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Completed on: 11/29/2015 Review Rating: 4 stars. Reviewed By Vernita Naylor for Readers’ Favorite As we are growing both physically and mentally, we always need someone in our lives to help us to transition through each stage of life. Sissel was that for Lina. In the short story Catch Me When I Fall by Ceanmohrlass, Lina adored her dad, Karl, but the person who was instrumental in her life was Sissel, her grandmother. Lina felt estranged from her mother, Anna, which was the same type of relationship that Anna had with her own mother, Sissel. As the relationship between Sissel and Lina began to develop and grow strong, Sissel suddenly passed away, leaving Lina distraught. In Sissel’s will she left a special gift for Lina, a trunk with a diary that held the secrets of Sissel’s life. The diary was a way for Sissel and Lina to still be able to connect. This trunk provided Lina with more information that she could ever imagine about life, love and decisions. Catch Me When I Fall by Ceanmohrlass is a beautifully written story because it reminded me of the challenges of interpersonal relationships. Within these three generational cycles, each female had an essence of self-discovery at which time levels of becoming stagnant or growth occurs. With Lina receiving the trunk and diary from Sissel, she was able to discover more in-depth knowledge of how things transpired between her mother and grandmother which caused them to be at odds and estranged. Because of Sissel, Lina was able to begin to see her mother in a different light and respect her for the person that she was, not only as a mother but as a person who also had flaws. If you are looking for a beautiful short story, get a copy of Catch Me When I Fall by Ceanmohrlass - you may be able to see some things about your own family generational cycle. |
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Completed: By ALY on December 4, 2015
Review Rating: Five Stars
This book has a great cover, if you ask me. This cover was eye catching for me. The story was good. It reminds me a little of what I think of celebrities in the world today. They have lots of drama in their personal life too. This was the same for Cheli. This book kept me reading to find out more though. I was captivated. * I received this book from the author in exchange for an honest review*
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Completed on:
02/13/2016
Review Rating: 4 stars.
Reviewed By Sarah Stuart for Readers’ Favorite
Five of a Kind by Ceanmohrlass features Cheli, a superstar actress with a lifestyle to match. It includes bodyguards, a pushy agent with a sharp eye for publicity opportunities, a sharper one for her percentage of Cheli’s earnings, and too many partings from movie star husband, Alan. While he is away, working on what she hopes will be his last film, she learns of the existence of a half-sister. Alan, twenty years older than Cheli, is aware she needs her “orphan made good” image, and agent Trudy is already paying a newspaper editor to sit on the story. It makes him realise how little consideration Cheli gives him, but he resolves to rescue their relationship before it founders, though it does not include giving up his own career and visions of a beautiful ex-actress wife. Half-sister Phoebe is married to a beer-swilling lout and has rebellious teenage twin daughters. When the news breaks, she dreams of enjoying the life she believes Cheli leads. Cheli, meanwhile, plans to trap Alan into a more supportive role by tricking him into making her pregnant.
Ceanmohrlass blows the cover on the joys of the superstar celebrity lifestyle in Five of a Kind with hurricane force that leaves the reader breathless and wondering which way is up. It is fast-paced, easy to read, and satisfyingly full of surprises or, in many cases, shocks. The characters are well-drawn and some become the reader’s friend, and others do not. Anyone who enjoys magazines like OK, Hello, Celebs Now and US Weekly will find this a fascinating book. Five of a Kind will leave fans waiting for the next book by Ceanmohrlass.
Completed: By ALY on December 4, 2015
Review Rating: Five Stars
This book has a great cover, if you ask me. This cover was eye catching for me. The story was good. It reminds me a little of what I think of celebrities in the world today. They have lots of drama in their personal life too. This was the same for Cheli. This book kept me reading to find out more though. I was captivated. * I received this book from the author in exchange for an honest review*
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02/13/2016
Review Rating: 4 stars.
Reviewed By Sarah Stuart for Readers’ Favorite
Five of a Kind by Ceanmohrlass features Cheli, a superstar actress with a lifestyle to match. It includes bodyguards, a pushy agent with a sharp eye for publicity opportunities, a sharper one for her percentage of Cheli’s earnings, and too many partings from movie star husband, Alan. While he is away, working on what she hopes will be his last film, she learns of the existence of a half-sister. Alan, twenty years older than Cheli, is aware she needs her “orphan made good” image, and agent Trudy is already paying a newspaper editor to sit on the story. It makes him realise how little consideration Cheli gives him, but he resolves to rescue their relationship before it founders, though it does not include giving up his own career and visions of a beautiful ex-actress wife. Half-sister Phoebe is married to a beer-swilling lout and has rebellious teenage twin daughters. When the news breaks, she dreams of enjoying the life she believes Cheli leads. Cheli, meanwhile, plans to trap Alan into a more supportive role by tricking him into making her pregnant.
