OHHHH MYYYYY GOSH! Hands Down that was one reading experience I WILL NOT forget in a hurry. Because that’s exactly what I got, an experience of EPIC proportions where I fell in lust, then blinding, soul crushing love. Everything about Jude and Brea was just WOW. I mean at 33% I would have happily gave this book ALL THE STARS. By 44% I never wanted it to end. And that wasn’t even half way. What AM and Joanne have done with this book is literally beyond any of my expectations.

From the fun introduction of the characters to each other, to the unique way the relationship starts to build, to the sinfully hot connection both characters have, I am well and truly HEAD OVER HEELS IN LOVE.

Finding Mr Wrong was in fact oh so RIGHT. This book did more than set a spark, it blazed an inferno deep inside that burrowed itself in and held me captive. My heart and soul are ridiculously happy.

I’ve been a fan of AM Madden’s books for a long time now, her hero’s all hold special places within me and HOT DAYUM the woman knows how to write the PERFECT alpha male. But when teamed with Joanne that alpha male becomes OUTSTANDING. SUPREME. EVERYTHING AND MORE.

Much to my own disapproval, it pains me to admit that I’ve not read anything from Joanne before but my gosh I will be doing now. The flow of the writing through the book was pristine and precise. It was solidified by a flawless execution that just cannot be knocked. These two are wizards of the writing world but put together they are gods. I want more. No, NEED MORE!

Without a doubt, Finding Mr Wrong is a stunning, piece of art. From beginning, to middle, to end there was not one bit I could critique. Not one bit I would change. It’s practically perfect in every way. I laughed, I swooned, I fell so deep in love, I got emotional, I got hot, I got it all and was left in a total state of bookworm bliss. At 33% I said this book got ALL THE STARS and it does, a million times over. This is, without doubt a top read of February and a top read of 2017!

Here’s a tip: never trust a jackass in preppy clothing.

The phrase “trust me” should have been my first clue to hightail it out the door, but hindsight is always 20/20.
So there I was, on a stage with two other men, being asked ridiculous questions by a woman I couldn’t see, but whose voice made my pants tighten—and not around my ankles.

Before I knew what was happening, I’d signed up for six weeks in paradise, isolated on an island for forty-two days with a complete stranger. And when I finally laid eyes on the sexy brunette who belonged to that voice, a part of me thought this wouldn’t be so bad.

I’ve always been a levelheaded guy. I am a successful, smart, and shrewd business man. But that was when I was listening to the head above my shoulders. Once the blood traveled south, I always ran into trouble.
She called me Mr. Wrong, and that was fine with me.
Lesson learned: lust always trumps logic.

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Review – Intertwined by Sasha Brummer

January 23, 2017February 21, 2017Leave a comment

Intertwined by Sasha Brummer

CAPTIVATING..
That’s the word I’d use to describe what this book has been to me. I wanted to devour this book whole. Feast on the goodness I knew it would possess but when I got going I found that this would be a book I’d need to savour and take my time with. This was a book that I could not rush, would not rush, because this book was so damn breathtaking. From page one this book consumed my thoughts, pulled at the deepest parts of me and wrapped itself around my heart.
What book am I talking about? Intertwined by the amazingly talented, beautiful Sasha Brümmer.

Intertwined sparked a fire deep inside me. A soul-deep, burning flame of love and desire, lust and devastating beauty. Liam and Isla were two of the most beautiful, battered souls I’ve read. So perfect for each other. Breathtaking and intense. Their relationship battered me, latched itself onto me and blissfully dragged me along with them.

People who know me know that I feed off angst and friends to lovers romances.. Intertwined is now, undoubtedly, one of my favourites. Everything about this book spoke to me. It made me FEEL. I laughed, I swooned, I got VERY hot under the collar and I cried. I cried so hard. At times Intertwined was hard to stomach, hard to process, it stole my breath and broke my heart but through it all ran an UNDENIABLE connection. A connection that melted the pages. A connection that blossomed and burnt hotter than the biggest fire.

That connection is what built an exceptional romance between two best friends, one that brought true meaning to second chances, not only at love but LIFE. Sasha bought together two souls that were seemingly doomed and breathed life into them and me as the reader.

Those two souls have embedded themselves so deep in me, I honestly cannot fathom how I’ll ever get them out. I don’t want to get them out.

Liam-fucking-Jensen has my heart, my soul, my breath, my blood. He can have it all. Every damn thing. Forever. This alpha asshole well and truly ruined me. BIG TIME. His cocky arrogance and deep protective nature made me crazy.
Matched perfectly to Liam was Isla who despite everything she endured was incredibly strong, uplifting and just a pleasure to get to know. She is a kick ass heroine and I adore her. Sasha wrote her in such an impeccable way.

Anyone who reads this book, that has a male best friend or has had one previously will just get the connection between Liam and Isla, you’ll understand how deep they do actually blend into one another and you’ll appreciate every single truthful word Sasha has penned in Intertwined.

This whole novel is deep, intense, raw and downright devastating in parts but it’s also so damn stunning. I have no idea how Sasha penned these characters and made them so strong but she did and I wouldn’t change a single thing.

In its entirety, Intertwined is PHENOMENAL. And it sucks that I don’t have enough stars to truly rate this book all it’s actually worth.

