Holly Krauss is beautiful and vivacious. She has a happy marriage and runs a successful company with her friend Meg. It seems that Holly has it all. But there is another side to her - a side that sees her putting herself into danger, and being reckless and thoughtless. Her actions cause problems which just keep mounting and Holly suddenly finds herself in danger. But she finds that she cannot trust her own judgement any longer, and even those she is closest to seem to be losing patience with her. If Holly can't rely on herself, then who can she rely on to catch her when she falls? And just because she is paranoid, does that mean that nobody is really after her?
I have always liked Nicci French's novels, and this one, like the others, is an entertaining read, which had me wanting to "just read a few more pages" and then just a few more...
Holly is an interesting if not altogether likeable character. While I sympathised with her and could see how people might be drawn to such a person, I also found myself becoming increasingly exasperated with her actions - particularly when she seemed to be ignorant of the obvious consequences which were bound to result. However, I think that that was probably deliberate on the writers' part.
Through Holly's narrative, we see her world through her eyes, and how things start to fall apart for her. Her loyal friend Meg tries to help and it seems that only she and Charlie - Holly's husband - can pick up the pieces. It is not clear at first whether Holly's increasing paranoia is due to her own state of mind, and like Holly, the reader is not sure who to trust.
This is an undemanding read, despite the subject matter. The action moves along at a rapid pace and did keep me wanting to know what was going to happen. However, I was disappointed by the ending, which seemed to deliver almost as many questions as answers. I actually wondered if there were another couple of pages at the back which I had missed.
All in all though, this is an entertaining psychological thriller, and I would recommend it to fans of the genre.
See you in 2010!
We spent time with family. We ate italian sausages. We played a part in some couple's engagement story in front of the National Christmas tree. We opened our new pajamas. And I cried while trying to read our traditional Christmas books.
baking :: more painting :: bowling (I won! Okay, one game) :: board games ("Chrononauts" is more complicated than I remembered) :: simple and delicious steak dinner :: Nigella's baby cakes :: Christmas Eve present and pyjama opening :: one too many episodes of The Simpsons :: one too many glasses of wine :: cinnamon rolls for Santa, sleeping pills for the kids.
Happy holidays, one and all!
Well, it's Christmas at last, and from the sound of you all on Twitter your cards are sent, and your presents wrapped. It's been great hearing all your cries of delight recently, as your poor postmen and women have struggled with packages through the snowy weather!
Hope those of you who have time off over the festive season get everything you wish for, and those who are working have more fun than you might be expecting. We've published the dates we're working over the holidays, so if you find yourself in the office, you might well have company here in the UK, or over with the MOO Crew in the US.
We've had a great few weeks spotting unique gifts and ideas created with MOO, here's a few of our favourites:
A tetrabox advent calendar, by Bcome
Also by Bcome, this lovely looking memory game, complete with a great pattern on the back:
This super-cute Mosaic Frame, created by thisiswoly. Filled with 20 Minicards, it features the beautiful baby Sarah.
These wonderful looking alphabet game cards, by taraghb, which look like they were as fun to make as they will be to use!
And last but not least, look at this! another entry into our MiniCard Gift Box competition! Created by emusing-emma, it's really bought an extra flutter of Christmas cheer into MOO Towers. We love his little sledge!
Fancy joining in the fun? Closing date for entries to our competition is midnight PST 28th December 2009. Why not grab some festive paper, and see what you can do! More competition details can be found right here.
And now all that remains for me to say is a Very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from everyone at MOO!
I saw a post on craftster.org that was talking about making pizelles. I had been thinking about making them since I have a pizelle iron. I haven't used it in years.
The recipe suggested was pretty simple and I had all the ingredients!! (always a plus)
1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
3 large eggs
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted
1 tablespoon vanilla extract or anise extract
Cooking:
and some of the finished ones.
We tried making them into little ice cream cups with no success.
Then tonight I went over to my neighbors. We made bailey's irish cream milk shakes and ate them by dipping the pizelles in. So Yummy!
All About Steve was even better with a little alcohol in my system.
I found this seasoning package at the store the other day and since I love char siu I thought I would try and make it. The seasoning turned the meat bright red (no surprise). I had hoped while it was cooking the outer layer would turn brown and the red would only show when the meat was cut. No such luck. The meat stayed bright red.
I thought it was good and surprisingly my kids liked it alot. I thought the bright red would immediately turn them off. I served it with brown rice and broccoli. Yummy!
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