Ceanmohrlass blows the cover on the joys of the superstar celebrity lifestyle in Five of a Kind with hurricane force that leaves the reader breathless and wondering which way is up. It is fast-paced, easy to read, and satisfyingly full of surprises or, in many cases, shocks. The characters are well-drawn and some become the reader’s friend, and others do not. Anyone who enjoys magazines like OK, Hello, Celebs Now and US Weekly will find this a fascinating book. Five of a Kind will leave fans waiting for the next book by Ceanmohrlass.
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Alysia's review
Jan 01, 16
Review Rating: Five Stars
it was amazing
Read on January 01, 2016
This book was great. I didn't want to put it down. I like the character, Maylea, very much. I know nightmares can be bad to live with. This book was suspenseful and surprising and just a great read for me. * I received this book from the author in exchange for an honest review*
Alysia's review
Jan 01, 16
Review Rating: Five Stars
it was amazing
Read on January 01, 2016
This book was great. I didn't want to put it down. I like the character, Maylea, very much. I know nightmares can be bad to live with. This book was suspenseful and surprising and just a great read for me. * I received this book from the author in exchange for an honest review*
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Reviewed By Hilary Hawkes for Readers’ Favorite
Completed on 1/25/2016
Review Rating: Five Stars
Me and My Bacon by Ceanmohrlass is the story of teenager Mera’s life, family, friendships and problems as she adjusts to yet another new town and new school. So much unsettling moving around is caused by her mother’s struggle with bipolar disorder. At first Mera knows little about this illness because no one tells her anything – and she only sees the confusing and painful effect it has on her mother’s relationships and on her (Mera’s) own emotional state. Mera makes new friends, grows to like her mom’s patient new husband, Owen, graduates from high school, gets engaged, and then marries someone else. In her quest to be as unlike her mother as possible, with her unpredictable outbursts and often unkind ways of treating others, Mera seeks to be a good and understanding friend to those around her – with the result that she often finds herself sorting out or taking on responsibilities in quite mature ways.
Me and My Bacon is written from the first person point of view with young Mera telling her own story. The book’s writing style is a kind of young person’s journal then, and this draws the reader into Mera’s world, her problems, worries, hopes, and determination to begin to stand up for herself. Mera is a likable main character – individual and very believable, I thought. She has many of the typical emotional reactions and problems that children and teenagers of a parent with an ongoing serious mental illness can have. She often blames herself for her mother’s reactions, constantly fearing she must have done something wrong, while at the same time loving her mother dearly. Intriguingly obsessed with finding solace in eating bacon, she also has spells of feeling ill due to emotional turmoil and upset. Through the plot, which moves at a good pace, Mera begins to find herself and develops the confidence and courage to express her own wishes – thus eventually emerging from the shadow of her sometimes inadvertently neglectful mother.
Ceanmohrlass shows Mera to be both a typical teenager and a young woman with remarkable courage too. This is a story that shows the effects of mental illness on the whole family and how those effects shape the personalities and outcomes for children in the family. I do feel that stories like this, thought-provoking but not too heavily done, are important and a good way to enlighten and educate.
Reviewed By Hilary Hawkes for Readers’ Favorite
Completed on 1/25/2016
Review Rating: Five Stars
Me and My Bacon by Ceanmohrlass is the story of teenager Mera’s life, family, friendships and problems as she adjusts to yet another new town and new school. So much unsettling moving around is caused by her mother’s struggle with bipolar disorder. At first Mera knows little about this illness because no one tells her anything – and she only sees the confusing and painful effect it has on her mother’s relationships and on her (Mera’s) own emotional state. Mera makes new friends, grows to like her mom’s patient new husband, Owen, graduates from high school, gets engaged, and then marries someone else. In her quest to be as unlike her mother as possible, with her unpredictable outbursts and often unkind ways of treating others, Mera seeks to be a good and understanding friend to those around her – with the result that she often finds herself sorting out or taking on responsibilities in quite mature ways.
Me and My Bacon is written from the first person point of view with young Mera telling her own story. The book’s writing style is a kind of young person’s journal then, and this draws the reader into Mera’s world, her problems, worries, hopes, and determination to begin to stand up for herself. Mera is a likable main character – individual and very believable, I thought. She has many of the typical emotional reactions and problems that children and teenagers of a parent with an ongoing serious mental illness can have. She often blames herself for her mother’s reactions, constantly fearing she must have done something wrong, while at the same time loving her mother dearly. Intriguingly obsessed with finding solace in eating bacon, she also has spells of feeling ill due to emotional turmoil and upset. Through the plot, which moves at a good pace, Mera begins to find herself and develops the confidence and courage to express her own wishes – thus eventually emerging from the shadow of her sometimes inadvertently neglectful mother.
Ceanmohrlass shows Mera to be both a typical teenager and a young woman with remarkable courage too. This is a story that shows the effects of mental illness on the whole family and how those effects shape the personalities and outcomes for children in the family. I do feel that stories like this, thought-provoking but not too heavily done, are important and a good way to enlighten and educate.