Too much alike the first couple series by her...

Mailing to crrcookie per a relay that asianwaterfall accepted - sorry for the delay...

Thanks so much for sending me this book to Kaiserslautern, GERMANY. I feel very lucky to have gotten it. I just got it from the Post Office today and it has been sitting on their shelf since 7 May 2005. Yes you better believe that they got an earfull about not deliveing my package to me in a timely manner.

I'll add this book to my "collection" as soon as I get some of the sets read I plan to release them all tied up with a pretty ribbon.

This book has been mailed to Oklahoma!

I have not yet gotten the chance to read this book and yet it is one that I definitely want to read someday. I am moving back to the states and will live with my parents in Oklahoma for several months before moving on to the Washington D.C. area. In that time, I am sure that I will want to read some books and so I used media mail to get books from here to there rather economically. It might take this book a while to get there but when it does get there I will journal it again and hope that I get the chance to read it soon.

(This book is in Box #1)

This book has arrived in Oklahoma!

OK so it got here quite some time ago but getting all these books journaled again takes time. I hope that I will get the chance to read a little and enjoy all the books that I have been meaning to get to for so long.

This book was in Oklahoma with me for a while and has now moved to Waldorf, Maryland.

From the back cover:

MELODY LOGAN WAS AS ALONE AS A SOLITARY GIRL WITH ONLY THE WILD ATLANTIC WIND TO LIFT HER SPIRITS....

When Melody Logan's mother dies in a car accident, Melody lost the last shred of family she had ever known. SHe was practically a stranger to the Logans, her wealthy relatives on Cape Cod, where she now drifted on a sea of dark secrets. In the eyes of gentle Aunt Sara, Melody was a replacement for her dead daughter, while for Uncle Jacob she was a reminder of the family's shameful past. Only good-hearted Cary seemed to care, and since it was revealed that she are Cary weren't truly cousins, the affection that had always surged between them now crested in thrilling waves.

But Melody knew she could never truly echo Cary's loving promises intil she discovered her own buried identity. Despite Grandma Olivia's daggerlike threats, Melody sought out Belinda, a mysterious, half-crazy woman who was her real grandmother. Belinda gave Melody hope - and a glimmer of the pearls of truth she knew were hidden in the shifting Cape Cod sands. Somehow, someday, the story of her past would be her hard-won treasure, to be savored in a world of sunshine and happiness...where she truly belonged.

This book was a bit tiresome for me because I felt like Melody was always chasing after something and she would hit brick wall after brick wall. She like her mother was hurt not by Kenneth but the circumstances that surround a possible relationship with him. Kenneth, the brooding artist, showed the depth of hurt that was caused in the beginning by the Logan family and all of the secrets that they feel they must keep. When Uncle Jacob has a heart attack and Melody and Cary grow even closer it becomes obvious that Melody will have to endure yet another unwanted living situation. This one with Grandma Olivia.

The exciting thing about this book was the character development and that the reader gets the chance to really dig into the feelings of the characters as they tiptoe around trying to uncover, but not reveal the secrets that the family is hiding.

I read and will release this book as part of the 2007 Keep Them Moving Release Challenge from the Release Challenges forum.

RELEASE NOTES:

This book was released at the
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE BOOK
festival in Old Town Kensington.

Welcome to Old Town Kensington's Celebration of the International Day of the Book.

April 23 is a symbolic day in world literature. Declared as International Day of the Book by UNESCO in 1995, this celebration of books and literature draws it's inspiration from a Catalan tradition, the Festival of the Rose.

Legend has it that Saint George, Patron Saint of Catalonia and international knight-errant, slew a dragon about to devour a beautiful Catalan princess. From the dragon's blood sprouted a rosebush, from which the hero plucked the prettiest rose for the princess. Hence the traditional Rose Festival celebrated in Barcelona since the Middle Ages to honor chivalry and love. In 1923, this lover's "festa" became even more poetic when it merged with "el dia del llibre", or The Day of the Book, to mark the nearly simultaneous deaths of Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare, the two giants of literary history, on April 23, 1616.

On this day in Barcelona, bookstalls and street festivities run the length of the picturesque La Rambla, the old city's main boulevard and, according to the Spanish author Garcia Lorca, "the only street in the world which I wish would never end".

The Town of Kensington, Kensington Literary Group, and the Pauli Bellet Foundation Catalan Library, invite you to celebrate this wonderful day on Howard Ave, our "La Rambla".

We hope that you enjoy the book!