with them. It wasn’t weaved in nicely, it was slammed in the middle of a scene and shoved down your throat. Like I said in my review of the first book, I love Christian fiction but his wasn’t hitting over the line for me.
The general plot of this second book was pretty interesting, but it was wrapped up in so much poor writing and cliche lines that it was almost impossible to keep track of a thread that kept me engaged.
I’m so disappointed in these comments because again… it has so much POTENTIAL to be an amazing story. So much. It just didn’t make it through the pages. If this had gone through maybe another four or five draft passes, heavy content editing and revisions, it could have been great.
Well, that was certainly interesting. Mostly, it was easy to recall where things had left off, but some of those were harder to pick up after reading (especially when it had been quite a while since the first one was read!).
I’m sure there are more, but hopefully I can keep going with the series above so I can flip the page on the stories above!
i read a book that i didn’t ever really see myself finding if it weren’t for the film that came out, and guess what – the BOOK was way better!
So, why was the book so much better than the film? i’m going to tell you but first i must warn you, this post WILL contain spoilers (though i won’t give everything away), so if you don’t want that – hop out of this post now and watch the movie/read the book, then come back.
alrighty, let’s get started then. Firstly, what is this story even about? assasins on a train is the easiest way to explain, but let’s go just a little deeper.
The Father/Prince:
A father whose young child is in a coma in hospital boards a train to kill the teenager who was responsible. when he sees his moment, the teenager surprises him and ties him up, instead playing mind games with him the entire trip.
a teenager who’s brain works differently than most, and who has discovered how to manipulate people for the sake of it – just to see what happens. throwing a kid off a roof just because he was annoyed at how the father had ruined his plans to torture a kid by electro shocking his dog in front of him.
this pair has an interesting past and story as it progresses. while the prince was the absolute WORST person aboard this train (and that’s a train full of professional killers), the father managed to let him push him around for the hope that his son would survive the train ride.
their dynamic was…. interesting. while i found it interesting to be inside the mind of a complete psychopath with literally no empathy, remorse or the answer to the question of why it’s wrong to kill, i often found myself frustrated with his POV.
the movie managed to gender swap this role, and have the “prince” not only be a girl, but also related to the big bad – a russian race swap – which i found to be unnecessary. there were a few other characters which easily could have been swapped if they so desired, but i also didn’t think it was necessary full stop.
Ladybug:
My actual favourite character (minus Lemon, but i’ll get to him in a bit). the most unlucky “bad guy” i’ve ever read about but i found myself rooting for him and hoping that above all, he would be the one to make it out of this ridiculous train alive.
only when stuff really hit the fan did this guy zero in and get cat like reflexes. a great adaptor to situations, hilariously just wanting to get off this dang train and hired to steal a suitcase which contained lots of money. Ladybug was a great character who was always trying to call Maria (his handler) and get help, or information.
Fruit:
Lemon and Tangerine. twins, but not twins. a killing team that tried to rescue a mob boss’ son, and were also carrying the briefcase full of money. the briefcase that becomes very popular on board.
Lemon loves Thomas the Tank Engine, and talks about it constantly. he is a brutal killing machine, but has an odd kid like obsession with trains. he was sloppy, but kind of endearing. i liked Lemon a lot.
Tangerine was a bit smarter, and always quoting obscure literary fiction. he was also a brutal killing machine, but had a soft spot for Lemon (though he would never admit that to anyone). these guys try to figure out who killed the boss’ kid, and who stole the briefcase while also trying to stay alive.
The Hornet:
a hardly heard of killer that seems to make their way on board the train and swiftly kill while they’re there. Without giving away too much, there is a limit to what i can really say. i will say though, the movie swapped her out with someone i really disliked. i found the character they chose to make her into was brash, annoying, and just not at all the right choice of change in personality.
The Big Bad:
A mob boss to the extreme. certainly not a white russian in the book, and definitely scary enough without the change. he seems to have a hand in practically everything and is a dangerous person – until this book however.
The Others:
The wolf is another assassin which gets a very short viewing, the man on the train who just seems to be someone you can talk easily to but has a tragedy in his own past – and manages to give a good answer to why it’s bad to kill people, and a few others along the way. they were there, advanced the plot but never felt unnecessary or annoying. just the right amount, just the right interaction.
The book itself was an intricate and delicately weaved story. it spent just enough time with characters to engage you, and connected everything beautifully. there was limited gore, only a handful of cuss words, and majority of the story was really focussed on the inner workings of the characters minds. following psychopaths and crazed killers was actually quite interesting.
