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Cherry Forums Book Club Schedule
We host a book club here at CherryForums.com where we talk about books by Cherry authors. Discussions usually start on the 1st and 15th of each month and last for a week, and we're proud to say that our authors are here to answer reader's questions.
Below are the current and upcoming selections, visit our Book Club Archive to see past selections.
Currently talking about
First in a brand-new sexy paranormal romance series from award-winning author C.J. Barry.
Seneca Thomas is an agent with XCEL, a secret government taskforce charged with capturing the dangerous shapeshifters that have infiltrated New York City, passing for humans. Her Native American heritage gives her a special gift— the ability to see the shapeshifters for what they are. Unfortunately this does not make killing them any easier.
But when her partner is killed in the line of duty, Seneca finds herself teamed up with Max Dempsey— a shapeshifter. Max was on a refugee transport that crashed to Earth, setting thousands of shape-shifters free to do what they do best— replicate the local population in order to survive. Among them is the shifter who murdered Max’s wife. Now Max’s only desire is to find him and destroy him— until he gets partnered with Seneca, a sexy, fearless agent who would kill every one of his kind, including Max, if given the chance.
And when the pair discover a growing army of shifters gathering beneath the city, Seneca will have no choice but to trust the one man she shouldn’t.
Preview the Body Master discussion questions
- Noko, who is she? Do you think that Seneca’s grandmother, Noko, could handle a shapeshifter?
- HEA & beyond How do you think Seneca and Max will survive after their happily ever after ending?
- Seneca vs Shifters What was the turning point when Seneca understood Max and shifters?
- Max’s mission What was the turning point when Max understood what his real mission was?
- Are there Aliens among us Do you think shifters have a place in our country?
- Your shape? If you could be any shape you wanted, what would it be?
Join the Body Master book club discussion on September 1st.
Upcoming Selections
The Story
Andie Miller is ready to move on in life. She wants to marry her fiance and leave behind everything in her past, especially her ex-husband, North Archer. But when Andie tries to gain closure with him, he asks one final favor of her before they go their separate ways forever. A very distant cousin of his has died and left North as the guardian of two orphans who have driven out three nannies already, and things are getting worse. He needs a very special person to take care of the situation and he knows Andie can handle anything…
When Andie meets the two children she quickly realizes things are much worse than she feared. The place is a mess, the children, Carter and Alice, aren’t your average delinquents, and the creepy old house where they live is being run by the worst housekeeper since Mrs. Danvers. What’s worse, Andie’s fiance thinks this is all a plan by North to get Andie back, and he may be right. Andie’s dreams have been haunted by North since she arrived at the old house. And that’s not the only haunting…
Then her ex-brother-in-law arrives with a duplicitous journalist and a self-doubting parapsychologist, closely followed by an annoyed medium, Andie’s tarot card-reading mother, her avenging ex-mother-in-law, and her jealous fiancé. Just when Andie’s sure things couldn’t get more complicated, North arrives to make her wonder if maybe this time things could just turn out differently…
Preview the Maybe This Time discussion questions
Maybe This Time Reader’s Guide With a big thank you to Eric Clapton, Cyndi Lauper, Jackson Browne, and everybody else who provided music for the MTT soundtrack because the question headings are from them.
- Layla (Eric Clapton) Andie in 1982 was headstrong and impulsive; after all, she married North after knowing him for only a day. But as the book opens ten years later, she’s changed; as North says, when he fell in love with her in ’82, he heard the original “Layla;” when he sees her in ’92, he hears the acoustic version. How has she changed, and how does a month in the country change her ever more that the previous ten years? Why?
- Man in Love (Eric Clapton) North is really laid back, so far back he’s in the shadows, and it doesn’t help that MTT is not a romance novel, so North had to work within a romantic subplot. Did you find the romance believable? Satisfying? Did he work for you as a romantic hero or was he just too detached?
- Girls Just Want To Have Fun (Cyndi Lauper) Did you feel sympathy for May? Did you feel she was a fully developed character, something beyond the ghost that goes bump in the night?
- Somebody’s Baby (Jackson Browne) Alice lost her mother at birth, her father and her grandfather at six, and her aunt at seven. That’s a lot of death and a lot of abandonment. Do you feel she was portrayed realistically given her circumstances? What about her relationship with Miss J? May? Her relationship with Andie is arguably the most important relationship in the story. Did you find it realistic? Compelling? What impact did it have on Andie? On Alice?
- Any Day Now (Ronnie Milsap) Carter got short shrift for most of this story because he’s so withdrawn mainly because he thinks he’s doomed and he expects people to leave him. Did it bother you that Andie took so long to recognize that he was in trouble, too? Did his relationship with Andie and then later with North change him and them? Did you find those relationships believable? What about his relationship with Alice?
- Baby Mine (Bonnie Raitt) The ghosts had each chosen a child before Andie got there. What was Miss J’s relationship (if you can call it that) with Alice? What did she need from Alice? What did Peter need from Carter? Did you find them pitiful or frightening? Why? What impact did the fact that they were haunting children have on your perception?
- Make A Move On Me (Olivia Newton-John) Andie ends up with two ghost experts on her hands: Isolde, a medium who knows there are ghosts, and Dennis, a parapsychologist who doesn’t believe. What did they add to the story? Were both necessary? What did you think of where they ended in their relationship to the Archers, to each other, and to the world?
- Lawyers in Love (Jackson Browne) The Archers are not good at marriage. North neglects his for work, Southie avoids the institution like the plague, and Lydia cheats on her husband with his ne’er-do-well brother. What’s wrong with these people?
- Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper) This book was written as an homage to Henry James’s Turn of the Screw. What echoes from that story are in the book? What things are the same? What things are completely different, so much so as to be the exact opposite of the book?
- Everything Changes (Kathy Troccoli) This book takes place over one month, but in the course of that month the lives of almost everyone in the story are irrevocably changed. Did you find that believable? Chaotic? Transformative for you as a reader?
- SheBop (Cyndi Lauper) What question do you want to ask? It’s all about you on this one.
Join the Maybe This Time book club discussion on September 15th.
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