You are the Vice President of your dad’s huge and successful company. You handle all the important business deals, flirt with all the big business men, and travel all over the world to see what kind of clients you can gain for the firm. The mansion you live in is big enough for you and ten other people, and your vehicle happens to be the flashiest Mercedes on the block. You’re definitely living the dream with your beauty and your money, and you have the world at your fingertips. What could possibly go wrong?
In Julia London’s Material Girl, Robin Lear has this exact jet-set life. Everything is going perfectly until she discovers that her father has cancer. Robin’s world begins to unravel at once.
Although Aaron Lear, her father and founder of Lear Transport Industries (LTI), has never been the easiest man to get along with, Robin drives down to her family’s ranch to see him.
Aaron requested that all three of his daughters come to the ranch, where he is now staying, to visit with him. He knows now that he was never the father he should have been to his girls, and with his cancer slowly taking his life, he plans to help his daughters with theirs.
Of course, as Aaron has always been quite arrogant, he insults Robin in the worst way possible, demotes her from her VP position at LTI, and makes her abandon the range without a second glance back.
On top of all of that, Robin gets arrested on her way back home, discovers that her office burned down, has to work for her toady ex-boyfriend in packaging, and finds that she is totally infatuated with Jake Manning, her sexy contractor who is no way her type.
Despite all the disastrous things that have been happening to her, Robin still manages to stay her prissy, sassy, and arrogant self. Yet every time she’s around Jake her world shifts ever so slightly. He takes pleasure in the simple things in life, he’s extremely handsome, and he’s not afraid to put Robin in her place. Jake is everything Robin has never had in a man. He sure knows how to distract her and keep her grounded at the same time.
Since Jake is constantly in her presence, as he is renovating Robin’s spacious, empty house, there’s absolutely no way to escape him, but she finds that she doesn’t really want to. . .
Material Girl is an absolutely stunning and riveting book. Each character brings the story to life in the perfect way, and Robin Lear is a remarkable leading lady. This novel proves that money can’t buy you love and opposites attract in the most peculiar ways. Definitely a worthwhile read, this book will thrill its readers, move them to tears, and keep them laughing out loud with the rises and falls of the material girl, Robin Lear.
Imagine that you’ve been shipped to live with your dad for the summer with only your little brother to keep you company. You haven’t spoken to your dad in three years, you’ve lived in the city your whole life and now you’re forced to spend the next three months in North Carolina with no friends to keep you company.
In Nicholas Sparks’ The Last Song, this is how Ronnie Miller, the rebellious city girl, has to spend her summer.
After her parents got a divorce, Ronnie blamed her dad and never spoke to him again. This summer is going to be different, since she has to spend it with him.
What makes it even more miserable is the fact that she’ll be sharing a room with her pesky brother, she’ll have to be an extra careful law-abiding citizen after she shoplifted in the city, and she knows her dad will try everything to get her to play piano again. Since the divorce, she started to act out and break curfews. She also grew to hate the piano, which was once a big part of her life.
As soon as she arrives at her father’s bungalow on the beach she escapes off on her own. Deciding that there’s nothing better to do in the town, she Ronnie makes her way over to the festival by the beach.
While trying to make the best of her summer, she ends up getting knocked down by a preppy-looking volleyball player. Not only does she spill her soda all over herself, but she is forced to buy a Finding Nemo shirt to wear to hide the stains.
Then she meets Blaze, a girl who is almost exactly like Ronnie. She thought she should’ve been really happy to find a new friend, but with Blaze came Marcus, her creepy, sinister boyfriend who finds himself falling all over Ronnie and won’t leave her alone.
Just as Ronnie thinks her up and down summer can’t get any worse, a mishap involving some stolen CDs puts Ronnie right back under the eyes of the court and into a miserable summer yet again. With one bad thing happening after another, Ronnie thinks about how bad her luck really is, and then she runs into Will, the preppy volleyball player.
Surprisingly, Will turns out to be a pretty nice guy, and Ronnie admits, a pretty handsome guy, too. And the more time they spend together, the more she notices how much she really likes him. . .
What she doesn’t know is the fact that when her and Will are alone together, they are never really alone.
The Last Song really gives its readers hope in second chances; second chances in love, family, and a second chance for a better life. This book proves that love of all kinds can be found in the most unlikely places and last forever. Nicholas Sparks has yet again created a wonderful masterpiece about the trials and tests of love. His new novel is quite an inspiration and an excellent read with a little rebellion thrown in along the way. A movie was also inspired by this book and is said to come out in theaters in spring 2010.
You are the Vice President of your dad’s huge and successful company. You handle all the important business deals, flirt with all the big business men, and travel all over the world to see what kind of clients you can gain for the firm. The mansion you live in is big enough for you and ten other people, and your vehicle happens to be the flashiest Mercedes on the block. You’re definitely living the dream with your beauty and your money, and you have the world at your fingertips. What could possibly go wrong?
