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Spiros & Jenny, more Book Quotes from the latest Porn Star Brothers instalment.

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The next instalment of Porn Star Brothers Series continues in Spiros & Jenny…

 

 

Spiros & Jenny is the origin story, taking you back to where it all began. How they met and fell in love, when they married and had their children, and the heartbreaking dramas that unfolded on the road to creating the family dynasty they have today, Stephanopoulos Incorporated.

So join them as they recount to their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren the trials and tribulations that make up the story of Spiros & Jenny…

 

Spiros and Jenny is the sixth and last novel in the Porn Star Brothers contemporary romance series, taking you back to the beginning of the Stephanopoulos dynasty.

If you like family sagas, dirty little secrets, money and power, then you’ll love L.J. Diva’s page-turning series.

Continue your love affair with The Porn Star Brothers Series today!

**In order of reading – Carlos, Pedro, Tomas, Retribution (or the Porn Star Brothers box set or collector’s edition paperback novel), Forever, Love Never Dies, Stefan: The New Generation, DeLuca, Spiros & Jenny**

 

It’s the Fourth Anniversary of Jackie Collins Death.

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It’s been four years since Jackie died.

Four years since I became determined to publish the Porn Star Brothers story that was thumping around in my head because of her.

And because of her, I wouldn’t have the stories I have today. So my gratitude goes to you, Jackie, on this fourth anniversary. And, as always, my series is dedicated to you.

 

 

Staying strong is sometimes hard to do, despite being kicked in the ass.

 

I don’t collect a lot of Jackie books these days. I bought so many in 2016 that I had most of what I was after. And with the rising conversion rates, it’s harder to buy from overseas. But I was determined, and still am, to finish off the collection.

I know I’m after paperbacks from the UK and US, plus first editions of the early books, such as The World is Full of Married Men, The World is Full of Divorced Women, The Bitch, The Stud, etc. And I do have several more to update to better versions. The state of some dust jackets are horrendous.

One of this years finds, for a price of $65.86US, was the first edition of The Stud from The World Publishing Company that first released it in the U.S.

It also has an awesome cover!

 

And I think, hopefully, this black cover version from the UK that I bought a couple of years ago is their first edition, so, that means I have both the UK and US hard covers of The Stud

 

I’ve also managed to update three books to their full 6.5×9.5 hardcovers. Vendetta, The Santangelos, and Confessions of a Wild Child. And found another Chances in better condition than the last one I bought. Thankfully, I received refunds on the first versions I bought as the state of the djs/sizes were wrongly described on the listings, so, money saved.

 

I also managed to score these UK hard cover editions of Married Men and Divorced Women.

 

I plan on buying as many as I can to fulfil the collection, but some seem to be few and far between. In fact, I don’t even know if some exist. It would be nice to have a picture database of UK and US covers so we cam see them and then try and find them.

Oh well, I’ll keep on dreaming!

 

Spiros & Jenny, Book Quotes from the latest Porn Star Brothers instalment.

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The next instalment of Porn Star Brothers Series continues in Spiros & Jenny…

 

 

Spiros & Jenny is the origin story, taking you back to where it all began. How they met and fell in love, when they married and had their children, and the heartbreaking dramas that unfolded on the road to creating the family dynasty they have today, Stephanopoulos Incorporated.

So join them as they recount to their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren the trials and tribulations that make up the story of Spiros & Jenny…

 

Spiros and Jenny is the sixth and last novel in the Porn Star Brothers contemporary romance series, taking you back to the beginning of the Stephanopoulos dynasty.

If you like family sagas, dirty little secrets, money and power, then you’ll love L.J. Diva’s page-turning series.

Continue your love affair with The Porn Star Brothers Series today!

**In order of reading – Carlos, Pedro, Tomas, Retribution (or the Porn Star Brothers box set or collector’s edition paperback novel), Forever, Love Never Dies, Stefan: The New Generation, DeLuca, Spiros & Jenny**

 

Spiros & Jenny. The New Porn Star Brothers Book Series is here!

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The next instalment of L.J. Diva’s Porn Star Brothers Series continues in Spiros & Jenny…

Spiros & Jenny is the origin story, taking you back to where it all began. How they met and fell in love, when they married and had their children, and the heartbreaking dramas that unfolded on the road to creating the family dynasty they have today, Stephanopoulos Incorporated.

So join them as they recount to their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren the trials and tribulations that make up the story of Spiros & Jenny…

Spiros and Jenny is the sixth and last novel in the Porn Star Brothers contemporary romance series, taking you back to the beginning of the Stephanopoulos dynasty.

If you like family sagas, dirty little secrets, money and power, then you’ll love L.J. Diva’s page-turning series.

Continue your love affair with The Porn Star Brothers Series today!

