Once upon a time, Tracy Whitney was one of the best thieves in the business. Then she settled down and had a child—a beautiful, bright, mischievous boy who was the center of her life. Tracy planned to spend the rest of her days quietly, living anonymously deep in the stunning Colorado mountains, devoted to raising her son. But tragedy forces her to face her greatest nightmare. Now, with nothing left to protect, this superb con artist, jewel thief, computer wizard, and cat burglar returns to the hunt, more dangerous, ruthless, and reckless than ever. The world faces a new terror threat from Group 99, a diverse collection of global hackers intent on the collapse of capitalism and private wealth and the creation of a new world order. When the group turns to violence—kidnapping an American investigative journalist, shooting a British military hostage, and blowing up an international industrialist—the mysterious woman pulling their strings, a wily and wealthy American known only as Althea, becomes the CIA’s most sought criminal. But their only hope of finding her is a woman with a dark and dangerous past of her own. A woman who has also successfully evaded detection by the authorities around the world: Tracy. Convinced that Althea is behind the deadly act that shattered her life, Tracy sets out on a global hunt to flush out her prey. But as she soon discovers, the truth is as elusive as her target. Hampered by corruption, lies, and enemies masked as allies, Tracy will be pushed to the brink, where she must face her darkest demons. All of her experience tells Tracy that the answers are right in front of her—if only she can look at the clues in the right way. Propelled by an unquenchable thirst for revenge, and with the fate of so many resting in her hands, just how reckless will Tracy become when she has nothing left to lose? An addictive tale of espionage, mystery, passion, greed, betrayal, and vengeance that takes you from the beautiful Rocky Mountains to Europe’s oldest and grandest cities, filled with a cast of intriguing characters both new and familiar, Sidney Sheldon’s Reckless is a glamorous thrill ride that will leave you breathless until its shocking end."
ISBN:2147483647
Author:Sidney Sheldon, Tilly Bagshawe
Omeno Michelle –
“What if you never find love or get married? How you ultimately be?”
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When I read a book and connect with a character or relate to what they’re going through I feel like the book has a soul of its own and Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband is such a book.
This story touched on a myriad of phenomena that sold truth to me. Love, marriage, friendship, mother-daughter relationships and family take centre stage. Aside from the foremost former don’t the rest take center stage in the African way of life that mad the story feel like home away from home.
Blackburn delivered this story in a way that’s reminiscent of Bridget Jones’ Diary adding lotsa depth and humor to her characters that made them vivid, other dialogue formats (that I immensely enjoyed), with lotsa hard truths in an easy to digest way.
Yinka’s tale is not far from many women’s journey into marriage and while she felt powerless in the end she took back her power in a show to remind you you hold the power.
Empowerment, healing, faith in self, tap into your creativity, traditions, societal expectations vs reality, balance, forgiveness, self love and acceptance are the other themes that took centre stage.
One thing is for sure, relationships can either make you or break you: I love the way Blackburn reminded us through Yinka’s story and that important reminder in the end the most important relationship is the one you have with self.
I also love fact that this story reminded me, reminded us the readers it’s okay not to be okay. That it’s okay to seek help.
Yinka started out finding a huzband and in the end she found her true self.
I succinctly sipped this book from cover to cover. I see why a draft of the book won an award.
‘ “I need to get in touch with who I really am,” I say. “Not try to be the person the world wants me to be.” ‘
Chief, the NuriaStore bookseller –
The, book Yinka, where is your huzband is about acceptance of who you really are, and not seeking opinions of how about people look at you to determine who you really are.
Yinka, is a successful young woman who has a career, degree, a house, a car but hasn’t been lucky or successful in finding love or a husband. And this bothers her family especially her mother who feels like she’s getting old, now that Yinka turned 31 years old.
When her cousins get married, she is now even more pressured to at least go out and look for a date, making her sign up for dating apps like Tinder. By doing so she thinks that this action will finally help her answer the question that everyone wants and an answer for
“Where is your huzband?”
Well, it’s a hard journey for her since, she meet few dated along the way and they just don’t turn out to what she want for herself. Heartbreaks, tears, abuses you name it, not forgetting about falling for her friend instead of her. Let’s say it’s full of disappointments
The book covers the content about colourism and peer-pressure where the author takes us through on how Yinka managed to overcome and use to her advantage.
This book well, captures the situation, we find ourselves in because of the pressure we get from friends and family.
My take: This is a beautiful fun written story about love and acceptance and the characters and personalities in the book make the book ever more interesting to read.