Book Title: Tiny Glitches
Genre: Contemporary Romance/Romantic Comedy
Pages: 373
Author: Rebecca Chastain
Date Published: 12 January 2016
Synopsis:
Life isn’t exactly normal for Eva Parker: the stronger Eva’s
emotions, the faster nearby electrical devices die. Eva can’t have a cell
phone, use a computer, or be in a car for more than a few minutes without
killing it. Dealing with her electricity-killing curse makes living in
modern-day Los Angeles complicated enough for Eva—and that was before she was
blackmailed into hiding a stolen baby elephant and partnered with Hudson, a
sexy electrical engineer Eva just met.
Dodging repeated attempts on her life made by ruthless corporations hunting the elephant is easier for Eva than quelling her growing affection for Hudson, and while protecting an elephant is hard, controlling her curse is a lot harder. However, Eva must do both, because if she lets her emotions free and falls in love with Hudson, neither of them will survive.
Enchanting and quirky, TINY GLITCHES fuses electrifying romance and high-voltage suspense in a rollicking adventure.
Review:
Tiny Glitches by Rebecca Chastain
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is a wonderful and quirky romance. I loved it!
Eva Parker is an unusual character. I liked her a lot, but wanted to shake her at times. She is a Feng Shui consultant with an unusual gift. Unfortunately, she has a problem with electricity - she absorbs it. This powers her ability to see the emotions of people as pictures/hallucinations. This makes it awkward when getting from one place to another, or staying in one place too long, which leads to batteries dying and power cuts. When she gets embroiled in a situation involving a stolen elephant, she needs to keep her wits about her. However, Hudson Keyes muddies the waters even more and she finds herself falling for him.
This is a wonderfully quirky romance, full of action, adventure, danger and weird and wonderful characters. It is told through the eyes of Eva. I started to read and was quickly swept away. I fell in love with the descriptive writing. I could picture each and every scene with clarity. The characters are lifelike and likable. I giggled at a lot of the descriptions of the emotional visions that Eva sees, though some are a little disturbing too. I loved the two characters, Atlas and Edmond. These two bumbling cousins had me chuckling at their antics. Also, the mention of baking and cakes kept making me feel hungry. I don't know how good Edmond's cakes really were, but my mouth was watering every time there was mention of it and the coffee cake too, which is Eva's favourite dessert. Therefore, either eat something before you start this book or you'll be salivating at it too.
The story took me on a roller coaster ride from beginning to end. I did feel, however, that the plot had a few holes in it, which left a few loose ends. I still felt that Hudson's past was not explored enough. There were hints, but the reader has to make their own interpretation of what the images Eva sees around him mean. He never actually confirms or denies things, as Eva never comes out and asks him about his life. Therefore, he remains a bit of an enigma. Nevertheless, I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know these characters.
Rebecca Chastain has written a wonderful comedic romance. I love her fast paced writing style. However, the flow seemed a little choppy at times. I have not read any other books written by this author, but I would definitely read more of her books in the future.
Due to some scenes of an explicit nature (though not as explicit as some I've read), I do not recommend this book to younger readers. However, I highly recommend this book if you love quirky contemporary romances, or paranormal romances. - Lynn Worton
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Excerpt:
Dodging repeated attempts on her life made by ruthless corporations hunting the elephant is easier for Eva than quelling her growing affection for Hudson, and while protecting an elephant is hard, controlling her curse is a lot harder. However, Eva must do both, because if she lets her emotions free and falls in love with Hudson, neither of them will survive.
Enchanting and quirky, TINY GLITCHES fuses electrifying romance and high-voltage suspense in a rollicking adventure.
Review:
Tiny Glitches by Rebecca ChastainMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is a wonderful and quirky romance. I loved it!
Eva Parker is an unusual character. I liked her a lot, but wanted to shake her at times. She is a Feng Shui consultant with an unusual gift. Unfortunately, she has a problem with electricity - she absorbs it. This powers her ability to see the emotions of people as pictures/hallucinations. This makes it awkward when getting from one place to another, or staying in one place too long, which leads to batteries dying and power cuts. When she gets embroiled in a situation involving a stolen elephant, she needs to keep her wits about her. However, Hudson Keyes muddies the waters even more and she finds herself falling for him.
