Customer Reviews

Guilty Pleasures

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

At first glance, I thought that since 'Guilty Pleasures' focused on the lives of two women, I might not be able to look forward to the strong love stories I've come to depend on Barbara Bretton's books for. Wrong. Corey Prescott and Lili Spaulding are two independant females who are bound together by 30 years of mistakes and regrets. Lilly Ann finds herself pregnant at 17 and is forced to give her baby away. Convinced that the little girl will have a better life than what she could ever provide, she gives up her daughter, knowing she'll regret it for the rest of her life.Corey's life begins troubled. As an infant, the child is scarred in an auto accident and Corey spends the first 6 years of her life shuffled around rough foster homes and rougher foster parents who have no sympathy for the childs disfigured face. Fate brings Corey to a family that long to have a child to love, and it is not until she's a grown woman, that she learns who her birth mother is. Corey vows to find the now famous cosmetics tycoon Lili Spaulding and destroy her, but fate has other plans. Corey finds that she must choose between vengence and the mother she never knew, while Lili must destroy her 'son' to protect her daughter, and learn to accept the love of the man who's held her heart for years. Barbara Bretton is so good at weeving these intricate lives, I sometimes forgot that this book was fiction. She builds her characters so well, that you keep wishing for just a few more chapters so you can keep the story going. The bond between a mother and her child endures for over 30 year in Guilty Pleasures, and it is one of the best 'love' stories, I've read in a while. As with all her books Ms. Bretton keeps me hanging on to each chapter, knowing that the next one will reveal more, dig deeper, and just get better and better than the one before. It's a great book. Don't wait! Click now, and grab this one. You won't be sorry!

This book is very long, but it's very interesting.A letter was sent to Lili Spaulding from Mrs. John Bannings. Startled, she looked at more closely. No dault about ot, it was meant for her. Carter secretary must have meantto attach a note asking that he deliver it to her. The bright blue ballpaint ink had smudged over the U in Spaulding, leaving a diagonal smear across the right-hand side. She turned it over an odd feeling of dread tapping between her shoulder blades and doing her rigb cage. The flap had been neatly tucked into the envelope, itself and written on the upper left hand corner was the return address Mrs. John Banning. This book is getting bettet and better. The more I read the more curious I get. I plan to read a lot more. This was the right class for me to take.I'm going to read a lot more now. Not just in class, but on my off time too.Even at or on the road traveling.