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**In order of reading – Carlos, Pedro, Tomas, Retribution (or the Porn Star Brothers box set or collector’s edition paperback novel), Forever, Love Never Dies, Stefan: The New Generation, DeLuca, Spiros & Jenny**

 

BOOK REVIEWS: Distress Signals and The Liar’s Girl

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I’ve been following Catherine and her original blog, Catherine Caffeinated for many years, knew she’d self-pubbed for years, and found many blog posts incredibly informative when it came to the legalities for overseas self-pubbers trying to get their ITINs or EINs from the IRS done, plus formatting, and a whole load of other intricacies we all needed to know.

In 2015 she signed her first traditional publishing deal (you can read about that here) and came out with her first book in 2016.

I’ve just recently found her first two books in my local library and read them back to back.

Distress Signals is about going missing on a cruise ship.

The day Adam Dunne’s girlfriend, Sarah, fails to return from a Barcelona business trip, his perfect life begins to fall apart. Days later, the arrival of her passport and a note that reads ‘I’m sorry – S’ sets off real alarm bells. He vows to do whatever it takes to find her.

Adam is puzzled when he connects Sarah to a cruise ship called the Celebrate – and to a woman, Estelle, who disappeared from the same ship in eerily similar circumstances almost exactly a year before.

To get answers, Adam must confront some difficult truths about his relationship with Sarah. He must do things of which he never thought himself capable. And he must try to outwit a predator who seems to have found the perfect hunting ground…

While an interesting story, it didn’t hold my attention even though I finished the book. I found myself skipping pages just to get past some of the characters and what they were doing. I found the main characters incredibly stupid, and the only secondary/tertiary character I felt for was Romain who I felt sorry for as none of it was really his fault. The one thing that really annoyed me was the timelines jump around. I’m over that in books as it’s hard to keep up with sometimes.

And interestingly enough, a passenger went missing on a cruise ship a few days after I finished it,

 

The Liar’s Girl I found to be better.

Dublin’s notorious Canal Killer is ten years into his life sentence when the body of a young woman is fished out of the Grand Canal. Though detectives suspect a copycat is emulating the crimes Will Hurley confessed to as a teen, they turn to him for help. Will says he has the information the police need, but will only give it to one person – the girl he was dating when he committed his horrific crimes.

Alison Smith has spent a decade building a new life. Having moved abroad, she’s confident that her shattered life in Ireland is finally behind her. But when she gets a request from Dublin imploring her to help prevent another senseless murder, she is pulled back to face the past, and the man, she’s worked so hard to forget.

While it too jumped back and forth between the past and modern day, the story had a little more intrigue, a little more action, and a twist at the end I didn’t see coming, but in retrospect, upon some thinking, made sense and wasn’t that much of a surprise. I also wasn’t sure if there was a romance blossoming between the character and an officer, but wouldn’t be surprised if that happened.

Catherine’s second book was definitely better than her first, and I’m hoping we get her third book, Rewind, sometime this year.

 

For more info on Catherine, head to her blog www.catherineryanhoward.com

 

MOVIE REVIEW: Hunter Killer and Den of Thieves

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I’d been hanging out to see more Gerard Butler movies. With Geostorm and Gods of Egypt seeming long ago, and then I found Den of Thieves and Hunter Killer.

Both, I found, to be b-grade movies.

DEN OF THIEVES

A gritty L.A crime saga which follows the intersecting and often personally connected lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff’s Dept. and the state’s most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan an impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank of downtown Los Angeles.

Starring 50 cent and O’Shea Jackson Jr, it was a typical cops and robbers stick ’em up, shoot ’em out movie. There was sex, there were guns and drugs, there was violence. Meh!

I give it 5/10

 

HUNTER KILLER

A U.S. submarine vanishes while shadowing a Russian Akula-class submarine in the Arctic. Rear Admiral John Fisk sends a Virginia-class submarine under the command of newly-promoted and unorthodox Commander Joe Glass to investigate. At the same time, a Navy SEAL team under the command of Lieutenant Bill Beaman is sent in to discreetly observe a Russian naval base. When they arrive at the naval base, they witness defense minister Dmitri Durov conducting a coup d’etat and taking Russian President Zakarin prisoner, and swiftly realize that Durov intends to trigger a war…

Starring Common, yep, you read that right, and Gary Oldman who’s usually better at picking roles but maybe he needed the money… This movie was just okay. Okay enough to watch on a night when there’s nothing else on tv and you’re bored.

I give this 5/10

 

I think Gerry’s star has burnt out. His movies aren’t blockbusters anymore, he’s not the stud muffin he once was as he’s looking old and worn out. And god help me when Angel Has Fallen, the threequel, yep, you read that right, to Olympus and London Has Fallen comes out. I mean, geez, they killed off Angela Bassett in London, unless she killed herself off which wouldn’t surprise me the movie was shit, and Morgan Freeman must be hard up for money too as he’s back for the torture, but more on that when I actually see it.

 

Have you guys seen these and what did you think?

 

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