Thursday, July 15, 2010

the Stanislaskis..

Meet the Stanislaskis.. the second family i met from Nora Robert's powerful mind. (the first were the Concannon sisters from the Irish Born series)..
Yuri and Nadia Stanislaski fled across the boarders through a mountain range in a wagon to escape the Ukraine with their 3 oldest children, Natasha, Mikhail, and Alex. They soon settled in Brooklyn, New York where Yuri found work as a carpenter and had another child, Rachel.

The first 4 books of this 6 book series tells the story of one of Yuri and Nadia’s children. The last two books tell the story of two of their grandchildren. In order, here are the books:

Title: Taming Natasha
# pages: 223

Taming Natasha is the story of Natasha Stanislaski a former ballerina and toy store owner. She meets widower Spencer Kimball, a composer and music professor at the local college, when he comes into her store searching for a toy for his five-year-old daughter, Freddie.

Title: Luring a Lady
# pages: 221

It’s Mikhail Stanislaski’s turn in Luring a Lady. As the oldest Stanislaski child, Mikhail remembers his family’s escape from the Ukraine the best. He is now an artist and a carpenter in Manhattan. There he meets Sydney Hayward, the woman who owns the building he lives in. After convincing Sydney to visit the building her company has neglected, Sydney finds the loving, close-knit family she’s looking for.

Title: Falling for Rachel
# pages: 209

Tough, no-nonsense public defender Rachel Stanislaski meets Zack Muldoon when she’s assigned to his step-brother’s burglary case. The court demands that the lawyer and the bar owner work together to keep the 19-year-old Nick out of trouble.

Title: Convincing Alex
# pages: 210

Detective Alexi Stanislaski arrests Bess McNee for soliciting only to find out that she is actually the writer for a popular soap-opera. She asks him to help her with her research. How can he say no when he is already slowly falling for her?


Title: Waiting for Nick
# pages: 244

This is the story of grown-up little girl, Freddie Kimball, from Taming Natasha and Nick Muldoon, the punk step-brother, from Falling for Rachel. Freddie fell in love with Nick the first time she saw him in her grandparent’s house. At the time, her aunt Rachel was Nick’s attorney and Freddie was only 13-years-old. Now 24, Freddie decides to finally go after her man.

Title: Considering Kate
# pages: 242

Considering Kate is the last of the Stanislaski family books. Kate is Spencer Kimball and Natasha Stanislaski Kimball’s (of Taming Natasha) youngest daughter. A prima ballerina, Kate decides to open her own ballet school in her small hometown in West Virginia. She hires Brody O’Connell to renovate the building and falls in love with him and his 6-year-old son, Jack.

Rating: The whole series from book 1 to book 6 was very good.

so i'm giving the saga 5 bookmarks!!

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