The movie on the other hand, seemed to “American-ify” the whole story. it became clunky, cluttered, focussed instead on added and unnecessary gore, loads more cuss words, changed fight scenes for no other reason than i can assume an attempt to have different choreography in those moments. it changed HUGE character arcs (like with Lemon) and also completely changed the ending. not to mention changing the “big bad” into a white Russian stereoptye.
when i compare the two, it becomes clear that even though Brad Pitt was hilarious, and it was cool to see so many celebs cameos and moments that were somewhat interesting (falling out of a moving train and the bullet train crashing was NOT part of the original plot, but it did give a good showing for the visual medium), this was the no winning piece for me.
the book held such beautiful grace and sophistication. even though we were following killers as they basically pick each other off for lots of misunderstandings and greed, it was still a study of how these people thought. how they reacted, how they saw the world, and how the story drew connections that couldn’t be expressed in any other way rather than a book.
have you watched the movie? have you read the book? have you done both like me? share your own thoughts in the comments.
I love reading authors that I know, that I don’t, and that I am hoping will become new favourites. I have had one such author on my shelf for almost a decade now, and finally got a chance to go through and read some of her books.
I ended up with four books of Lis Whiel’s that are part of a series – the Triple Threat Series, which follows three crime job ladies: a lawyer, a federal agent, and a reporter. We are getting crimes that are large scale, high stakes, and carry really serious themes.
So, why am i ranting? is it as simple as just not liking her books? Nope, there is something more sinister under the reason that i have noticed is not specific to the TT series.
there is something emerging in media of all sorts that i have noticed, and i am not behind it. these books by Lis are not new, they are several years old, but somehow they are still in trend with what it currently out there right now. we, as a species, are becoming more and more obsessed with dark stories that are intense, deeply evil and just sinister moments that are explained in detail.
there are some things that need to be brought into the light, and not shoved under the rug, don’t get me wrong, but that doesn’t mean i want to read about it in my fictional experiences. supposed to be an escape, while i choose to read crime or fantasy, there are some things that i don’t want to touch or read about.
one of those things includes se*ual assault, which i will refer to as SA moving forward in this post. some people don’t seem to have an issue reading or watching things that involve this theme, but i certainly do. i think that you can express that someone has been through a SA without actually going into specifics. hearing about these experiences are tough enough in real life, but when it comes to books, i’m not interested. there is a difference between Hitchcock off screen implication style, and describing stuff in details… i think for some things Hitch had the right idea.
having said that, content warnings were not a thing when i got these books, and as Christian fiction, i wouldn’t have been expecting it. now, there can be a book or two that does put this in there, whether explained or implied, but Lis seems to take it to another level with TT.
Every. Single. Book. contains this content. the main characters, the side characters, the victims – just everyone deals with this in every book. i don’t know exactly how this is relevant in every different crime that comes along, but Lis seems to manage it. i think that a lot of this rant comes down to personal preference in my stories, and what they should and shouldn’t include. but it did spark a thought and realisation in me.
why are we so obsessed with the dark? even the more tame crime/thriller books carry themes like murder, assaults and torture. we seem fascinated with why we do these things with each other, drawn to a character that is evil for evil’s sake, and the darkness is getting thicker and thicker. it’s almost too difficult to see the light in the stories, and i can’t help but wonder if this is part of the reason why the world is getting worse and worse.
if we are constantly subjecting ourselves to the dark, is there actually any wonder why we are acting out the dark potential that lies within us as human beings? in order to see the light, the darkness needs to exist, i suppose, but there is a line that i think has been pushed back slowly, and at this point, the line between what we accept in the dark is beginning to get darker and darker.
do you agree with my thoughts, or disagree? perhaps you think i’m right on the money, or maybe that i’m totally off and throwing a fit for no reason… share below.
recently, i discovered every time i buy a new book (or several, as the case may be), i often forget and ignore the books that have been there the longest. So, in order to right this horrible wrong, i have committed to reading the OLDEST books that have been sitting there the longest.
in this post, i’m reading the CHRISTIAN CRIME/SUSPENSE books that have been there so long, they’re growing mildew. Here are the results:
A intense, trigger inducing, convoluted mess. It was such a convoluted and unnecessarily confusing plot. So many names, aliases, and killers… really? Just… really? Trigger warnings were child abuse, assault and suicide. If I’d known, I wouldn’t have read it at all. Too dark for me, and I skimmed most of it because I just couldn’t wait to find out the killer (or killers as the case was on this book) was for sure (which I guessed at least the big baddie). Yeah, a big no from me.
I’ve marked this book as read, but in full transparency after the first 100 pages I skipped to the end. I found this book irritating. The writing was good, but the content wasn’t for me. Taking out my opinion on the death penalty, the storyline’s of people on death row, dying slowly, twisted and convoluted plots – it was all just a bit much. Content wise, I just couldn’t connect with anyone or anything.
Normally I like Lynette, but this book wasn’t it for me. I hated all the characters – nobody was likeable and everybody was annoying, ridiculous or dumb. The dialogue was cheesy and the plot felt clunky and uninspired. I really like a bunch of her other stuff, but this one felt lacklustre.