Amplified emotional highs have been my downfall. I’ve lost parts of myself to the dark corners of my heart because of the damage others have inflicted.

Whiskey might be able to ease the burn of one’s soul, but this time it might not be enough to survive. Instead of letting me wither in the cracks of my desiccated soul, he pushes me to appreciate the scars, instead of avoiding the bruises.

I’ve had more than my share of sanctioned hell, and I am through living in a limbo between who I should be and who I am. I won’t allow myself to become a casualty of my own mind again.

I am no longer carrying the obscurities of my life around with me when he chooses to stand and fight beside me.

With him, I finally see what it means to be living.

This novel contains mature themes, strong language, violent circumstances, and sexual situations. It is intended for adult readers.

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Review – Stay by A.L. Jackson

January 23, 2017January 25, 2017Leave a comment

Stay by A.L. Jackson

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

“You see the beauty in the old. The beauty in the bad. The beauty that’s hidden in all things. It’s always here, we just have to look hard enough for it.”

You don’t have to look hard to see the beauty that bleeds into A.L. Jackson’s words, so wondrous and so WOW. Every word that this author writes is full of feels. Every word is mesmerizing and meaningful. Every word means everything. Every word IS EVERYTHING. Stay is the newest roller coaster of a rock star romance from A.L. Jackson’s Bleeding Stars series that is pure beauty in words that break, bind, and make your heart bleed.

Knowing the power and pull of this series and the way it extracts every feel from me, I devoured Stay slowly. I had to inhale this story in small doses to give my heart time to slow its beating, my body time to slow its breathing, and my brain time to process all of the feelings floating around in my head. I did not want to put Stay down, yet I had to process the firestorm of feels flowing and calm my emotions from this story’s sensory storm.

The Prologue pulled at me immediately, barreling down on my heart and soul with the power of a fierce fire, one where I knew I would get burned. This firestorm of feels was a fight I would not win…did not want to win. The fire of Stay lit me up with life, one where every breath matched every breathtakingly beautiful word. Light to light. Dark to dark. Beauty to beauty. Feel to feel. I knew from the Prologue that I would feel every bit, every blaze, every burn, and every bright light from Ash and Willow’s story. Stay would slay me everywhere, and that it did.

The first sentence and first paragraph of the Prologue hit me with the force of a thousand winds. Tears welded in my eyes just from that verbiage as I knew there would be many more to follow…all kinds of tears for all kinds of emotions evoked from Stay.

“We rarely know when our lives are about to change. When the direction we have been traveling to will shift. When the stagnant comfort we’ve cut out for ourselves will take a sharp turn south, or when everything we know will come to an abrupt, excruciating end.”

Ash Evans, the wild man and guitarist for Sunder, has a huge heart, humor, charisma, and is the life of the party. Tall, muscular, inked, dark blond-haired, bearded, and ocean-blue eyes, Ash is pure heat and easy on the eyes. Inside, though, Ash is battling demons that won’t die.

His wounds are so deeply embedded, making him bleed for the past that has held him prisoner for so long. Ash’s huge heart is a gaping wound, one that he believes he caused. He’s leading a life where he feels unworthy and that tore me to shreds.

“He was some kind of glorious avenger with a wicked smile and a wayward tongue.”

Beautiful, mahogany-haired, brown-eyed, and long-legged Willow Langston is hanging onto life by a thread. Everyone she’s loved has left. Willow’s heart is decimated; she has nothing left to give.

Just one chapter in and my heart broke…bleeding all over the pages. STAY…I wanted to stay steadily reading but had to catch my breath as my lungs breathed in every wondrous and wielding word. The words quickly became flames that lit me up. I searched for that light in the darkness, the darkness that tried to hijack my head and heart. I WAS ON FIRE…I WAS ALIVE.

Willow has nothing left to give…

Until Ash Evans crosses her path in what feels like fate.

“A stranger who’d touched me without saying a word.”

Until she finds Ash broken and burned.

“The man was so dangerous and alive. Compelling. Magnetic. A bright, bright flame.”

Until she saves him.

“She’d saved me. She’d bound herself to me in a way I was sure neither of us could quite understand.”

Ash owes Willow a debt for life….his life. Though Willow doesn’t want a thing…except the one thing Ash won’t give: his heart.

“I didn’t have any place left inside myself to get ripped up and torn to pieces. And somehow I knew this man would tear me to shreds.”

Only a few chapters in and I broke as I bled for both the hero and the heroine. Two broken souls who should be one. STAY…I had to catch my tears I wanted to stay inside, willing them not to fall. Tears that teased the dam of waterworks waiting to burst from the words that clutched my soul, extracting every emotion. Beckoning me. Binding me. Becoming me.

A connection, so big as if it beckoned from above, blazed between Willow and Ash. An aura of fire, fueled by fate, danced around them. Lighting them up. Lifting them out of the darkness…lifting me out of the darkness…if only for a little while.

“Do you feel that? Everything simmering around us? Threatening to boil over. A flame just waitin’ for a match.”

Oh how I felt this blaze of Stay burn me too. This passion penetrated from the pages to me.

“Tell me you want me. Tell me you feel this, too.”

