{"id":3046,"date":"2012-08-01T12:04:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T17:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sistahsontheshelf.com\/blog\/?p=3046"},"modified":"2020-05-09T01:08:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T05:08:03","slug":"girl-in-the-mirror-by-alix-b-golden-august-2012-pick-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/?p=3046","title":{"rendered":"Girl in the Mirror by Alix B. Golden (Aug. 2012 Pick of the Month)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Publisher\/Date:\u00a0 <\/strong>I Bleed Ink Publishing, Aug. 2012
\nGenre:\u00a0 <\/strong>Romance
\nPages: <\/strong>\u00a0 204
\nWebsite: \u00a0<\/strong>http:\/\/www.alixbgolden.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Rating:<\/strong> \"★\"\"★\"\"★\"\"★\"\"½\" <\/p><\/strong><\/p>\n

You can’t run from your past, and you certainly can’t run from the GIRL IN THE MIRROR<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

While the prequel to this novel, Girl, Shattered<\/a>, is available now, Mirror<\/em> is its full-length story from blogger turned book author Alix B. Golden with many layers \u2013 a surprise love, suspense, drama, parental woes \u2013 yet the center of them is Christen Calhoun. The by-day bank teller is uninspired by her job and only finds comfort in her camera; it doesn’t pay the bills, and it doesn’t suit her father’s dreams for her.<\/p>\n

Neither does dating women. Especially the ones Christen involves herself with. Still reeling from her last burn with thieving ass Alicia, she decides a no-strings attached relationship is exactly what she needs in Kam, a writer she meets online with a girlfriend. Christen sees nothing wrong with the two having a fling. At least that’s how it begins. It ends just as badly.<\/p>\n

*girl in the mirror shakes her head*<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Christen could never tell her Pops about these dead-end hookups. Since a young girl, it’s always been just the two of them after her mother’s passing. He never understood her decisions \u2013 staying in Savannah after graduation instead of returning to Atlanta, why she couldn’t find a man and make him a \u201cGrandpappy\u201d \u2013 nevertheless he did want to see her happy.<\/p>\n

The problem is Christen can’t please herself. She suits her personality to the women she dates, and every bad romance she gets her further away from whom she is. When she looks in the mirror, the truth stares back, but then loneliness sets in and fools her heart into thinking it’s love.<\/p>\n

It’s only when the worst imaginable happens that Christen returns home to find the love she needs \u2013 and makes the girl in mirror finally smile back.<\/p>\n

Golden\u2019s Girl in the Mirror<\/em> shines. What I liked most about Mirror<\/em> is its dimensionality. The storyline took several twists and turns, tying nicely to make an enjoyable novel. In Christen, you see a woman with so much potential go from settling to avoid being alone to realizing her true reflection is what’s important.<\/p>\n

Reviewed August 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Publisher\/Date:\u00a0 I Bleed Ink Publishing, Aug. 2012 Genre:\u00a0 Romance Pages: \u00a0 204 Website: \u00a0http:\/\/www.alixbgolden.com You can’t run from your past, and you certainly can’t run from the GIRL IN THE MIRROR. While the prequel to this novel, Girl, Shattered, is available now, Mirror is its full-length story from blogger turned book author Alix B. Golden […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[4,17],"tags":[42,63,169,195,374,401,421],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7390,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions\/7390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}