Pretty solid middle of the road book for me. Characters overreacted about personal issues, put in place larger than life solutions to criminal danger, and save the day… standard. I will say, I noticed – particularly at the beginning – the writer of this book seemed to voice to the reader that she knew what she was talking about, so even if it seems over the top – you, as the reader, are wrong. That was irritating. Explaining complex technological babble doesn’t have to come across as patronising, and I found those scenes done my characters who were either ignorant about tech, frustrated they had to spell it out, or dismissive of those around them who didn’t understand. This made me, as the reader, feel stupid if I wondered what something meant. Not ideal. Nice job at threading the characters faith in an organic way and the friends to lovers – meeting from online to IRL was nice to watch unfold.
I made it to page 50 of this book before giving up. i wasn’t interested, it wasn’t hooking me
in and i just couldn’t subject myself to trying to slog through this one. the only thing that kept me engaged was the musical element, but even that failed to get me over even the halfway mark. the writing was somewhat dull and felt uninspired. it felt like every other crime book out there, and there wasn’t an interesting enough hook for me to keep me interested.
Well, those are the books i got through, have you read any of those? if you want to know more about them, now that i have provided colour commentary on them, you can click on the titles for the link to Goodreads and hear all about it.
Alright guys, it’s writer talk time! There are different ways to get buzz for your book and writing, and one of the most interesting that I found when I was researching marketing my book KIDNAPPED Entanglement (you can get your copy HERE for just $10… sorry, shameless plug over) was to write a limited edition Prequel. So I did!
I had the story BEFORE the story that I decided to release as a little novella, which actually has a limited run print… but was it worth it? Did it even sell at all, and was the pressure to get it ready to go when I had the main book to also focus on a little too much? Well let me share!
Firstly, I had a lot of fun writing this little prequel. The joy of writing is something I treasure, and filling in some of the pieces that I felt weren’t necessary for the enjoyment of KIDNAPPED, but gave extra depth and insight into the events prior to the book, was fun!
How did my characters end up in the position where a kidnapping was arranged, and a ransom was discussed? What the HECK did Aaron Campbell get himself into that warranted such drastic measures? That’s what I wanted to explore, and I did!
Secondly, I wasn’t sure how it was going to sell. If it was going to sell at all, or if it was more likely that I would end up with fifty of these little books in my car boot. The answer is the latter – they pretty much ended up in my house ready for anyone who wanted one… but they didn’t.
It was a bit of a struggle to get my book any traction in the first place, and that meant the prequel was pretty much a non-starter. However, I’m still glad I did it. I still sell as part of a pack when I do author talks at libraries, and it is still something that I am very proud of.
When something is tried, but doesn’t succeed how you imagined, it is still a learning experience. It is still a chance to look at what you created and either grow and learn, or be proud of the accomplishment and just move on top the next.
It was a lot to write this story while also working on the publishing process of the main novel, and it did add a level of stress to the process. With all of that said, would I do it again? Yes. I am all about learning and growing as a creative person, and this was a big one.
My heart was in this story, and I wanted to share it even if nobody else wanted to read it. If you have a story in your heart, then share it anyway! Post it online for no money, or work towards getting it published. The main thing is to share it.. you’re the only one who can write what YOU want to – so get going!
School Holidays have started (in Australia at least), and I have a fun little list of suggestions to make it interesting… for you, not the kids.
Everyone needs food – food is fuel. It’s a great excuse to Get Out of the House… Yeah, you could take your kids along, but while they are busy playing games, watching movies or hopefully reading a book (if they like Suspense/Thriller books, they can always read KIDNAPPED Entanglement – link below) you can escape. Going to get “food” even if that just means milk that is half empty will give you a reason to take a leisurely stroll down the aisles of the supermarket.
Grandparents. Those are always handy. They can take the kids off your hands, and out of your hair, while also giving them time to see their grand-babies… this one only works if you have those at the ready – not counting ones who live in other states or countries, or who aren’t around anymore. Still, it’s nice to have a bit of a break.
KIDNAPPED Entanglement is a Christian Suspense book about a kidnapping, escape and a rescue. The best part is (apart from amazing adventure… if I do say so myself), for the school holidays the paperback is on sale for a pitiful $2.99!! So, yeah.. click the link below to grab that one! Or if you prefer ebook, it is only $1.99 – link also below.
Day trips. This one will only be helpful if you are also at home with the kids, or on Saturdays or days off. There are plenty of places you can go and things you can do that either cost money, or not. Going to the Botanic Gardens closest to you and playing a scavenger hunt to take photos of different things on phones. Maybe you could head to the beach if the weather is good enough. Then there’s places like the museums or art galleries, events that LOTS of places run specifically for holidays.
Well, hopefully you can enjoy the school holidays whether you are home with your children or at work. Either way, grab KIDNAPPED Entanglement and enjoy…
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