STAY…I wanted to stay in this moment…soak up these powerful and poignant words…soak up this sun cast over this couple. Willow and Ash’s connection and chemistry was combustible, a force of fate. I could not help but smile a grin filled with hope as I was sucked into a wave of passion, one of soulmates, one of love powerful as those flames that ignite between them. I felt every burn…every blaze…every beautiful and brilliant word…I FELT IT ALL.

“On a breathy sigh, my lips parted. His hot tongue slanted against mine. Flames. I felt them everywhere. Burning me up from the inside…He would wreck me. I knew it.”

Their chemistry and emotions are explosive—as were mine—so hot and heartfelt that I felt the flames from Ash and Willow melt me.

“Tonight belongs to you. I’m going to touch you until you’re dancing somewhere with the stars and then I’m going to catch you when you come back down. Then, I’m going to send you flying again.”

Oh Ash! His words smoldered yet made me swoon so very hard! I LOVED THIS MAN of many layers but with a heart of gold that penetrated those layers the hardest…penetrating my heart too.

My heart was hit so hard, it spun right into my soul. This broken boy and this broken girl…they broke me. Again and again. My tears tore through this story, leading the way as I absorbed each feel-worthy word into my heart…my soul.

“You’re killing me, darlin’.”

“And you’re saving me.”

STAY…I wanted to freeze those feels that flowed through me, so beautiful and bittersweet. Permanent tears etched into my eyes. I sighed. Stay filled my lungs as I breathed in every breathtakingly beautiful word. These words filtered into my very core. STAY…I had to stop and catch my heart that this story so forcefully claimed.

Ash is Willow’s angel. Willow saved him but he’s saving her too. She is the calm to Ash’s chaos. Ash and Willow are saviors who are slaying the other’s demons…slaying each other’s souls…slaying my soul.

“You deserve so much better than what’s waiting here.”

STAY…I wanted Ash to stay. This bigger than life of a man with an even bigger heart, Ash, doesn’t think he’s worthy of love after a painful past for which he thinks he’s responsible. Oh did Ash’s words about being unworthy GUT ME…UNGLUE ME. I was destroyed…devastated…dying for Ash to stay.

“What if I want you to stay?”

STAY…I wanted this couple to stay together. I wanted to stay in this story, sinking so deeply where my soul could continue to soar, where I could continue to break in the most beautiful way. This book…oh did IT BREAK ME. Stay…is sorrow…soul…swoon…sensations…SO MUCH OF EVERYTHING! This book owned every piece of me. Stay?!? It’s already in my top books for 2017…perhaps my very favorite for this year.

Stay was the fire that burned me…making my heart bleed…and then nursing that wound. I felt as if I were walking on that fire, each word blazing with poignancy, passion, and promise. A destined and devastatingly beautiful love story, Stay hit my heart hard and fast—flames scorching my soul—while my emotions bled like water from a storm.

Tears of emotions flooded me, trickling down like raindrops…fire to water…feel to feel. I FELT every word like a kiss that penetrated every piece of me: body, heart, and soul. This firestorm of feels wouldn’t stop; I didn’t want it to end…ever.

I LOVED Stay. I lived Stay. I breathed Stay. I was bound to Stay. I became Stay. Stay slayed me. Stay sang to my soul. Stay is what I want to do, wrap myself in this magic a little longer…perhaps forever.

★★★★★ ‘but worth 10’ soul-slaying stars

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From NYT & USA Today Bestselling Author A.L. Jackson comes the next sexy, gripping Bleeding Stars Stand-Alone Novel…

I’m Ash Evans.
The life of the party.
Hot. Rich. Charismatic.
A tattooed rock star with the world at my feet.
I burn through women faster than the strike of a match.

I’ve embraced my lifestyle and live it to the fullest.
Until the day my lifestyle caught up to me.

Willow Langston found me at my lowest.
Literally.
Facedown in a puddle of my own blood.

I owe her my life and I have three months to repay that debt.
What I never should have done was touch her. Kiss her. Take her to my bed.

Love wasn’t supposed to be a part of the equation.
I gave up that nasty complication a long damned time ago.
Now I want her more than my next breath.
But she doesn’t know what I know.

Do I leave to protect her? Or can I face my demons and ask her to Stay?

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A.L. Jackson is the New York Times bestselling author of Take This Regret and Lost to You, as well as other contemporary romance titles, including Pulled, When We Collide, If Forever Comes, Come to Me Quietly, and Come to Me Softly.

She first found a love for writing during her days as a young mother and college student. She filled the journals she carried with short stories and poems used as an emotional outlet for the difficulties and joys she found in day-to-day life.

Years later, she shared a short story she’d been working on with her two closest friends and, with their encouragement, this story became her first full length novel. A.L. now spends her days writing in Southern Arizona where she lives with her husband and three children.

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Review – Casanova by Emma Hart

January 18, 2017January 18, 2017Leave a comment

Casanova by Emma Hart

EMMA HART.

See that name. Memorise it. Read her books. Learn her words. LOVE her words. Because I guarantee that you will, LOVE EVERYTHING about this woman and her books.

I started Casanova with one thing in mind. DON’T FALL FOR THE ASSHOLE. I’m typically this person in real life so I thought okay, be strong. Try and reject a Hart Hero. (Trust me that ain’t no easy feat).

Let me tell you I got to 15% and I knew I was slipping.

By 24% I was almost there.