This is a wonderfully quirky romance, full of action, adventure, danger and weird and wonderful characters. It is told through the eyes of Eva. I started to read and was quickly swept away. I fell in love with the descriptive writing. I could picture each and every scene with clarity. The characters are lifelike and likable. I giggled at a lot of the descriptions of the emotional visions that Eva sees, though some are a little disturbing too. I loved the two characters, Atlas and Edmond. These two bumbling cousins had me chuckling at their antics. Also, the mention of baking and cakes kept making me feel hungry. I don't know how good Edmond's cakes really were, but my mouth was watering every time there was mention of it and the coffee cake too, which is Eva's favourite dessert. Therefore, either eat something before you start this book or you'll be salivating at it too.
The story took me on a roller coaster ride from beginning to end. I did feel, however, that the plot had a few holes in it, which left a few loose ends. I still felt that Hudson's past was not explored enough. There were hints, but the reader has to make their own interpretation of what the images Eva sees around him mean. He never actually confirms or denies things, as Eva never comes out and asks him about his life. Therefore, he remains a bit of an enigma. Nevertheless, I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know these characters.
Rebecca Chastain has written a wonderful comedic romance. I love her fast paced writing style. However, the flow seemed a little choppy at times. I have not read any other books written by this author, but I would definitely read more of her books in the future.
Due to some scenes of an explicit nature (though not as explicit as some I've read), I do not recommend this book to younger readers. However, I highly recommend this book if you love quirky contemporary romances, or paranormal romances. - Lynn Worton
View all my reviews
Excerpt:
The trailer rocked, the heavy
metal frame groaning in protest. The trailer wasn’t
wide, and before the baby elephant could stampede more than four steps, it
mashed against me, pinning me to the wall. I scrunched my toes in my open
sandals and braced for a mauling. The elephant flapped her ears and the hem of
my skirt fluttered. My eyes popped open.
“Good elephant, you
don’t want to hurt me,” I said, wriggling to the side. “Please don’t eat me.”
“I think elephants
are vegetarians,” Hudson said, coming into view at the open back of the
trailer. He stepped inside and pulled the door shut behind him.
“It looks hungry.
Maybe it’s starved beyond reason. And look at those feet. It could cripple me
with a single step. Oh God, what are you doing?”
The elephant
snuffled me with her trunk. I backed up as far as my handcuffed wrist would
allow. She followed. The moist tip of the trunk prodded my knee below the line
of my skirt and beelined for third base. Dirty sandpaper skin scraped up my
naked thigh.
“No! No, no, no,
no. Bad elephant!” I twisted and thrust my butt away from the elephant, the tendons
in my shackled arm radiating fiery pain from my bruised wrist to my shoulder.
Doubled over as I was, if the wild elephant charged, she’d slam into my solar
plexus and rip my arm clean off.
The elephant’s
trunk reversed direction and constricted around my ankle. I squeaked. Bright
brown eyes lifted to my face. The trunk tip released me to molest the straps of
my sandals. I shimmied to the side, easing the pressure on my arm.
“That’s a good
elephant. Keep your trunk to yourself and I’ll—eep!”
The elephant swung
her head to look at Hudson, pivoting on a back foot, rocking the trailer. It
took me a moment to recognize the incongruous sound.
“You’re laughing?
Now?” With my ass in the air and my body contorted painfully around an
unpredictable killing machine, he had the audacity to laugh? Shooting Hudson a
glare, I squeezed between the elephant and the wall of the trailer and
straightened, sidling closer to the bar I was handcuffed to. The man had great
crow’s-feet when he grinned, the bastard.
Author bio:
Rebecca Chastain is the
international bestselling fantasy author of A FISTFUL OF EVIL, A FISTFUL OF
FIRE, and MAGIC OF THE GARGOYLES. She has found seven four-leaf clovers to
date, won a purebred Arabian horse in a drawing, and once tamed a blackbird for
a day. Dreaming up the absurd and writing stories designed to amuse and
entertain has been her passion since she was eleven years old. She lives in
northern California with her wonderful husband and two bossy cats. TINY
GLITCHES is her latest novel.
Here are a few places you can find me on the Internet:
Website: http://www.rebeccachastain.com
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Twitter: @Author_Rebecca or https://twitter.com/Author_Rebecca
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