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I’m giving away one paperback copy of Absolute Fear by Lisa Jackson. To enter, post a comment. To be entered twice, blog about this contest. Send me a comment once you’ve posted to your blog. This drawing will end Saturday, July 19.

Good luck!

*I will ship worldwide. Book will be shipped the cheapest (not necessarily the fastest) method available.

The narrator is a gorgeous porno actor that crashes his car while driving on a winding mountainous road.   He wakes up in a burn unit with third degree burns over most of his body.   To make things worse, if that is even possible, he spilled a bottle of bourbon in his lap right before his accident, and his “livelihood” is burnt beyond repair and has been removed.    He wants his life to end. 

 Throughout his recovery, rather than planning what he will do once he is released from the hospital, he plans his suicide.  And then a beautiful, but visibly disturbed, gargoyle sculptress appears in his room and is certain that they were lovers in medieval Germany. He is released into her care and he is ultimately convinced that the story she tells of their history must be true.

This second chance at love is completely implausible, but I was drawn in from the beginning. Davidson’s tale of love is strange yet mesmerizing. This debut author has immense talent and I look forward to reading more of his work!

Emmy, Leigh, and Adriana have been friends for over a decade. Emmy was recently dumped by “the guy”, the man she thought she would marry and have children with. Leigh is a young publicist. She has the perfect job, the perfect apartment, the perfect man. Then she signs on as editor for Jesse Chapman a brilliant, yet impossible, writer. She begins to realize that the life isn’t that perfect. And finally, Adriana is the stunning daughter of a renowned supermodel. She has no qualms with flaunting and using her Brazilian charm to get any man she wants. Emmy and Adriana make a pact to put an end to their dismal lives. Emmy decides that she should expand her “knowledge” of men by traveling around the world and bedding a man from each country. Adriana resolves to pick one of many potential suitors and settle down. A year later the girls must decide just how much in their lives has changed. While I can admit that this was an engaging beach read, it reminded me a bit too much of Sex in the City. I kept envisioning Emmy, Leigh, and Adriana as Charlotte, Carrie and Miranda. The similarities between the two sets of characters are uncanny.