By 52% I had FAILED and LOVED this guy immensely.

The way Emma writes her Hero’s is with carnal, raw, perfection. Honestly, I cannot find a negative thing to say about him. His cocky, dirty, sinful, arrogance gave me tingles. His swoony, delicious goodness gave me butterflies. He ultimately became my FAVOURITE HART HERO. I COULD NOT get enough.

As always, Emma wrote one amazing heroine. Without a doubt, there is no one better than Emma Hart, that writes a female character so strongly. All of Emma’s heroines are sexy, sassy, classy and know how to bring men to their knees. Lani has now become my favourite Hart heroine. She was so much fun. I loved her.

What you get with Casanova though is so much more. Emma has seriously nailed the best friends to enemies to lovers trope with this one. She’s meshed love and hate together so fluidly that you cannot help but FEEL as the power of the words flows through your whole body.
Strip back the ridiculously HOT cover, strip back the asshole, strip back the sassy brunette and what you get is a freaking amazing love story. Lani and Brett alone MAKE this book. Everything else, the secondary characters, which were fantastic, the crazy relatives, that were hilarious, are all just a big bonus.

What I didn’t expect was to be so utterly consumed by everything Lani and Brett. They made me so emotional, that beautiful, breathtaking, angsty kind of emotional though. They made me HOT, like fan me down right now kinda hot. They made me laugh out loud. They pissed me off. And cry, dude, I cried. This book has it all, I kid you not, it HAS IT ALL.

Casanova captivates, it consumes, it catapults itself into the heart, mind, body and soul and cements itself there.
It’s my favourite Hart book to date. No amount of stars will ever cover this. EVER.

Once upon a time, I loved him.

He broke me and he didn’t even know it.

I ran from him.

He didn’t chase me.

He never needed to, because he knew I’d come back.

He was right.

Death brought me home to him.

Brett Walker.

Drop dead gorgeous and filthy-mouthed with a smile that turns saints to sinners.

A casanova to his core.

My ex-best friend.

And the bad boy whose reputation precedes him—the same reputation I’m tasked with turning to gold… Or so they think.

Revenge is a dish best served cold, after all…

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Review – Love In Lingerie by Alessandra Torre

January 13, 2017January 16, 2017Leave a comment

Alessandra Torre I BOW DOWN TO YOU!!! I cannot even begin to tell you how FUCKING AMAZING Love In Lingerie is. I mean I’ll try but hot damn, NOTHING, I repeat NOTHING, I say will do this book justice.

I’m that lost for words, I don’t know what to discuss first. I sit here now, my heart in my throat, my blood pumping insanely hard with massive stars in my eyes. Alessandra Torre took me to a DIFFERENT WORLD with this book. I never imagined that Love In Lingerie would be THIS. I mean don’t get me wrong I expected heat, rawness and intensity but what I didn’t expect was the EPIC FEELS that just surged out of me while reading, burnt through me while reading, tugged at the DEPTHS OF MY SOUL while reading.

EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING was right. So utterly perfect. So CONSUMING.

Love in Lingerie is fire and ice, a deep, delectable push and pull through give and take, lust and love, dominance and submission, and not even in the way you’d think.

Alessandra’s portrayal of ‘him’ and ‘her’ was written so fluidly, so flawlessly, so exciting. As individuals they were classy, captivating characters that you cannot help but fall for, from her strong, sexy persona to his deliciously, dirty, masculine rawness, I fell hard and fast.

Though together, together was when the magic happened. Together they oozed connection, one that you felt deep in your bones. Together they had a chemistry so fierce. Together they crackled like a burning flame, so hot and so bright. Together they BLEW ME AWAY.

As a lover of the ‘friends to lovers’ trope, Love In Lingerie was like a drug. An inescapable high that I wanted, needed, craved and drowned in. There are NO WORDS to fully describe how perfectly this trope was done. Alessandra NAILED it. I felt it, I lived it, I LOVED IT! The relationship, the dynamic, the intensity, the worry, the heartbreak, the good, the bad and the ugly, all done to perfection.
I honestly think I could sit here all day and tell you how utterly amazing Love In Lingerie was, IS. But I also urge you to dive into this book, putting everything else aside and just going along for the ride. Because you WILL lose yourself, you WILL fall in love, you will NEVER want it to end, you WILL want to devour it and go slow all at the same time. But most of all, past everything else you WILL feel nothing but PURE BOOKWORM BLISS when you have finished.

I hired her to fix my company, to bring Marks Lingerie back to life. I didn’t expect her to become my friend. I didn’t expect to fall in love with her.
The first rule of business is to never touch your employees. I think there is another rule about not falling for your best friend—a rule against imagining the curves of her body, or the way her breathing would change if I pulled down her panties and unzipped my pants.

Now, I can’t wait any longer. I’m tossing out the rules.

Damn the company.

Damn our friendship.

Damn my fears.

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Review Fractured Breaths by Zoey Derrick

January 10, 2017Leave a comment

My rating is 6 stars.
Wow Zoey. Way to knock it out of the park again!! This book was incredible, but that’s what I’ve come to expect from anything she writes. This book tackles deep seated issues that revolve around mafia, sex trafficking, prostitution, and violence. It had a different feel to it than the other books I’ve read by Zoey. It was nothing short of spectacular.

