Alex George’s debut novel, A Good American, is a heart-warming tale of a forbidden romance and the journey it takes from Germany to Missouri.

Music and food are more than words to fill a page in this novel. Instead they are used to help describe the relationship between the characters and they’re surroundings, their relationships, and their growth.

A must read for 2013, I had a hard time putting the book down, and am looking forward to picking it up and reading it again.

This is a paid review for BlogHer Book Club but the opinions are my own.

The true life story of Sophie Morgan.

I’m not really sure how I ended up reviewing this particular book. It’s definitely not my normal genre. I generally skip most romance novels because I don’t need to read about how great others people sex lives are in comparison to mine, which is non-existent. I have no interest in the 50 Shades books. I’m blaming it on being in school, being tired and not realizing what I was going to be reading.

I will admit that the book grabbed my attention fairly quickly and managed to keep it. At points I found myself cheering her on and others I was cringing. Knowing it was a true story is probably the only thing that kept me going. I’ve always wondered what made people choose to be a Dominant or submissive? What was going on in their head? Did they have some screwed up childhood that left them with a twisted reality of what was normal?

Now I know. Well, at least I know why Sophie Morgan is the way she is and what she thinks and feels while she is submissive. I also know that she didn’t have any childhood trauma that made her this way.

It just goes to show that you can’t judge a book by it’s cover.

If you enjoyed the 50 Shades series, this may interest you. If you don’t know what 50 Shades is, don’t look.

This is a paid review for BlogHer Book Club but the opinions expressed are my own.