The Kari AnnAlysis

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Release: February 2, 2010

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I got this book from Goodreads.com and Librarything.com. I held a giveaway for one copy and it went to Yan at Books By Their Cover. When I signed up for the book, I thought it sounded cute: Lucy Valentine comes from a line of matchmakers and she takes over the business, but her powers are taken. Great right? OMG! IT WAS AWESOME!

Lucy Valentine isn’t like the rest of her family, well not really. As mentioned before, she comes from a family of famous matchmakers. Lucy, however, was zapped by an electrical surge and lost the ability to read auras (they match my color coding them). She didn’t lose it all, she can now find things that are lost by holding/shaking someones hand.

When Lucy’s dad is caught thong up on a beach with someone other than his wife, he takes some time off putting Lucy in charge. While skeptical, she wants to make the family proud.

She ends up looking for a little boy, a long lost love and a murder. The problem with all of these things are, Lucy has to do them without sharing her “psychic” ability. Or so she thinks. Once it is all out in the open, her life actually becomes easier… except for solving the murder. That’s never easy.

Let me tell you. If you have ever read the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich, go out and buy this the day it comes out! I absolutely fell in love with LucyD and was so excited to see that there is another book in this series coming out in August and another one in the works. Yippee!!

There are so many things about this book that I like. I liked Lucy from the start because she has all she could ever want in her trust fund, but decided to go her own way and earn her own money.

This book also has some great characters like the crazy Grandma Dovie, her driver Raphael, her 3-legged cat and one-eyed hamster and of course the sexy PI Sean.

There are a lot of things that reminded me of the Stephanie Plum books in this, with a little twist of the mind, known as Lucy’s “gift”, if you will. And if you’ve ever read my reviews on the Plum books, you already know, I’m addicted.

The only thing about this book that normally takes bookmarks away from my grading is that I figured out the really big twist before it came out. There were a couple of times I questioned it, but I did a fist pump when it came out and I was right. I’ve been reading too many of these books

This is a very fast-paced, fun read. It took me just a couple of sittings to finish it. I didn’t even have time to get on here and change my page number on my reading tracker!

I am going to give Truly, Madly 4 bookmarks. I know I didn’t have any complaints about it, but I’m giving the rest of the books room to blow me away in the future!

So if you’ve been keeping up with my On My Bookshelf posts for the past couple of weeks, then you already know I got two copies of Truly Madly and that means one will go to one of my lucky readers.

Now since I got these from Goodreads.com and Librarything.com, I will ask that you post a review of the book when you are done reading.

Normally I make the giveaway periods a month, but since this book comes out in February, I want to make sure I get it sent out so you have time to read and review before the release date. So, this giveaway will end at midnight on Saturday,  January 9th. I will announce the winner on Sunday the 10th and send it out on the 11th.

Here’s what Goodreads.com says about the book:

Meet Lucy Valentine; sassy, fabulously original…and psychic.

Lucy hails from a long line of matchmakers known as Valentine INC. According to family legend, the Valentines have been blessed by Cupid with the ability to help couples find true love. Trouble is Lucy’s powers were zapped away by an electrical surge and now all she can find are lost objects.

But what good is that in the matchmaking world?

Lucy is about to find out when she tries to solve a murder and winds up falling into a romance of her own.

Here’s how you enter the contest:
+1 Leave me your email address
+2 Put this on your sidebar or tweet about it (leave me both links)
+3 Tell me about one of your matchmaking experiences

Again, this ends at midnight January 9th. I am really excited about this book and hope you are too!

Now, here’s my matchmaking experience: My senior year of high school, my homecoming date asked me to go shopping with him to get his outfit. We were going to go meet his dad at the mall, go shopping and have lunch. Although I had known this guy since kindergarten, I had never met his dad. The next weekend, he was at the homecoming game to watch his son and I thought my mom would hit it off with him. I introduced them and the next day he came to my cross country meet. They talked for a while, started dating, quit dating and now almost 6 years later, they are still together. Maybe Valentine Inc. should hire me

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! I know I did and my bookshelf reflects that. No more wasting time, look at the loot I brought in this year:

A couple of years ago, I got one of the Private Series books and made my goal this year to get the rest. I had a gift card from the wedding that I bought the first few. I had my brother get me a couple and my mother-in-law got me the rest. I can’t WAIT to start this series.

Since we do Christmas with my brother at both of my parents house, I have him get me books at both places. At mom’s house he got me the Private books and at dad’s house, he got me The Luxe books 2 and 3. I absolutely LOVED the first one.

And I had my dad get me the 3rd in the Poseur Series called Petty in Pink. This was actually one of the first YA books I read when I started reading like a feign. It’s very cute and I’ve gotten one for Christmas the past 3 years.

It wasn’t all about the books though, when I finally get my TBR list down to about 25 (yes I have about 40 books on my shelf to read right now lol), I have plenty of gift cards. I got $80 worth of gift cards for Christmas this year. My family sure does know how to make a girl happy. And if you look closely at the picture above, my sister-in-law got me a Borders card WITH A WEDDING PIC ON IT! How cool is that? I will definitely be keeping that card after I spend it

It wasn’t all about the Christmas presents this week though. I also got two books from the author/publisher. First, Pet Peeves is the 3rd book by West Virginia author Bart Harper. I actually just gave a copy of this away on my blog. I’ve read all of Bart’s books and am excited to start on this. I imagine I’ll be agreeing with most of his peeves and will have many of my own to add.

The other, Truly Madly, I won on Librarything.com. I also won this on Goodreads.com so now I have 2 copies. Within the next week, I’ll start a giveaway so I can get it out and let you read it before it hits the shelves in February!

I got one more bundle this week that was sent to work and must have come on Christmas Eve. I had the day off and just knew I would get something. My boss told me today he accidentally took it with him thinking it was a resume tape. I can’t wait until Wednesday to get it! I am hoping it’s my presents for the Holiday Swap that I took part in!

Did you guys get any great reads this year????