We met Becca in Irresistibly Undeniable, and we got a glimpse that her life was unstable. We just had no idea how bad it truly was. This poor girl has been through so much in her 27 years on earth. That doesn’t stop her though. She has no problem telling you like it is, which I thoroughly enjoy. she is sassy and spunky, and just a girl that needs someone in life to love her. She finds all that in more with Bryan Hayes, the hottest country singer around.

Bryan was dragged into a strip club where he meets Becca as she is stripping. He feels an unexplainable attraction to her. He has no idea what kind if baggage she carrying around though. Can he be her rock or will she has continue to have Fractured Breaths??

I breathe in.

I breathe out.

I eat, sleep and breathe.

I’m surviving.

I’m a survivor.

I’ll do whatever it takes to keep my life moving forward.

I shouldn’t want to. I should want to be buried in the ground somewhere. I’m stronger than that, better than that. Right?

My name is Becca Carpenter and no one really knows who I am. Becca Carpenter isn’t even my real name.

I slink in and out of the shadows because it’s the only way I know I’ll survive.

They’re after me. One day, they’ll find me.

Life takes a turn for the better, but I never expected to find a calm happiness in Phoenix, Arizona. But like everything else, I’ve destroyed that bliss, and my best friend. It’s what I do, how I survive.

Falling in love with a man in the spotlight is definitely not in the cards of my life’s story.

But Bryan Hayes, country music’s biggest superstar, has other ideas about my past. The only problem is he can’t see I’m not the person I pretend to be. He wants me, but will the secrets of my past destroy him?

God knows, it’s killing me.

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Review – Ego Maniac by Vi Keeland

January 8, 2017January 15, 2017Leave a comment

You know what’s amazing? In the alphabet there are 26 letters. Those 26 letters get mashed about or organised, which ever way you look at it and form words. Words then form sentences. They form paragraphs. They form stories. In fact they form everything. Think about it, there is always a word for whatever you’re feeling, experiencing, seeing. Whether you can think of that word straight away or you have to sit with your feelings there is always a word. Formed simply, from those 26 letters. I’ve sat a while and tried to think of the best word, the one word that will capture everything I want to say. I’ve tried mashing and organising those 26 letters into something, anything. And the only thing I can come up with is PHENOMENAL.

My skin, my blood, my heart and soul are ALIVE. From around 19% when the tingles started to now, while I sit here with tears streaming down my face, I feel ALIVE. Ego Maniac was perfectly poignant, breathtakingly beautiful and sinfully sexy.

Just before hitting the halfway mark I realised that this book was my new Vi Keeland favourite. Every time I read a new Vi book I sit and say “Oh this is my favourite Vi Keeland book yet”, but the thing is Vi’s books get better and better each and every time, how can it not become my favourite?

CONSUMED. With love. That’s what I am. CAPTIVATED by a stunning, raw, powerful read. BUZZING from head to toe, NEEDY, from some of the most SPECTACULAR feels, probably ever. I have fallen HEAD OVER HEELS IN LOVE with Drew Jagger. The six foot two and a half, two hundred and five pounds ego Maniac pushed all my buttons, stole my breath and overtook all my senses. The cocky, arrogance oozed from Drew and I inhaled every last drop of it.

Drew Jagger can literally show me his moves ANY DAY of the week. He can also sweet talk me any which way. I’m pretty sure my knees went weak as often as Emerie’s.

Speaking of Emerie, the sexy, sassy redhead is now my favourite Vi Keeland heroine. She made me laugh, she made me feel. I believed every single ounce of her charm and connection to Drew. And my gosh, that connection. HOT, RAW, PASSIONATE. I felt every sizzle, every spark, every intense pull.

It took me 5 hours to devour Ego Maniac, and if you ask me that was way too short. I hit the end way too soon, I could easily stay in the world of Drew and Emerie forever. Because somewhere between the fighting and the clothes-ripping angry sex, I have fallen madly in love with an Ego Maniac and his fiery, Oklahoma girl. And it turned out to be exactly what I needed.

Fantastic and FLAWLESS. Ego Maniac brings all the feels and more. No amount of stars will EVER correctly rate this novel.

A new standalone novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Vi Keeland.

The night I met Drew Jagger, he’d just broken into my new Park Avenue office.

I dialed 9-1-1 before proceeding to attack him with my fancy new Krav Maga skills.

He quickly restrained me, then chuckled, finding my attempted assault amusing.

Of course, my intruder had to be arrogant.

Only, turned out, he wasn’t an intruder at all.

Drew was the rightful occupant of my new office. He’d been on vacation while his posh space was renovated.

Which was how a scammer got away with leasing me office space that wasn’t really available for rent.

I was swindled out of ten grand.

The next day, after hours at the police station, Drew took pity on me and made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. In exchange for answering his phones while his secretary was out, he’d let me stay until I found a new place.

I probably should have acted grateful and kept my mouth shut when I overheard the advice he was spewing to his clients. But I couldn’t help giving him a piece of my mind.

I never expected my body to react every time we argued. Especially when that was all we seemed to be able to do.

The two of us were complete opposites. Drew was a bitter, angry, gorgeous-as-all-hell, destroyer of relationships. And my job was to help people save their marriages.

The only thing the two of us had in common was the space we were sharing.

And an attraction that was getting harder to deny by the day.

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Review – Commander in Chief by Katy Evans

January 5, 2017January 11, 2017Leave a comment

Commander in Chief by Katy Evans

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” ~President Ronald Reagan

Growing up in the Virginia suburbs of DC, I was never a fan of politics, but I had two presidents and political heroes whom I greatly admired: one who was before my time, John F. Kennedy, and one was during my childhood, Ronald Reagan. When I heard these presidents speak, both great communicators, I could not help but feel American pride and positivity surge through me. So many candidates feed us broken promises and are all ‘smoke and mirrors.’ Somehow in the past several years, I lost faith in politics and the presidency.

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” ~President John F. Kennedy

I had not felt that feeling of pride, possibility, and positivity for many years until my one of my favorite authors, Katy Evans, wrote a political romance that started with Mr. President and ended with Commander in Chief. THIS DUET BLEW BOTH ME AND MY ANTI-POLITICAL MIND AWAY! Katy Evans’ Commander In Chief is an intoxicating, inspirational, and passionate-powered political romance that dares you to dream big as you fall in love with one beautiful president and his positive politics. OH DID I FALL SO VERY HARD!

Commander in Chief picked up where Mr. President ended but I felt as if I had never stopped reading this spellbinding story. This political scene with one powerful and passionate president, the breathtakingly beautiful Matt Hamilton, still moved my mind and definitely still had my heart. I WAS STILL ALL IN…still on a high from Mr. President, one that grew into one aching addiction with Commander in Chief.

Adrenaline surged through me while I pounded through Commander in Chief like I was running a race…excited…breathless…fearless…as my heart beat out of my chest to the sweet song of love mixed with a world of possibility. I FELL IN LOVE AGAIN AND AGAIN with the dashing president and his gorgeous first lady in Commander in Chief, adoring Matt and Charlotte more than ever in this story. Patriotic pride beamed bright like a beacon of light—a beacon of faith—as I read these wondrous words filled with so much heart and hope, and passion and promise. Commander in Chief make me feel proud to be an American!

“I drink him up like a starved woman, six feet plus of pure fantasy, all packaged in a real man—beautiful beyond belief. So beautiful, I can’t believe beauty like that exists.”

Oh Matt Hamilton…Mr. President and Commander in Chief…where do I begin?!? This man is beautiful inside and out with his dark, dark eyes, and over six feet of all man. His passion, promise, huge heart, and hope for everything great were inspiring and heartwarming! This man and president are PURE PERFECTION!

“I don’t want to forget that for a little while, Matt Hamilton—forty-sixth president of the United States—was mine.”

Beautiful red-haired and blue-eyed Charlotte Wells grew up with her crush and reunited ten years later, her once lover and now president, Matt Hamilton, but had to let him go months ago so he could pursue his White House dreams and not be distracted by her…though the pain of letting him go eats at her alive every day as it does Matt. Two broken-hearted lovers needed to be reunited so their hearts could become whole.

“I want to be able to kiss you anywhere, anytime I want.”

My eyes teared up with these declarations of love that lit my soul on fire. Oh Matt’s sweet words to Charlotte made me melt like chocolate on a hot day. The Commander in Sweet made me smolder and swoon. I LOVED MATT SOOO MUCH!

“Every time we kiss feels like the first time, but this time feels like it’s the only time.”

Charlotte and Matt’s kisses were a combustible mixture of fire and fate that when fueled by the flames, created an inferno that, once ignited, may forever burn…always there. Their passion was off the charts heat and heart—unbreakable and unstoppable—like their love for each other.

“He takes a moment to look down at my kissed lips—at me. In the way only he sees me, as if he knows my every dream and fare and nightmare, and all I have been and ever will be. As if he knows that I…was and am and will always be his.”

Oh sweet sigh. These words of beauty shone through the pages, words that touched me everywhere: body, heart, mind, and soul.

“I’m in over my head for this girl. Once I thought I couldn’t do both, govern a broken country and have her. But I know now that I will die trying to do both. This is who I am. I’m the president and a man.”

Katy Evans’ Commander in Chief seduced me, as I scorched and swooned, a power play of words that caught every piece of me until I fell so very hard in love. This story rendered me breathless, so full of exhilaration and emotion, where I felt every word…FELT EVERYTHING.

I was powerless to the power of this story, one of politics and passion, one of love and life. This story did not just hit this Virginia gal, this DC area native, and American patriot; Commander in Chief tore at my military wife heart. This story moved me…ALL OF ME.

Oh did Katy Evans’ enlightening and emotionally-entangled words make me BELIEVE! I BELIEVED IN LOVE…I BELIEVED IN POLITICS…I BELIEVED IN THESE FEEL-WORTHY WORDS. I dared to dream and I DREAMED BIG as I pounded through these pages, passion and promise penetrating every piece of me.

Commander in Chief is so much more than a politically-powered romance. It’s heart and hope…inspiration and passion…beauty in words…magic. It’s a dream for the future of America. It’s making every moment count.

Mr. President and Commander in Chief should be every president’s bible. If every president could be non-partisan and positive like Matt Hamilton, voting would be a seamless. Matt Hamilton, while a fictional president, should be real, a model for every campaign and one that would make America’s forefathers beam with pride just like I did while inhaling this brilliant book.

Katy Evans painted Commander in Chief to perfection in a book that’s sheer brilliance from beginning to end. I was besotted as this book buzzed excitement, so full of love and life, blasting big dreams through me. I FELL HARD. I FELL FAST. I FELL IN LOVE WITH EVERYTHING COMMANDER IN CHIEF. Intoxicating and incredible, Commander in Chief COMMANDED ME…every part…JUST EVERYTHING. I LOVED IT ALL. I’m still wrapped up in this dream of a story and I’m still DREAMING BIG.

“You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we’re all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it’s going to be over, and you better make this count.” ~Nancy Reagan

Commander in Chief COUNTS.

★★★★★ but worth 10 ‘dream big’ stars

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The sizzling second installment of the White House series, by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Katy Evans.

We fell in love during the campaign.
The stakes were high.
Reputations could have been ruined.
Scandal hovered over us like a cloud.
Now the man I love is the President of the United States of America.
And its not my vote he is after.
He wants it all.
My heart. My body. My soul.
He wants me by his side.
In the White House.
Normalcy will be gone from my life, privacy forgotten.
I am only twenty three. I just wanted to play a part in history. But it seems like history wasn’t done with me. The part where I lost my heart to Matthew Hamilton? It was only the beginning…

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Review – It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover

December 26, 2016December 26, 2016Leave a comment

It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

People who are meant to be together find their way back. They may take a few detours, but they’re never lost.

There is something special about second-chance love that summons the soul. Soul mates who have always loved each other are granted another chance. Their hearts, cut in half from being apart, find their way back to each other and become whole again. Second-chance love stories call to me like a kindred spirit. It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover was my kindred spirit too.

NAKED TRUTH: This second-chance romance immediately became my obsession…my heart…my soul…my drug…my kryptonite.

It Ends with Us is a heart-pounding tale of second-chance love that bleeds angst and burns the soul in a firestorm of feels that touches every part of you.

I wanted to wait…taking my time to soak up every powerful and poignant word of It Ends with Us. I wanted to rush…tearing through these pages as the adrenaline from this thrilling yet tender tale coursed through the story straight to me.

NAKED TRUTH: With my heart beating out of my chest with the extreme excitement of my first Colleen Hoover book, I dove in and barely surfaced for air, almost completely ignoring everyone and everything, until the end. I WAS ALL IN.

It Ends with Us quickly became my adrenaline…my ache…my addiction…MY EVERYTHING. The words pounded from the pages to my already-pounding heart as I FELT EVERY WORD I READ. This soul-searing story sucked me in like a hurricane, whirling me around in a merry-go-round of emotions that entangled around my heart and soul, never letting go.

NAKED TRUTH: I knew that It Ends with Us would be one of the most gripping and gut-wrenching stories I’ve ever read…and that it was. The intensity of this heart-wrenching story burned through me like fire…pulse-pounding and powerful.

“There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things.”

Beautiful red-haired and blue-eyed Lily Bloom has seen utter devastation in her young life, but like a flower, she’s blossomed into a successful business woman. Lily bonds over grief one night with a handsome neurosurgeon, Ryle Kinkaid, who ignites a spark from the start. However, Lily doesn’t need nor have time for a relationship or any involvement with a man right now.

“I am a brave and bold businesswoman with zero f**ks to give for men in scrubs.”

Ryle is all alpha—assertive, cocky, and stubborn—traits Lily avoids in men as she never had a good example of a good man. She doesn’t want to be attracted to the gorgeous doctor because he’s a player who wants Lily for maybe just a night.

“Oh, I want you, Lily. Make no mistake about that. I just don’t want to want you.”

Ryle wants Lily but doesn’t do relationships. Lily is trying to focus on her new business and doesn’t do one-night stands or flings so it’s best to get Ryle out of her head before he creeps into her heart. It’s hard to ignore Ryle when Lily keeps bumping into him. Add that to the undeniable chemistry that surrounds them, and Lily is putty in Ryle’s surgical-wielding hands.

“When I’m with you, I feel like I get to have my cake and eat it, too.”

Oh did Doctor McDreamy make me swoon with his sweet words to Lily. A new relationship develops between Ryle and Lily on shaky ground, one that formed fast where they are wading into new territory. The deeper Lily and Ryle’s relationship gets, the more Lily’s thoughts surface back to the past to her first love, Atlas Corrigan, the man who owned half of her heart since they were teens.

“How do you tell your brand-new boyfriend that you’re trying to avoid your first love?”

When Lily’s first love collides with her current love, past to present, the relationship waters get murky. Atlas has always been her kindred spirt and protector. Their teenage love story was supposed to last forever but abruptly ended, leaving two broken hearts along the way, perhaps three if you count mine.

“In the future . . . if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again . . . fall in love with me.” He presses his lips against my forehead. “You’re still my favorite person, Lily. Always will be.”

Oh how did my heart race for Atlas! This beautiful man make me swoon and melt to mush. Atlas is pure perfection with a heart of pure gold. I loved this hero so much! I was owned by Atlas. I was owned by It Ends with Us.

“Heaviness follows and it presses down on every part of me. So much gravity, pushing down on my emotions. Everything shatters. My tears, my heart, my laughter, my soul. Shattered like broken glass, raining down around me.”

Chills ran through me. My breaths were bated. My pulse raced. My heart quickly broke as tragedy struck…again and again. Tears streamed down my face as waves of despair crashed through Lily, crashing through me.

“Five minutes. That’s all it takes to completely destroy a person.”

I was shocked….gutted…destroyed.

“It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us.”

NAKED TRUTH: I began and ended this story in tears.

NAKED TRUTH: It Ends with Us is one of the most profound books I’ve ever read, one that danced itself into me deeply, straight to my soul, where I felt naked inside.

This story is so personal that it felt like an invasion upon reading. Deep. Dynamic. Devastatingly beautiful. It Ends with Us connected to me from the start, one that tore at my heart. I was rendered powerless to this story’s power, its force, which awakened everything inside of me: body…mind…heart…soul.

NAKED TRUTH: I regret sitting on Colleen Hoover’s books and hoarding them for so long…I’m embarrassed that I did not jump on all this CoHo book bliss sooner.

I finally met a Colleen Hoover book and oh what a roller coaster of a romance it was! My soul was slayed and my heart was hit hard…one hurricane of feels and a soul storm that won’t leave me! I FELL FAST. I FELL HARD. I FELL IN LOVE WITH EVERYTHING IN IT ENDS WITH US.

I don’t know why I waited so long to meet Colleen Hoover’s wonderful writing, but I was a fool to procrastinate. This author is one of my new favorites: those who write from the heart where their hearts are poured into those beautiful and brilliant words. You live and breathe these authors’ stories where you can feel their hearts imprinted all over their wondrous words.

It Ends with Us is not simply a broken and beautiful romance; it’s a story about LIFE AND LIVING. It’s a story of STRENGTH and SURVIVAL. It’s about taking that LEAP OF FAITH and FOLLOWING YOUR HEART. I quickly learned that EVERY WORD MATTERS that Colleen Hoover writes, those words that instantly come to life…so meaningful, mesmerizing, and magnificent.

Those devastatingly beautiful books that authors pen like paint to a canvas, so vivid and valuable…THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT STEAL MY SOUL AND OWN ME FOR LIFE. Colleen Hoover is one of those writers who pour their hearts and souls into their stories that tear at the reader’s heart and soul, these stories that break you, bind you, and brandish themselves to you in a bath of beauty where you’ll remember them forever.

NAKED TRUTH: It Ends with Us is one of my top romance reads of 2016 and ever.

It Ends with Us is heart, heartbreak, hope, and happiness in a story with a huge hit that you won’t see coming. This book?!? THIS BOOK WILL BREAK YOUR HEART IN THE BEST WAY! OH DID I LOVE THIS STORY SO MUCH!

NAKED TRUTH: It Ends with Us stole a piece of my soul that will remain stuck in this story forever.

“All humans make mistakes. What determines a person’s character aren’t the mistakes we make. It’s how we take those mistakes and turn them into lessons rather than excuses.”

★★★★★ ‘but worth 10’ broken and beautiful ‘naked truth’ stars

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Sometimes it is the one who loves you who hurts you the most.

Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life suddenly seems almost too good to be true.

Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn’t hurt. Lily can’t get him out of her head. But Ryle’s complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his “no dating” rule, she can’t help but wonder what made him that way in the first place.

As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan—her first love and a link to the past she left behind. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened.

With this bold and deeply personal novel, Colleen Hoover delivers a heart-wrenching story that breaks exciting new ground for her as a writer. Combining a captivating romance with a cast of all-too-human characters, It Ends With Us is an unforgettable tale of love that comes at the ultimate price.

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Review – Drunk on Love by S.L. Scott

December 21, 2016Leave a comment

Drunk on Love by S.L. Scott

I feel as though I’m glowing. Maybe it’s because I’m drunk on Drunk on Love. Maybe because this new release from SL Scott was so light, fresh and fun. Not to mention really sexy and oh so hot!

Hardy & Virginia are just so likeable. So easy to connect with. From the first meet they have a very strong, very intense, passionate connection that just SIZZLES and BURNS!

I ADORED that this book was written from Hardy’s POV, the all male outlook was so refreshing and powerful. He dragged me so deep into his story, into his heart and now he’s fully in mine. SL writes such good male characters that you can’t help but fall for, although this has a bigger comedic feel from her other books, the standard of the male character is still just as strong. Just as loveable and oh so adorable.
Drunk on Love is so uplifting, the storyline so different from many others. SL writes the whole thing so fluidly, so flawlessly, so beautifully. Everything about it, from beginning to end made me smile and it gave me all those warm, fuzzy feels.

Drunk on Love is an outstanding read that is worth so many more than the 5 stars I can give!

There are only two rules:

1. Don’t get too close.

2. Don’t fall in love.

Correction: Don’t ever fall in love. I don’t need the baggage of relationships. Life should be simple, easy, uncomplicated.

The problem I’m faced with is, if I really believe life should be that easy, that uncomplicated, and that simple, then why am I still thinking about a woman I met on a random Tuesday at the bar? A girl who was never a Gimlet, and always a Paloma. Yep, I called it all wrong last night and I’m starting to wonder if my heart will pay the price.

I might have broken rule number one, but rule number two remains firmly intact. For now. Sort of. Okay, maybe rule two hasn’t been broken, but it’s definitely been bent.